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To Understand Bitcoin, Recall There is No Spoon
“Do not try and bend the spoon – that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth… there is no spoon.” – Young Monk, The Matrix Before entering into a technical discussion about Bitcoin, it’s useful to recall a core concept of computer science that was famously illustrated in the movie The Matrix: there is…
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Leveraging Unlimited Defensive Cyber Power
“Power! Unlimited power!” – Supreme Chancellor Palpatine A core challenge of cyber security is the notable absence of the phenomenon that society uses to secure its rules-based systems in every other domain: brute-force physical power. Without having access to brute-force physical power to impose a real-world, physically-prohibitive cost on belligerent actions, people and programs acting…
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Want to Understand Bitcoin? Understand War.
Bitcoin is the continuation of policy with other means. 1.1 Setting policy with other means “War is merely the continuation of policy with other means.” – Carl von Clausewitz In the early 1800s, General Carl von Clausewitz – widely acknowledged as perhaps the most important classical strategic thinker – closely examined the nature of war…
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Bitcoin is Worth every Watt
“In its first incarnation, a proof of a theorem is a spoken message, or at most a sketch on a chalkboard or a paper napkin.” – De Millo, et al. Social Processes and Proofs of Theorems and Programs Concept #1: Everyone Breaks Promises “Everyone Poops.” – Tarō Gomi It takes a high degree of stoicism…
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Memo: What makes Bitcoin special?
By solving the double spend problem, Satoshi Nakamoto designed a discrete mathematical algorithm to have the same critical emergent behavior as real-world, mass-based objects: the inability to be in two “places” at once. This introduces an entirely new metacognitive paradigm where it becomes much easier for humans to perceive object-oriented software abstractions like “tokens” as…
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Welcome!
Hi everyone and welcome to mutuallyassuredpreservation.com! My name is Jason. I’m an astronautical engineer in the US Space Force and US National Defense Fellow at MIT researching the national strategic implications of Bitcoin and Proof-of-Work property defense protocols. I decided to create this blog so I can get continuous feedback on what I’m writing in…
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Thoughts on Bitcoin's Impact on the Future of Organized Property Defense
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