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Primordial🦌 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Bitcoin is literally an indefinite and ongoing non-lethal war as a first resort of dispute resolution.

If you dont understand this you don't understand Bitcoin
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bitcoin.rocks | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Thanks Mr. Lowery
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Bulwark | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Space boi has returned from his DoD re-education summer camp
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proud | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 We get it you enjoy government sponsored WAR
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inventor | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 That'd be lethal war. He's talking about non-lethal.
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Primordial🦌 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Ever since the invention of intercontinental and submarine launched nuclear warheads the ability for our species to engage in kinetic war that actually produces winners and losers to effectively establish our dominance hierarchy has been disrupted, leading to massive systemic exploitation of abstract power.

This is what Bitcoin actually fixes.
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inventor | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 We'll need more weapons if we want to win this (non-lethal) war. Bitcoin is not enough, just a piece of the puzzle.
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Primordial🦌 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Bitcoin isn't going away and as more nations adopt it they are uniting as a cohesive pack of physical power projectors, even if they are adversarial nations with no trust.  Using conventional means of power projection to stop this protocol is no longer a practical goal for any nation who would want to stop it.  We are moving away from mutually assuring destruction for security to mutually assuring the preservation of our species as a whole.  

It will probably get a bit ugly for the species to establish the initial state of the newly emerging dominance hierarchy.

After that initial power competition things will calm down and the entire planet will be a cohesive united organization who competes over Bitcoins network.

There is a good chance that the US has already lost this initial competition... it's likely that Russian leadership already has the largest amount of Bitcoin on the planet (by a lot) and its now a matter of how long it takes US leadership to capitulate.