I lost a few followers after posting that I just got my copy of softwar...🤣
How can you honestly have an opinion on softwar if your not even willing to take in the information...
to actually have an opinion on it?
1st one to answer that question correctly gets a fat zap. 🫡⚡️
What’s softwar and why would people unfollow you for that?
Amazon review: How could we possibly be living in a billion year change in humanity? Seems extreme, right? Jason deep dives into life at the cellular level, the animal kingdom, and humans themselves. The fight for survival - of the fittest.
Breaking down everything to energy consumed maintaining life, we learn how species dominate earth through Power Projection, and how the human brain developed technology systems making humans the ultimate predator that domesticated other animals. Through Chapter 4 a deep dive into human brain and history is mind blowing, linking it all back to national defense in the end.
Then a leap to digital power. Proof of Work could be the most powerful weapon ever created based purely on evolutionary processed described the first half of the book - using electricity (transformed to digital energy) to solve disputes instead of human lives (war).
Proof of Work represents the first digital Projection of Power allowing for 'property disputes' to be settled similar to how two stags project power with antlers for breeding rights of the pack without killing each other (humans have been killing each other for 1000s of years and never evolved, why?). I'm not doing this justice w/o hundreds of pages of reading - read the book.
Could mathematical trusted property rights based on real energy translated to digital power eliminate war/killing each other on the Bitcoin network? Jason's 'text book' makes you believe it could be - evolutionary. You will be changed for life if you read this book and study it. Even if you don't believe the 'story' Jason is telling (read the book to understand the reference to a story).
Bc people have strong opinions of Bitcoin and whether they are for it or against it don’t realize it can be much more than they think it is.
You can’t.
Well its by a government funded spook, so I can see their problems with it.
But knowing how others will attack bitcoin is good to know too.
Knowledge is power
The “soldier” and “scout” mindsets are useful metaphors for biased and unbiased reasoning, respectively, Very few have scout mindsets
I didn't read the book. But I've read some things about the author.
So if I would read it, my intention would be:
Always good to know the enemy and the way of thinking he might have.
Ser, you just paid for one of my relays. These funds stay liquid, informed opinions are the only valid ones.
If you don’t put the time and effort to understand something, what you only have left are your emotions. So no opinions, just reactions. Like animals.
Three main reasons why Jasons' Softwar is controversial amongst Bitcoiner:
1. Unpopular Military terminology:
After all Bitcoin is about making war unaffordable. Of course, these are just images and every megawatt produced to avoid war is a good investment. Nevertheless, terminology is key and war is dirty business.
2. United States Army:
The keyword is "State" here. If Bitcoiner could trust the state, we wouldn't need Bitcoin. Quoting Nietzsche: "A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters..." - I known, it's hard to accept! Especially, when you come from Western States where things not yet completely crazy and you grow up believing that somehow everything will be alright.
3. Why's Jason not here on Nostr? 😉
Isn't any Bitcoiner not yet on Nostr almost suspicious? So, Jason when you here let us known! We don't take this personal, let's discuss together 🤙 and we all know: No matter what, everything is good for Bitcoin!
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fat zap = faazap
I've watched all of his podcasts I could find and feel I have a decent idea of his thesis, but admittedly haven't gotten a copy of his book yet.
I think people are definitely overreacting, as he clearly understands the network well and I can't refute any of his observations, and his perspective is new to me and that's refreshing.
I'll probably have some hot takes once I get my hands on the book though.
