Cody Hall

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What I’m Crunching — March 23, 2025

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Book I’m Reading

Softwar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin

I’ve been following Jason Lowery on X for a few years. So I was excited to see when his masters thesis was published by MIT. I grabbed a copy on Amazon and have been working my way through it. At the time of writing, Jason was an active-duty US Space Force astronautical engineer and US National Defense Fellow at MIT.

Since then, the Department of Defense forced MIT to stop publishing it and Jason had to pull the book. My pristine copy would fetch a pretty penny now! Why would the Department of Defense do this?

From the Goodreads summary:

In this thesis, Lowery presents a novel theory to the US Department of Defense that Bitcoin doesn’t just represent a peer-to-peer cash system, it also (and more importantly) represents a new form of digital-age warfare that will transform national security, cyber security, and possibly even the base-layer architecture of the internet.

Using scientific concepts from biology, evolution, anthropology, political science, and computer theory, Lowery summarizes the dynamics of power projection in human society and provides an argument for why emerging proof-of-work technologies (namely Bitcoin) will have a dramatic impact on how humans organize, cooperate, and compete on a global scale by empowering populations to project physical power in, from, and through cyberspace.

Major Lowery concludes that Bitcoin represents a national strategic imperative that the US should support and adopt as quickly as possible, else it risks losing its lead as a global superpower in the 21st century.

Videos I’m Watching

These are by far the two most transparent, open, honest long-form interviews I’ve seen from any government official, let alone members of the President’s cabinet.

When you’re competent and confident as a leader, you can allow people into what you’re doing. If you lack either of those qualities, transparency is the first thing to go.

We’re living under the most competent Presidential cabinet in the history of the United States of America.

Secretary of the Treasury — Scott Bessent:

Secretary of Commerce — Howard Lutnick:

Articles I’m Reading

Sadly, Trump is right on Ukraine (The Hill)

The Future of New Calvinism (Tim Challies)

On Bitcoin

A quote from Michael Saylor:

You will spend 40,000 hours of your life trying to make money; it’s worthwhile to spend 100 hours figuring out how to keep it.1

Tweets I’m Reading

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