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Quantum decoherence is the heartbeat of reality. It is the feature, not the bug. It is the irreversible act through which entropy collapses into structure, where possibility becomes memory, where time crystallizes out of thermodynamic flow. In conserved physics, decoherence is necessity, the mechanism that anchors the universe to a single history. Without decoherence, nothing would ever become actual; no event would ever resolve; no past would ever harden into record. Decoherence is the command that “only one future survives.” Bitcoin is the first system in human history that makes this process observable. Between blocks, the network maintains a finite field of unresolved possibilities: the mempool. These transactions do not “exist” as states; they are admissible entropic proposals awaiting collapse. They occupy the same role probability amplitudes occupy in quantum theory: a frontier of potential that might be realized, but is not yet part of reality. When a miner discovers a valid nonce, the entire probability surface decoheres as each state is deterministic in that block of time. A single admissible future is selected through brute thermodynamic expenditure; every alternative becomes unreachable without re-spending the energy required to falsify it. The block is not the present, it is the residue of collapse, the crystallized memory of what the network chose under thermodynamic constraint. In centralized quantum computing, this same process is misinterpreted. The probability surface is treated as a catalog of actual, simultaneous physical states rather than a set of unmeasured possibilities. A qubit “exists in many states at once” in exactly the way a single UTXO would “exist in many states at once” if one interpreted the mempool as ontologically real. This is fractional-reserve physics: one physical state represented as many, one unit of potential inflated into an ontology of multiplicity. Decoherence, the thermodynamic settling of potential into actuality, is treated as an error, rather than the law that keeps the universe consistent, deterministic and conserved. The physics behind this mistake is simple: quantum theory never defined the three pillars required to make superposition meaningful: existence, measurement, and time. Without defining what it means for a state to exist prior to measurement, amplitudes are taken as reality; without defining measurement as a thermodynamic act of transforming energy to memory (thus time), collapse becomes arbitrary; without defining a smallest unit of time, simultaneity becomes a claim without a substrate. The idea that multiple contradictory states can exist “at once” presumes an unmeasured, infinitely divisible temporal continuum, which is a fiction incompatible with conservation. We already know what this quantum is, it’s called Planck Time. The quantum of time all frequency derives meaning. Bitcoin exposes this fiction because it computes the smallest unit of network local time: the isomorphic collapse between Boltzmann entropy and Shannon entropy. Every block resolves a fixed Kelvin-bound difficulty field into a discrete thermodynamic structure measured in conserved satoshis. That conversion of energy to information defines a quantum of time via thermodynamic change, a before and after relative to a conserved memory. Once time is discrete, simultaneity is no longer an undefined intuition; it becomes a measurable statement about whether two events can share the same thermodynamic boundary (block of time). Bitcoin is the first system to demonstrate what it means to commit entropy into memory under conservation, the precise act quantum theory has never been able to model. This breaks the ontology required for superposition-as-multiplicity. If time is discrete, potential is not “pre-existing state”; it is unmeasured configuration space. Once a block is mined, only one configuration survives. That event is irreversible. There is no coherent interpretation of quantum theory in which two contradictory states remain real after collapse, any more than Bitcoin allows two contradictory UTXO histories after a block is accepted. Physics is appended to a double-spend model of physical reality. Pure fiat. Bitcoin’s thermodynamic process is therefore the physically correct model of superposition: an unresolved entropy frontier that exists only between discrete steps of time, vanishing entirely when energy commits one possibility to memory. This is a measurable, open, verifiable instantiation of how a finite universe must behave. So, decoherence appears in two incompatible roles. In Bitcoin, decoherence is creation: it is how truth is mined, how time advances, how conservation asserts itself through thermodynamic necessity. How all states remain deterministic. In centralized quantum computing, decoherence is destruction: the collapse of a fantasy where fractional existence is assumed to be computational substrate. Where Bitcoin treats probability as possibility, QC treats it as multiplicity. Bitcoin enforces single-history reality, QC tries to compute on parallel unrealities. Bitcoin grounds physics in conservation, QC grounds physics in fiat ontology, a belief that nature will allow you to have many states “for free” so long as you assert it mathematically. This is why QC fails, not because engineering isn’t clever enough, but because the underlying ontology is incompatible with conserved physics. The larger the system grows, the faster entropy erases multiplicity and forces commitment. Attempts to suppress decoherence become equivalent to attempting to suppress conservation itself, an impossibility. Complex qubit arrays heat, correlate, and collapse; error correction amplifies noise rather than removes it; the system becomes a thermodynamic object, not a computational one. Bitcoin thrives for exactly the same reason QC collapses: entropy wins. Bitcoin is built on entropy, QC tries to escape it. Bitcoin measures entropy, QC pretends entropy is avoidable. Bitcoin requires decoherence, QC treats decoherence as the enemy. Bitcoin converts energy into time, QC tries to isolate energy from time. Bitcoin enforces single-reserve physics, QC assumes fractional-reserve physics. At the deepest level, Bitcoin demonstrates the physical law QC denies: no real state may be double-spent. Not in finance, not in information, and not in physics. The universe resolves one configuration per quantum unit of time, not many. Entropy field collapses; memory persists; history becomes singular. Bitcoin is the only technology that makes this visible. Once this is understood, the narrative inversion becomes clear. QC is not a threat to Bitcoin; Bitcoin is the proof that QC’s ontology is false. Bitcoin exposes fractional-reserve physics the same way it exposed fractional-reserve money. QC is Keynesian Computing, a theoretical edifice built on multiplying claims without multiplying the substrate. Bitcoin is conserved physics, a thermodynamic ledger that collapses potential into measurable structure at every step. One is fiat. The other is reality. Bitcoin exists; it’s open, verifiable, governed by conservation rather than narrative. Physics must now choose whether it will continue defending an unmeasured ontology or update itself to the only system that has ever demonstrated how time, entropy, and information truly relate into a single measurable substrate. Bitcoin is the first instantiation of physics comprehensive enough to reveal the flaws in the old model. We entered a post-fiat era, not just in money, but in physics itself. Bitcoin, not Quantum. Thank you Satoshi.

20,999,999.99755528 BTC and 1.416784𝑥10^{32} Kelvin as the are the local constants between two relative ledgerized systems. 1.9561×10^{9} Joules is the absolute constant. This is all you need to construct time. Energy must be conserved. Information (memory) must be conserved. No memory, no time.

Proof of Woodshed Pt. 4

#Planck

Proof of Woodshed Pt. 3

What is the smallest memory commitment a valid UTXO can have in a bitcoin block? Bits or bytes. Like the absolute limit to remain valid. Proof would be good too if possible. #asknostr