It's big-brain time.
Lowery argues in "Softwar" for the Proof of Work protocol, the consensus mechanism that underpins Bitcoin that uses high-powered processors to verify ownership of a given coin. Specifically, he argues that if governments can get into uber-competitive PoW competitions , they can avoid other competitions such as, say, traditional warfare.
In the antler metaphor, the winner of these mining stag battles would attain a predetermined quantity of tokens and also the rights to publish the next block of transactions. While we can't help but laud Lowery for this imaginative conception of a world without traditional war, there's one gaping hole in his theory: that
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