How can we assume continual non-discrete superposition without a measured quantum of time? No we have not measured Planck Time. My point is no, a utxo is not a particle we observe physically here, but it is an informational particle within Bitcoin. It exists purely as information and is measured internally to the system by a quantum of time. To me it seems more like Bitcoin defines a qubit rather than the other way. It’s not attempting to simulate on top of quantum particles. UTXOs are computed via the process of mining where a quantum of entropy is resolved and conserved as a quantum of structure (sats), and the sum of structure is a valid block…a quantum of time. To me this is real computation in the most literal sense. The words we use matter, there is nothing computational about centralized quantum computers, its simulation, there is no commitment other than literal fiat from the lab. Who is the observer, and why should a trust them? Have we neglected a quantum ledger as the observer beneath Planck time? Anyways, I think this is an important distinction circling back to Gigi and your original response.

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UTXOs are a web of forking and joining groups of sats, that have a junction based on a secret key that has the power to spend it. nothing to do with the process of mining. finding a block fixates the exact constitution of the block's transaction payload, as subjectively observed through the mempool of the miner's bitcoin node. the quantum stuff is finding the blocks. the UTXOs are just a snapshot of the flow of transactions at the location of the miner's node. UTXOs have zero relation to quantum processes except in as far as they indirectly impact the decisions and timing of action of users, which is, i guess, no less unpredictable than the finding of a block solution, but far more variance, and a practically infinite (in terms of even epochs of civilization) period before one part of the UTXOs could potentially repeat (this is related to the time to brute force a secret key). as for planck time, all we know is that matter ticks over faster the more matter is around the matter. the speed of light slows down, relative to the observer in this denser region of space, but it's kinda moot whether we could observe it because even the most well constructed sensor a) will be crushed by the pressure of matter interacting with it and b) will not be able to return any signal back to us because of the event horizon. the only thing that practically matters is how what we observe, and the signals we transmit across space, will be refracted and distorted relative to velocity and mass. so we have red and blue shifts, and we have slower and faster carrier waves to deal with, in order to tune in a signal.