Bitcoin is a NATIONAL SECURITY ASSET:

* Provides access to an alternative, unrestricted financial system

* Incents domestic innovation, onshoring of manufacturing, & new economic ecosystems

* Mining improves grid reliability & financially supports new construction + revitalization of aging energy infrastructure

1. Bitcoin is Plan B. Bitcoin is an alternative, unrestricted, uncensorable financial system. Its an alternative to the freedom restricting surveillance CBDCs like the e-RMB, which threatens the US' global reserve currency status. It allows greater participation from under/unbanked citizens & preserves human rights (see nostr:npub1csuq0wzew7r6nynh97vjfamxrcqk70hgk8a3hvqz9ftzuu0sshtsm5xfjj work) - thus increasingly, Bitcoin is Plan A for certain global citizens

2. Bitcoin boosts economic growth. It incents domestic innovation in hardwar & software: from ASIC cooling methods that can be exported to traditional data centers, to new & better financial tools or energy management software. Mining is also a growing market for the onshoring of manufacturing (form chips to domestically produced ASICs (eg nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m Block). We are also creating new economic ecosystems/ biz clusters & the rate of deployment & scale of these is accelerating: from heat recovery for district heating, food manufacturing, & agriculture/aquaculture; to alternative revenue streams for traditional industries like oil & gas or pulp & paper.

3. Bitcoin mining improves domestic energy systems. It boosts grid reliability through demand response participation wrt load & frequency balancing. The elegant system of economic incentives bitcoin is founded on means it can subsidize/support both new energy infrastructure consutruction: hydro across Africa, renewables & nuclear in US, & geothermal in El Salvador; as well as the revitalization of aging infrastructure (again, see El Salvador's energy projects). Bitcoin mining is also helping boost domestic oil production - of particular importance to energy security given current geopolitical events - in North America by providing an alternative revenue stream for traditional O&G to otherwise wasted flare gas (+ lowering carbon compliance costs); mining is also supporting the construction of PRTIs waste tire to oil & gas infrastructure

These are a few examples of how Bitcoin *is* of national security interest. Not all nations understand this yet or mistakenly assume it's a threat, while others like El Salvador are forging ahead (eg it just launched a mining pool)

So keep building & sharing these stories, the world & politicians will catch up 💪🏼