The Pentagon just told Congress Bitcoin is a weapon. Not metaphorically. Not as an analogy. A literal tool for power projection against China. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sitting in a House Armed Services hearing. Rep. Lance Gooden asks: Is Bitcoin strategic leverage against China? Hegseth's response: Yes and yes. I am a long enthusiast of Bitcoin and crypto potential. The Pentagon has classified programs. Both enabling Bitcoin and defeating it. Both operational tracks. Both classified. Both giving the US leverage in a lot of different scenarios. Translation: we're running something. We won't tell you what. But it's military. Admiral Paparo confirmed INDOPACOM runs a live Bitcoin node. Not for trading. For power projection. The United States military is now operating the same network that hackers use. The same network that Iran demands as toll payment for the Strait of Hormuz. The same network China is stockpiling. A live military Bitcoin node in the Pacific theater. Where any war with China actually happens. The Pentagon doesn't run cryptocurrency mining operations for fun. Doesn't operate blockchain nodes because the tech sector is cool. Does it when Bitcoin becomes a domain of great-power competition. Like space. Like cyber. Like undersea cables. Control the settlement layer. Control the leverage. Hegseth framed Bitcoin as decentralized resistance to China's model of digital control. Which is Pentagon speak for we control Bitcoin and China can't. So the military just admitted the most important asset in a future war with China is a cryptocurrency that runs on computers. Anyone's computers. Anywhere. Bitcoin went from get-rich-quick scheme to classified military weapon in a hearing. The US military wins through distributed consensus. And they're not telling Congress the details.