Here is a riddle for you, what does Bitcoin, Tor and internet all have in common?
Internet started as a DARPA project for redundancy in communication in the event of a nuclear exchange with USSR
TOR started out as a US Navy project for their undercover agents to be able to communicate secretly anywhere in the world, later they opened it up to the public because more people using it the more anon it was and harder to track or traffic analysis attacks... Tor of course rides as an encrypted layer on top of TCP/IP and solves the communication problem with agents abroad (but China still caught the CIA agents )
Bitcoin solves the issue of capital controls and having to bring/carry large sums of physical currency which was not logistically ideal.
Now with Bitcoin + Tor the CIA can fund their agents anywhere in the world, sponsor coups by directly paying off opposition of nations that dont toe the line, etc etc
Starlink takes it one step further, in that it doesnt even require the host nation infrastruture, so there is no way to stop communication even if they activate internet killswitch...
NFT (which rides on top of the blockchain layer which itself rides on top of Internet layer) takes it another step further, now its just "buying artwork" aka money laundering the legal way...
And finally here comes the Metaverse....in the US metaverse China GDP PPP never exceeded that of USA
