Maybe you'll read it now
#bitcoin #softwar
Softwar by Major Jason Paul Lowery has been banned by the Pentagon!
https://twitter.com/jasonplowery/status/1684637080029196288?s=46&t=QOCj-O9ER4m927MfZtTGuQ
Discussion
lmao fr? This does make it more interesting although I’ve mostly seen people bashing the book
The only people I've seen bashing it haven't read it. They prefer Tweet-bashing and straw-manning. Lopp criticised the book after reading which is fine.
People don't need to agree with what the book says to get value out of it. And having read it myself I think most would be very surprised at how reasonable and based its contents are.
I'm not surprised the Pentagon banned it at all. This book is for bitcoiners, but most bitcoiners are too stubborn to read it.
I'm waiting for some actual examples... theory is great and all but at the end of the day it's words on a page
Working on it: https://github.com/arkin0x/cyberspace
Very interesting... I'm not a coder and I was trying to conceptualize an application as I swam through all the words in #Softwar .
So you're trying to make a digital safe so to speak with bitcoin being used to unlock that safe? Why is this necessary? Can't you just use established cryptography as that protects data and requires significant work to breech?
#Cyberspace is a proof-of-work-based metaverse that anyone can build on and participate in
I get you have a product to sell... Do you have any insight into my questions? If you want to secure data why not just use cryptography?
I'm not selling anything
You're right, cryptography is how you secure data
Did you read the book?
Yes. Now answer my question... why and how would you use bitcoin to secure data more efficiently than just cryptography?
I wouldn't. But I would use proof-of-work to create a system where permissions are not required to act, and actions are proportional to your thermodynamic capacity in the real world.
I'm not arguing the thesis in the book relating to bitcoin. I've taken ideas from it regarding proof-of-work and am utilizing them to create something new. This would be an example of what the book does talk about although it isnt the main point of the book. Proof-of-work being used to secure digital systems is a major theme, and cyberspace is an open protocol (free) where proof-of-work is used to do just that. It isn't securing data — cryptography can do that on its own. In this context, proof-of-work is securing the capacity to act and the ownership of space/property. Bitcoin isn't directly involved in cyberspace's function. But it doesn't need to be. I hope we are on the same page now.
Sounds like a coin-operated computer system: Want to compose an email? Please insert a quarter ($.25). Want to reply to a message? Take a photo? Add an event to your calendar? Please insert a quarter.
Why would anyone want to make computing slower and more expensive? I'm seeing zero upside.
Fascinating.🙏😁💜😆👍
Will you not make any provision for true property ownership? In meatspace, we now at least have bitcoin.😁