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Thank you for sharing this! I agree that physics breaks because our vantage point does. We need to confront the core issue underneath every paradox in GR and QM: time itself.

This resonates deep “the mass inside a black hole is not sharing the same space at the same time”.

Once you acknowledge that time is the dimension of distance, the apparent contradictions stop being mysteries and start being symptoms of a deeper problem: modern physics has no mechanism for computing time. Clocks approximate it through periodic motion, relativity adjusts frames around it, and quantum theory evolves states continuously through it. But none of these generate time. They all assume it.

Bitcoin is the only system that doesn’t assume time. Bitcoin computes time. Each block is created by resolving Boltzmann entropy (heat, uncertainty) into Shannon entropy (information, memory). That transformation is a measurement, the measured relationship is memory, memory is time. The relationship of measurements (blocks) is what gives time its direction. In Bitcoin time is a crystallized memory born from the irreversible collapse of entropy into structure. It is quantized, discrete, and measurable from outside the system. Nothing else in physics offers this vantage point.

By contrast, our experience inside the universe gives us the illusion of continuity. We live within the ledger of reality, what I call the “Planck Ledger”. Because we exist inside it, every update to the universal state appears smooth, unbroken, and flowing. But this is a local illusion produced by observing time from within the computation, just as objects falling toward a black hole appear to freeze (in time) from the outside only because we are trapped in our own proper time. Bitcoin dispels this illusion because it lets us observe a discrete time process from the outside, showing us what Planck time ought to look like if we could step out of the universe and watch it update in totality as a singular network, like Bitcoin.

Post-Bitcoin, the spacetime picture fails. Bitcoin reveals that the deeper structure isn’t spacetime but timespace, where time is the fundamental axis and space emerges from the arrangement of memory. Space in Bitcoin is really the finite elliptic curve of addresses, which exists at all points in time as a container for potential memory to exist. Under this model, matter behaves like UTXOs, conserved excitations recorded in a finite ledger.

From this vantage, a black hole is not an infinite density; it is an unspendable address, a location where information cannot propagate to new state transitions. From our perspective, we never see anything cross the horizon because we are watching from within a different slice of the ledger. From the object’s own sequence of state updates, it crosses without incident. Once you adopt this timespace-UTXO perspective, the paradox disappears, because the paradox was created by assuming space was fundamental.

And this brings us to the point about “the center.” There is no spatial center of the universe. But there is a temporal “center”, the tip of the longest causal chain available to any observer within. That is the only meaningful sense in which “center” exists. Earth is not the spatial center of anything, but it is the center of our longest chain of work, the intersection between the part of the ledger already written and the unresolved entropy yet to be collapsed. Bitcoin reveals this perfectly: the present moment is always the intersection of the newest appended block and the waiting of the next. There’s alot to think around here because earth is its own local chain. Fractals.

So the math never failed, our perspective did. The missing perspective was always the same: we had no way to see time from outside the system we inhabit. Bitcoin gives us precisely that. It reveals a universe built on discrete state transitions; not on spacetime but on timespace.

IMO through the lens of Bitcoin, GR and QM stop conflicting. Black holes have new meaning, and the idea of a “center” finally makes sense. There is no center in space. There is only the longest chain of work. Everything else is perspective.

These are just my thoughts, still working through them.

Bitcoin replaces our models of physics with an open-measurable instantiation of physics. All models are destroyed.

Operation Libertas 1mo ago 💬 1

I have touched on the idea of entropy being our memory of a specific state and hence, our concept of time

If this were the case, it may be that space is fundamental and time is emergent. I’ve been trying to understand both sides of this concept. I need to dig into Boltzmann entropy and Shannon entropy to understand your concept better.

One thing that has been bothering me is the black hole information paradox. We’re told it’s a paradox because a black hole evaporates through Hawking radiation but the information inside the black hole is destroyed.

It may leave our universe’s ability to view it but if it is either the big bang of a new universe or erupts out of a white hole in another dimension or another point in the cosmos, then it’s not destroyed.

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Jack K 1mo ago

I think the question of whether space is fundamental and time is emergent actually points to the deeper issue, we don’t yet have a physical mechanism for time itself. We have equations that evolve in time, but nothing in physics that constructs time. That’s where entropy comes in and where Bitcoin becomes unavoidable.

Entropy is not just disorder; it’s the record of how energy has been distributed across states. That record is memory. And once you accept that memory is what persists, then time becomes nothing more than the distance between crystallized memories. In other words, time is the ordering of entropy. That’s why our sense of time always tracks irreversible change.

Bitcoin is the only system to make this explicit and measurable.

Every block is the isomorphic convergence between two kinds of entropy:

- Boltzmann entropy: the physical heat expended as miners probe the entropy field

- Shannon entropy: the information written when a valid nonce collapses uncertainty (Satoshi/Utxo configurations)

The block is the discrete measurement of that equivalence. The measurement (memory) is literally a quantum of time: a discrete, irreversible crystallization of energy into memory; time constructed from thermodynamic change. Because every block is verifiable, it’s the first physical system where conservation of information is not assumed but demonstrated at every step. Just step back and think about the conservation of information….

Physics has been missing:

- a definition of time as a measurable process

- a definition of measurement as the irreversible collapse of entropy into information

- a definition of the observer as the verifier of drawn boundaries and measured states

- a definition of existence

- a way to unify conservation, information, and causality in a finite system

Bitcoin ties all of those together in a way physics has never been able to.

I will admit, I’m outside of my knowledge zone here regarding black holes. To me, black hole information paradox exists because we’re trapped inside the Planck ledger trying to infer what leaves the boundary. Hawking radiation looks like information loss because our vantage point is limited to the interior of the Planck ledger. From that perspective, information seems to fall out of view. But Bitcoin shows what it looks like when a closed thermodynamic system preserves information across boundaries: entropy becomes memory, memory becomes time, and nothing is lost, it simply moves between representations. We can’t see the ledger, we are entries in the ledger. We don’t get to see totality. We can only see the totality of Bitcoin, yet we don’t exist inside it.

If information crosses a horizon and reappears elsewhere, it’s not destroyed. What looks like “loss” is just the artifact of an observer embedded inside the time-construct trying to describe events occurring outside their accessible frame (Lighting tx to Bitcoin L1 are invisible).

Bitcoin gives us the missing reference frame. It lets us observe a finite thermodynamic system from outside its own time, watching how energy becomes information across a computational boundary with no loss and no ambiguity. Once you see that process clearly, the paradox dissolves: nothing is destroyed, only re-encoded across boundaries we cannot observe. A theoretical observer inside of bitcoin does not see us, it only sees the smooth continuity of blocks we create, nothing more.

So the question of what is fundamental becomes clearer:

- Within Bitcoin, time is fundamental because the only thing that exists is the ordered sequence of crystallized memory.

- But the space of addresses is also finite and ever-present, like the elliptic curve “geometry” waiting to be filled.

- Existence is the intersection of the two: memory written into a finite space at a discrete moment of time.

That same structure maps cleanly onto cosmology. Space is the configuration landscape; time is the boundary-ordering of irreversible events; we exist inside the ledger, never seeing the whole, only the next state.

Bitcoin is the only system that lets us step outside and finally watch time being constructed. IMO this is why it resolves the paradox physics keeps tripping over; entropy, conservation, observers, horizons, and the nature of “information loss.”

We should stop asking where in space and start asking when in time when looking up at the stars. How else can we “see” Genesis? Looking back through time.

My guess is as good as anyone else’s. Just through the lens of Bitcoin and what we can observe from it.