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 #Bitcoin ASICs are human-out-of-the-loop warfighting drones engaged in a non-lethal probabilistic physical power competition to determine the legitimate state of ownership and chain of custody of the underlying resource and the privilege of authoring the next block.

This enables humanity to use a non-lethal warfare protocol to establish their intraspecies dominance hierarchy.

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