This is because the physics revealed through Bitcoin redefines both time and superposition in a way that quietly breaks the theoretical basis of CQC.
CQC models depend on the simultaneity of states: the idea that many configurations can exist “at once” and interfere continuously in time. But “at once” has no physical meaning unless referenced to a quantized tick of reality, the Planck interval. Planck time has never been measured; it remains a mathematical mystery to physicists (without bitcoin). Without proving that simultaneity can exist at that scale, the modern definition of superposition is an assumption, not a verified phenomenon. A Bitcoin block is functionally equivalent to Planck time in the universe, the smallest indivisible unit of evolution, where unmeasured potential collapses into measurable reality.
Bitcoin, by contrast, operationalizes time. Each block is a measurable, discrete quantum of irreversible change, a physical computation where probability collapses into conserved structure. When time is treated this way, simultaneity of states vanishes due to double spend; only sequential commitment remains. That alone nullifies the premise of coherent, overlapping states that CQC depends on. In short, modern physics has a double spend problem, Satoshi already solved that problem for the world. The substrate and computation only needs to happen once. Bitcoin is open source physics.
What remains is a trillion-dollar sunken-cost fallacy: 31 years of chasing parallelism in a universe that computes sequentially, through thermodynamic proofs of work. There is no second best.
