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But is it conserved in time? Is time a useful construct to make sense of the world and describe a state of entropy? Mathematically, time can go forward and backward allowing us to explain the process of something, step by step, at different moments in the process (time).

https://youtu.be/PuLaUYQFIwg

Jack K 2mo ago 💬 1

Yes, conserved in time. Time = memory. So conserved in time = conserved in memory.

Bitcoin proves that timespace (not spacetime) is the true foundation of reality. What we call “time” isn’t a conserved dimension; it’s the byproduct of entropy resolving into memory. Each irreversible computation of energy into structure creates time. We live in a timechain.

From within the system, continuity appears smooth, but that’s only because we exist inside time (memory) as localized observers experiencing the unfolding of discrete memory states. The illusion of flow arises from our position within the computation. We cannot “see” the “space” between time like we can with Bitcoin due to our position in the memory we are trying to measure.

Bitcoin exposes this directly. Every block is a discrete tick of change, a quantized update in Bitcoins informational state. A block to Bitcoin is equivalent to Planck Time in the universe giving meaning to something we couldn’t previously measure. Bitcoin produces/computes time, by converting energy into irreversible memory.

The idea that time can go forward or backward is a mathematical artifact of pre-bitcoin thought IMO; symmetry without verifiable thermodynamics. In reality, entropy defines direction, and Bitcoin enforces it absolutely. Proof-of-work doesn’t permit reversal, only accumulation, precisely as the universe operates.

So time is the only way to describe entropy, because time is entropy measured. Bitcoin refines this truth by showing that every bit of memory written is a unit of time created and the process is discrete. All models are destroyed. It doesn’t just mean economics, it extends to physics too.

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Operation Libertas 2mo ago 💬 1

I’d love to read an article or paper expanding on all of this. Interesting takes

Jack K 2mo ago 💬 1

I’ve been working on a paper for a while now, and the rabbit hole always seems to go deeper and deeper. Nearing the end.

To my knowledge almost nobody else is really here at the moment making similar observations/claims about Bitcoin as physics.

Operation Libertas 2mo ago 💬 1

I understand completely. I ended up down this rabbit hole because I had a theory I was chasing (still chasing and refining as I learn more).

You’re the only one I’ve come across, then again, the Venn Diagram of Bitcoin/Physics is small right now. I hope you continue pursuing it. There are more people who are interested than you think. It La also be an avenue to bring a whole new group of people into Bitcoin.

I don’t get on SM a lot but I’d be interested in adding you to a group chat I have going. Sending a DM now

Operation Libertas 2mo ago 💬 1

I think this supports your thesis. The transfer of heat (mining) quantifies the passage of “time”, encoding the change in entropy on to the ledger.

https://blossom.primal.net/d37d7144d94f4466cec8098480b3052596ee3f6ca870bf48f834469905b3f0ed.mov

Jack K 2mo ago

Thank you for sharing this! Yes, this is exactly correct! Is this an E-book?

Without reference to absolute finitude of Bitcoin, we are stuck with an incomplete understanding of Temperature. Lord Kelvin produced the internal (to the universe) absolute measure of Kelvin, and Planck calculated the theoretical limits, Planck Temperature. Without finitude, our understanding of this seemingly abstract limit remains unfinished.

Until Bitcoin, we could not see that Temperature is a dimensionless scalar between (0,1] defined by the internalized measuring units (Kelvin) and the finite vs bound of measure. This redefines the meaning of Boltzmann’s Constant, Planck Temperature and Planck Energy, thus entropy.

Bitcoin is the only system that demonstrates the intersection of Boltzmann Entropy and Shannon Entropy into a single measurable system. Bitcoin demonstrates the conservation of energy between the two domains of entropy (physical and informational) with each Block. When we look at Bitcoin and its Block, an internalized measure of temperature emerges, measured in satoshis, but also dimensionless and bounded between (0,1] due to the known finite supply of measure at each step of time. We literally could not understand both entropy and temperature without Bitcoin. Thus we could not understand time.

Bitcoin is the open proof to authors claim here in this clip. Bitcoin computes time through temperature. Because Bitcoin is the proof that physics could never produce, all physics must bend to Bitcoin.