High Resolution Version (click to expand) Get the BCRA right with proof-of-work, and you swap nuclear MAD—mutually assured destruction, where one wrong move ends civilization—for MAP: mutually assured preservation. Attackers face infinite, escalating watt-cost walls with zero payoff; honest energy scales defense forever; nations joust with electricity instead of nukes. Digital sovereignty locks in—bits become physically untouchable, small players deter giants bloodlessly, prosperity compounds in a thermodynamically secure world. Get it wrong—rely on weak abstract defenses—and cyberspace turns nuclear-vulnerable: trivial-cost exploits deliver massive gains, ledgers get stolen or rewritten, sovereignty evaporates to hackers or rivals. Fragile systems collapse, escalation risks spill kinetic, and you end up prey in a high-BCRA kill zone—domesticated, drained, and extinct. Lowery’s equation is brutal: nail it, or die. https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/153030/lowery-jplowery-sm-sdm-2023-thesis.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

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