How about this… “discrete blocks of reality” seems like non-starter to me. There being a Planck time, the smallest amount of time measurable, as opposed to continuous time where there no smallest unit of time… Planck time, I would think would make superposition/quantum more possible and not less. Because in those gaps of nothing, anything can happen so anything is possible in the next time tick. Continuous time wouldn’t allow for that.
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IMO, Bitcoin doesn’t support the modern definition of superposition, it disproves it. Its probabilistic structure more accurately models superposition as bounded future potential, not overlapping realities. Unmined transactions are not “real”, there is only the longest chain of events and nothing else. Our universe is also entirely transactional peer to peer network of bounded energy. Each (Planck & Bitcoin) block of time represents a discrete thermodynamic resolution of entropy into conserved memory, eliminating paradox and restoring compatibility with general and special relativity by defining time via thermodynamics and entropy. We live inside the ledger and experience its contents as a fraction of the ledger. In Bitcoin we see both sides of the ledger, the entropy resolved and the registration of information. By treating probability as a finite, energy-constrained field that collapses with each mined block of time, Bitcoin resolves what QM and relativity could not: the reconciliation of uncertainty with causal order.
I’m not here to invent a new theory as we are nearly correct, but I am here to use Bitcoin’s physics (its computed, finite blocks of time) as a reference frame to understand Planck-scale structure and reframe past knowledge thru the lens of Bitcoin. Both Bitcoin and the Universe are closed informational manifolds evolving through discrete, irreversible timesteps. To me, Bitcoin reveals that the universe itself must compute through similar quanta of energy (Kelvin) and memory, exposing continuous-time models used in CQC as approximations. The correction to quantum mechanics is subtle but decisive: time is not a smooth variable; it is a sequence of measurable commitments.
As Saylor said, all models are destroyed, there is no second best. Bitcoin is open source physics.