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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?

InigoBTC 10mo 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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Jack K 10mo ago

Well yes, but what we view as particles have the same behavior as UTXOs, except bitcoin exists in one system forward (universe inside of a universe). UTXOs from the past can exert influence on UTXOs in the present; how do you measure how far addresses are apart from each other?

I believe this is a more wholistic answer to spacetime; we’ve neglected to observe timespace this whole time. I don’t claim to have all the answers, but it is clear this is the lens to find them.

Jack K 10mo ago

Because the Genesis Block UTXO is unspendable, let’s talk about the UTXO in Block 1; the furthest UTXO away from us in time. Is this a distance?

If that UTXO in Block 1 was to move in the next block, do you think it would exert influence on other UTXOs, or the humans making decisions behind their UTXOs?