The Future of Warfare | Jason Lowery | TEDxDAU

[@scottnovitsky9253]

I've been watching Jason refine his thesis for 2yrs now and at 15 min he's really got nailed down. I learn something new every time I listen to him.

[@grantroberts4231]

but, like, what is it he’s saying we (USA? DoD?) should be doing? buying ₿? mining it? i don’t get it. what problem does it solve or prevent? specific example would be appreciated.

[@safeasbtc]

I'm watching this for the 2nd time today. As someone who works in I.T security, Jason is succinctly summarising ideas I've been struggling to verbalise for years... Well done Jason, and thank you to Robert for posting this. Love your work Gents.

[@yourdailydoseofcommonsense5495]

Kind sir, if someone was wanting to enter the cybersecurity field to help build and grow in what Jason is talking about, which niche sub-section (for a lack of a better term) within cybersecurity should he focus on?

[@millenialmemoirs]

@@yourdailydoseofcommonsense5495stacking sats.

[@InfoSecWarden]

As a fan of btc id love to hear this.. specifically real use cases? Cause I can't think of any.

[@millenialmemoirs]

@@InfoSecWarden sending money directly to someone nearly anomalously on the other side of the planet instantaneously

[@InfoSecWarden]

Thanks yeah i got that part. Im asking the poster above to verbalize where the cutting niche of blockchain interesects cybersecurity (really how it complements america's defense capabiity since thats what the video is alleging.. As i work in that area. I dont see it aside from contract auditing. everything else i more traditional infosec/cybersecurity work..@@millenialmemoirs

[@jmanjr]

He nails this…. Way to go Jason and thank you Robert for posting this

[@WalkAMile]

A synopsis of his excellent book. Always good to hear Jason speak.

[@ryanpowers9841]

It's apparent that Jason has been busy honing his pitch while away - his best summary by far!

[@fldnga8781]

This was from June 2023, before his book was banned.

[@ralfbo685]

This is imperative. I hope more people see this.

[@millenialmemoirs]

Cool to see history being made in real time. Glad I got a hard copy of Softwar and read it before it disappeared.

[@redge4553]

I've been waiting for this! Jason Lowery has been silenced! Luckily I already bought his book, Softwar before it was banned.

[@davecorley5514]

More like his work has been classified. We like to think of militaries as staid, hierarchical organizations without tolerance for change. I was in the US military for 27 years and in ten separate companies for another thirty years. My civilian companies were much less tolerant of change than the military. The US DoD embraced Arthur Deming’s operational methods decades before most US companies. The US military embraced progressive social changes decades before most U.S. companies. The US military ages out most of their cadre of officers and enlisted by their 45th birthdays. Only a tiny group of senior officers are over 60. The US military has its problems, but wisely embracing change is not among them.

[@therealmess6658]

@@davecorley5514 While I don't disagree with you as he has certainly be censored, His thesis he is summarizing in this talk is still available on the air force library website, I was just reading it last night, and I highly recommend it. I would post a link for you because it is somewhat hard to find, but I fear my comment will be automatically deleted.

[@NappyWayz]

He is in the military. He is there wearing his uniform, therefore, this is approved. One thing we do not ever hear him say, “I am in the Space Force. However, the views I express here are my own.” I think he may have gotten some flack for promoting his book while in uniform.

[@davecorley5514]

@@therealmess6658Thanks, I’ve read it. I imagine that he has heads turning at the Pentagon - especially his comments about DoD absorbing monetary policy from Treasury and the Fed! That’s just not gonna happen. He’s been pretty open about his strategic views. Reminds me of Alfred Thayer Mahan. He does not remind me of Billy Mitchell, though. Mitchell was an infant in a tirade at his trial. In particular, Mitchell’s thesis that the Navy could not survive the next war (WW2) was foolish. That thesis has more punch now with massed drones and hypersonic weapons threats. But todays submarine force is well beyond what Mitchell could have conceived in the 1920s. Jason’s ideas and delivery have both matured quite a bit. He’s much more confident in his thesis. That’s what trial (and battle) do to a prudent warrior - make him a better warrior.

[@therealmess6658]

@@davecorley5514 Thanks for your insights and your service!

[@jshagenow]

After I read his thesis and listened to his talks - I knew Bitcoin was more than money! This technology is simply the single most important advancement for humans. More important than how to use fire, float on water, fly through the air and space combined! If you are not learning all you can about this technology you are falling behind the curve!

[@BR525]

I don’t understand lad... How can it be anything more than a bunch of pixels

[@jshagenow]

@@BR525 ok you got me…it’s just bits.

[@gacktcbiz]

I miss this guy. We didn't know how good we had it when we could count on new tweets, new podcasts etc with Jason Lowery on a daily basis.

[@ricp]

Thank you, Jason for your great work and thank you Robert for posting this. Your integrity is inspiring!

[@brianmoran1196]

I didn't think his choice of camouflage was very effective. I could see him very clearly.

[@deancorbet7365]

This man knows how to think outside the box. Lots write him off but he blows my mind.

[@mauricekitching7499]

Thank you, Robert. I've forgotten how impactful this was. Great reminder.

[@diegovoglino8443]

All of this seems to make sense, but it’s application continues to elude me. Am I alone here? This may seem like a dumb question, but how does this actually work and how do we apply it? Any explanations would be greatly appreciated.

[@grantroberts4231]

seriously. none of it makes sense. what does he want us to do? he wants to DoD to buy a bunch of bitcoin? or mine it? i don’t understand. and if we do, what does that solve? how does that help anything? all these comments are like “good job!” and “great talk!” but none of it makes any logical sense to me. can anyone shed any light on this?

[@captainjpz]

The United States of America projects its power to the other nations of the world by proving itself as the richest nation. The US dollar is the reigning World Reserve. Since 1450 there have been six major world reserve currency periods. Portugal (1450-1530), Spain (1530-1640), Netherlands (1640-1720), France (1720-1815), Great Britain (1815-1920), and the United States from 1921 to today. If you notice the average currency span is 94 years. Since the Internet came to be, our world has become more and more digital. It stands to reason that our money becomes fully digital as well. No one can say for sure when the US dollar will lose its status but when it eventually does and the world has moved onto digital crypto currency as the preferred means of exchange.... As an American citizen, I would hope our leadership understands it's advantageous to stockpile as much of it as possible on behalf of all Americans and to allow the innovation to continue within our great nation.

[@seancurtis7359]

He explained it in a general way… When he says Physical Constraints he means a real world cost or price you impose on the bad guys for doing cyber attacks. The way this is achieved through bitcoin is through the macro chip computer he mentioned which the bitcoin miners utilize to do the proof of work protocols. Proof of work is very costly and consumes lots of energy so this macro chip across the globe is what powers this protocol. And this protocol is what secures the information on the bitcoin ledger/blockchain. It can secure financial information hence why it’s named bitcoin. But in reality it can secure all information and so all data that can be stored on the web in cyberspace can now be secured with proof of work using the power of the world and the proof of work protocol. The using of the power of the world is the physical cost that gets added into every cyber transaction. And thus cyber attacks must overcome this physcial cost now being imposed on them, the way it’s imposed is through proof of work confirmations, these confirmations happen on a global scale and it’s very costly for cyber attackers to overcome these confirmations. Because they would need more power and electricity in order to override the confirmation power of the entire grid. Since they cannot override this confirmation power, they cannot do their cyberattack without being immediately caught and identified as a bad actor by the proof of work protocol. Thus this reinvents how cyber security works.

[@JonathanWhite84]

You are definitely not alone. The only thing Jason espouses is "use proof of work because it's physically hard" but absolutely fails to connect its use with any practical application towards cybersecurity or anything else.

[@LEDit0ut]

I think he is too caught up on the military view point. The ground breaking thing is that we use PoW for the first time in a decentralized was in the internet. It allows ultimate security which has never existed before. That peak security aspect has the DoDs interest.

[@Billygoat1022]

Thanks Robert. What a critically important presentation. Wish Jason was able to get back onto the scene here.

[@Andrew_2414]

Excellent. Good job, Jason! Thank you for posting, Robert. Let's hope the DoD wises up.

[@Mr.Bitcoin_8-21M]

Good to see him still on the mission.

[@djr113]

thank you for sharing this, I would not have seen it otherwise

[@hunting_gloves]

The bullishness is so effing bullish with this one. LFG🚀🥳

[@andrewh47]

Can someone explain to me how bitcoin will keep a hospital or government database from being hacked? I understand that the bitcoin blockchain can’t be hacked because of physical constraints, but I don’t see the connection with other non bitcoin cyber vulnerabilities

[@OxidisedGearz]

proof of work can make it difficult to write something. so it could be used to make your medical history more robust against people trying to add information to it: doctors are willing to spend a lot to write that you had some condition, but a random person (hacker) probably isn't. if for some reason you need a document to be 1) modifiable by anyone and 2) hard to modify, then proof of work is great. Similarly, it's good at blocking spam and (non spear) phishing: just ignore any unsolicited message that doesn't hash to have a couple of zeroes. otherwise, yeah, it's not very useful. making reading hard is what encryption is for, and RSA hasn't exactly entirely prevented cybercrime either... it helped where it could be used, but isn't the end of cybercrime, and proof of work has even fewer applications that we know of. this guy is peddling proof of work as the next big preventative measure without really having an idea of how it would prevent the attacks he wants it to. just a lot of "wouldn't this be cool if it worked?" we'd be better off if we put effort toward air gapping critical infrastructure rather than trying to shoehorn a blockchain into everything.

[@WormAteWords]

It doesn’t. Jason Lowery is just a word salad generator.

[@seancurtis7359]

Bitcoin coin is currently and mainly only financial information which is why you’re question is a good one. But in the future bitcoin devs have already made it possible to use bitcoin to secure all information. So medical information can be stored on the bitcoin blockchain, and this now secures that information from cyber attacks because it imposes a physical cost on cyber attackers to to override that information. The many ways in which they could attempt to override that confirmed Information would be so costly for them that it’s not longer worth their effort to be a bad actor. Because the entire power of the utility sector is being used to confirm that information through the proof of work protocol bitcoin employs. And bad actors don’t have the power to override this confirmation power of the entire macro chip of the power grid. Neither do any major governments have enough power to override this information. Only a one world government in theory could over power the grid to essentially eliminate the security of the grid with false transactions, but it would cost this one world government so much money to do so that it’s arguably not even worth their time or effort unless all of the worlds money was in bitcoin.

[@lucasrabaioliprestes]

Will not. The point is to increase the coast of attack. Similar to that, we stock gold before a War.

[@greymoth2736]

Would cool if he could have given an example of how it could be used as a method to protect national security.

[@OxidisedGearz]

yeah, proof of work/stake is cool tech and has a lot of applications. however, without some indication as to how he intends to use it for national security, he's just a snake oil salesman peddling the hottest buzzword... really doesn't even matter if he's wrong or not; this talk just ain't it. it has no substance.

[@eddieosiris1826]

@@OxidisedGearzi believe you’re misunderstanding how Bitcoin works, friend.

[@9erik1]

@@eddieosiris1826 I'd be interested to hear why you think so. This talk is interesting but kinda seems like a convoluted way of saying that bitcoin's proof-of-work security represents one way in which computing power = military power

[@davidd6147]

It's the one thing he's always missing. He needs to add real examples that allow plebs like me to truly appreciate his argument.

[@BrolitoBroskavitch]

I don’t get it. Seems like 15 minutes to say nothing.

[@danielvanniekerk8675]

Another book based on Lowery's theory of power projection is Bobby Plein's "Bitcoin, the missing link in cybersecurity." I found it on Amazon for those who are interested.

[@williamboydsmith4773]

Jason is amazing! One brilliant man!

[@beefyogurt]

I wish he'd explain a bit more on how it works to educate the nocoiners

[@jonathanlivingston7358]

Jason you need to give examples on how btc will be weponized if you want them to understand.

[@grantroberts4231]

yeah, i fail to see any use case here. like what does he want the DoD to do? buy a bunch of ₿? mine it? what does that solve? no comprendé.

[@beatdaddy]

Bitcoin uses electricity to enforce immutability, but it’s hardly unbreakable encryption. I don’t see the military application for immutability but maybe I just need to think about it more. (Masters in computer science BTW).

[@ExpensivePizza]

As far as I'm aware no Bitcoin wallet on the base chain has ever been hacked. Every reported instance of a wallet getting hacked is actually an instance of someone finding the private keys. So in terms of encryption, so far in 14 years, it's proven to be unbreakable. That said, I do agree the energy use doesn't really have anything to do with enforcing encryption on the wallet side of things. That's more about preventing double spending and preventing creating new coins out of thin air. As some might say, it's securing the network. You're right on the money describing it as enforcing immutability.

[@ericmorrison8772]

its unbreakable... its blockchain.... might wanna go back to school BTW

[@OxidisedGearz]

I can't immediatley see the utility either, but I'm willing to bet there's probably a few uses for it. However, I'd also bet it's nowhere anything near the widescale "this is how we end cybercrime!" angle he's peddling. Allowing anyone to write but making it costly has a few civilian uses, but generally the military (and critical public infrastructure) is better off by just saying not anyone can write, at which point proof of work does basically nothing that regular ol' encryption (or an air gap) can't do better...

[@OxidisedGearz]

​@@ericmorrison8772 maybe they edited their post to clarify, but nah, you're in the wrong here. yes, proof of work isn't feasible to "break" from the writing side. it prevents people from quickly and cheaply sending messages. however, it's trivial to break from the reading side. nothing about proof of work prevents anyone from reading what was sent. additionally, proof of work is less secure than existing standards if you don't want anyone to be able to write. what beatdaddy is saying is that there's not much military application for such a system. it's cool that the blockchain prevents erasure/modification of transactions, but how do you use a blockchain to prevent stuxnet? "just make it prohibitively expensive" is a cool sentiment, but you gotta explain *how* you plan to do that at least on a theoretical level for anyone to take the idea seriously. right now it's the same as saying "wouldn't it be cool if a red black binary search tree could prevent ransomware?" yeah, it would. now elaborate how you expect that to work or I'm going to accuse you of throwing buzzwords around.

[@avaraxxblack5918]

Sounds more like the gov't and bankers are trying to create a pretext for declaring bitcoiners some kind of warlords/national security threat so they can justify using violence against them to me. But hey, I'm just an unjabbed "conspiracy theorist" what do I know....

[@cooldave88]

Mind blowing. Thank you.

[@AtTheLetterM]

Always been a fan, watched this again here. Keep going Jason! Ignore the haters

[@SatochiCraft]

Not getting the point. Max Keiser's view I think makes more sence. You cannot steal bitcoin trough phisical means, the departament of attack has no reason to be in this scenario. Also this departament needs the money printing machine to exists and the main reason for it's existense is to keep the petrodollar as the reserve of value.

[@bbcdsatoshi]

Good for you JSON (Jason!)

[@janorr1111]

We need to talk about THIS MORE!!!!

[@bitcoinpoemspro1406]

Great presentation.

[@Alex-cs2wd]

What he discussed is just decentralised computing in general, not necessarily only applicable to Bitcoin. Bitcoin may rise as a more general computing space, but it isn't certain.

[@anton417j]

You can find a .PDF version of his book Softwar online. Keep looking,!

[@westra4]

Great presentation

[@oakwd4712]

It’s gotta be one the most brilliant btc presentation of all time

[@ikust007]

Interesting discussion. Thank you

[@tommyrogers8072]

Choosing to wear a military uniform for your ted talk says a lot about someone

[@JanRiffler]

The power to stir up a whole nation of solid, egotistical and utilitarian individuals, and to persuade them that their greatest privilege is to set out and get themselves killed at the uttermost ends of the earth, with no hope of gain for themselves or their children and almost without their understanding against or for whom they are fighting, or why, is a simply incredible phenomenon which makes one afraid when one comes to think about it.

[@heidivan]

Home run!

[@LeroyJamlArmstng]

Patriot. Thank you 🇺🇸

[@leveltube10]

Wow, what an interesting perspective!

[@bitcoinpoemspro1406]

Glad to hear you are still at it. I heard you were silenced.

[@_ben_sisko]

He's only partially right. Yes, Bitcoin is and does all of those things. But what he has wrong is the role Bitcoin plays in government or national defense. Because Bitcoin absolutely does protect the people. But all too often, governments have their own interests that have nothing to do with the people or protecting them, so for most governments, Bitcoin is a threat and a liability 🤔

[@HowardAschwald]

Those countries that adopt and integrate bitcoin tech will have such an advantage over other countries that the laggards will be forced to adopt or suffer the consequences. The fall of Constantinople and rise of Istanbul, for example.

[@_ben_sisko]

@@HowardAschwald That true. But we already know, because of various political and economic factors. The US is going to be one of, if not the actual last 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@richardscathouse]

Especially 🇺🇸

[@DanielK1213th]

Can anyone explain in simpler terms how Bitcoin can be used for warfare?

It can't, the guy is mistaken as he confuses what PoW can actually do. It can protect Bitcoin but nothing else.

[@andrewfirst6434]

@ There are actually some interesting applications for PoW/Bitcoin being deveoped now. One of them is for anti-spam. Essentially you can block emails from senders who don't pay up some amount of bitcoin (think something along the lines of $.05-$0.25 of bitcoin to send you an email) This makes spam email absolutely not worth sending for most spammers. For your friends and family and others who want to send you an email, they pay up and then you auto-refund the payment when you open the email. This is just one of many ways bitcoin will be used as protection in cyberspace moving forward. Jason is spot on and the fact that the pentagon asked him to take his book off Amazon should make you pause... why would they do that.....

[@derholztuftler6489]

In easy terms: In cyberspace, everything can be taken down by attacking through DDOS attacks. Just attack the servers of the centralised services by sending too may requests and they are out of order. But you cant take down Bitcoin, because its decentralised and you would need to break the POW, whihc you can only with immense amount of electricity and computing power.

[@seancurtis7359]

It’s used as a defense in cyber warfare. It’s the shield that the cyber attackers infiltrating arrows of lies cannot penetrate. Because this shield is made out of the macro chip of the world’s power grid constantly confirming every transaction unto the bitcoin ledger as a truthful transaction using confirmations. And cyber attackers don’t have the money or power to override these confirmations to either add false information or change existing truthful information. Thus cyber security has been made much more efficient by simply allowing companies to store their vital information on the bitcoin ledger which cannot be tampered with. And the high cost of always writing new code to stop hackers who figure out how to crack old code is no longer the main way cyber security will function.

[@bradycarrico]

I feel that he is overlooking the fact that Bitcoin is just a subset of data--data related to monetary transactions. A world computer on the other hand could potentially store and serve all computational data and implement Proof of "Useful" Work as a more efficient means of using energy (rather than solving irrelevant math problems). The Internet Computer Protocol is the first world computer.

[@DiiceForeveroO]

Bitcoin is considered digital property/commodity. ICP functions as an unregistered security LMAO. not the same

[@bradycarrico]

@@DiiceForeveroO Clearly I understand ICP is a governance token, I'm not challenging that. However I fail to see how that has anything to do with the future utility of decentralized computation.

[@DiiceForeveroO]

@@bradycarrico lol, ICP is so decentralized with the pathetic low amount of data centers that are able to have nodes. Congrats, you are pumping a venture capitalists and banker funded project that successfully dumped on retail traders. Pathetic

[@bradycarrico]

@@DiiceForeveroO So BTC was pathetic when it only had a handful of miners in 2009? If you think centralized cloud services like AWS or Azure (which most "blockchains" such as ETH are completely reliant on for compute power) are better than looking for a decentralized method of computing data, then keep feeding the big tech monopoly. Big tech companies are basically partners in crime with the state at this point. The point of ICP is not to replace BTC as a store of value, but to look to decentralize computation and data storage, which BTC is not capable of doing in an efficient manner. It goes hand in hand with what Jason is trying to convey in his Ted talk.

[@shifu9276]

His book Softwar is still available for digital download. Just fyi.

[@SPR77]

Jason Lowery! A sight for sore eyes...

[@Nackoo20004]

awesome

[@user-fd1rn8st3r]

nice job Jason ⚡️

[@thestonemaster81]

A whole New World’s coming I don’t think anybody’s ready for it

[@richardscathouse]

China/Russia, to lead Americans, will have to learn to be polite. 😅

[@marvinmaali4019]

Wait, so the crux of Jason's idea is that warfare is a decentralizing force?? I really need this debate. Could we really say the Roman empire was a decentralizing force by the Roman military leadership of the time? I think Jason is arguing from the wrong side of the equation in some way. My 2 cents is that Bitcoin empowers governments by empowering people. It doesn't empower from the top-down. In all actuality, Fiat does that. Empower from the top-down. BTC empowers from the bottom-up. Ethical empowerment. To get it into perhaps a little of Mr. Lowry's perspective, Bitcoin doesn't fight, it defends. It depends not on soldiers but on all people. So maybe we are all being turned into soldiers in that way. Soldiers who stop warfare.

[@lspag7415]

I love your take on this. It makes complete sense for humanity to use this decentralised tech to control the out of control governments. I hope I live to see this come about ❤❤❤❤

[@BR525]

Why do you think it depends on all people? And what’s preposterous to me is that I don’t see how this is safe? Doesn’t the person who programmed bitcoin go by some satoshi alias we don’t even know who made it…

[@westrlee553]

How do we know Jason Lowrey is really Space Force? What rank is he? Why is the military allowing him to conduct these seminars? Is,'t the answer as simple as having the government invest $tillions in bitcoin? What aren't they? Just a few questions.

[@Caballerocons]

Spot on..

[@heygoober1653]

Cheers, mate

[@blackout3411]

When was this taken ? Thanks for sharing

[@BTC_Patriot]

God Bless JLow, these United States, and Bitcoin!

[@Charlie-phlezk]

Bravo dude!

[@RONIN_SATS]

Bitcoin is a new technology. Vast majority do not understand it yet. Even those who do possess some understanding cannot realistically imagine all that is possible nor all that will be built on/around it. It is a base-layer, foundational, technology. It can be many things and used for many things. No different than fire, electricity, the internet, the wheel, or the number zero. These are all base layer technologies and they are capable of standing on their own - doing one thing perfectly well. However, because they exist, they allow other things to be built on/around them. Other things exists only because these base layers first exist. The importance and magnitude of this technology cannot be overstated. Can bitcoin be money? Yes. Can it be a cyber power projection? Yes. Can it be a network to secure and transport information? Yes. Can it be a store of value? Yes. Can it be a medium of exchange? Yes. Can it be a unit of account? Yes. Can it be savings account? Yes. It can do all of these things and probably hundreds more than we cannot yet imagine. For the first time in our history we have an actual bridge between the physical world and the digital world. Dismiss this at your own peril.

[@seniorsenckes446]

Great summary

[@waynerichardson1051]

Excellent comment mate

[@RONIN_SATS]

@@waynerichardson1051 🙏 Thanks. Cheers mate.

[@RONIN_SATS]

@@seniorsenckes446 🙏

[@grantroberts4231]

what is a “cyber power projection” exactly? be specific. i don’t understand what he suggests the DoD should do? buy bitcoin? mine it? use it? what does this solve?

[@ravenkhoury]

Nailed it!

[@Ralarconable]

I feel like he's saying BITCOIN as a way to dumb it down for the general audience, but he really means BLOCKCHAIN

[@joshuabuono]

When did this talk take place?…

[@SierraC243]

Based on his statement of how long btc been around (13 years), I'd say it was about 2y ago.

[@joshuabuono]

11:55 - he talks about getting his fellowship, publishing his book, top 10 on Amazon etc. so more recently then that. Maybe 6 months ago or less. I’m wondering if it was recorded before he went radio silent (July ‘23) or if this is his first public communication since July…

[@HowardAschwald]

June 2023

[@richardscathouse]

He mentions US Space Farce so it can't be over two years 🙄😅👎

[@ckellyme3]

You need to have him back on soon. He's been way to quiet.

[@fldnga8781]

He was instructed by the Pentagon to stop discussing this concept and its implications publicly.... you should go stack some sats sir/ma'am.

[@ahmedelabd4755]

Where is Jason Lowery? he completely disappeared

[@andrewfirst6434]

The pentagon had him remove his book from Amazon and generally asked him to stop talking about it...... ask yourself why they might do this.....

[@pedrogorilla483]

Has his x profile been compromised? When I checked the one you linked it takes me to someone shilling a shipcoin called karatdao

[@lspag7415]

Probably has. Jason tweeted a few months back that he was going quiet for a while... I think they must have silenced him. God bless him for speaking out and for others who respect his work to speak up for him (we see you Robert ❤)

[@annayt3178]

Yes, it was hacked

[@cdb8987]

I like the softwar thesis but he confuses me when he says that bitcoin is a defense technology not a monetary technology. I hear him say this over and over but the main point he makes is that POW allows you to permissionlessly fight to protect access to your resources. To me, it seems like it would be simpler to say that that defense capability is an element of a monetary technology rather than separate from it. I can see how fighting the softwar would allow countries to permissionlessly fight for their access to the financial system...but he seems to imply it would also involve securing non-monetary property. I feel like there is a missing link there. Thoughts?

[@grantroberts4231]

so, like, what does he want us to do? what does he think needs to be done? he wants DoD to buy a lot of bitcoin? or mine it? i don’t understand. and if so, what does that solve? can someone explain?

[@mickywes3733]

Exactly how can this be secured?

[@prestonjackson9086]

Thank you Jason GFY

[@k1lg0re23]

Some of this talk makes sense, a lot of it doesn’t. Bitcoin doesn’t turn our power grid into a global computer. Bitcoin solves the Byzantine generals problem through proof of work, but that is not to say that we are implementing Boolean logic within our power grid. Cryptography is widely used and has been within government agencies for decades. Byzantine fault tolerance can be achieved with a federated network extremely easily. But this is not bitcoin - btc makes sense to hold seeing as though it’s the first discovery of digital scarcity. It is not a defense technology. Maybe I’m wrong, but I am pretty involved.

[@OxidisedGearz]

yeah idk what he's on about. proof of work is great at what it does and has a ton of useful applications... just very few of those are going to be useful for the military. due to its hierarchical nature, you're better off with RSA signatures, not proof of work. ironically, it's best military application would be in use against something like the us military, not for it. like a rebel organization might be able to operate a communications network that was robust against astroturfing via proof of work/stake. they would actually have byzantine faults to solve in their decentralized operations and would want to avoid having an easy to apprehend/erase leader in the network... this talk seems like a lot of jot air to me: "oh, what if this technology solves all our problems?" yeah that would be really cool, but you have to explain how you expect it to do that or else you sound like a snake oil salesman.

[@DiiceForeveroO]

Bitcoin combines real world dynamics and translate it to digital commodity. This allows more energy rich producing counties to obtain/producing bitcoin. This allows countries to compete to obtain bitcoin since bitcoin is decentralized. Thus Obtaining bitcoin is projecting power amongst other countries. More bitcoin you have, the more powerful your countries is if you implement bitocin into your society somehow.

[@westra4]

Awesome

[@state-of-the-artcapital3990]

Speculative declarations which might serve a hidden agenda or could lead to serious consequences

[@curiouspeople6441]

Details explanation would be appreciated, on different case study

[@purpleheadali]

How about a financial extortion defense?

[@InfoSecWarden]

Trying to understand his perspective here.. Anyone want to share an possible use case? Aside from integrity not sure how I can see this.. Black powder was something that could physically be used as a weapon. Even with bitcoin having global influence i dont see necessarily how that transcribes to physical power.

[@jaybny]

don't try - there is no logic here

[@mmisbach]

Where can I get a copy of the digital book?

[@Jessecote875]

I lost over $70k when everything started to tank. Not because I was in an exchange that went belly up. I was just stupid to hold and because that's what everyone said. I'm still responsible. It just taught me to be a better investor now that I understand more of what could go wrong. It took me over two years of being in the market, I'm really grateful I found one source to recover my money, at least $10k profits weekly. Thanks Gloria Robinson

[@Scottweeier846]

Wow. I'm a bit perplexed seeing her been mentioned here also Didn’t know she has been good to so many people too this is wonderful, i'm in my fifth trade with her and it has been super.

[@Brucelanham845]

She is my family's personal broker and also a personal broker in many families I'm United States, she's a licensed broker and a FINRA AGENT in United states.

[@blunderafterblunder7231]

I've got SoftWar. I thought the .mil muted him from discussing the topic. When was this Ted talk?

[@rodmotor]

Speaking as an aerospace systems engineer and lifelong programmer/analyst, this guy could sell refrigerators to Eskimos.

[@saltypureblood8987]

This Submariner has been knowing this. This the correct answer for the question.

[@juansgalt]

"And the block clock is ticking"

[@tuckerbugeater]

you'll have greater concerns when this becomes reality

[@kevin_pbt]

He links to some airdrop on Twitter, seems like he have been hacked

[@DiiceForeveroO]

His twitter seems all cleaned up now

[@FareAlert]

I need to get his book, because I don't quite see the parallels he does. Which of course is fine, since I have a 1931 brain with respect to the Bitcoin technology.

[@PrimordialEconomics]

Jason is a fucking genius.. if you haven't read his work, you don't understand Bitcoin.

[@andrewfirst6434]

Correct.

[@grantroberts4231]

i’ve read it & i still don’t get what he wants DoD to do…? what is he suggesting the US do? buy a bunch of ₿? start mining it? what does that solve or prevent? examples would be nice.

[@davisboyd6644]

When was this talk?

[@88Heliboy]

What if for a currency we continue to to run BTC core and then for the US government they make a fork called BTCG and every military base and every service member will run a node to support it.

[@DiiceForeveroO]

Every hard fork of bitcoin failed. You cannot enforce external nodes to follow that government backed node.

[@cletushatfield8817]

Bitcoin, NFTs, cars that run on water, MAN!

[@RONIN_SATS]

I thought he had been ordered to stop talking about his thesis ??

[@richardscathouse]

Who's to say he can't make himself look silly 😂

[@bahmak2003]

😂😂😂😂 can’t you read? Date was june 2023

[@RONIN_SATS]

@@bahmak2003 Thank you for this helpful comment. You really added to the conversation. Yes, we all saw the date in the video, however, what you fail to realize is that when he was ordered to stop discussing his thesis, most everything was scrubbed. His book on Amazon was taken down and many of the old videos are gone. I found it odd that this one, which I had never seen before, was just posted today.

[@RONIN_SATS]

@@richardscathouse yeah exactly, silly like the dude who thought airplanes had no military significance ... or are you referring to gun powder which went under utilized for centuries? My point is that this technology is so new and so profound that no one knows all that it is capable of nor all that will be built around it nor exactly how it will be used in 10, 20, 100 years.

[@fldnga8781]

​@@RONIN_SATSMany of his old videos are still up. His book went into greater depth, it was a grounded theory approach that dumbed it down for the slowest of the slow. In other words if the masses who had a basic level of reading could stick with the book and comprehend it well they'd be more inclined to adopt btc and start stacking sats. The government can't have that, they need to stack first.

[@pat_attack]

Where is Jason Lowery?

[@toddthing]

Interesting talk... but does he really mean "Bitcoin" or " blockchain"?

[@edentoeternity]

More about the proof of work because of the amount of energy it takes to secure the network.

[@richardscathouse]

Probably blockchain 😂

[@richardscathouse]

Definitely, blockchain. He doesn't know shit 😢

[@roaryscott]

Bitcoin specifically.

[@toddthing]

@@edentoeternity OK, I recall that coming up in his talk... but still, is BTC the only PoW crypto? Or put another way; there's no reason why it has to be BTC as long as the protocol involves PoW?

[@prasanayoga]

The reason people “don’t understand” is that you’ve pointed your finger but you’ve done no explaining. How does a currency become a weapon? Can you answer that simple question?

[@nhrad]

Nice speech, but cammies at a TED talk? Would it kill him to put on a service or dress uniform?

[@stratos11159]

Wow.

[@chrisguarino1939]

Tick Tock next Block!

[@haimpermuter]

blow minding!

[@kokomanation]

Imagine using this technology even a percentage for it with Advanced military Artificial intelligence

[@Ljungdurst]

Not enough people know about this.

[@bmobless]

Is this new or a repost?