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Feb 27 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
1) As Russia begins to threaten a strategic (i.e. nuclear) response to financial sanctions & rejection of SWIFT, we affirm my thesis that #Bitcoin has major national strategic implications that will lead us towards a new strategic policy of Mutually Assured Preservation (MAP).
2) As both sides of the current conflict weigh using #Bitcoin to minimize the attack surface on their monetary property, it reaffirms my point that we should not get caught up on offense vs. defense but instead focus on the means of power projection being used to defend money.
3) And by far the least important political issue concerning #Bitcoin is its energy usage. Those who criticize Bitcoin's energy usage fundamentally misunderstand the point of Bitcoin, and especially don't appreciate its enormous global strategic implications.
4) These are my *personal* views & do not represent the views of the DoD. These clips are from a PA-approved podcast with @APompliano to discuss my research at MIT, that we did last year.

@APompliano @tedcruz @SenLummis @WarrenDavidson Please consider these perspectives. I believe #Bitcoin will rapidly become a US National Strategic Imperative. I thought I would have more time to publish these theories...

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Feb 27
@CynthiaMLummis 1) Yes ma'am. Thank you for the question. Writing thread now:

USD & SWIFT are fundamentally monetary systems, the security of which is dependent on our ability to prevent four types of loss events from happening. Image
@CynthiaMLummis 2) Of these different types of financial system loss events, #4 is the most strategically significant because it represents the largest existential threat to a given monetary network. Image
@CynthiaMLummis 3) To prevent our financial system from experiencing these loss events, it is OUR responsibility not to perform "unsafe control actions" that could put the system in a state where we experience a loss event. But that's precisely what we're doing by DoS-attacking Russia from SWIFT Image
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Feb 25
Imagine how much worse Feudalism would have been if citizens had no idea the king existed, or what he looked like, or where he lived, and none of the peasants had any mechanism to kill the invisible King if the King became oppressive.

That Feudal System is called Ethereum 2.0
It's also called Web 3.0. And all the Kings trying to sell you on this horrible Feudal system are going to try to convince you that it's "better for the environment."
BTW this is the King of ETH2.0 Image
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Feb 25
So now that we've established we're not going to get in a kinetic fight against a nuclear-armed peer, and instead going to get into competition where we attempt to deny the other access to a financial network...

Why isn't US buying all the #Bitcoin before Russia/China does.
Every #Bitcoin that US buys is a BTC that Russia & China can't have...
We should probably have someone in our military looking into this... maybe that person should advice the National Security Council on this recommendation...

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Feb 22
"Dead men tell no tales" means dead men don't break promises. The implication of this idiom is that violence gives people zero-trust control over people & property. There is no such thing as zero-trust control over ppl/property w/o violence. Peace is merely a state of high trust.
What people misunderstand is that they assume violence must be kinetic. This has never been true.
I argue, an act qualifies as violence if it presens a credible threat of harm. Doesn't have to be physical harm. Can be social, emotional, or financial harm.

Thoughts?
The fundamental tension between peace & violence is that trust, itself, is an exploitable security vulnerability. Peace is a state of high trust, but higher states of trust are more vulnerable to exploitation that need to be resolved via violence.

Thus, war is inevitable.
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Feb 22
@LukeGromen Translation: Sanctions shoot ourselves in the foot b/c it accelerates capital flight out of our financial system for virtually no benefit.
@LukeGromen To benefit from Sanctions, buy Bitcoin first, use it as a fishing net to re-capture the capital once it flies.
@LukeGromen If you're going to set the theater on fire, you should position yourself to get a cut of the rent people pay to escape the theater.

Hence why *all* financial system intermediaries need to be buying #BTC right now. Especially central banks. Especially governments.
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Jan 3
Problem is, u have to make sincere effort to understand the legitimacy & impact that war has had in scaling civilizations, to fully comprehend/understand why #bitcoin is so disruptive. So military guy has to explain war in notoriously anti-govt community. Recipe for disaster.
I end up being targeted as a warmongering spook for trying to point out the similarities (which is essential for understanding why #Bitcoin disrupts it).
Ironically, the "power projection" framework I'm introducing in my thesis destroys the FUD that nocoiners are so gullible to (ex. ESG, Web3), and are demonstrably effective a orange-pilling govt officials & boomers.

It's also a refreshingly new perspective for ppl IMO.
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