Except the mining process follows a Poisson distribution; the "tick" is a random variable.
The next block could arrive in 1 second or 1 hour, which proves the network operates in a continuous space...
A Poisson process describes uncertainty in when a block arrives, not the nature of what arrives.
The block itself is still a quantized state change. The ledger updates atomically: either the block exists or it doesn’t. History advances in discrete commitments, not continuous transitions. There is no valid intermediate state between block n and block n+1.
Variable waiting time does not make a system continuous. Energy and hashing evolve continuously, but causal updates to the ledger occur in indivisible steps. The “tick” is the commitment, not the elapsed wall-clock time between them. This has nothing to do with the physical time between blocks.
The block itself is still a quantized state change. The ledger updates atomically: either the block exists or it doesn’t. History advances in discrete commitments, not continuous transitions. There is no valid intermediate state between block n and block n+1.
Variable waiting time does not make a system continuous. Energy and hashing evolve continuously, but causal updates to the ledger occur in indivisible steps. The “tick” is the commitment, not the elapsed wall-clock time between them. This has nothing to do with the physical time between blocks.
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