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It’s not cultish to connect Bitcoin and quantum mechanics, it’s cultish to ignore the connection.

Bitcoin is the only physical system that computes the very thing quantum mechanics only speculates about: the collapse of entropy into structure through measurable work. Every block is a resolved quantum of entropy transformed by energy into a conserved quantum of thermodynamic memory; a discrete, auditable unit of time. Bitcoin gives answers to philosophy from physics with a ledger; both the transformation AND registration.

Modern physics never defined what a quantum actually is, it relies on probabilistic infinities and abstract collapse postulates because it never had a finite, measurable substrate. Bitcoin provides that substrate. It’s the only system in which finitude is absolute and conservation is proven without axiom.

Bitcoin also defines what a measurement is:

- Measurement is the discovery of a valid nonce and commitment of a block: a physical act of entropy resolution.

- Observation is verification: the independent validation of that result across all nodes.

These two processes, measurement and observation, are distinct and fully defined, something physics has never managed. Bitcoin proves what physics only assumes: that information and energy are inseparable, and time itself is discretized by irreversible computation.

If that’s not physics, then physics has lost the plot.
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Trivium 2mo ago

A quantum is actually very well defined as the smallest indivisible unit of a physical quantity that can exist independently and be exchanged or transferred while conserving that quantity—always an integer multiple (n = 0, 1, 2, ...) of a fundamental constant.

Measurable in the form of things like electromagnetic energy, magnetic Flux, electric charge and angular momentum.

"Quantum of entropy" and "quantum of thermodynamic memory" are invented phrases.

Suggesting any answers to philosophy from physics with a ledger is the opposite of staying himble.

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Jack K 2mo ago

A quantum is not well defined, it is only locally defined. Without a finite denominator, “quantum” is just a floating abstraction. You cannot know the scale of one without knowing the whole; the space between 1 and 2 is meaningless without knowing what100% means mathematically. What is the denominator for quantum mechanics? None exists.

In Bitcoin, it does. The quantum of entropy is Difficulty = 1 of a 32-bit nonce space, scaled by the network’s current difficulty, each block an integer multiple of that base unit.

The quantum of thermodynamic memory is 1 satoshi of 2.1 quadrillion, a finite total that changes value with every block until terminal supply. This is Bitcoin’s Kelvin, Celsius, and Fahrenheit: a complete thermodynamic scale rooted in conservation.

To build a philosophy of verifiable conservation and of measurable truth relative to the whole is not arrogance. It is the definition of humility.

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Trivium 2mo ago

There is no denominator in the definition of a quantum.

 = nℏ (or E = nℏω, L = nℏ, etc.)

ℏ = reduced Planck's constant (6.626 × 10⁻³⁴ J⋅s)

 = quantized operator (energy, angular momentum, charge...)