Well, it's a long story. The way Preston tells it, he was basically found in the wild by Greg Foss, beating up suits on LinkedIn about Bitcoin. Foss said, hey man, if you want to talk Bitcoin, come over to Twitter.

So he comes over to Twitter and the first thing he goes and says is, "Bitcoin is violence." And he shows up on Pomp's podcast and waves a gun around, comparing it to Bitcoin.

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People didn't like that. Bitcoiners had developed very entrenched ideas about the Peaceful Bitcoin Revolution and libertarian ideas of nonviolence. But Lowery comes from the military and basically speaks a foreign language where "violence" has a very different meaning (he's since switched to using "power projection") that most people find hard to reconcile with their existing ideas of violence, offense, and defense. See, in the military, even defense is violent. Try squaring that circle.

But Lowery was at MIT specifically to study the military significance of Bitcoin, and his thesis was extremely interesting and held water for the most part. But people knew him as the "Bitcoin is a gun" dude, so he started off with a lot of haters.

He also performed social experiments on Twitter to demonstrate abstract power projection in cyberspace where he systematically blocked people who were mostly likely to complain about it and caused a huge uproar. But the thing is, he always said exactly what he was going to do beforehand.

Then he finished his thesis, and while the digital copy was held up by MIT until he graduated, he sold it as a full color textbook on Amazon for a few months. That also became controversial because despite this community's belief in value for value, many people just wanted the PDF. But people bought it anyway and it rose to the top of Amazon's charts in multiple categories and still has a 5 start rating there.

Nowadays, he's been gag ordered, allegedly, by the Pentagon. And his book is no longer for sale. And he's dropped off Twitter, but I think he's still active on LinkedIn. 

 Bitcoin = Bitpower, 
& Bitpower = Bitcoin. 

The crucial factor is the protocol's function, not its name. 

His perspective on using watts to safeguard our digital assets (PoW) is entirely sensible; he's certainly ahead of his time. https://image.nostr.build/3495fb5a7bb7df1015713faad06f8eccdd0b21ff813172ab59fd0aa9e4ae475c.jpg  

 Absolutely! In my mind Bitcoin is the Jarvis/Vision cyber nanny of all time.  

 Yeah, I think he intentionally went for the shock and awe effect with the visuals, and his word choice in the beginning was a linguistically occupational hazard being active duty. Being a former service member myself I see Lowery's thesis is very sound, and I cherish my personal printed pdf copy of the book. I think his book could be a manifesto against the sinister moves by individuals like Elizabeth Warren. 

 Thanks for taking the time to write this out. I knew about most of the story, but not the beginning. 

 Very awesome! Thanks for sharing  

 Thanks! I'll get fountain working asap. I was thinking there was something up with it.