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The Taliban government in Afghanistan has effectively banned Bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading nationwide, threatening to prosecute traders and related businesses. More than 20 crypto shops in Herat have closed, and at least 13 traders have reportedly been arrested. Monthly inflows of cryptocurrency in Afghanistan have dropped from a peak of over $150 million to less than $80,000.After Afghanistan was largely cut off from the global banking system, Bitcoin and stablecoins had become important tools for savings and remittances. Taliban officials claim that digital assets are fraudulent and believe that cryptocurrency speculation is akin to gambling under Islamic law. Although the related actions have compressed the visible cryptocurrency market in Afghanistan, Bitcoin can still be traded via the internet, private keys, and counterparties.

According to Jinshi reports, the Iranian embassy in Afghanistan stated that after Iran issued a firm warning, Trump has backed away from plans to attack energy infrastructure.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's Project Spartacus was launched on December 5, and will mint 76,911 files of the Afghanistan war logs on the Bitcoin blockchain through the Ordinals protocol. The minting process will span multiple blocks, with the aim not to raise funds for Assange, but to permanently record his story in Bitcoin's history.In 2010, Julian Assange released the Afghanistan war logs through WikiLeaks, and Assange along with his family and friends have always been working to maintain their accessibility.