The U.S. government standing up a Bitcoin node is not a financial story.
It is the most consequential development in national defense in American history.
@JasonPLowery's SoftWar lays it out cold: Bitcoin is not money — it is a proof-of-work power projection system.
His book has been banned by the Us governement in 2023.
A US Space Force officer wrote a thesis at MIT arguing Bitcoin is a weapons system.
The Pentagon ordered him to take it down.
The book is called SOFTWAR, written by Major Jason Lowery.
I managed to get my hands on an original, pre-takedown version.
Here are the ideas that apparently made the DoD nervous:
→ Bitcoin is not a financial technology, it's a weapons system.
It is an electro-cyber power projection system, in the same category as armies, navies, and air forces, but for the domain of cyberspace.
→ The "Power Projection Theory" framework
Every military branch exists to secure a domain by imposing severe physical costs on anyone who threatens it. Armies secure land, navies secure sea, air forces secure the sky. Bitcoin, Lowery argues, does this for cyberspace. It imposes real physical cost (energy/watts) on attackers, which no prior cybersecurity system could do.
→ Every military branch secures a domain by making attacks physically costly. Bitcoin does exactly this for cyberspace, imposing real energy costs on attackers for the first time in history.
→ Lowery draws on 5,000 years of history to argue that any system based purely on trust and rules eventually gets captured by bad actors. Physical cost is the only reliable constraint.
→ He calls this new paradigm "softwar": non-lethal, machine-vs-machine energy competition in cyberspace. Tesla predicted something like it in 1900.
→ His most striking claim: a soft, electro-cyber WW III war may have already started.
World leaders do not recognise it because they are expecting the next war to look like the last one.
Five concrete policy recommendations for the US government:
1. Stop letting economists set Bitcoin policy.
2. Treat Bitcoin as a cybersecurity asset first.
3. Consider strategic Bitcoin reserves.
4. Protect proof-of-work under the Second Amendment.
5. Recognise that proof-of-stake is a centralised fraud, not a viable alternative.
Because the nations that figure this out first will have an asymmetric advantage over those that do not.
The book was pulled in July 2023 by DoD.
Physical copies now sell for over $300.
@JasonPLowery
JASON LOWERY: “Blaming Bitcoin to protect your failing hegemony is not going to help you, your financial system is still going to collapse.”
“Bitcoin didn’t cause a bunch of bankers to debase savers and to destroy the purchasing power of the currency.”
Socialist idiot @SenWarren killed 14,000 jobs today...she will blame it on Trump but Spirit should have been bought by JetBlue for a fair value. RIP Spirit
Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren
She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements.
Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service.
JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes.
The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%.
For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%.
Warren said no.
She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024.
Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year.
Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug.
510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December.
14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight.
And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms.
Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back.
40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market.
And the math ain’t mathing.
Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%.
That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.”
So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money?
Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years.
Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do.
Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.”
A win.
14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight.
And she’s taking credit.
This is socialism in 2026.
A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company.
She saved you a billion on imaginary paper.
She cost you ten times that in real life.
She didn’t protect consumers from anything.
14,000+ will go from working to welfare.
She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed.
Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything.
She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.
The U.S. government standing up a Bitcoin node is not a financial story.
It is the most consequential development in national defense in American history.
@JasonPLowery's SoftWar lays it out cold: Bitcoin is not money — it is a proof-of-work power projection system.
The first softwar weapon that lets a nation-state stake claim to digital territory using raw physical energy.
Every joule mined is a vote cast in the language of thermodynamics. No army needed. No treaty required.
When the government runs a node, it doesn't just hold BTC —
🇺🇸 FOUR-STAR ADMIRAL SAMUEL PAPARO JUST SAID THE U.S. MILITARY IS RUNNING A #BITCOIN NODE 👀
"WE'RE DOING A NUMBER OF TESTS TO SECURE AND PROTECT NETWORKS USING THE BITCOIN PROTOCOL"