About this episode
This week's Coin Stories features Space Force and MIT National Defense Fellow Jason Lowery *** Coin Stories is brought to you in part by The Bitcoin Conference and Okcoin. BITCOIN 2022 will be the BIGGEST BITCOIN EVENT IN HISTORY held in Miami on April 6-9, 2022. For 10% Off your Bitcoin Conference Ticket head to https://b.tc/conference and use code COINSTORIES *** Okcoin is on a mission to make crypto investing and trading easily accessible to anyone around the world. We are building the next generation of tools to help onboard the investors and traders who have been on the fence about crypto. Okcoin a globally licensed exchange with offices in San Francisco, Miami, Malta, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. We are a collective of global citizens with a common passion to help decentralize finance and level the economic playing field for everyone around the world. Visit https://go.okcoin.com/natalie for $50 in Bitcoin when you sign up. *** Bio sourced from LinkedIn.com and Twitter.com : Jason Lowery is an Air Force veteran and National Defense Fellow researching Bitcoin while pursuing a master's degree in engineering & management through the System Design & Management program jointly offered by MIT's School of Engineering & Sloan School of Management. You can follow Jason on Twitter at @JasonPLowery Timecodes: 00:00 Introduction and promo codes 1:53 Jason's back story and upbringing 3:20 Band camp and Space camp 5:28 Joining the military 11:08 Most surprising aspect of military 13:30 Discovering Bitcoin 17:36 Jason under investigation 20:21 Bitcoin and national security 27:58 Kinetic to electric power projection 36:25 Bitcoin as a military system 45:58 Bitcoin creates frenemies 55:56 Why doesn't the military get Bitcoin? 57:47 Jason's Bitcoin drawing 1:05:50 What will US do with Bitcoin? 1:08:26 Military spending 1:13:09 Bitcoin promotes peace 1:14:45 Military track record on new tech 1:22:16 Jason's biggest question about BTC 1:24:44 Bitcoin is a battery 1:29:05 Space Force Guy 1:31:51 Space Force, the Military and Musk 1:36:34 Explaining BTC for national security 1:39:16 Question from a Marine 1:41:53 What Jason wishes people would ask 1:42:30 Proof of Stake argument 1:50:43 Other crypto to buy Bitcoin 1:51:19 Jason denied for credit 1:53:45 When Jason is going to space 1:54:50 A future of hope