What if Bitcoin killed America’s ability to use financial sanctions as a weapon?🤔

In 1969, US built ARPANET.

Most valuable feature of Internet is payments — lightspeed transactions.

So promoting global Internet adoption required a worldwide shift from gold to Fiat standard.

So why did US build Internet not Bitcoin?

Simple answer — SWIFT SYSTEM CONTROL.

Publicly, the ARPANET objective was resource sharing system — but one can also argue Internet was purposefully built by DARPA without native money.

DARPA had foresight. They knew world would want to send dollars or euros online.

Why would DARPA then support decentralized systems, like Bitcoin — with native currency to share resources online without trusted third parties?

Nah. DARPA wanted swift. They designed TCP/IP backboned Internet to have a single point vulnerability — which the US government controlled.

In 1973, US banks under FED supervision stepped in and created SWIFT to keep full financial control.

This wasn’t an accident — it let US government to easily track, block, and sanction payments in countries, like IRAN today.

The design choice to build Internet without native currency is why one country can cut another off from the global money system with a few clicks.

But Bitcoin fixes this — with own money built right into the network itself.

No banks or governments are needed to move value on Bitcoin, so no one can be cut off.

On Bitcoin, money and network are the same thing — completely independent of the old system.