Jason Lowery
Jason P. Lowery enters this wiki through Softwar, a 2023 MIT System Design and Management master’s thesis. The current profile stays narrow: it uses biographical details stated in the thesis itself and treats Lowery as a national-security author, not as a libertarian theorist.
Work Present Here
The source set identifies Lowery as the author of Softwar, formally titled Softwar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin. The thesis was submitted to MIT’s System Design and Management Program for the Master of Science in Engineering and Management in February 2023.
The thesis identifies Lowery as a Major, a Department of Defense-sponsored US National Defense Fellow, a Department of the Air Force Fellow, an MIT System Design and Management Fellow, an astronautical engineer, and an active-duty technology and innovation officer in the US Space Force. It also states that he transferred into the US Space Force from the US Air Force and had prior work connected to intelligence analysis, electronic warfare, blast and ballistics effects, and space weapon-system design.
Education and Context
The title page lists a Master of Science in Astronautical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 2017 and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Baylor University in 2010. That context matters because Softwar is not primarily a monetary-economics text. It is written from a systems, military-strategy, and national-security perspective.
Place in This Wiki
Lowery should not be presented as a libertarian fellow traveler. His thesis argues that proof-of-work may be strategically important to the United States and recommends that US policy makers treat Bitcoin as electro-cyber security infrastructure. The wiki uses him as an external source whose analysis of physical cost, cyber control, and abstract authority intersects with libertarian concerns without sharing the same political program.
See Also
- Softwar - Lowery thesis reference
- Power Projection - central theory developed in the thesis
- Abstract Power Hierarchies - institutional-control concept developed in the thesis
- Privacy and Cryptography - topic map where the proof-of-work and Bitcoin implications belong
Sources
- Softwar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin - title page, abstract, biography, and thesis argument