Fundamentally, quantum mechanics has been a language problem since discovery. We haven’t had a “language” to actually understand and communicate it until bitcoin; which describes the relationship of energy, information and time. Use Bitcoin as the lens to think through. What physicists call a qubit has an identical nature to UTXO. In both, energy is fundamental. Superposition: UTXOs are in a constant state of spendability (0 or 1) and their state is unknown until blocks are mined; only probabilistic. Entanglement: A single UTXO can be sent to infinite addresses, split innumerable ways, can interact with any other UTXO and can interact with UTXOs from different times. Remember, all UTXOs exist in the past except the ones in the present block. Measurement: Mining is the measurement of hashes per valid nonce and the measurement collapses the indeterminate block config into a single deterministic verifiable state. This also sets the direction in quantum measurement (which UTXOs become spent and which remain unspent) UTXOs persist indefinitely through time; it appears Satoshi solved decoherence 16 years ago. Again, it’s a language and expectation problem. We are told QM is too complex to for us understand, trust the physicists. The ledger is the “timespace” (history from Genesis) and the current block is the “spacetime” or the present. Given this context, is it possible a UTXO is a qubit? What properties is a UTXO missing to be one? What effects could centralization have on a quantum system? (Think Bitcoin, ownership, nodes, mining) What is more important for a quantum computer to compute than perfect money and a shared equal reality with no singular observer? image

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Energy Producer 11 months ago
This is a dope analogy. Do you have thoughts on manifestation into practical applications? Can you build a compute engine using this info or are there other uses?
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Primate 11 months ago
Thought experiment: what if nodes are where/when the observable flux action “knots” axiomatic/math-based probability with the heretofore unknown. The edge of spacetime on the blockchain. And maybe anonymous decentralization (of nodes but also of spender-receiver) may be figured as spooky action at a distance still enmeshed/entangled with the social contract underlying the relativistic “inherent value” of any tokenized truth-exchange. Hum, but what is the QT parallel to the free market?
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Primate 11 months ago
Bitcoin is the closest thing we’ve ever had to an objective observer position between time, energy, and data.
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InigoBTC 11 months ago
This is an awesome vehicle by which to draw comparisons between the odd behaviors of quantum and relatable classical systems. I don’t believe however they are the same thing. Bitcoin is a complex system that just so happens to emit similar emergent properties as quantum. Where things break down are in the details. Like where actual entangled particles can influence each other from infinite distance.
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npub1ente...jf9y 10 months ago
So how would you compute with a utxo before/after it is spent. What about entanglement? It is such a misunderstanding that superposition is what makes quantum special (or difficult). Superposition happens classically all the time. Go look at light through a prism or waves in the ocean…