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U.S. Army commander names Bitcoin among 'instruments of power'
A senior United States military commander has broken ranks with conventional Pentagon scepticism on cryptocurrency. In a Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) hearing on April 21, Admiral Samuel Paparo, commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), endorsed Bitcoin's potential for national power. The backdrop to Paparo's testimony is an intensifying strategic rivalry with China. Beijing sits on a formidable crypto stockpile. According to some estimates, the country might have at least 194,000 BTC in government hands. Much of it traces back to the PlusToken Ponzi scheme bust of 2019, one of the largest ... (full story)
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Iran doesn’t want the Strait of Hormuz closed, they want it open so they can make $500 Million Dollars a day (which is, therefore, what they are losing if it is closed!). They only say they want it closed because I have it totally BLOCKADED (CLOSED!), so they merely want to “save face.” People approached me four days ago, saying, “Sir, Iran wants to open up the Strait, immediately.” But if we do that, there can never be a Deal with Iran, unless we blow up the rest of their Country, their leaders included! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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