TRANSMISSION // SOVEREIGN PRESS April 9, 2026 From Two Pizzas to the Strait of Hormuz January 12, 2009. Satoshi Nakamoto sent 10 Bitcoin to Hal Finney. Person to person. No bank. No intermediary. No permission asked. The protocol worked. May 22, 2010. Laszlo Hanyecz posted on a forum. He would pay 10,000 Bitcoin for two pizzas. Jeremy Sturdivant accepted. Ordered the pizzas in dollars. Collected the Bitcoin. 10,000 Bitcoin. Worth $41. Person to person. Goods exchanged. Value transferred. No institution involved. The first real world commercial Bitcoin transaction in history. November 2012. WordPress became the first major company to accept Bitcoin. Person to business. The network growing. September 2021. El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender. The first nation to formally adopt Bitcoin domestically. Citizens could use it. Businesses had to accept it. Country to its own people. March 2026. Iran codified the Strait of Hormuz Management Plan in parliament. Ships transiting one of the world's most critical maritime chokepoints — twenty percent of global oil supply — must pay in Bitcoin. Country to country. Government to foreign entity. Sovereign revenue collected at critical global infrastructure. The first time in history a nation state deployed Bitcoin as a mandatory payment mechanism in international commerce. Sixteen years. From a programmer paying for pizza to a nation state collecting tolls at a global chokepoint. The protocol didn't change. No committee approved it. No government authorized it. No institution enabled it. The mathematics worked in 2009. The mathematics worked in 2010. The mathematics worked in 2026. It will work after whatever comes next. One BTC is one BTC. From the pizza to the strait. The chain is still growing. 🟠 — S.A.B. | Sovereign Press All milestones verified from primary historical sources.