Is 2TB just for future expansion of the node? I probably only need it running for a few months? 1TB of the storage AI recommended is about $80/month.

The data that I need to pull for each block can’t be that big…..

Nostr, I need some help. My home node is not reliable enough for me to finish my paper and research. The hardware is shot.

I need to run a full node of bitcoin core on a VM. AI suggested an AWS EC2 T3.small instance (2gb ram), does this seem reasonable? 1TB storage.

On the same VM I need to pull pretty simple onchain data like block height, block time, block size, block subsidy, block fees, difficulty, cumulative total supply, UTXO count, ect. into a database in which I can compute additional data like energy per block and cumulative energy per block. Is PostgreSQL the right option for this?

Then I just need to build charts/tables from my database to present. I would like for the database and charts to be able to update live as new blocks come in, but it’s not completely necessary.

Am I on the right track here? I have very little programming/data experience. It seems like AI can help me get through most of it, but I just want to know if there is an easier or cheaper way? Looking at like $100/month for this setup currently.

Ultimately this does not need to be sustained long term, just enough to prove the math, concept and visualize the energy of bitcoin for the1st time. The ended game is obviously for block explorers to integrate this; I’m not looking to recreate the wheel. I’ve calculated a ton of early blocks by hand in excel, but I need a program to finish this properly. I really just need block data and not necessarily need a node, but where do you get reliable data from? 🤷‍♂️

Is the Bitcoin Ski Summit happening again this year??

Who thinks we need one for the Ice (East) Coast Plebs?

That’s not what I am saying. Yes you have absolute certainty about your UTXOs only because you are the owner and controller. No other UTXO will have absolute certainty and its location in the next block is probabilistic. I’m talking about the entire UTXO set.

And regardless, you can broadcast a transaction with high fees and not get mined; it’s still probabilistic even when visibly broadcasted to people’s mempool.

Still probabilistic. You still don’t know who will mine a block unless you absolutely control 100% of the hash with pure certainty. And that would also require a singular entity/observer always deciding which transactions are included or which qubits are measured. Why is the starting to sound like traditional quantum computing?

What do you mean without a link to time? You know deterministically when a UTXO was occupying a point in space (memory) and when it was not; full history

Yes but we actually don’t know if a UTXO will be spent in the next block (superposition) until the block is mined (measured) and confirmed.

Only by looking to the past can you derive ultimate certainty for that discrete unit of time, but this is the PAST state, not the present state. You literally don’t know its present state, yet it is fully probabilistic in nature where it will be in the next block. When spent, the UTXO ceases to exist as an independent particle/ data entry in space (memory), and new UTXOs emerge in its place in new space (memory)

Time does exist for UTXOs, it is called blocks. It’s literally a measurement of distance between UTXOs (particles) in time. The UTXO only actually exists in memory of the block in which the transaction was observed (mined) in time. Bitcoin certainly quantized time.

Generally the way I have been approaching this is that a UTXO exhibits the properties of a particle in an unspent state and the properties of a wave in a spent state (when it is moving between addresses) we have to remember the time scale between events is enormous when comparing a wave function to Block Time.

Please explain how regular bits are qubits?

Because the Genesis Block UTXO is unspendable, let’s talk about the UTXO in Block 1; the furthest UTXO away from us in time. Is this a distance?

If that UTXO in Block 1 was to move in the next block, do you think it would exert influence on other UTXOs, or the humans making decisions behind their UTXOs?

Well yes, but what we view as particles have the same behavior as UTXOs, except bitcoin exists in one system forward (universe inside of a universe). UTXOs from the past can exert influence on UTXOs in the present; how do you measure how far addresses are apart from each other?

I believe this is a more wholistic answer to spacetime; we’ve neglected to observe timespace this whole time. I don’t claim to have all the answers, but it is clear this is the lens to find them.

Consensus is everything.

The conservation of energy using a peer to peer electronic (energy) cash system is how the universe operates. Conservation of energy is fundamental, even between systems.

It seems we are disregarding more esoteric forms of consciousness determining value in ways we cannot perceive. You must confront consciousness in Quantum Theory. Bitcoin has no hesitation in doing so.

We can only look forward into bitcoin. Imagine being “inside Bitcoin” and trying to look back and outward at us. Perspective.

In my opinion there’s much to learn about the universe from Bitcoin, starting with temperature and the awful semantics we call the “Big Bang”. Why else can we look back? Sure its not timespace 😏

I have very little programming experience; I don’t know what is possible. I do believe it is imperative for those who are building on top of bitcoin to understand this.

I will say, it appears free human action is the computation we are looking for.

Will a peer to peer electronic cash system compute and coordinate the collaboration and complexity we all desire?

It’s because life and existence is poetry. What is more poetic than energy finding its final purpose in both information and meaning?

Yes!

This discussion was actually what brought all of the pieces together for me. I have been thinking about how to approach Frederico about Bitcoin and this idea. He 99% of the way there without saying “Bitcoin”.

Surely it’s not a coincidence he’s created the first commercial microprocessor and he’s arrived here.

Most physicists discussing “informational physics” are simply missing Bitcoin; they want the credit for what Satoshi already created.

Fundamentally, quantum mechanics has been a language problem since discovery. We haven’t had a “language” to actually understand and communicate it until bitcoin; which describes the relationship of energy, information and time. Use Bitcoin as the lens to think through.

What physicists call a qubit has an identical nature to UTXO. In both, energy is fundamental.

Superposition: UTXOs are in a constant state of spendability (0 or 1) and their state is unknown until blocks are mined; only probabilistic.

Entanglement: A single UTXO can be sent to infinite addresses, split innumerable ways, can interact with any other UTXO and can interact with UTXOs from different times. Remember, all UTXOs exist in the past except the ones in the present block.

Measurement: Mining is the measurement of hashes per valid nonce and the measurement collapses the indeterminate block config into a single deterministic verifiable state. This also sets the direction in quantum measurement (which UTXOs become spent and which remain unspent)

UTXOs persist indefinitely through time; it appears Satoshi solved decoherence 16 years ago. Again, it’s a language and expectation problem. We are told QM is too complex to for us understand, trust the physicists.

The ledger is the “timespace” (history from Genesis) and the current block is the “spacetime” or the present.

Given this context, is it possible a UTXO is a qubit? What properties is a UTXO missing to be one?

What effects could centralization have on a quantum system? (Think Bitcoin, ownership, nodes, mining)

What is more important for a quantum computer to compute than perfect money and a shared equal reality with no singular observer?

I have a lot to say about this.

Could you explain why a UTXO is not a qubit? It appears to me Satoshi solved decoherence 16 years ago and NOBODY has recognized it.

What role might centralization play in quantum computing?

Bitcoin is a universal language and a lens, to observe, quantify, and communicate the exchanging of universal value between systems; or relationship of energy, information and time. Something from within, which transcends the capabilities of any prior language.

Physics plateau’d in its ability to both understand and communicate the relationship of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics into a wholistic system. Satoshi created and quantified timespace, thus revealing its existence. UTXOs are the 1st (and only) FAIR creation and distribution of what scientists call “quantum bits; qubits”, we call this money. Energy is fundamental to a UTXO.

It’s a language problem. UTXOs are preserved indefinitely through both space and time because of the energy; decoherence was solved 16 years ago by Satoshi, no one has observed this.

Why can’t anyone else see the centralization problem in “Quantum Computing”? There is no second best……

lol Trump/Ross stuff. Old news.

They think we want reach, we just want to be free 🫡

Agreed most of the time, not always. Much better than twitter tho.

It’s not a bad metric, but you still have fiat since the only thing that relates the two is the fiat price. I don’t know of any market which allows you to buy/sell/trade bitcoin <> gold directly without fiat as the intermediary.

I understand that both are intrinsically linked to energy, but Bitcoin unlike gold is purely defined by energy.

“Don’t compare yourself to others” is a lesson we are all taught. If bitcoin is truly superior to fiat, why are we stilll comparing it to fiat and why are we constantly looking backwards? We aren’t going that way. Energy (joules) is the universal standard for everything.

If we aren’t increasing joules per satoshi, we aren’t doing anything of value. Physics has also been captured by fiat, it won’t be an easy battle to win; but joules per satoshi is deterministically quantifiable from just the ledger itself. The truth is inconvenient for most, in order to do this you must correct the errors in modern physics. People will be very resistant.

I am working on a paper that will provide the fundamental blueprint as to how to quantify joules per satoshi; I am finalizing the language used and writing. My fiat job limits my time to do this unfortunately.