speculative fundamental physics has become a hobby of mine, especially now that claude provides an unlimited gedankenexperiment workbench.
do you think quantum mechanics is the map or the realm? is entanglement real or an undiscovered gauge symmetry? if electrogravitics actually worked, how would we describe it?
wild times
Bitcoin is open-source physics; the only system that proves conservation without assumption (axiom) and redefines time through action. You won’t find the answers anywhere else.
that's fairly specious. it's true that bitcoin is a valuable system with unique properties, but it isn't directly beneficial to scientific progress. "fix the money fix the world" feels good to say, but bitcoin is neither necessary nor sufficient in solving the pervasive epistemological crisis that we live in
Regarding QM, Bitcoin openly resolves a quantum of entropy (difficulty-scaled 32-bit nonce space) through energy (proof-of-work) into a quantum of thermodynamic memory (finite structure of satoshis). The by-product is a quantum of time (change) measurable, irreversible, and conserved. Time is redefined.
Bitcoin is open observable physics, how is it not? Entropy, energy, time , information. Every block is a discrete, verifiable step in the resolution of entropy into an ordered public record of energy becoming memory. No system in history has ever produced proof of conservation at this granularity; transformation AND registration. It’s all been axiom prior.
So to say Bitcoin isn’t the solution to the epistemological crisis is to misunderstand the crisis itself. Knowledge never had absolute finitude as a reference before Bitcoin. The modern world built both physics and finance on models without a fixed denominator. But the very word quantum means a finite, countable unit, something that can be measured. Without finitude, a “quantum” is unintelligible. Without finitude, you can’t measure anything.
Bitcoin restores what physics only theorized: a truly finite system of measure. It also clarifies the distinction between measurement and verification, the act of resolving entropy into structure versus the act of observing (verifying) that resolution. Without that anchor of absolute finitude, every theory of or measurement of knowledge, economic, scientific, ect. floats ungrounded.
Fixing the money was only the beginning, you can’t fix a knowledge crisis without provable conservation and without a true measure.
