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If seemingly artificially constraining temperature is required to learn new things in physics, than perhaps we know all that there is to know.

Also, "how do you measure the temperature of bitcoin..." presupposes that bitcoin has a temperature which is an assumption that I see no reason to make. To me, it sounds like trying to use inches to measure inflation, which I'd argue is incoherent and the completely wrong tool for the job. To me, it sounds like you're talking about something other than temperature which may or may not be conserved between Bitcoin and the material world.

Energy is assumed to be conserved in closed systems, but the universe isn't assumed to be a closed system, so energy isn't assumed to be considered within the universe. As the universe expands and things move farther apart, gravitational potential energy increases but doesn't come from a reduction in any other form of potential energy. The expansion of the universe seems to be continuously piping more and more energy into the universe.

If we make convenient, unjustified assertions in the name of enabling ourselves to learn new things, then we haven't learned new things, we've just made unjustified assertions, and this doesn't mean that your assertions are unjustifiable, but as far as I'm concerned, they're far from sufficiently substantiated or obvious to assume to be true.

I don't want to hear why it's important that they're true, I want to hear flushed out explanations of why they're true.

Similarly, maybe these will all feel like small assumptions compared to what they get us, but to me these seem like anything other than small assumptions.

Jack K 1y ago

The universe in its hottest moment occurred when? The Big Bang.

How is this temperature artificially constrained? It’s a system that started from nothing. Pure order from the time of genesis has devolved over time due to entropy.

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Jack K 1y ago

Genesis block = big bang.

A single instance of time, block for bitcoin & second for universe, in which order emerged from nothing (chaos).

The universe was in its higher order state during the Big Bang, as was bitcoin. This is not an artificial cap, it’s an observation of reality.

All 50 btc in the coinbase = all 50 bitcoin in existence in Genesis Block. Never again has that happened or will it happen. This is pure information. Satoshi created entropy in this domain (heat via cpu) and resolved chaos (created order) in cyberspace.

Entropy created = Entropy resolved.

This means that all energy expended by the miner in the form of entropy entered a new domain where the “temperature was absolute” there were only 50 units at that time vs 50 in existence. Everything is accounted for.

The issuance of new coinbase from every block after created entropy within Bitcoin that required resolution due to the dilution in the supply of bitcoin.

Those new 50 btc in block 1 were representative of now 1/2 of the total supply. Meaning the temperature reading in block 1 was 50 bitcoin. But we know the exact supply of bitcoin. The energy was most dense in genesis and only Genesis. The universe is no different.

AJ2884 1y ago

While at least at first glance it seems reasonable to assume that there's a fact of the matter regarding the highest temperature that there's ever been, or will be, that doesn't mean that that's the highest theoretically possible temperature.

What do you mean when you say pure order? In my mind, that implies something like a perfectly crytaline structure, but I see no reason to assume that to have been the case. It does seem to generally be assumed that the universe started more ordered than it is now, but to say perfectly ordered seems to assume a preferred way of ordering things. Stephen Wolfram has done some interesting work which seems to show that order is purely a function of perspective.