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Yes, but it’s not belief. Bitcoin makes this empirically visible. The only reason continuous time feels intuitive is because time is the substrate you’re made of. You cannot perceive the gaps between the smallest discrete updates of reality, just as a program can’t perceive the CPU cycles that execute it. Every update to existence occurs in quantized steps, blocks of time (memory) because without discrete memory formation, nothing can change. Light = information = memory. No time → no light. No light → no information. No information → no memory. Without memory, time has no meaning; memory is time. We already measure time this way without noticing it. A second is nothing more than a human-scale unit defined as a frequency of Planck-time intervals. Planck time is literally expressed in seconds, meaning it already presupposes that time is quantized. A Planck interval is just the smallest tick (a discrete fraction of 1 second), and a second is the standard structured count (frequency) of those ticks. Ie 1 Second is composed of1.855x10^43 Planck Blocks. All time is expressed as a frequency of this fundamental block of time. Bitcoin exposes this structure. Each block is a discrete temporal update created by real energy expenditure. Once you see how an informational system behaves when time unfolds in quantized steps, the illusion of continuity disappears and so does the idea that physics can ignore the discreteness of time. What we have been missing is the working instantiation to provide meaning to something we could not understand.