The soldiers of the enemy wish to be paid in bitcoin.

Fiat only works to fund war while bitcoin hasn't become money yet.

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Soldiers are not free men and can't leave if they don't like something, so will be paid in whatever state decides to pay. And, given some experience, they will be fine with it.

True.. but in a superinflate economy state, soldiers will refuse to take that currency since it will worth nothing, and looking for something else, like a better and foreign one, or commodity or land, or whatever they can still from the place they are invading.. they will be soldier until the incentives to be one are greater then losing their life.

So if for absurd the last currency to stand will be dollar, when they will notice the currency they are paied by is becoming worthless, they will start to completely lose trust in the ones issuing them and in the currency itself. That's how Rome failed, expanding its territories to have more land to give to it's army and the taxing that out, but the expansion came with costs that were higher then doing expansion war itself and maintaining stability of these new lands.