Hardly, you are giving too much weight to American holders. It is known that in this world the most holders live in China. If all Americans sold their Bitcoin, it would temporarily go down as you say, but never nowhere near $50. I doubt an American dump is able to manipulate the price beyond a few thousand.

If Trump does the same to Bitcoin, the net would route around it, exactly as designed. We are here in this very forum telling people in India how things would work in that case, USA is no different, same thing would apply: Use Tor, and be proud its an US Navy project, God Bless America.

Iran have good goverment and become to familiar country by cryptocurrency community around the world, when electrical cost there are low and have fasility for outside community to joining, then iran will be crypto currency country friend.

Iran's electricity sector is heavily subsidized by the state. Officials have made the point that they don't want to subsidize private miners. I imagine they want to establish regulations that jack up the rates miners pay.

the sanctions didn't start in 2017 either they started back in 1979 just as the revolution occurred in Iran and have been only increasing ever since. my point was that if US decided to do anything to exchanges in the name of Iran and sanctions,... they would be lying their asses off since Iranians never used any of these exchanges they have access to put pressure on in first place.
any other method they were using (DEX, P2P, certain exchanges,...) have been and will remain out of their jurisdiction and reach.

Sounds weird, They are now allowing bitcoin miners but they did not clear their stands with regards to bitcoin trading. As we can remember that trading from other countries are not allowed.

So how can the miners prioritize the benefits if they can't sell it out. Is the government planning to buy all the mined coins?

I am sorry to ask, but why is so much electricity used when mining?

Do you think China will follow the example of Iran? This week, the Chinese court recognized Bitcoin as a digital property and also reduced the tax for business. Will mining be the next question to be discussed by the Chinese government? If China legalizes mining it would probably be a good punch to the US

Thankfully you don't seem to understand that article, or how this "leak" could work to de-anonymize Monero and the like, which isn't what was being talked about. Tracking transactions is not an issue, it is identifying you to be somehow related to certain transaction, or address for that matter.

Since we were actually talking Bitcoin, transactions are already in the clear. You may think in your mind Tor is useless, but you are wrong, but it is because you fail to understand the technology. Perhaps you are the type they target, please citizen obey the law, thank you.

Point of Tor is hiding your IP, and therefore your geo-location at a given time. This works and is not broken. Your alleged NSA tool fulfills another role, which is AFTER they have confirmed an identity to be tied with an address/transaction. This may* be needed in those coins, but not Bitcoin which is already in the clear.

As for your other article, i won't even bother. Chinese are not supposed to be dealing with Bitcoin, use your imagination...

*Hilariously most Monero wallets don't anonymize the transactions in the first place...

In the end, if you know what you are doing, you are safe using Tor.

Blockchain technology will surely come to main stream, no matter what except those that are selfish about themselves, I really wish every other country could gonin to this as the technology is still very young and has attain the level of billions in $ and soon we are aiming at trillion by next bull.