US Space Major Urges Pentagon to Mine Bitcoin
- Major Jason Lowery claims that Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work consensus mechanism could lead to a new kind of war among global superpowers.
- He further explained that US policy makers should adopt and support Bitcoin immediately in order to maintain the US status as a global superpower.
A new and interesting theory suggests that Bitcoin mining may actually help America remain the superpower of the future. In a new MIT master’s thesis, a Space Force major argues that Bitcoin is not just a new form of Internet money, but could instead be a potential weapon for the Pentagon in modern warfare.
In his 400-page thesis, Major Jason Lowery argues that Bitcoin’s proof-of-work consensus mechanism offers a major shift in the way world powers can wage war. Competing for the bitcoin block rewards would be the new battleground according to Lowery.
Created in December 2019, the Space Force is the newest branch of the US Armed Forces looking to organize, train and equip military personnel across the stars in an effort to protect US and allied interests. Lowery is an active-duty US Space Force astronautic engineer as well as a US National Defense Fellow at MIT who will be responsible for advising senior military personnel on the implications of Bitcoin.
In its report, Politico noted that Lowery’s thesis was published as a book last month in February under the title “Softwar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin”. Like the Cold War, governments could compete for hashrates, Bitcoin and bragging rights. The extract from the book reads:
Using scientific concepts from biology, evolution, anthropology, political science and computer theory, Lowery summarizes the dynamics of power projection in human society and makes a case for why new proof-of-work technologies (namely Bitcoin) will have a dramatic impact on how people organize, collaborate and compete on a global scale by empowering populations to project physical power in, from and through cyberspace.
Bitcoin Has a “National Strategic Imperative”?
In his book, Lowery explains that Bitcoin’s consensus can be exploited to deter denial of service attacks. This will make it both costly and prohibitive for bad actors to spam software systems based on its principles.
Viewing Bitcoin through this lens would serve the US interest in protecting the network and promoting a domestic crypto mining industry. In a major warning to US politicians, Lowery explains that they should adopt and support Bitcoin immediately in order to maintain America’s status as a global superpower.
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The book’s description reads: “Major Lowery concludes that Bitcoin represents a national strategic imperative that the United States should support and adopt as quickly as possible, or risk losing its leadership as a global superpower in the 21st century”.
In one of his recent tweets, Lowery added: “Our First Amendment right to free speech will not protect you from government regulators actively maneuvering to ban bitcoin under the argument that it represents a threat to national security. Your best bet is to argue that it would be a national strategic security risk to ban bitcoin. It would be against the Second Amendment (not just the First). It’s an unwinnable argument, you just have to have the guts to use it”.
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