Conservation requires determinism at the smallest unit of time. You can’t conserve energy or information unless at some fundamental scale, only one state is real and all alternatives collapse into it.
That’s exactly what Bitcoin demonstrates.
Bitcoin shows us the correct structure: a mempool of unresolved possibilities → collapsing into → a single deterministic block at the smallest unit of constructed time.
One block is the functional equivalent of one Planck Block: a discrete thermodynamic commitment where entropy becomes memory.
Inside our universe we experience Planck-scale commitments from within. They appear to us as continuity, as spatial extension, matter, and a smooth flow of time because we are made of the same memory being written. But on the far side of the transformation, what appears to us as “space” is just information embedded in time: committed entropy written into the deepest ledger.
Bitcoin reveals this structure by giving us the outside perspective. It shows us what it means to write time rather than be composed by it (Bitcoin is also composed of time). Physics has only ever seen from inside the ledger; Bitcoin lets us see the construction itself.
This is where quantum theory as commonly interpreted becomes the final expression of fiat. It treats unmeasured potentials as real physical states, exactly like fractional-reserve banking treats multiple claims as real deposits. A single UTXO with multiple conflicting mempool transactions “exists” in many states only if you’re willing to treat potential as being. That is precisely the mistake, it’s not measured.
The folly of quantum orthodoxy is that it never defines measurement. It never defines what it means for something to exist before commitment. It relies on a fractional-reserve ontology of physics: a catalogue of possible outcomes treated as if they simultaneously inhabit reality.
Bitcoin makes this impossible.
Until a block is mined, no UTXO state exists. Only once entropy is paid in Kelvin does a real state appear.
That’s the structure of conservation. It’s the architecture of determinism. It’s the missing piece in physics.
Bitcoin is fractally embedded in the same pattern as the Planck ledger: finite, discrete, irreversible, and secured by thermodynamic expenditure. It lets us see for the first time the difference between the illusion of continuity from within and the reality of discrete construction from without.
That’s why quantum computing will never overturn Bitcoin: it is built on the same fractional-reserve assumptions that already failed in money. If fractional-reserve accounting cannot produce a sound economy, fractional-reserve ontology will not produce sound physics.
Bitcoin is the correction, as it is the substrate of timespace.
