Energy as Money

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Buckminster Fuller's Energy-Based Money

“...one of the very big new realizations by 2080 which will be a realistic, scientific accounting system of what is wealth. We now know that wealth isn't the goal that the old powers used to have. Wealth is energy...”
— Buckminster Fuller, 1967
(2-minute video)

In his book "Critical Path", Buckminster Fuller makes several statements that served as great foretelling of Bitcoin...
"Computers will make it practical to electronify wealth distribution that accomplish the movements of goods and service that is more channeled design structures. Not Big Brother though. "No central planning authority."

Henry Ford's Energy-Based Money

Ford Would Replace Gold with Energy Currency and Stop Wars
Much of the world's gold supply at the time was controlled entirely by banks no matter what country the bank is in. They're all the same. They want to keep all the gold they have while at the same time accumulate as much more as they can. If the countries these banks exist in go to war, they actually benefit. These countries need money for war so the banks loan it to them and make profit off the interest. Ford called the gold standard "evil" because it was controlled by a certain group of people. Ford wanted to create his own currency based on the energy produced at the newly-created Muscle Shoals hydroelectric facility.
 — Henry Ford, 1921
(5-minute video)


Growing Intelligence of Noosphere Demands Evermore Intelligent Money

Mainstream (legacy) science/academia promotes a Darwinian/Einsteinian worldview of "gritology". Put enough grit together over eons of time and consciousness emerges. Valdimir Verdnasky proposed the concepts of the Biosphere and Noosphere (PDF) which stood in diametric opposition to gritology. Verdnasky felt that everything starts with consciousness. (You might think of it as the Logos.) From consciousness, energy patterns emerge. Followed by matter. Then geochemistry and, ultimately, biological life—the biosphere. The noosphere emerges as the biosphere thinks. The elevation of calories into the thinking process creates reinforcing cycles and gradually becomes more powerful. You might think of it the mixture (and evolution) of civilization and technology.

This video uses copper coins created by Emperor Qin Shi Huang in 3rd century BCE to illustrate how money is a way of storing the energy of human creativity. A spectacular invention. Wealth is the capacity for the ongoing generation of human creativity. Building wealthy systems is our primary aim and ultimate meaning. When we build wealth, we are building the noosphere.
(5-minute video)

Fidelity: Grounding Bitcoin to Reality

Manager for Fidelity explains how Proof-of-Work grounds Bitcoin to reality.
(3-minute video)

Anchoring Bitcoin to the Real World

Use of energy—combined with independent confirmation of time—is the key to anchoring Bitcoin's digital computation to the real world.
(29-minute video)

Space Force Major Jason Lowery: Bitcoin for Defense of Sovereignty

Proof of work turns the global scale electric power grid into the base layer of the computer.
(1-minute video)


Presentation of Space Force Major Jason Lowery to MIT: The energy intensity of bitcoin provides its users with nation-state level security over their wealth. This was a preview of his book, SoftWar: A Novel Theory on the Nation Strategic Significance of Bitcoin - PDF | Audio
(42-minute video)

Major Lowery made the bitcoin podcast rounds for the first year after the release of his book. Interestingly, his superiors ordered his silence over the last two years of the Biden administration. His gag order was lifted after Trump's second election and he is now educating the public (and his brothers-in-arms) about the strategic importance of bitcoin.


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More important X threads by Space Force Major Jason Lowery

  • Feb 27, 2025: Understanding the critical importance of Proof of Work
  • Feb 23, 2025: Nations will seize "rented" bitcoin just like they did gold
  • Feb 23, 2025: Nations will offer double value to those who self-custody bitcoin
  • Feb 22, 2025: Bitcoin much more important than "digital gold"

Recommended Book/Audiobook

Bitcoin: Everything Divided by 21 Million
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Audiobook

A wonderful exploration of the transformative potential of Bitcoin, presenting it as a paradigm shift in how we perceive money, time, and value. The book delves into Bitcoin’s fixed supply of 21 million coins, framing it as an immutable, scarce resource that redefines economic systems by existing outside human control, akin to a natural law. Bitcoin is portrayed as a digital embodiment of time and effort—akin to a weightless, absolute element that resists inflation and wasteful consumption inherent in fiat systems. With a journey spanning economics, philosophy, and game theory, it is argued that Bitcoin’s limited supply cap counters the inefficiencies of perpetual debt and environmental degradation, offering a hopeful vision of hyperbitcoinization where energy, harnessed and secured via Bitcoin’s protocol, becomes the bedrock of a new, civilized society.

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