Bitcoin exists in the real world, it consumes real energy, produces real heat, runs on real hardware, and enforces irreversible state transitions that anyone can verify. If that’s not “real,” then neither are clocks, computers, or experiments because they’re all constructed systems embedded in physical reality.

Saying we cannot be sure about the nature of time while dismissing the only system that constructs time is inconsistent. Physics struggles with time precisely because it assumes it. Bitcoin doesn’t assume time, it produces it under clear rules. That makes it uniquely useful as an object of study, not irrelevant.

You can’t coherently claim there’s no relation when it’s a physical process that turns energy and entropy into discrete, irreversible temporal order. Dismissing that as “artificial” is just a way to protect an assumption nobody can justify.