The petrodollar took fifty-one years to build. The petrobitcoin took twenty-three days.Henry Kissinger flew to Riyadh in June 1974. The agreement was signed June 8. The dollar would price oil. Saudi Arabia would buy US Treasuries with the dollars it earned. The chokepoint was the Strait of Hormuz. The currency was the dollar. The architecture would govern global energy trade for half a century. It did. On April 23, 2026, the US Treasury froze $344 million of Tether across two Tron addresses linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The freeze was the largest single crypto