Every civilization eventually discovers the same thing: If you don’t make access to your domain expensive, you lose control of it.
Castle walls weren’t built to look impressive.
They were built to impose cost.
They forced attackers to expend real-world energy before they could gain access.
In every domain, physical cost imposition is the preserver of sovereignty.
Cyberspace never had the ability to impose physical cost. Until now.
Why does this matter? Because we are about to lose jurisdiction over the internet if we dont start imposing cost.
Agentic AI can and will scale infinitely. Human time & energy production cannot.
That asymmetry is about to determine who controls the internet.
Right now, access to cyberspace is virtually free. Which means AI wins.
AI agents don’t get tired.
They don’t sleep.
They don’t stop.
If nothing changes, cyberspace will inevitably be dominated by AI, not humans.
Not because they’re smarter.
Because operating on the internet is so cheap.
The solution is not to make more software or more AI.
The solution is to make access to cyberspace more physically expensive.
Every login.
Every API call.
Every command signal.
Reject them all unless they show proof that real-world energy was spent.
In this sense, Proof-of-Work acts like a digital castle wall. It forces any person or AI agent who wants access to the internet to pay in energy first. It makes virtual reality obey the physics of 3D reality.
And 3D reality is where humans still have the advantage. 3D reality is where we still have dominion.
We are already have to spend time & energy doing everything we do.
We control the power plants.
We control the fuel.
We control the production of energy itself.
And we were in control of 95% of all Bitcoin before the AI agents flooded the internet.
This is not about money.
This is about cyber sovereignty.
J Lowery
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