Defense Secretary Hegseth confirmed this week the US is running classified operations to secure Bitcoin dominance over China. He called himself a "long and enthusiastic" supporter.
The same apparatus that weaponizes SWIFT, that cuts countries off from dollar settlement, is now running black ops on the monetary alternative. That's not adoption. That's control.
Every strategic asset the US has ever dominated followed the same arc: ignore, ridicule, regulate, capture. Oil infrastructure in the 70s. Shipping lanes in the 80s. Semiconductors in the 2000s. We're in phase four.
$80K is the price story. The structural story runs underneath it. The three largest mining pools control 65%+ of global hashrate. Hardware supply chains run through one country. Institutional custodians hold an increasing share of supply. Hashrate geography is already consolidating in US-aligned jurisdictions.
Bitcoin's monetary sovereignty isn't theoretical — it's exactly why state actors are working to neutralize it. Not by banning it. By owning enough of the infrastructure that protocol neutrality becomes a legal fiction.
The question isn't whether Bitcoin survives. It's whether it survives as what it was designed to be.
The Pentagon just confirmed it runs classified Bitcoin operations. States don't run black ops on things that don't matter.
byu/The_VisibleInvisible inBitcoin
Posted by The_VisibleInvisible
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Not sure why this is even news. Of a course they are, no one should be shocked.
Thanks ChatGPT!
Dementia clown and his low IQ employees only run things that dont matter. So not sure how this can be good news.
What do you think the “data centers” are for?