US Hellfire Strike Near Iran's Kharg Island Threatens Bitcoin Mining Margins, Spurs Stablecoin Demand

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While not a direct catalyst, the improved temporal and geographic resolution allows researchers to correlate migration waves with crypto usage in remittances, DeFi access, and cross-border payments. Mainstream coverage misses the potential for second-order impacts on stablecoin demand and regulatory scrutiny in high-migration regions.

Deep-learning model produces global annual migration-flow dataset covering 230 countries from 1990 to 2024 with improved temporal resolution and uncertainty estimates.