Quantum effects are pretty firmly established, in things like 2-slit experiment, or the colors of quantum dots.... We don't have to know exactly "how" it works to know that it works. Bitcoin doesn't "falsify" quantum more than anything other demonstration of the linear progression of time...

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I’m not disputing phenomena. What I’m saying is that Bitcoin falsifies the models those phenomena are embedded in, not the observations themselves. You’ve sidestepped my point: divide a Bitcoin block into a smaller unit of time. You can’t. There is no sub-block temporal state that is valid, verifiable, or meaningful. The block is an atomic temporal object. If you don’t understand the object, you don’t understand what it implies for any theory built on time. The formalism assumes continuous time (infinitely divisible) to define evolution, superposition, and coherence. Bitcoin shows that a real, working system of irreversible state change requires discrete time. That doesn’t make interference disappear, it means the mathematics describing it is an approximation, not fundamental. So I’ll reassert that Bitcoin falsifies the assumption that reality needs continuous time to be explained.