Being military myself I can see his perspective and the lens he’s seeing Bitcoin through, but also certainly see how his thesis would be controversial.

Almost done with his book, which was dense and a bit tough to get through, honestly could have been a little more direct and tends (in his writing and on podcasts) to lose people in the weeds and can say quite a lot to make a fairly simple point.

I think you’re conversation with his was great challenging some of his basic premises. Ultimately, I agree that there can be some utility in securing data (or in his thesis, “bits”) by imposing “severe prohibitive costs” to attack, and nation states may see this as an opportunity in the years to come…but I think overall I’m still not 100% there. Reminds me of the end of your FediMint podcast…like, I understand it more but I’m not 100% sold yet? We’ll see! I definitely welcome the different points of view.