GM, today is the 252 anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.
Jack K
jackkluz@primal.net
npub18384...aslh
Bitcoin Chronologist/Physicist
Professional Engineer (Civil)
Bitcoin = Quantum Computer
Stay humble and stack sats. The world ain’t quite ready for the verifiable object/geometry of time itself.
All models are broken. Just observe Bitcoin.


Discrete, quantized time gives time objecthood. It gives time shape, geometry, and structure. Once time is quantized, it can be counted, bounded, ordered, and measured. It becomes a substrate rather than a backdrop.
Continuous time cannot do this. A continuous parameter has no smallest unit, no boundary, no atomic event. It cannot be shaped or measured in itself, only approximated. Treating time as continuous implicitly denies it any physical form, reducing it to a mathematical convenience rather than a real substrate. This neglects the fact that time is what all physical processes occur within and through. A substrate without structure cannot support measurement.
Bitcoin makes this distinction explicit. Bitcoin does not measure time; it produces it. Each block is a discrete, irreversible temporal object created through energy expenditure. The block is memory. It is a durable record that distinguishes “before” from “after” in a way that cannot be subdivided or smoothed. This is why Bitcoin cannot function if the time it produces were continuous; there would be no atomic state to verify, no finality, no conserved history. Measurement itself would be impossible.
In Bitcoin, time and memory are the same thing. A block is stamped with human time, but the block is time in bitcoin. Without discrete bounds and without quantization there is no way to measure, verify, or agree upon anything at all. Bitcoin works precisely because time is treated as a physical object, not an abstract parameter.
Bitcoin is therefore both the object and the study of time as an object. It is only a matter of time (lol) before continuous-time models collapse under their own weight, because a framework that cannot give time structure cannot even uphold the logic of non-contradiction required for coherent measurement or physical law.
There is no second best object of time. There’s an object of time, it’s called Bitcoin.
Just rolled my ball (shoveled my 370’ driveway)
Santa, I’d like a Canaan Avalon Mini 3 for Christmas this year.
GM my continuous time enjoyers, if continuous time is fundamental, why does Bitcoin not produce it?
Satoshi could have designed a system where state evolved continuously, where balances updated smoothly, where work accumulated gradually, where consensus was an ongoing process rather than a sequence of discrete commitments. But that architecture would be impossible to verify. There would be no atomic state, no finality, no conserved ledger, no objective notion of “before” and “after.”
Why does Bitcoin only work when time is discrete?
Why must state transitions be atomic?
Why must work collapse into blocks rather than accumulate continuously?
Why does consensus require indivisible temporal quanta to exist at all?
If continuous time were sufficient, Bitcoin should be able to function without blocks. It cannot.
Continuous time offers no place to anchor truth, only approximation. Blocks are not a convenience; they are the minimal unit at which reality can be committed, remembered, and agreed upon.
If continuous time is fundamental, explain why the first trustless, verifiable system ever built had to quantize it.
Bitcoin would like to know why quantum mechanics rests on an axiom of continuous time.
GM
Taking on debt to buy Bitcoin is the mirror image of taking on debt so you don’t have to sell your Bitcoin. Both rely on the same illusion; the belief that debt itself is neutral.
The scam is convincing you to take on debt. Don’t feed the beast.
STOP DOUBLE SPENDING.
Time to put my head down and grind; 3rd draft on the way 🤫.
Clarity is unfolding block by block.
Bitcoin is so crazy lol.