There’s a tangent here I need to think through more regarding a physical key.
In terms of the timespace bitcoin defines, the private key is a quantized unit of space in which the utxo resides.
It is both the identity of the utxo (where in the curve) and the authority to spend/transform the state. Knowledge of the space grants authority. The space is also quantized and bounded by a finite supply.
It’s captured entropy.
Entropy preserved through the conservation of energy. The block event is the isomorphism from Kelvin to Satoshis. It’s a discrete computation.
But in short, yes.
We know the volume of the potential block and the volume of deterministic (mined) block, we know the mol number (supply of Satoshis at each block t). Entropy is quantized by a standardized PoW function + quantized difficulty. We have all of the pieces and the instantiation to demonstrate quantized time events with a provable arrow and direction.
I wrote an essay about adding an 8th constant to the SI system
https://open.substack.com/pub/trbouma/p/constants-beyond-borders-from-physics
I agree with this sentiment a lot, but if we apply the bounded ledger (utxo model of time) to physics our understanding of constants changes too.
Bitcoin has multiple constants, value (BTC, sats), block size (mb), number of private keys, 1 block of time. Bitcoin has a speed of information/memory. What is light?
If we apply some bounded logic to something like temperature, Planck
Temp becomes the defacto bounded supply of measurable Kelvin units in the system, Boltzmann’s constant loses its dimensionality of Kelvin as it no longer remains bounded to the domain of Kelvin (a measurements are supply relative) and Boltzmann’s constant becomes Planck Energy.
Hmmmmmm 🤔 we now have a constant of entropy that applies to any bounded domain (Bitcoin)
I'm not buying platonic arguments for bitcoin.
I don’t really see how this is Platonic.
I’m describing the concrete structure Bitcoin enforces: a finite state space, discrete time, and spend authority defined purely by positional knowledge within that space.
The language sounds philosophical because I’m talking about what the system is, not just how it’s implemented.
