random thought: bitcoin was just a method for some nerd to try and calculate pi

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Random indeed. What makes you think that?

You can seemingly calculate pi from almost any phenomena. Maybe the whole point of Bitcoin is to simply calculate pi using block times or something.

https://youtu.be/d5ab8BOu4LE?si=mP7mM0f-k-nma0Ma

Maybe... Big numbers are especially useful in cryptography, and things like elliptic curve thresholds..๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿค—