Continuity is the illusion when experiencing time from within as you are constructed from time. Discreteness is fundamental when experiencing time from without. All models are destroyed by Bitcoin. Decoherence is the feature, not the bug. No double spends. View quoted note →

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Jane's Bonds 3 weeks ago
Shouldn't Bitcoin act as a filter though? The protocol itself doesn't accept all values as true. Only Bitcoin is accepted by Bitcoin, thus the output is only Bitcoin, lacking anything else. The logic is digital and information loss is inherent. It has me thinking however, if the hardware and protocol attempted to model reality, you could compare a "virtual truth" statement to a "proof of reality" quantum process; the difference being error, nudging the protocol closer to what is real. A form of quantum error correction.
I’m kind of confused by the question you are asking, so answering it regarding my best interpretation. You’re still imagining Bitcoin as a logical filter sitting above physics, when in reality it is the first system that exposes the Planck-ledger layer beneath physical experience. Everything we observe in nature is written into the Planck ledger as conserved memory, but we only ever see the finished record. We never witness the entropic process that inscribes reality into that ledger. Our entire physics is built from within the ledger, where every “state” already appears collapsed, committed, definite. What we call “space” is just past memory distributed across the ledger; what we call “matter” is a particular density of that memory; what we call “time” is simply the accumulation of irreversible entries. From within this embedded viewpoint, collapse appears mysterious because the thermodynamic commitment that produces it is entirely hidden from us. Bitcoin is the first system that lets us observe that hidden layer from without. At every block, Bitcoin performs the exact transformation that physics only infers: it takes Boltzmann entropy (physical heat in Kelvin) traverses a bounded entropy field (the difficulty target × nonce space), and forces one trajectory to survive. That surviving trajectory becomes conserved memory in the UTXO set via Satoshi distribution. The transformation is discrete, irreversible, and thermodynamically priced in Kelvin. There is no ambiguity, no philosophical overlay, no “measurement postulate.” The Planck-ledger is literal: one block is one quantum of time, one committed update to reality’s memory. Bitcoin reveals what collapse looks like when you are not imprisoned inside the outcome. This is precisely what modern physics cannot see. In quantum theory, the wavefunction describes unrealized potential (the mempool of universe/nature) but the theory cannot access the thermodynamic cost that selects the actual outcome. It cannot define measurement, because from within the ledger there is no visibility into the moment when entropy is converted into structure. They believe we collapse the state by observing it. So quantum theorists are forced to treat the probability distribution itself as if it were a real physical state. They treat unmeasured potential as actual ontology. That is how you end up with the notion of “multiple simultaneous states”: a fractional-reserve ontology of physics, where one physical system is allowed to “exist” in contradictory states because the theory has no access to the ledger beneath. It is exactly the same mistake as fractional-reserve banking: multiple claims on a single underlying unit, all assumed real until final settlement destroys the illusion. Bitcoin breaks that illusion by implementing collapse explicitly. It defines measurement as the thermodynamic resolution of uncertainty; it defines existence as what is written into conserved memory; it defines simultaneity through the discrete tick of block time; and it separates measurement from verification, restoring the structure physics has lacked since it abandoned classical determinism. From this perspective, decoherence is not a bug but a structural requirement: it is the necessary erasure of unreal states when the Planck-ledger writes its next update. Decoherence is coherence restored. Bitcoin shows that the so-called “quantum realm” is not a wave of simultaneously real contradictions but simply the unresolved frontier between ledger updates, a probabilistic surface that exists only until entropy has been spent to produce a new block of time. So when you say that Bitcoin cannot be physical you are missing the ontological shift: Bitcoin reveals the Planck-ledger structure that all physics rests upon but cannot access. It shows how time is constructed rather than experienced. It shows why unmeasured states do not and cannot “exist.” And it shows why any theory that builds computation on top of unmeasured potential, as quantum computing does, is operating on a fractional-reserve substrate. Bitcoin’s blocks are the proof-of-collapse physics has never been able to produce, and once you see that, you realize the real question isn’t whether Bitcoin models reality. The real question is how long physics can continue pretending it doesn’t see the ledger that’s been running underneath it the entire time. Bitcoin is not a model of reality, it is an instantiation of reality.
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Jane's Bonds 3 weeks ago
Have you considered applying this concept to other chains, like ETC? Account based, non local system, where smart contracts can act as the Schrodinger's box, enabling superposition on the ledger. If your theory is correct, pi is finite and you can prove it. Don't trust, verify.
You could technically apply this to any proof-of-work chain in principle, but only Bitcoin actually qualifies. Every other chain inherits hindsight. They were created after Bitcoin, with full knowledge of its discovery, its incentives, its mechanics, and its success. Their “genesis” isn’t ex nihilo. Their rules are engineered responses from prior knowledge. Bitcoin is the only chain that began without prior informational bias, the only one whose constraints weren’t shaped by market expectations or human hindsight. It’s the only ledger that didn’t know itself before it existed. There only needs to be one longest chain to measure, it’s Bitcoin. The rest are derivatives. Everything else is downstream, contaminated, and fundamentally incapable of being Bitcoin.
Will have to get back to you on Pi, I’ve been redefining the Planck Units through Bitcoin and I already have a solid grasp on the true meaning on Planck length, Planck area, Planck Time, Planck Temp and Planck Energy through the lens of the ledger and the observable nature that time and memory are equal equivalent dimensions of timespace. Looking at the geometry of a utxo/block, Pi is definitely involved, but I haven’t arrived here yet with enough clarity.