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The US Military Is Running A Bitcoin Node, Admiral Paparo Reveals
The US Military Is Running A Bitcoin Node, Admiral Paparo Reveals
Authored by Micah Zimmerman via Bitcoin Magazine,
The United States military has an active node on the Bitcoin network, according to Admiral Samuel Paparo, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM). The disclosure, made at a House Services committee hearing, marks the first known confirmation that a U.S. military combatant command is directly participating in the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network.
“We have a node on the Bitcoin network,” Paparo wrote. “We’re doing a number of operational tests to secure and protect networks using the Bitcoin...
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