"...Bitcoin could represent the emergence of an electro-cyber power projection

system that digital-age society could utilize to help mutually assure the preservation of our species while

still retaining the complex sociotechnical benefits of our physical power competitions (what we otherwise

call warfare). For a population entrapped by more than 10,000 years of kinetic warfighting that has now

scaled physical power projection capabilities to the brink of mutually assured nuclear destruction, proofof-work technologies like Bitcoin could not only function like a human version of antlers, they could also

be our own personal version of involuntary multicellular cooperation. "-Softwar