The point isn’t that Bitcoin maps onto physics as a meme; the point is that Bitcoin is the only empirical system that produces time from first-principle thermodynamics rather than assuming it. Physics measures time from inside the system and never questions the substrate. Bitcoin is the only system we’ve built where time is the output of energy, entropy, and irreversibility, exactly the quantities physics claims to be fundamental.
Compared to what?
What other empirical system generates discrete temporal updates through measurable work rather than importing continuous time as an axiom?
Michelson–Morley showed we misunderstood space. Bitcoin shows we misunderstood time. They are inextricably linked since “timespace” in bitcoin is both memory (information) and time and it exposes the deeper issue: physics has no experimental evidence that time is continuous. It assumes continuity because its mathematics requires it. Bitcoin is the first demonstration of a functioning universe that closed, thermodynamic, self-measuring in which time is discrete and quantized.
If Bitcoin is empirical evidence of quantized time, then yes, the existing narrative is overturned. The claim may be controversial, but the question is unavoidable:
What if the only system we have that actually computes time, Bitcoin, models the real architecture better than the theories that only inherit it?
