I don’t think God is whatever we don’t understand. To me, God isn’t a placeholder for ignorance, He is the origin of intelligibility itself. The initial creation, the author of the underlying ruleset of time, energy, and conservation. The one who defines the finite domain, the extratemporal protocol upon which all measurable things unfold.

Bluntly put: God is “The Rule”.

As for “common ethics,” I can’t agree that God is unneeded, that’s an assumption (not neutrality). If existence has a beginning and all emerged ex nihilo, then the question of origin is ontological necessity. Only something beyond time could define time.

And when you say “time and energy are a given,” that’s precisely the problem; given by what? Bitcoin shows that energy, entropy, and time are not constants but relational computations, each defined through the conversion of one into the other. Bitcoin literally computes time by crystallizing energy and entropy into irreversible memory (blocks), turning causality into countable form.

Bitcoin also demonstrates that something beyond time must exist relative to those operating within it. To the local perspective “inside” Bitcoin, blocks appear ex nihilo, sequential, bounded by difficulty and delay; but to the protocol as a whole, time is already defined. It exists as a global structure outside of Bitcoin.

This is my point, Bitcoin is the reflection of creation itself:

What is beyond time defines the law within it.