very very very good video on probably my biggest academic pet peeve. well worth the 20 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH-ybecvuEo
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Satoshi’s Completeness Theorem, except Bitcoin is not a theorem, it’s instantiated.
Gödel’s incompleteness rests on “fiat” infinity: 1/∞ = 0, which is mathematically meaningless. Without scarcity, no system can conserve truth.
Bitcoin proves the opposite. It is the only computational system where conservation of energy and information is provable without axiom. A quantum of entropy conserved into a quantum of structure (thermodynamic memory) with a byproduct of a quantum of time. A true measurement.
Physics and mathematics have been circling infinity. Bitcoin shows us that absolute scarcity (not infinity) is the prerequisite for existence, knowledge, and meaning.
So the question is, if Bitcoin proves conservation without axiom, then what’s really going on with the rest of physics?
Only part way in, but great so far
Follow up. Yes, this was as good as advertised. I sorta know the theorems in question, though a bit dusty on some parts, and gained some additional clarity and insight