What Jason Lowrey misses is that Bitcoin is cooperative competition, not head to head competition as a war would be in cyber space
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The book talks a lot about cooperation as a necessary evolution for survival
He also calls Bitcoin “digital violence” and compares it directly to a gun.
He argues that mining bitcoin should be protected by the 2nd amendment because it is defense of property.
It's really hard to have productive conversations about his book when nobody else has bothered trying to read it...
For anyone who reads this: it's ok to read books by people you disagree with. In fact it's a good idea.
Bitcoin isn’t “arms” it is code/speech. Protection under the 1st amendment makes far more sense. Accepting the weapons framing under the illusion of 2A protection is a terrible idea
The same people that hate real guns are also on the side of Greenpeace + all of those climate fascists that are in power, so I don’t know how this reasoning would be effective in protecting miners in the future
Precisely.
I don't see why it couldn't be both 1A and 2A, but I'm not overly concerned about constitutional protections. They don't seem to be very effective anyway.
It’s a psy-op. Fall for it and you do Bitcoin a disservice
Fuck space spook and his moronic propaganda. You want to give the state a reason to start buying #Bitcoin? You got enough already? I don’t.
He doesn’t care about you or Bitcoin. State actors protect the tit that feeds them, space cuck isn’t different. Just another stupid narrative for the state to make their war against freedom money easier. The only thing, the only fucking thing we have to secure our own sovereignty. IDGAFF which state is accumulating Bitcoin, I care about me, my family and my friends. I care more about any of you nyms having Bitcoin so much more than a fucking state.
I trust all you with your retardation probably matching mine so much more than the state. If I could choose any fuckin state owning Bitcoin or millions of plebs and enemies, I choose random fuckers. I trust they will make choices to better their own lives. What the state will do? More war, more control and more death around the world. Yes eventually they would lose much of their Bitcoin but first they would get so much richer and powerful. The later all the governments get Bitcoin the better for us.
One point that Jason is trying to make is that bitcoin does a great job of defying our current classifications sytems and for good reason. Nothing like it has ever existed before. And so it is important that we continually try to understand Bitcoin, not through the lens of what we already take for granted, but through an honest and objective observation about what Bitcoin really is. This does not end with shoehorning it into 2A. That is simply a footnote along the path of trying to quantify the meaning of this new system that humanity, collectively, does not yet fully understand.
Why classify it as a weapon then? His thesis is nonsensical.
Sir with all due respect: unless you have read Softwar, you have not read his thesis.
Not giving that grifter $40. I’ve read enough of his work and listened to enough of his podcast appearances to know precisely what game he’s playing.
Congratulations, you’ve fallen for one of the social attack vectors on Bitcoin.
He tried to denigrate someone by saying he is more famous than them. If you respect that kind of person, you deserve what's coming to you.
While I find Lowery's arguments acceptable in general, the bit about the 2A (and I am a "Shall not be infringed, PERIOD" kind of guy) is quite ridiculous.
The lock in the door of my apartment is "private property defense" and wouldn't be covered by the 2A.
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dont tell it to him, he might start crying when he realizes his entire thesis is wrong
His thesis gets clicks because it’s controversial and might even side with statist controls, not because it’s right.
I thought I was the only one thinking that his thesis is a bunch of nonsense...just a popular guy capitalizing on bitcoin readers lmao $40 to us we need the government.. He's just in that popular Twitter bitcoin group that's why that's it...
Defending your access to the ledger against a hostile 51% attack is the competitive part. Bitcoin is money for enemies.
Still examine my thoughts on it and haven’t finished #softwar yet but I think it’s more that governments should put the majority of their resources into mining BTC as opposed to building billion dollar aircraft carriers.
From Jason’s perspective he’s most trying to address top officials in DOD and how they look at allocating resources.
Again still processing everything. I think part of my immediate fascination with his ideas are from when I read Imperial Hubris & Soft Power and learning how effective Soft Power can be and that Imperial Hubris often comes from relying too much for hard power and neglecting soft power.
I view this 🟠 as peak soft power.
It’s also ironic that a leader with a bent towards totalitarianism was the first to make BTC the country’s legal tender 🇸🇻.
Maybe that’s how I remove it from purely the military war view.
I look at it via influence and resources view.
Soft Power = SoftWar