US admiral who blasted crypto is now running a Bitcoin node for America’s security

Piyasa gündeminde öne çıkan haber: Admiral Samuel Paparo appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Apr. 21 for a posture review for the US Indo-Pacific Command ahead of the fiscal year 2027 defense request. Paparo reportedly disclosed that INDOPACOM is running a Bitcoin node and treating the protocol's architecture as operationally relevant for securing networks and projecting power .

In February 2024, Paparo told Sen. Elizabeth Warren that cryptocurrency's “opaqueness” was a key enabler of proliferation, terrorism, and illicit trafficking. He added that crypto “makes the world less secure,” and acknowledged that blockchain methodologies held promise for ensuring financial transactions.

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Washington's dominant framing was that crypto was a compliance headache, a sanctions-evasion tool, and a revenue stream for North Korea. Now, Paparo treats Bitcoin's cryptography, blockchain accountability, and proof-of-work as components of a toolkit for network security and power projection. In two years, the vocabulary changed from pathology to protocol.

This could potentially be related to SoftWar author and US Space Force service member Jason Lowery's work in this area. Related Reading Softwar author Jason Lowery looks to White House role advising on Bitcoin national security Lowery argues Bitcoin's PoW mechanism can revolutionize national defense strategies by deterring cyber threats. Nov 19, 2024 Liam 'Akiba' Wright How Washington built the policy foundation Paparo's 2026 remark arrived inside a policy architecture that had been assembling for more than a year.

23, 2025, the White House made it US policy to protect lawful access to open public blockchain networks and promote dollar-backed stablecoins worldwide. That order drew a line in Washington, recognizing open public blockchains as infrastructure and separating them from the broader “everything crypto is suspect” category. 6, 2025, the White House established a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve , directing that Bitcoin placed in the reserve would not be sold, giving it the sovereign-asset treatment the US government applies to gold.

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On July 18, 2025, the GENIUS Act passed , and the White House framed it as a national security instrument, tying stablecoin regulation to the dollar's status as a reserve currency and expanding the scope. By April 2026, Treasury had proposed rules to implement the GENIUS Act's AML requirements and had launched a cybersecurity information-sharing initiative for digital asset firms, describing those firms as a critical part of the US financial sector whose resilience was relevant to the broader system. That placed digital asset infrastructure inside critical system thinking, the same framing Paparo's posture statement uses for INDOPACOM's own mission networks.

Related Reading Bitcoin Softwar author Jason Lowery eyes $1M Bitcoin price by 2030 with $100M long term target Lowery's "Digital Gold Theory" suggests a future where Bitcoin's worth is reshaped by emerging computational paradigms rather than traditional market forces. Feb 24, 2025 Liam 'Akiba' Wright Why the venue changes everything INDOPACOM's April 2026 posture statement describes a command built around denying China's objectives, achieving “information and decision superiority,” and deploying a “data-centric Zero Trust Architecture Mission Partner Environment” across its partner network, with resilient C5ISRT systems capable of operating through contested domains. Inside a hearing room devoted to China deterrence, cyber effects, and zero-trust mission networks, a Bitcoin protocol remark lands inside the command's own strategic vocabulary, placed there by the commander himself.

reported in January 2026 that the China-led mBridge platform had processed more than $55. 5 billion across more than 4,000 cross-border transactions, with the digital yuan accounting for roughly 95% of volume. The Indo-Pacific theater is already a contest over payment and settlement architecture, and Paparo's command is the US institution most directly responsible for managing that contest.

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