alanbwt on Nostr: Unfortunately, I am all too familiar with it. Here’s a direct excerpt: “In this ...

Unfortunately, I am all too familiar with it.

Here’s a direct excerpt: “In this thesis, Lowery presents a novel theory to the US Department of Defense that Bitcoin doesn't just represent a peer-to-peer cash system, it also (and more importantly) represents a new form of digital-age warfare.”

He is calling Bitcoin a form of warfare. If you take the broadest metaphorical understanding of the word “warfare,” then yes Bitcoin is war in the same sense that a game of Chess or Scrabble or competition between Apple and Google is war.

But if you consider what the word “war” means in reality, Bitcoin is the precise opposite of war. It makes threat of violence impotent via cryptography and triple entry accounting. It enables peace, not war. His thesis is false.