YouTuber Luke Damant lands in Iran, only crypto saved him
Yahoo Finance·2025-09-14 22:44
When Australian travel vlogger Luke Damant landed in Tehran, the first shock wasn’t the culture or the food, it was money. “When I arrived at the airport, there was a lot of scammers there trying to trick me because they were using the Google Exchange rate, which is a lot lower in comparison to the black market rate,” Damant recalled in a podcast with Harry Jaggard. “One US dollar equals about 1 million Iranian rial, so it is an extremely inflated currency, and if you get a hundred dollars exchange, you h ...