Space Force Major Jason Lowery: Pricing Online Actions with Bitcoin
U.S. Space Force Major Jason Lowery, known for his theory of "Bitcoin as Power Projection," stated that the main difference between humans and AI agents is not their appearance but the number of actions they can execute in a unit of time, with agents being able to exceed humans by about 10,000 times. Therefore, defense should focus on behavior rather than identity recognition. He advocates for every button and command to consume computational tokens, making the cost of human-machine actions three orders of magnitude apart.
He mentioned that the limiting factor for personal agents is the computational power token wallet, and as computational power continues to become cheaper and varies across countries, there is a need for a globally decentralized, non-sovereign, geo-neutral token network that cannot be inflated by simply stacking computational power, distributing tokens on a first-come, first-served basis to those providing computational power. The final step is to make each online action consume a small portion of that token. His answer is: this network is Bitcoin. The Bitcoin information account forwarded this post. The article did not include new on-chain fee rate experiments, did not provide a real sample of the 10,000 times, nor did it list sites that charge per click in satoshis.
Writing clicks as satoshis changes bandwidth defense into monetary defense. Funds will not automatically flow from GPUs to transaction fees due to a military theory; they will only reinforce the narrative within circles that have already adopted Bitcoin as a settlement layer. The beneficiaries are Bitcoin advocates who want to treat blocks as universal access control; the pressured side is the agent evaluation budget that climbs sites at zero marginal cost. The event-driven aspect is personal deduction, not protocol upgrades.
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Lowery shifts the battlefield from identity verification to action frequency. CAPTCHA tests "Are you human?" while he aims to test "Is your action too frequent?" The 10,000 times is a rhetorical magnitude used to demonstrate that charging per action is more damaging to agents. In his previous work, Bitcoin represented energy as difficult-to-fake control; this time it represents the same energy as a ticket to website APIs.
The capital path is transaction fees as air defense. Whoever first connects the form to satoshis will charge a toll for agent training sessions. Cheaper computational power will weaken the shield of "expensive," hence he demands that inflation be difficult, anchoring the difficulty to proof of work. First-come, first-served distribution is a miner narrative, not a new central bank. The Space Force background makes "winning the 21st century" sound like an order, but execution still requires websites to change payment gateways.
In comparison to Hashcash anti-spam, retry penalties, Cloudflare's computational challenges, and gas fee limits on contract bombardment: the commonality is raising the unit price of actions. Bitcoin offers transferable balances beyond CAPTCHA and has price volatility—when tokens are expensive, people may also be blocked from accessing buttons.
Structural changes belong to reverse charging of technological substitution. The substitutes are free crawling and free click alternatives. Pricing power shifts from server bandwidth to tokens that cannot be arbitrarily inflated. The mechanism is: the advantage of agents is frequency, so the charge should be based on frequency. Identity can be faked, but balance consumption cannot be copied without loss.
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Identifying whether someone is human is less effective than pricing each click.
The advantage of agents is frequency, so the tax should be applied to frequency.
The cheaper the computational power, the more necessary it is to have non-inflatable tickets.