Defense doesn't work. Its a myth.
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Evidence? I mean, it seems very intuitive: violence has cost, time, materials, and lives. The benefit is you get the spoils of the victims. If the cost for defense is less than it takes to attack, by attrition, you win. The added benefit of bitcoin being unconfiscatable outside of voluntary dissemination of the keys make the attack even MORE costly because now whatever the defender doesn't hold in material wealth is no longer a spoil of war. So, actually bitcoin DOES fix this. As well as it generally more costly to build bombs versus defenses against those bombs.
The reason you think the opposite is true is people are using fiat monetary expansion to essentially get a discount on bombs while there is no such discount on defense. While fiat reigns, and idiots take it as payment attacks are easier than they would be. Just like how war USED to be costly until the income tax made it involuntary to fund war. They used to have to sell war bonds and gain massive popular support.
The understanding that defense doesn't exist was drilled into me by a sergeant who I'll never forget. Only attack exists. That's real doctrine.
Bitcoin doesn't fix that. It will be very cheap to put some stuff on a drone, and a QR code, and tell people "send btc here or else," if that's even the motivation for the attack. That motivation hasn't been needed so far for militaries to use drones. If you look at states like Israel, you see a state motivated to depopulate a particular area. That's an extreme case, but a lot of military activity is just controlling movement or getting people to leave. Its only a matter of time until drones with facial recognition are used selectively, or just used to harass humans to get them to leave. Or just go Israel style and kill as many as they can. Yes, nation states can print to pay for it, but even when they can't, they will still use drones. The whole purpose of a drone is to reduce costs. And they do, massively. Even if no states and no armies exist, people will still put weapons on drones. They'd be insane not to.
I understand what you are saying. Do you understand the counterpoint at all? Cost, manufacturers, and those who kill innocent people with drones would not be tolerated. If I found out you make drones that kill innocent people I would murder you and your family. Simple as that. You can't be a part of a murder campain without consequence.
You're an ethical person, and I admire you for that. If more people were like that, then I wouldn't be as worried.