The INDOPACOM commander revealed that U.S. armed forces operate a node on the Bitcoin network and are conducting operational tests on its cryptographic architecture.
The United States military is actively running a Bitcoin node. The confirmation comes from Admiral Samuel Paparo, commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), during a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee. This marks the first known official confirmation that a U.S. combatant command is directly participating in Bitcoin’s peer-to-peer network.
Paparo’s words were straightforward: “We have a node on the Bitcoin network. We are conducting a series of operational tests to protect networks using the Bitcoin protocol.” The statement came the day after his Senate testimony, in which the admiral had already framed Bitcoin as a tool of American power.
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I listened to that and it sounded like he was reading off a script. Also that the script was slop! Something... something... block chain for intellectual property...
Bitcoin is becoming the base layer protocol for everything from finance to national defense
Forget about it, just tell me the recipe for portuguese custard tarts.
If the armed forces are running a node, the whole notion of the technology being a bubble is nudge another mark down.
For Custard tarts, might as well google a recipe for you
Full Committee Hearing
https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/to-receive-testimony-on-the-posture-of-united-states-indo-pacific-command-and-united-states-forces-korea-in-review-of-the-defense-authorization-request-for-fiscal-year-2027-and-the-future-years-defense-program
Proof of Work isn’t just for money anymore.
Using Bitcoin’s immutable ledger as a baseline for network security is a massive shift in how the military views decentralized power.