everyone's worried about AI. almost nobody sees why bitcoin is the answer

a us space force officer and mit researcher wrote a 400-page thesis arguing bitcoin is a national security asset. the department of defense put it under security review. pulled it from libraries. made it harder to find.

why would the pentagon care about a "digital currency" thesis?

because lowery isnt talking about money. hes talking about warfare. hes talking about what happens when artificial intelligence gets smarter than every logic-based defense system we've ever built.

think about it. ai agents are getting smarter. faster. cheaper. the cost of computation is collapsing toward zero. eventually ai will outsmart any firewall. any password. any permission system. any logic-based security we can design. thats not paranoia.... thats math. if defense is purely logical, and ai is better at logic than humans, the defenders lose. every time.

so what do you do when you cant outsmart something?

you introduce physics.

bitcoin's proof-of-work isnt just consensus. its a physical constraint. real electricity. real cost. real thermodynamic expense that cant be hacked, spoofed, or reasoned around. lowery calls it "softwar".... projecting power in cyberspace through energy expenditure instead of violence.

ai's achilles heel isnt intelligence. its energy.

want to attack the bitcoin network? you cant just be clever. you have to outspend everyone else in raw watts. thats not a logic problem. thats a thermodynamics problem. and thermodynamics doesnt negotiate.

the world accidently built a defense layer against superintelligent ai before most people even understood the threat. satoshi wasnt thinking about artificial general intelligence in 2008. he was thinking about trustless money. but the mechanism he chose.... proof of work.... turns out to be the only security model that scales against infinite intelligence.

"digital gold" is the story we tell today. its a good story. its true. but long term.... bitcoin might be the only protocol that survives an age of infinite artificial intelligence. not because its the smartest system. because its the most physically expensive system.

the dod reviewing lowery's thesis tells you something. the fact they made it harder to access tells you even more.

are we even having the right conversation about what bitcoin actualy is? or are we still stuck debating price targets while the real story is hiding in plain sight?

you cant outsmart physics. but you can position yourself on the right side of it.