Maybe peace is only a moment when one power structure is dominant. The bitcoin power structure could last 1,000 years resulting in a prolonged peaceful and cooperative period.

Imagine someone wants to attack you, but needs funding. Bitcoiners can mass their bitcoin to pay for an attack on you without approval from a bank or government. #SoftWar

Are we focused on ideas or people with ideas?

Not for me. Please don't frame Bitcoin as a weapon. It's only defensive capability is against erosion of purchasing power.

Quite simply, we don’t see bitcoin as it is, but how we are. Imo this is a feature and testament to the breadth of what Bitcoin actually is or may become. I welcome and learned a lot from Jason’s nuanced view of power projection, systems thinking and how he looks to nature to explain his idea...

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Brevity is the soul of wit. Mother fucker can shorten his shit by a lot but I don't think that makes him seem like the book writin' folk.

TLDR; His thesis is only a thesis without a code proof of concept/implementation. Knowing what's bad is harder than stopping it. His thesis is interesting and makes sense, but I don't see it having a practical implementation that would not be better serve with just robust key management. Because Bi...

Clearly a smart fella who knows his history and understands systems. I suspect that what's left unsaid may be more important than what he says. Because all the things he says seem to be logically correct. I'm writing up some more detailed thoughts.

I need to listen to this podcast tonight. My thoughts on him so far is it's an interesting perspective. However, I hope more of the people get into Bitcoin first. When it comes to governments, I'm not sure I want them to own a lot or create a lot of Bitcoin. If the government of my homeland said the...

Obviously he’s a hot topic. For good reason. I didn’t listen to your interview yet but I’m hoping to know why he’s so public with his thesis. What’s his ultimate goal, and why is being public in the way he’s doing it the best way to achieve it?

His shit is influencer fuel. Exhibit A

#SoftWar makes sense if you remove the statist jargon from it and look at it from a first principles, as in the fundamental fabric of the universe, point of view.

His thesis strikes me as having been reverse engineered. I think he had his conclusion first and then used all his intellectual capacity to amass analogies and correlative data in its support.

Nonsense.

Looking forward to the book. Interview was a good review, interesting to view it as a defensive wepon, goes back to code as weapons grade wepons but i fear inviting military minds to welcome bitcoin into the dark rooms where all our “national interest” are kept under a cloak of secrecy legal moa...

Country music stays at the top off the charts because the people who listen to it don't know how to download it for free

I agree. I am at war with fiat. Bitcoin is liberating people. It's a war of freedom vs control. It is THE war.

He talked in circles. You pushed him, but not as hard as you could have.

In the words of a friend, "he has only one point, and it's kind of silly"

I think you did a pretty good job trying to challenge him where you could. As with most people, it's sometimes hard to understand the specific question and always reverting back to their original perspective (thinking fast and slow will help understand that).I think the jump to other applications be...

Valuable. Our software landscape was initially built for benevolent use. Then hacked. Patched since to questionable degrees. There is only one software that was built with a defense mechanism against 24/7/365 brute force attacks in the design. #Bitcoin. That is the bed rock, that’s where we can st...

Not sure. Seems like he glorifies war to some extent, which I don't agree with. Humans have taken control over nature in many aspects - for example we live in houses that shut out rain, snow, cold, heat, etc. - and this is a good thing. Shouldn't violence be on the list of undesirable nature things,...

Seems like a Bitcoin Maxi. I'd like to read his thesis some day.

How is anything he's selling relevant to everyday needs of bitcoin users?