According to U.S. Space Force commander Major Jason Lowery and an MIT Research Fellow, Bitcoin can be an essential element for the nation’s security. He makes known that Bitcoin can become an instrument for conducting a new form of cyber warfare in the 21st century; it will be used as a weapon.
Lowery published his book entitled”Softwar”, in its cover deer antlers are used as a metaphor for the use of Bitcoin as a weapon. He explains that deer antlers might seem harmless, but what they show is the way two deer fight for their territory, but without causing lethal damage.
In his book, he develops a proposal that establishes that Bitcoin’s proof-of-work consensus protocol gives a method for the resolution of modern warfare conflicts, without nuclear weapons or killer bots flocks. In this sense, the proof-of-work (PoW) cyber antlers will work in the following way, the winner of each round gets some bitcoins (BTC) from the network and the right to publish the next block of transactions, as proof-of-work (PoW) relies on the capability to drag energy to decipher mathematical problems, power throughout the network will be broadly disseminated within the physical space across power sources that are all over the country.
Possible Future of Bitcoin in the United States of America
Lowery’s thesis sets forth a call to the United States, firstly to gather Bitcoin, secondly, to grow the domestic Bitcoin mining industry, and lastly, to prolong the Second Amendment protections, which establish that any U.S. citizen has the right to bear weapons on the basis that a gun serves for self-defense.
On the other, there is another interesting feature in Lowery’s book that suggests using Bitcoin as a defense system. He explains that the Bitcoin network can be the digital equivalent of maritime trade routes and that it will help to handle the military urgency regarding the protection of navigation freedom on the network.
Lowery pointed out that Bitcoin is a “weapon system intended specifically for self-defense” that has “major national strategic implications.”
Experts indicate that the proposal is pioneering although it places several technical obstacles to be solved, moreover political challenges such as the U.S. goal to reduce carbon emissions and the posture of some politicians such as Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has had a constant posture against Bitcoin ecosystem, as CryptoNews reported.
Although there is no confirmation that the U.S. government is interested in Lowery’s idea, his approach to the thesis that Bitcoin can serve as a weapon in modern warfare gives some hints related to the way U.S. politics new generations will realize that cryptocurrency networks can be useful tools.
By Marina Meza
