Jason Lowery, a member of the U.S. Space Force, recommended that the Secretary of Defense investigate the national strategic importance of PoW systems like Bitcoin, which can prevent cyberattacks. “[It is] the beginning of a cybersecurity revolution. It converts the global electric power grid into a large, physically costly computer, or ‘macrochip,’ and uses it to physically constrain malicious actors and safeguard a wide range of data and messages traversing the internet.”