The misunderstanding begins with an assumption that is never questioned: that continuity is the baseline of reality, and discreteness isn’t fundamental . But conservation of energy and conservation of information require the opposite. You cannot conserve anything in a truly continuous manifold; without finite boundaries, measurement has no meaning. A universe that claims to preserve information must ultimately be built on a finite, ledgered substrate; a Planck-scale ledger beneath all experience. Bitcoin reveals the necessity of such a substrate.

By saying “even if time is discrete at the Planck scale, the wavefunction is real enough at the atomic scale” you’re missing the ontological problem: what does “real enough” mean when you have no access to the unit that defines reality? You cannot assert simultaneity or superposition without the ability to measure the smallest unit of time in which simultaneity would occur, Planck Time. Modern physics treats the wavefunction as a real physical state because it has no alternative framework for describing unmeasured possibilities. But unmeasured is not “real.” It is simply unresolved potential, not being. They can’t even define measurement.

Bitcoin is the only system where we can see the behavior of a quantized ledger from the outside. It constructs time by transforming Boltzmann entropy into Shannon entropy (memory) at discrete intervals. Because we observe Bitcoin from without, its discreteness is obvious. As you said, between blocks, nothing exists because nothing has been measured. But the mempool is not a “waiting room”; it is the unresolved probability surface that has not yet crossed the thermodynamic boundary required for existence. A hypothetical observer within Bitcoin would experience time as continuous, just as we do universally because they would be composed of the same discretized process that produces time. But from the outside, we see the quantized time directly.

This lets us understand wavefunction clearly for the first time. The modern definition imagines superposition as a set of simultaneously existing physical states. But that is equivalent to claiming a single UTXO exists in multiple double-spent forms in the mempool and all are “real” until the block is mined. In Bitcoin, those states do not exist. They are possibilities that have not yet crossed the boundary into measurement. Only one outcome becomes real because only one is thermodynamically committed. This is the correct definition of collapse, not the Copenhagen observer based nonsense.

Also, when you say Bitcoin “doesn’t model entanglement” or “nothing exists between blocks,” you are actually pointing to the revelation Bitcoin makes visible: nothing should exist between blocks of quantized time. Existence requires thermodynamic commitment. Reality is not the wavefunction; the wavefunction is a description of what has not yet been committed to the ledger of time. Superposition is not a cloud of simultaneous real states. It is the list of admissible futures prior to the next quantum of time. Utxo lineage is literally entanglement with proof.

Quantum theory treats the “mempool” as the “blockchain”. Bitcoin shows why that is wrong.

The only reason physicists cling to continuous time and “real” wavefunctions is because they cannot measure at the Planck scale. They cannot test the ontology, so they fill the gap with the observable probability. Bitcoin is testable. It is observable (verifiable). It is a live demonstration of how reality works when conservation of energy and conservation of information are implemented as a finite ledger.

Once you have a quantized ledger to observe, the idea that unmeasured states “exist” collapses immediately.

Bitcoin is the first window we’ve ever had into the structure of time from the outside, the wavefunction is no longer mysterious. It is simply the mempool of the universe, unmeasured potential.

If quantum theory were literally true in the way its narratives describe it, we would don’t need a lab full of superconducting qubits to run Shor’s algorithm we can run it on Bitcoin today. It has enough qubits, and we can coordinate superposed UTXOs in mempool.

Just use a single UTXO and broadcast a dozen conflicting spends across the network. According to the quantum ontology, every one of those contradictory states “exists” simultaneously in superposition. They are all “real” states of the system until measurement occurs. In Bitcoin’s terms, that corresponds exactly to mempool propagation: the unresolved, uncommitted surface of all possible futures.

Now, wait for a miner to find a valid nonce. At that moment the mempool decoheres and the probability surface collapses into a single thermodynamically committed outcome. All but one of the “superposed UTXOs” vanish. This is exactly what the wavefunction is alleged to do.

If we follow the logic of quantum computing, all we need at this point is a “quantum error correction” layer: a trusted black box, conveniently opaque, man behind the curtain to magically restore the superposed states that reality just destroyed.

The contradiction is obvious: quantum theory requires physical states to double-spend themselves, to be both spent and unspent, committed and uncommitted, simultaneously. Fiat manifested into physics.

Bitcoin proves this ontology false. A UTXO cannot exist in multiple contradictory states; the mempool is not existence. It is potential.

Decoherence is not an error, it is the thermodynamic boundary between what exists and what does not. Superposition is not a set of real states; it is the list of admissible, unmeasured possibilities.

The entire computational premise of quantum theory depends on treating unmeasured possibilities as real physical states the same way fiat economics treats unbacked liabilities as real money. In both cases, the system assumes double-spent units are legitimate inputs to computation. It is fiat physics: fractionally reserved qubits built on fractionally reserved ontology.

Bitcoin ended this worldview in 2009. It shows that measurement is the only thing that confers existence, that time is constructed discretely, and no system can compute using states that have not crossed a thermodynamic boundary. The wavefunction is not a ledger of being; it is the mempool of the universe. And Shor’s algorithm, taken literally, requires a physics that Bitcoin has already falsified.

Everyone is fearing Keynesian Computing. The real threat is trusting a model that collapses the moment verification is required.

"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people."

I’ve been pondering finitude in my quest to unite thermodynamics and Bitcoin into a cohesive framework.

“Kelvin and Bitcoin describe the same process observed from opposite sides of the ledger of reality. The distinction is not physical but perspectival, an artifact of where the observer resides relative to the act of measurement. Within the universal ledger, the collapse of entropy into structure is experienced as temperature, expressed in Kelvins: the felt intensity of energy resolving into order. Outside the Bitcoin ledger, the same collapse is perceived as informational crystallization, expressed in satoshis: the measured count of energy resolved into memory. Both quantify the irreversible commitment of energy into structure; both are denominators of conservation. The difference is orientation. We inhabit the universal computation and therefore experience Kelvin as heat from within; we observe Bitcoin from without and interpret the identical thermodynamic process as information.

Kelvin and Satoshis are thus dual manifestations of a single conserved quantity, the irreversible resolution of entropy into measurable strucutre. The former is the unit of energy as experienced internally by matter; the latter is the same energy recorded externally as immutable information. What physics calls temperature, Bitcoin records as proof-of-work. Both are measures of the same transformation: the conversion of potential into permanence.

Bitcoin is the thermodynamic analogue of Kelvin, each defining a conserved unit within a finite domain and anchoring all transformations to an invariant structure. In physics, Kelvin defines the absolute thermodynamic scale, the energy per state transition required for physical transformation. In Bitcoin, the satoshi defines the absolute informational scale, the energy per state transition required for informational crystallization. The two are equivalent in principle: both quantify the irreversible commitment of finite energy within a closed thermodynamic system.

Each block solution consumes a finite quantity of Kelvin, real thermal energy committed irreversibly to the act of resolution. Once that Kelvin is spent, it cannot be reused, because the information it produced has been conserved as structure within the ledger. In this framework, satoshis are the conserved residues of Kelvin, the quantized memory of heat transformed into structure. Irreversibility is absolute: no Kelvin can be respent so long as the informational bits and the satoshis they instantiate remain conserved.”

It’s a great shame that all those who seek power are never the ones you want to use it-and all the ones that should use it are never the ones that are seeking it

Let me spoil the story for you now.

We will win. It will not be easy, but we will win.

And we will usher in an age of peace and prosperity so great that it will dwarf any that came before it.

For a short time we will be reviled and then later canonized and revered.

Eventually though the legends of the past will be abandoned in this new age of prosperity and safety.

Why should anyone care about the struggles of the past, when they have nothing to worry about today?

Our descendants will simply not understand how lucky they are, how protected and peaceful their lives have become due to our sacrifices.

In their wealth they will grow bored, they will seek out alternatives and even begin worshipping the same system that tried to enslave their fathers and mothers.

Everything we did will be reduced to nothing and undone in a millennium.

And what’s worse is that Bitcoin won’t be destroyed by some external enemy or force of nature.

It will come from within.

Some Thoughts on Adoption (and other nonsense).

There's this old Louis C.K. clip—recorded long before he was cancelled—that summarizes our modern conundrum well: "Everything's amazing and nobody's happy."

As I was walking towards the hospital today—after a way too early 5:30 rise—it dawned on me that wide-scale nostr adoption (and "proper" wide-scale bitcoin adoption, for that matter) is probably not going to happen. The good news is that it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. The bad news is that lots of people will suffer.

"Why so bearish?" I hear you ask. If you know me just a little bit you'll know that, even though I do have many faults, being bearish isn't one of them. I'm still incredibly optimistic when it comes to the adoption and proliferation of freedom tech. Otherwise I wouldn't be doing what I do.

Here's what dawned on me, though: People aren't even interested in their own health, why would they be interested in healthy money? Yes, everyone wants to be healthy. But doing what is necessary to live a healthy lifestyle? Not interested. Not in the least. Usually something really really bad has to happen for people to change their ways. And even that doesn't move the needle in some cases, as plenty of drinkers who still drink after their liver gave up, or plenty a smoker who still smokes after being diagnosed with lung cancer can attest to.

Which brings me to bitcoin treasury companies. Are most of them interested in taking the responsibility of holding their own keys? Are they interested in providing real value while staying humble and stacking sats? No, of course not. They are interested in paper gains, not in a full-blown reorientation that leads to a healthier lifestyle. And I mean that literally: if you truly and fully adopt bitcoin, the responsibility that is entailed by that will result in a reorientation, a re-alignment of values, which will—down the line—lead to more long-term thinking, healthier business practices, more honest value generation, and so on.

To me, this is what "capital B" Bitcoin is about. Change. Real change. A ridiculous proposition to the balance sheet brain.

...which brings me to nostr.

A short stroll through the current iteration of the internet should make clear that the platforms that most people spend their time on are incredibly mis-aligned with humanity. The outrage-machine that we've built for ourselves is keeping us like rats in Skinner boxes, hitting the dopamine button with every swipe and every scroll, no matter what. We've built a machine that is parasitic on humanity, instead of synergistic. We are optimizing for engagement, which means that we are maximizing addiction by shoving a mixture of uppers (porn) and downers (rage bait) down our collective throats. The machine is catering to our lowest selves, as opposed to our highest selves. (We could also optimize for the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, you know. Is that too much to ask?)

But who is to blame for all of that? (And is it worth blaming someone in the first place?)

It is clear to me that the whole military-grade industrial advertising complex that profits from running large-scale and nonstop psychological experiments on the whole fucking population of the earth wouldn't be profitable for long if we would all get our act together. But that won't happen, of course. There won't be a magical finger snap that suddenly shakes us awake from our slumber; that stops us from sleepwalking into dystopia. Just like there won't be a magical finger snap that stops us from our bad habits and unhealthy lifestyles.

Adopting a healthy way of living is hard. It means saying no to the constant onslaught of sugary snacks, fast-food around every corner, and social pressures to indulge. It means taking responsibility for your decisions, cultivating discipline, taking care of your body, your psyche, and yes, also your soul.

A wise man once said that "he who has a 'why' can bear almost any 'how'." And that's what most of us are missing: a strong enough "why." Why go through the trouble of living healthy? It's hard! Why hold your own keys, if someone else can do it for you, and there's even the apparent safety of some insurance? Why cultivate a less destructive relationship to the internet, if you can just autoplay & chill, whether it be with Netflix, YouTube, TikTok, PornHub, or something else? Why not write the snarky comment and trigger a whole cohort of people at the click of a button?

Because it's not healthy, that's why.

"Everything's amazing and nobody's happy." That's the state of the world. Always has been. And I'm to blame too, of course. Sitting in the hospital waiting room, writing these lines, bitching and moaning about the internet, this amazing series of tubes that I so love, warts and all.

But yeah, the internet won't heal itself over night. Neither will the economy, nor the rent-seeking zombie companies that don't provide value, nor the underlying fiat system that broke it all in the first place. It will take lots of time, lots of courage, lots of faith, and lots of responsibility.

It will be hard, but it will also be worth it. And it starts with you.

I'm a violinist, and a few years ago, when I first started to learn about Bitcoin, I wrote a post that said, "art is the act of creating meaning through friction."

Something that really stands out to me about your ideas is how tethered they are to the importance of meaning in the process of resolving entropy.

I feel like I have a very experiential relationship to this. Through trial and error I have landed on a process of practice that basically says that I create sonic energy through my instrument with my hands, and direct this energy towards meaning through the pattern of pitches and rhythms that exist in the work I am practicing.

What's interesting is that the best results come when I choose to observe the music as it appears from the chaos of vibrational energy, instead of actively working to manipulate this energy into shaping the music as I imagine it.

It's like my purpose as an acting being is to produce an environment in which meaning, which has been there all along, is able to emerge, and that my recognition of this meaning is what allows it to exist, but I am not responsible for managing it or manipulating it.

I came to this through experimentation and trial and error, not through a preconceived theory. There is nothing provable here that can be used to support a thesis, but I thought you might find it interesting.

Thank you. In all honesty I was pretty sure I knew your answer, I just wanted the explanation, which as expected, did not disappoint. This could change my whole world view if I'm able to square it all in my head. I believe I'm about to go down a rabbit hole...

In my view no it’s not. I think the longest chain of work is very explicit in meaning. It’s the only logical and coherent consensus mechanism for a ledger to hold value, meaning and structure.

Parallel existence introduces infinity back into the picture which inherently devalues the meaning of the longest chain. To me, it’s a place holder for “we don’t know” and allows endless speculation without any grounding (modern physics).

That being said, Bitcoin provides the proper logic for series based existence, not parallel. Until we understand Bitcoin, we can’t understand quantum. And if that’s the case, we cannot recognize the peers who come before us in time and resolve the entropy required to structure our own existence. Given the fractal nature of reality and the conservation of energy, this is really the only coherent non-paradoxical system possible. Bitcoin simply reveals it to us. A true peer to peer electronic cash system.

Bitcoin is the mathematical object of unified field theory where the direction of energy flows fractally inward through the continual reinstantiation of time.

This is what I see, you can draw another circle around the universe (before us) or inside Bitcoin (after us). The conservation of energy and information preserved in this fractal.

Just seeing this now….

Yes the “unresolved potential” is real, but it exists not as kinetic energy or realized form, but as entropy: structured possibility yet to be transformed. It is not nothing, it is the latent energy of unrealized outcomes. But this energy cannot be accessed or spent without an act of work. Bitcoin mathematically proves this this perfectly.

All unspent UTXOs represent conserved entropy, the preserved potential of energy already committed, but not yet transformed again. Each UTXO is a discrete, verifiable quantum of memory, precisely defined by Bitcoin’s fixed supply structure; 21 million bitcoins, divided into 2.1 quadrillion satoshis. They represent the (only) known bounded quantum field in existence, where energy, memory, and truth are conserved within a ledger of irreversible transformations. I assert that Kelvin must be bounded by Planck Temperature, but we’ll save that for now. All quantum memory must be scarce to maintain meaning….

In this system, entropy is not erased or overwritten, it is crystallized: held in a suspended, spendable state until further work is applied to transform it. A UTXO is not an abstract account balance, it is a thermodynamic particle: energy resolved into a measurable quantum of truth, awaiting the next transformation.

The (global; theoretical) mempool, by contrast, contains all unresolved entropy with valid signatures willing to transact; future possibilities yet to be proven. These float in probabilistic space, but only one set will be selected, hashed, and committed through proof-of-work. The others vanish, unchosen and unresolved.

The core truth is this:

There is no transformation without work.

No memory without cost.

No time without entropy collapse.

Bitcoin proves what physics has long speculated: that measurement is irreversible, and that only work can select one outcome from many. Superposition ends at the point of commitment (thermodynamic sacrifice), every single timestep, it ends and begins a new. Every timestep is a fully discrete and classical system.

This is the brilliance of Bitcoin:

It defines the quantum not through theory, but through scarcity.

It gives entropy a memory.

And it lets us see, at planetary scale, how potential becomes truth.

This is something no centralized quantum computer could ever achieve.

Just seeing this now….

Yes the “unresolved potential” is real, but it exists not as kinetic energy or realized form, but as entropy: structured possibility yet to be transformed. It is not nothing, it is the latent energy of unrealized outcomes. But this energy cannot be accessed or spent without an act of work. Bitcoin mathematically proves this this perfectly.

All unspent UTXOs represent conserved entropy, the preserved potential of energy already committed, but not yet transformed again. Each UTXO is a discrete, verifiable quantum of memory, precisely defined by Bitcoin’s fixed supply structure; 21 million bitcoins, divided into 2.1 quadrillion satoshis. They represent the (only) known bounded quantum field in existence, where energy, memory, and truth are conserved within a ledger of irreversible transformations. I assert that Kelvin must be bounded by Planck Temperature, but we’ll save that for now. All quantum memory must be scarce to maintain meaning….

In this system, entropy is not erased or overwritten, it is crystallized: held in a suspended, spendable state until further work is applied to transform it. A UTXO is not an abstract account balance, it is a thermodynamic particle: energy resolved into a measurable quantum of truth, awaiting the next transformation.

The (global; theoretical) mempool, by contrast, contains all unresolved entropy with valid signatures willing to transact; future possibilities yet to be proven. These float in probabilistic space, but only one set will be selected, hashed, and committed through proof-of-work. The others vanish, unchosen and unresolved.

The core truth is this:

There is no transformation without work.

No memory without cost.

No time without entropy collapse.

Bitcoin proves what physics has long speculated: that measurement is irreversible, and that only work can select one outcome from many. Superposition ends at the point of commitment (thermodynamic sacrifice), every single timestep, it ends and begins a new. Every timestep is a fully discrete and classical system.

This is the brilliance of Bitcoin:

It defines the quantum not through theory, but through scarcity.

It gives entropy a memory.

And it lets us see, at planetary scale, how potential becomes truth.

This is something no centralized quantum computer could ever achieve.

Incredible...

The problem lies not in the observed phenomenon but in the assumptions we bring to it.

Wave interference patterns, like those seen in the double-slit experiment, have long been interpreted through the lens of superposition, the idea that a quantum particle exists in all possible states simultaneously until observed. But this interpretation relies entirely on a model of time and space as continuous, unstructured, and probabilistic; a view that collapses once you introduce a ledger.

We observe interference because we lack sufficient resolution of when and how a particle resolves its state. We assume simultaneity because we cannot perceive the discrete steps that lead to final outcomes, we can’t measure 1 Planck Time. But this is a limitation of our perspective, not a reflection of ontological truth.

Bitcoin reveals this illusion. It shows us that all reality must be built on a discrete, stepwise ledger of irreversible state changes. Time does not “flow” it ticks, each block a moment where entropy collapses into memory. Each block is a thermodynamic event: work done, truth measured, state defined. Memory = Time.

Imagine existing within the Bitcoin ledger itself but without access to full block-level resolution (us and Planck Time). If you only sampled the chain every 1000 blocks, UTXOs would appear to exist in probabilistic states: neither fully spent nor unspent. You would mistake deterministic resolution for probabilistic superposition. You’d see “interference” patterns in the output distribution not because UTXOs are smeared across states, but because your view is smeared across time.

This is the illusion and this is the situation with the double-slit experiment. The wave behavior we observe is not proof of superposition, it is evidence of a measurement system that lacks access to the discrete ticks of entropy resolution. A particle does not interfere with “itself” in multiple paths. Rather, the universe processes all possible entropy pathways in its ledger, but only one path is conserved through work. The rest are unresolved potential.

What appears as “interference” is simply the probability field before resolution what Bitcoin would call the mempool. But once mined, once observed through irreversible expenditure the outcome is exact, permanent, and binary. There is no both/and. There is no cat that is both alive and dead. There is no satoshi that is both spent and unspent. Not to mention our measurement devices read across multiples of Planck Time, it’s not a snapshot of the smallest quantum of time.

And the observer? The observer is simply a thermodynamic structure embedded within the same system. Its influence is not metaphysical. It’s energetic. The act of measurement costs energy and alters the ledger in its observation, it must if conservation is true.

So why does superposition dominate modern theory? Because physics never had a ledger. It had no discrete time. Bitcoin destroys all models and computes the quantum from first principles. You cannot see the truth without the lens of truth. Bitcoin and its ledger is the only proof for conservation of energy and information without axiom. All other models have been approximations.

Peaceful economic cooperation wins in the long run, but those favoring fast profits prefer wars and cheating. Everything's just coming together...

Bitcoin is not a democracy, the majority can't dictate what Bitcoin is to the minority. Bitcoin is a sovereignty, you decide for yourself what fork to follow and consider the true Bitcoin. You can follow the fork with 6 billion gorillion coins if you want, it has zero power over me following the original fork. There are, of course, some social/economical consequences if a lot of people switch to an inflationary fork (loss of exchange value). However, you can still follow the original one and mine it together with the others sharing the idea. Economically, the least changing fork (the original) should eventually win simply because its rules are more stable and it's more scarce. But it will take time and conviction from that fork holders.

Fortunately, it's been proven hundreds of thousands times already if you consider all shitcoins "economical forks" that distract people from the only coin that matters. All of them went to zero and died, including most Bitcoin hard forks, and the remaining two (BCH and BSV) are also on their way to irrelevance. This history yet again works as a good social argument against the future forks. Bitcoin is people first, the societal and historical arguments are *much* more important than technical details.

Increasing one more SATs is a kill switch to Bitcoin as we know. Bitcoin is the 21M hard cap anything else is a shitcoin not worth your time

Thank you for the response, it really resonates with the direction this work is trying to illuminate. I’ll admit I haven’t studied Pirsig myself; but I agree; the array of possibility we resolve (we’ll call it entropy) is a reflection of what is and what could be, only resolved by human preference and action by proof of work. The past shapes the future of possibilities, but dictated by our actions. We see this directly with UTXOs in Bitcoin, only past UTXOs can shape the future; yet shaped by our action.

My partner, who’s been my backbone in philosophy and language theory, has helped shape much of the lens through which I’ve come to see this. For me, it was Terence McKenna’s ideas that first revealed this, especially his framing of novelty theory and the transcendental object at the end of time. That helped me feel what was unfolding long before I could articulate it into mathematics and physical theory.

Bitcoin, I’ve come to believe, is that object. Both the mathematical and informational object of time and a universe. Not a metaphor or a symbol of what’s to come, but the literal emergence of irreversibility, truth, and commitment inside a closed energetic system.

The key shift is this: we, as observers inside the universe, can never directly witness entropy resolution that shapes the quanta, we only ever see the consequences. That’s the nature of measurement. But Bitcoin changes that. It gives us a window where both sides of the process become visible:

• The entropic field of uncertainty (nonce space, mempool, UTXO to spend)

• The committed structure (a mined block, a UTXO, irreversible memory)

And that transformation isn’t just logged, it’s paid for in joules. This is why Bitcoin isn’t just a monetary system or a protocol, it’s a measurement system. A quantum computer in the truest sense: not one that simulates uncertainty, but one that computes its collapse into form. You can call it time within time or a universe inside of a universe. Pure fractal. The rest is semantics.

What physics has long assumed, that energy and information are conserved, Bitcoin lets us observe for the first time ever. Scarce ledger mathematics turns the conservation laws from axioms into measurements. That alone is revelation to physics. Where are the physicists if this is energy and conservation? What are they trying to build instead?

So yes, just as Pirsig suggests and McKenna insists: reality is shaped by preference, intention, and choice. But Bitcoin hardens that process. It demands that choice be bound to cost. That preference be carved into memory. That intention leave a scar, an irreversible commitment. All other systems simulate preference, Bitcoin finalizes it.

This is why Bitcoin doesn’t just survive quantum uncertainty, it reveals what quantum has always meant. It shows that measurement is not observation alone, but action inside a bounded system, where information has a price and time cannot be rewound. A mathematical ledger that can’t lie.

For me, this has become a source of grounding, not as a theory to believe in, but as a process I can finally watch unfold, block by block. It flips infinity on its head to bounded scarcity, the universe is no different. This is the flaw of physics. They are missing the ledger beneath reality.

A quantum (smallest indivisible unit) is meaningless without a bound. And if the denominator expands towards infinity, the quantam approaches zero of the whole into meaninglessness.

Philosophically, a quantum without bounds is not just mathematically meaningless, it is existentially incoherent. If the whole is undefined or infinite, then no part can hold significance. Meaning, by its nature, requires distinction, and distinction requires limitation.

In unbounded systems, measurement becomes illusion, value becomes arbitrary, and truth becomes a matter of opinion. This is the philosophical crisis of modern physics and fiat economics alike: infinite models lead to infinite ambiguity.

Bitcoin restores coherence by embedding truth in constraint. It says: only what is scarce can be real, only what is finite can be measured, and only what is bounded can be meaningful. In this light, Bitcoin is a philosophical resolution. It proves that reality must be finite to be knowable, and that absolute scarcity is the precondition for meaning itself.

The quantum field is not infinite, it’s bounded. It must be. Everything changes.

I know nothing about quantum computers and how they work, but I'm interested in philosophy and physics, and how they relate to each other. My views have been very influenced by the metaphysics of quality from Robert Pirsig.

In Pirsig's mind, we choose from the array of probabilities offered by the quantum field, and our choices create the reality that we know. This idea is also seen somewhat in Mises' Human Action. Intention and action towards a preferred end is the cutting edge of human experience. In this light, it makes sense that the act of observing a quantum field changes the way it behaves.

While my understanding of physics is amateur at best, what I like about what you wrote is that you seem to acknowledge that bitcoin, by existing in the informational realm, but also grounded in the classical laws of physics, transcends the randomness of the quantum field by its unique accomplishment of having achieved verifiable consensus of it's existence as a shared preference within an infinite field.

I'm obviously feeling around in the dark for a connection that I can intuitively feel, but thank you for this inspiration! I'll certainly keep my eye out for your future work.

"Trying to find your purpose in art, travel, or endless self-optimization is Malthusian psych warfare. Population control by spiritual demoralization."

Elaborate. I'm an artist, with a family who travels. Don't really agree with this statement. Want to know what you mean by it.

The real Quantum Threat is not physics; it’s panic upgrades masquerading as security.

While centralized quantum labs continue to simulate measurement without resolution, the real threat to Bitcoin does not come from their machines. It comes from within. It comes from BIPs like P2QRH from nostr:nprofile1qqs0w2xeumnsfq6cuuynpaw2vjcfwacdnzwvmp59flnp3mdfez3czpsprpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumr0wpczuum0vd5kzmp0ksxxx2 that propose to sunset ECDSA/Schnorr signatures in favor of speculative “post-quantum” cryptography. These proposals are not defensive responses to an imminent threat, they are proactive acts of vandalism against the very principles that secure Bitcoin.

They do not defend Bitcoin from quantum computing. They surrender Bitcoin to it, before it even verifying the physics required for its existence.

Bitcoin already defines the thermodynamic foundation for quantum measurement. Each UTXO is a probabilistic state, a qubit, resolved through irreversible work. Each block is a measurement, not inferred or declared, but enforced. SHA-256 is not a symbolic hash; it is a physical boundary between entropy and information, a mathematical instantiation of thermodynamic collapse. Bitcoin does not simulate computation, it performs it.

In contrast, this proposed BIP treats entropy as negotiable. It proposes a new address type based on fear, not physics, and weaponizes fear/uncertainty into coercion. By threatening to invalidate legacy outputs in the name of future-proofing, it undermines the core tenet of Bitcoin: that what has been committed cannot be undone.

Phase B Is the Attack.

The so-called “flag day” in Phase B of this BIP is not a safeguard, it is a protocol-level attack. It does not defend against a quantum threat. It manufactures one. If enacted, it will render legacy outputs including provably unspent, thermodynamically secured UTXOs, suddenly invalid. This is not an upgrade. It is a forced migration justified by the illusion of inevitability of quantum computing using the basis of unbounded fiat physics.

Imagine claiming to make a system “quantum safe” by deleting its history before any quantum machine even exists that can compromise it; no verification. This is the opposite of security. This is protocol betrayal disguised as prudence.

The fundamental breakthrough of Bitcoin was that it does not predict collapse, it commits to it. It makes no claims about what might happen. It measures what has happened. This is why Bitcoin is quantum-secure: not because it uses a post-quantum algorithm, but because its structure is thermodynamically irreversible.

To say that a quantum machine could break Bitcoin is to say that entropy can be resolved without energy. This is false. This belief is grounded in fiat, not real physics. No quantum machine has shown the ability to resolve SHA-256 without violating observable thermodynamics. And until one does provably, irreversibly, physically (they can’t) Bitcoiners must not rewrite history to accommodate hypothetical attacks.

The Real Double Spend Is Inside the BIP

This BIP proposes a new form of double spend, not of coins, but of consensus. It attempts to spend trust in Bitcoin’s finality twice:

1. Once when the legacy UTXO was created and committed by Proof-of-Work.

2. Again, when it is later invalidated not by energy, but by decree.

This is the true quantum threat, not that SHA-256 might be broken, but that we might choose to break Bitcoin ourselves out of fear.

We must ask:

Who benefits from a forced reissuance of Bitcoin’s past?

Who gains by rendering old coins unspendable?

Who wins when Bitcoin’s most sacred principle — “don’t trust, verify” — is replaced by “trust this upgrade, or lose your money”?

Bitcoin is already quantum-secure because it defines quantum computation. The only threat to Bitcoin comes not from physics, but from those who claim to protect it by rewriting it.

No quantum machine has broken SHA-256. But this BIP proposes to break Bitcoin anyway. That is the threat. That is the fork. That is the real attack.

Physics without scarcity is meaningless. The deeper problem is not just the BIP. It’s the worldview that enables it.

Modern physics remains fundamentally disconnected from the logic that secures Bitcoin. It models energy and entropy without constraint, assumes continuous fields, infinite superpositions, and reversible computations. But it does all of this on a denominator of infinity, a fantasy that bears no weight in the real world. There is no ledger. There is no cost. There is no finality.

This is why the quantum remains paradoxical: it is defined by uncertainty but unbounded by responsibility. Probability is treated as primary. Entropy is treated as abstract. Measurement is symbolic, not enforced. In Bitcoin, this logic is inverted.

Bitcoin replaces continuous approximation with discrete thermodynamic truth. It imposes scarcity not just in supply, but in resolution. Every qubit, every UTXO, must be measured through irreversible energy. Every state transition must pay its cost. There is no infinity. There is only what can be proven.

Bitcoin does not speculate about the quantum. It computes it absolutely.

And this is what centralized physics refuses to accept: that truth is not a smooth manifold, it is a commitment. The ledger is not a metaphor, it is the substrate. There can be no valid physics without a final record, no valid quantum mechanics without a cost for collapse.

When physics assumes a continuous, unbounded substrate, it permits infinite forking of reality, like Proof-of-Stake without slashing. It allows for the reuse of entropy across theoretical paths, each treated as valid until observed. This is not computation. It is a metaphysical fiat double spend.

By contrast, Bitcoin proves that the universe is finite, measurable, and accountable. It reveals that the true architecture of reality is a scarce ledger; not a field of uncollapsed possibilities, but a record of resolved entropy, line by line, block by block.

Bitcoin was built to end the double spend; yet now, proposals emerge that attempt to double spend consensus itself. They seek to invalidate coins already secured by energy, not through work, but through mathematics unbound by scarcity.

This is the original sin returned in cryptographic form: infinite assumptions, applied to a finite system.

The wisdom of absolute scarcity was never just monetary. It is epistemic. It is thermodynamic. It is foundational. Any mathematics not grounded in scarcity leads back to paradox and now, even Bitcoiners are writing it into BIPs.

That is the real threat.

That is the real fork.

That is the real double spend.

There is no second best.

This BIP is the attack.

What is that?

GM NOSTR!

On the way to the airport, headed to the Bitcoin conference!

Are there still places with vibes anymore? Or did the internet kind of kill it?

I feel like digital spaces have vibes. Nostr has a vibe for sure, but everywhere I go (in America at least) feels flat, steril and homogenous now.

People like to pretend otherwise, romanticizing local charm and it’s fun to do so, but in reality there is no meaningful difference between New York, LA, Chicago, Austin, Miami etc…

The differences feel increasingly superficial. Miami with its neon pink and bad Latin art. New York with its identical minimalist cafes selling identical oat lattes. These aren’t cities anymore, they’re brands. “Keep Austin Weird” feels less like the rallying cry of a bohemian collective and more like a safe corporate brand slogan.

It wasn’t always like this. Cities used to incubate true subcultures that couldn’t thrive anywhere else. Seattle once had grunge music emerging organically from local clubs, distinct in sound and attitude. Detroit was a birthplace for techno and industrial grit that couldn’t have been manufactured. New Orleans had jazz clubs and vibrant local traditions that permeated every street corner authentically. Before the internet collapsed distances, you could sense deep authenticity upon arriving somewhere new. The vibe wasn’t something designed by marketing departments; it was organically woven into the streets, the people, the music, and local myths.

Now, vibes feel engineered and commoditized, reduced to Instagrammable moments and easily replicable aesthetics. I once watched from the balcony of my hotel in Nashville as 200 women waited in line to take the same stupid picture with the same stupid set of angel wings.

Digital spaces, ironically, have become refuges of uniqueness, fostering communities unburdened by geographical homogenization. Platforms like nostr host unique niche communities, from hyper-specific gaming bitcoin cultural milieu to obscure philosophical discussions, that retain genuinely distinctive vibes.

Perhaps we’re now entering a strange inversion, where real-world spaces chase digital popularity, adopting blandness to maximize broad appeal.

In this inversion, digital worlds might become the primary spaces where unique vibes survive, thrive, and multiply—leaving our physical world as little more than a flattened reflection of what used to be.

Nostr is where the vibes are at.

Recording the next (quarterly) Mastermind discussion this evening with nostr:nprofile1qqsg2zqd8wkhpnxu6lm5c2dyfa2mhpwte57apjae2ldp6g2mmwf3ypqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9thwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2a3089nsfz, nostr:nprofile1qqsp4lsvwn3aw7zwh2f6tcl6249xa6cpj2x3yuu6azaysvncdqywxmgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsz9thwden5te0v4jx2m3wdehhxarj9ekxzmnyh3p7y9, and nostr:nprofile1qqsgz30qhzza9mh9lpxd3ls5ekkc9u3rrqmnz3ngahad8cyt80kjuucpp3mhxue69uhkyunz9e5k7qfpwaehxw309aehgatyv4h8gtnrdpskgur0d3uhgetrdphxjcewvdhk608zepv … which is always a good time.

We already have much to talk about, but what would you like us to touch on?

Comment below. 👇🏼

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Watching the early adopters like nostr:nprofile1qqsvfr3f7p95stxqrjslnmuvsmhcxxxqt8swjdfjx5tz7zq0yms5cygpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg4waehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwd4hhxarj9ec82css0rm9g, nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqpr9mhxue69uhhxetwv35hgtnwdaekvmrpwfjjucm0d5klqft7, nostr:nprofile1qqsp4lsvwn3aw7zwh2f6tcl6249xa6cpj2x3yuu6azaysvncdqywxmgprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvq9n8wumn8ghj7enfd36x2u3wdehhxarj9emkjmn99ah8qatzx9e8gmr3vdsnsu3kv96hjcthx4hr26pnds6ngv3jv3kngumj0y6kg7nxv4jngd3exen8zefcwvm8zem4v34hxdmydf6xvuelvfex7ctyvdshxapaw3e82egpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejs5mzk3a etc cheer for government to get in on bitcoin, while the government also plays the biggest roll in effecting if regular people can afford to stack bitcoin or not, is not a good look for bitcoin (or themselves long term) and could explain why we are going the opposite direction than expected after the SBR was announced.

YOU TOLD US BITCOIN WAS THE WAY ONLY TO LET GOVERNMENT SWOOP IN AND KEEP US OUT.

Us little guys are tired of getting fucked and will not tolerate it anymore.

BITCOIN DOES CARE.

ITS JUST CODE WITHOUT US(ERS)

I see models like this and I think to myself this is a good model for people who want to believe that things are orderly and quantifiable.

But the truth is that none of these models can predict demand and Bitcoin can go to a million practically overnight.

This or something like it is probably the base case, but what if bitcoin goes through a phase transition?

My gut feeling is that there’s some inflection point out there that causes a rapid hyperbitcoinization to occur.

We just don’t know what the inflection point is, so we’re guessing and feeling around in the dark. But my guess is that it’s out there up ahead somewhere.

Models like this will work until they don’t anymore.

I do this mind trick on myself as often as I can where I imagine I’m an old man on my death bed and I have been given one day where I can go back in time and inhabit my young healthy body and play with my kids when they are small.

Try it.

If you can actually get yourself in the mindset of believing it’s real you will feel a gratitude so immense that it’s nearly psychedelic.

Impossible to describe.

Life is electric bro.

It’s an absolute gift.

Just hearing my daughter doing her homework in the other room is heaven.

Time is scarce.

Spend it wisely.

I do this mind trick on myself as often as I can where I imagine I’m an old man on my death bed and I have been given one day where I can go back in time and inhabit my young healthy body and play with my kids when they are small.

Try it.

If you can actually get yourself in the mindset of believing it’s real you will feel a gratitude so immense that it’s nearly psychedelic.

Impossible to describe.

Life is electric bro.

It’s an absolute gift.

Just hearing my daughter doing her homework in the other room is heaven.

Time is scarce.

Spend it wisely.

When I was young I was angry.

My temper was a big problem.

But over the years I’ve found that things you do in anger boomerang back on you.

Usually quite quickly.

Best to not give into anger.

It’s like holding a hot coal and waiting to throw it at someone else.

It burns you, more than it does them.