Many Bitcoiners realize that Bitcoin will help end war by realigning incentives.
This will, in turn, affect the economic calculus of capital allocation.
Rather than building drones and bombs, more would-be warring factions will realize the economic folly of that choice and, instead, build power plants that were previously cost-prohibitive, ASICs, and facilities to house and operate them.
This will reduce the amount of war that takes place by a significant amount, but it will not end war.
Here's why:
There are currently bullets and bombs flying about in the name of God.
Many of the most extreme religious dogmatists cannot be reasoned with.
That's what makes them dogmatists.
In order to relegate extreme religious dogmatism to the annals of history, the numbers of each dogmatist camp must be reduced until they are the size of the modern KKK.
Nowadays, when the KKK holds a rally, they draw something pathetic like 400 people from a 10 state area.
Those are paltry numbers and, as such, they are unable to fundraise to any meaningful degree to affect their hateful and bigoted agenda.
If the legacy dogmatist religious camps can be rug-pulled by a scientifically based perspective that acknowledges whatever truths there are to be found within each religion and makes sense of every historical religious tradition, the agnostics, the spiritual but not religious, and the fringe members of the various religions will join together under this banner of unity and truth.
As fringe members abandon the legacy dogmatist camps, the legacy dogmatist camps will shrink and have less fundraising power to be misallocated towards war.
This scientifically based perspective is like Bitcoin.
It is already here; it is just unevenly distributed.
If you're serious about ending the era of war on Earth, it will be necessary to end the era of the Tower of Babel in which nobody speaks one another's spiritual language.
Loving your neighbors includes speaking their spiritual language and that, like Bitcoin, requires proof of work.
Humanity needs missionaries who are polyglots when it comes to spiritual lingo.
Such people can speak to anyone from any religious tradition, demonstrate proof of work in conversation, become an ally, and then a translator who can teach people how to unite neighbor with neighbor, fulfilling the Golden Rule found in every tradition.
The Golden Rule is about seeing things from the perspective of others and treating them accordingly.
Every tradition has a variant of this which tells us at least two things:
1. It's important.
2. Humans suck at putting it into practice. If we were all doing a great job of this, every religious tradition wouldn't need to try to teach it to us as that would be redundant.
It's not enough to fix the money if we want to end war.
We have to be willing to leave the comfort of our known base camps.
We have to be willing to learn the words and the ways of our neighbors.
The only holy war is between love and fear.
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