Readers and educators are speculating about Jason Lowrey’s decision to remove his ebook Softwar: A Novel Idea on Energy Projection and the Nationwide Strategic Significance of Bitcoin from public access. Additionally, the paper has vanished from the collection of the MIT library despite being presented as a thesis to the System Design and Administration Programme at MIT in February 2023.
Lowrey said only that he had been told to remove the text from circulation and that was the reason for the action. “For those asking what’s been going on with me, I used to be ordered to take SOFTWAR down & requested to stop speaking about the topic publicly,” he stated on Twitter. I won’t go into details, but everything is going well and I’m working very hard behind the scenes. Recognize the sorting expressions.
Proof of work for national security
By examining Bitcoin’s proof-of-work technology in the context of national security, Software offers a contemporary theoretical framework for thinking about Bitcoin’s potential strategic impact as an electro-cyber security tool rather than considering it solely as a financial technology. The book proposes Bitcoin as a potentially revolutionary tool for national security and power projection online.
Many others supported Lowrey’s contemporary perspective, which suggested that the nature of modern warfare is shifting towards non-kinetic, non-physical forms. Under this concept, Lowrey suggests that Bitcoin might provide a powerful mechanism for energy projection throughout the cyberspace, hence enhancing cybersecurity, thanks to its proof-of-work consensus process. The importance of Bitcoin’s potential as a security asset, capable of protecting sensitive data and discouraging cyberattacks by imposing physical costs on attackers, was highlighted in Lowrey’s study.
The thesis pushed the capabilities of Bitcoin’s proof-of-work technologies to function as a revolutionary type of electro-cyber energy projection software under the supervision of Joan Rubin, Government Director of the System Design & Administration Programmed. He pioneered the idea of “softwar,” which was believed to have transformative potential for national strategic security in the twenty-first century.
The sudden and mysterious disappearance of “Softwar” from the public eye has raised a number of questions that remain unresolved. Lowrey’s cryptic post has made the mystery even more difficult to solve. His innovative approach to Bitcoin and cybersecurity has gained traction, and the conversation has been left with a noticeable gap since he vanished from the public spotlight.
At the time of publication, Softwar was absent from the MIT Press website, Thriftbooks, Google Shopping, Amazon, and other major booksellers. It is still accessible via the Air College library system’s online collection.
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