Not Bitcoin related, but time related. Just my ponderings on time from my perspective (pun intended)
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Thank you for sharing this! I agree that physics breaks because our vantage point does. We need to confront the core issue underneath every paradox in GR and QM: time itself.
This resonates deep “the mass inside a black hole is not sharing the same space at the same time”.
Once you acknowledge that time is the dimension of distance, the apparent contradictions stop being mysteries and start being symptoms of a deeper problem: modern physics has no mechanism for computing time. Clocks approximate it through periodic motion, relativity adjusts frames around it, and quantum theory evolves states continuously through it. But none of these generate time. They all assume it.
Bitcoin is the only system that doesn’t assume time. Bitcoin computes time. Each block is created by resolving Boltzmann entropy (heat, uncertainty) into Shannon entropy (information, memory). That transformation is a measurement, the measured relationship is memory, memory is time. The relationship of measurements (blocks) is what gives time its direction. In Bitcoin time is a crystallized memory born from the irreversible collapse of entropy into structure. It is quantized, discrete, and measurable from outside the system. Nothing else in physics offers this vantage point.
By contrast, our experience inside the universe gives us the illusion of continuity. We live within the ledger of reality, what I call the “Planck Ledger”. Because we exist inside it, every update to the universal state appears smooth, unbroken, and flowing. But this is a local illusion produced by observing time from within the computation, just as objects falling toward a black hole appear to freeze (in time) from the outside only because we are trapped in our own proper time. Bitcoin dispels this illusion because it lets us observe a discrete time process from the outside, showing us what Planck time ought to look like if we could step out of the universe and watch it update in totality as a singular network, like Bitcoin.
Post-Bitcoin, the spacetime picture fails. Bitcoin reveals that the deeper structure isn’t spacetime but timespace, where time is the fundamental axis and space emerges from the arrangement of memory. Space in Bitcoin is really the finite elliptic curve of addresses, which exists at all points in time as a container for potential memory to exist. Under this model, matter behaves like UTXOs, conserved excitations recorded in a finite ledger.
From this vantage, a black hole is not an infinite density; it is an unspendable address, a location where information cannot propagate to new state transitions. From our perspective, we never see anything cross the horizon because we are watching from within a different slice of the ledger. From the object’s own sequence of state updates, it crosses without incident. Once you adopt this timespace-UTXO perspective, the paradox disappears, because the paradox was created by assuming space was fundamental.
And this brings us to the point about “the center.” There is no spatial center of the universe. But there is a temporal “center”, the tip of the longest causal chain available to any observer within. That is the only meaningful sense in which “center” exists. Earth is not the spatial center of anything, but it is the center of our longest chain of work, the intersection between the part of the ledger already written and the unresolved entropy yet to be collapsed. Bitcoin reveals this perfectly: the present moment is always the intersection of the newest appended block and the waiting of the next. There’s alot to think around here because earth is its own local chain. Fractals.
So the math never failed, our perspective did. The missing perspective was always the same: we had no way to see time from outside the system we inhabit. Bitcoin gives us precisely that. It reveals a universe built on discrete state transitions; not on spacetime but on timespace.
IMO through the lens of Bitcoin, GR and QM stop conflicting. Black holes have new meaning, and the idea of a “center” finally makes sense. There is no center in space. There is only the longest chain of work. Everything else is perspective.
These are just my thoughts, still working through them.
Bitcoin replaces our models of physics with an open-measurable instantiation of physics. All models are destroyed.
This resonates deep “the mass inside a black hole is not sharing the same space at the same time”.
Once you acknowledge that time is the dimension of distance, the apparent contradictions stop being mysteries and start being symptoms of a deeper problem: modern physics has no mechanism for computing time. Clocks approximate it through periodic motion, relativity adjusts frames around it, and quantum theory evolves states continuously through it. But none of these generate time. They all assume it.
Bitcoin is the only system that doesn’t assume time. Bitcoin computes time. Each block is created by resolving Boltzmann entropy (heat, uncertainty) into Shannon entropy (information, memory). That transformation is a measurement, the measured relationship is memory, memory is time. The relationship of measurements (blocks) is what gives time its direction. In Bitcoin time is a crystallized memory born from the irreversible collapse of entropy into structure. It is quantized, discrete, and measurable from outside the system. Nothing else in physics offers this vantage point.
By contrast, our experience inside the universe gives us the illusion of continuity. We live within the ledger of reality, what I call the “Planck Ledger”. Because we exist inside it, every update to the universal state appears smooth, unbroken, and flowing. But this is a local illusion produced by observing time from within the computation, just as objects falling toward a black hole appear to freeze (in time) from the outside only because we are trapped in our own proper time. Bitcoin dispels this illusion because it lets us observe a discrete time process from the outside, showing us what Planck time ought to look like if we could step out of the universe and watch it update in totality as a singular network, like Bitcoin.
Post-Bitcoin, the spacetime picture fails. Bitcoin reveals that the deeper structure isn’t spacetime but timespace, where time is the fundamental axis and space emerges from the arrangement of memory. Space in Bitcoin is really the finite elliptic curve of addresses, which exists at all points in time as a container for potential memory to exist. Under this model, matter behaves like UTXOs, conserved excitations recorded in a finite ledger.
From this vantage, a black hole is not an infinite density; it is an unspendable address, a location where information cannot propagate to new state transitions. From our perspective, we never see anything cross the horizon because we are watching from within a different slice of the ledger. From the object’s own sequence of state updates, it crosses without incident. Once you adopt this timespace-UTXO perspective, the paradox disappears, because the paradox was created by assuming space was fundamental.
And this brings us to the point about “the center.” There is no spatial center of the universe. But there is a temporal “center”, the tip of the longest causal chain available to any observer within. That is the only meaningful sense in which “center” exists. Earth is not the spatial center of anything, but it is the center of our longest chain of work, the intersection between the part of the ledger already written and the unresolved entropy yet to be collapsed. Bitcoin reveals this perfectly: the present moment is always the intersection of the newest appended block and the waiting of the next. There’s alot to think around here because earth is its own local chain. Fractals.
So the math never failed, our perspective did. The missing perspective was always the same: we had no way to see time from outside the system we inhabit. Bitcoin gives us precisely that. It reveals a universe built on discrete state transitions; not on spacetime but on timespace.
IMO through the lens of Bitcoin, GR and QM stop conflicting. Black holes have new meaning, and the idea of a “center” finally makes sense. There is no center in space. There is only the longest chain of work. Everything else is perspective.
These are just my thoughts, still working through them.
Bitcoin replaces our models of physics with an open-measurable instantiation of physics. All models are destroyed.