Money is power. Financial war is war. We cannot be naive about that. A defensive technology can easily turn to an offensive with the tide changing. U.S. will strategically have to adopt Bitcoin at some point.
Discussion
The definition of war is “a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or groups of people.”
Bitcoin does not involve any “arms” or weaponry or physical harm whatsoever.
Financial “war” without any physical harm is quite different than real war with guns and tanks and bombs.
Bitcoin enables peaceful collaboration through a shared public ledger. This is quite literally the opposite of war.
That is the whole point of Space Spook's thesis is to change kinetic warfare to electronic competitive warfare (arms race if you will).
I do not agree that financial warfare has no physical harm.