The most popular item on Amazon is a lengthy academic study about bitcoin that a major in the United States Space Force published. The concept of “Softwar” is conceptually very different from the monetary use of Bitcoin’s network at the present time. (1)
However, it expresses significant support for Bitcoin as being able to have an important impact on the global political stage of the world as a military-grade solution for collecting information.
The academic paper was written by Jason Lowery, who received funding from the Department of Defense to participate in a fellowship that allowed him to conduct research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a period of six months.
The fellowship allowed him to complete the research that he had begun there. The article is titled “Softwar: A New Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Importance of Bitcoin,” and its purpose is to present an original theory on power projection.
According to the condensed description of Lowrey’s work that can be found on Amazon, he has previously provided regulatory guidance to various high officials in the United States government, including those working in the offices of the President, Secretary of Defense, and Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Lowery’s search of Bitcoin is currently ranked second in both the books on technology and engineering categories on Amazon, despite the fact that it has not yet made it into the top 500 books sold on Amazon’s website.
This is despite the fact that Lowery’s book, Softwar, does not feature among Amazon’s most popular books.
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This book aims to construct and elaborate on Lowery’s Power Projection Theory by discussing knowledge from various fields, such as anthropology and computer science.
Lowery explains how the proof-of-work system, which is the foundation of Bitcoin transaction verification, may be employed by militaries to establish constraints on malicious people in a non-lethal but stringent extent of physical labor under the guise of crunching numbers.
In effect, Lowery is describing how this system can be used to establish constraints on bad actors.
As per Lowery, at the end of the day, Bitcoin will be capable of representing a “softwar” or electro-cyber-defense protocol, and it will not merely be a peer-to-peer electronic payment system.
Moreover, Lowery does not shy away from the fact that Bitcoin can physically confine computers, in contrast to the majority of software, which can only theoretically constrain computers.
In the paper, he also discusses the insufficient reserve of Bitcoin held by the United States government, which, if the network is utilized as a tool for cyber-security, is most likely to pose a threat to the country’s safety as a whole.
According to him, in the event that the nation does not begin amassing strategic Bitcoin assets, or at the least, promote the acceptance of Bitcoin, the United States may have to give up on itself being a global power supremacy.
Yet, Lowrey’s thesis was only published in February, and the United States said that it sold $215 Million worth of seized bitcoin just last month, so it does not appear that many members of the Fed are paying much attention to his argument.
In the acknowledgments section of this book, notable Bitcoin advocates like MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor and Peter McCormack are thanked for their contributions.
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