The U.S. Military Joins Bitcoin, Strategic Positioning Completely Redefined On April 23, 2026, Admiral Samuel Paparo, a four-star Navy admiral and commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, confirmed that the military has entered the Bitcoin network, fundamentally redefining its strategic positioning. The U.S. military is only conducting network monitoring and technical testing—no mining, no pursuit of token profits. The focus is on exploring its cryptographic, distributed ledger, and PoW mechanism's value for national defense, stripping away its financial speculation attributes. This official announcement completely reshapes Bitcoin's positioning: from a grassroots experiment to national defense infrastructure, from a speculative asset to a weapon in great power competition, and from a gray-area asset to a controllable strategic technology. The global regulatory logic is shifting from control to proactive dominance. The core goal of the U.S. military is to dominate the global crypto network landscape, develop offensive and defensive technologies, and monopolize blockchain industry standards. From this point on, decentralized Bitcoin is officially integrated into the U.S. military's hegemony system, becoming a core strategic variable in great power competition.