If we don’t understand Bitcoin L1 as a physical process: the conservation of a quantum of entropy across a bounded, scarce transformational surface into a scarce quantum of structure, how can we know we’re building on it correctly?

Our L1 devs don’t know this.

Our L2 and L3 devs don’t know this.

Miners don’t know this.

The market doesn’t know this(still prices Bitcoin in fiat instead of joules).

When you miss that L1 is not just code, but physics, you design all layers as if they were floating in abstraction, unmoored from the one substrate that gives them meaning. Without grounding in the absolute scarcity of Bitcoin’s base layer, every layer above drifts, mistaking convenience for progress.

If the foundation of Bitcoin is misunderstood, innovation becomes illusion. Bitcoin will not become what it can become until we stop treating it like a token, and start treating it like the thermodynamic law that it is.