Spoiler alert; Q-Day already happened. 1/3/2009

If we do not understand the physics and the mechanics of how a thermological process produces a chronological state, then we do not understand the physical transformation required for perfect money to exist, nor the logic of the measurement required for a classical world to emerge. Bitcoin empirically falsifies the axiom of continuous time, and those within physics who wish to defend the axiom must contend with Bitcoin. No continuous time, no quantum threat. The Bitcoin community should be demanding answers from the physicists within our ranks, and from the physicists outside. This must be answered for. Demonstrate to us how quantum computing works at the Planck scale of time with discretized superposition between Planck Ticks of time; or demonstrate how Bitcoin can solve the double spend problem without quantized blocks of time. No double-spending logic.

You can defend Bitcoin with just knowledge and math/physics. Don’t trust me, verify for yourself. No need to change the code.

Few understand what you know @Anik Malcolm

BIP 1=1 A Bitcoiner Improvement Proposal. A BIP for the mind.

Quantum literally can’t explain binary logic. Explain how quantum information collapses into classical (binary) information with respect to the boundary of time. They can’t define the measurement. Bitcoin does. Check.

Discrete Time demands Discrete Superpostion

@Zsubmariner you at the Vegas conf?

The suitcoiners don’t know that the Red Rocks is where the real conference is at.

GM Vegas

Why not?

Federico talking about Bitcoin without knowing it. Bitcoin is the exterior perspective, the universal observer, a bounded view of totality from Genesis to present as a ledger of time. The quantized measurement of time and casual change. Pair that with your local perspective and interpretation. The interior perspective. They complete each other with the direction of casual authority/time.

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.

Few truly understand that the double spend problem is the same question of measurement in physics, of how quantum (contradictory) information becomes classical (binary) information with respect to time. Interior perspective (ontology -> epistemology) Exterior perspective (epistemology -> ontology) You need both perspectives to make sense of time. You need the boundary of measurement. What is a block of time? Our understanding of physics is fiat without the block of time. Full stop.

Team quantum and physics is in check regarding the axiom of continuous time. Bitcoin and the double spend experiment exposed the requirement that time must resolve in discrete, non-contradictory steps or conservation of identity/value/energy cannot persist. If continuous time cannot explain measurement and how information resolves into a single, non-contradictory state, then it cannot describe reality. You don’t get to move forward without responding to the check. Either define the mechanism of measurement that enforces non-contradiction across time, or show how Bitcoin can prevent double spending without discrete blocks of time. If neither can be done, the axiom is falsified by Bitcoin. Bitcoin is explicit in defining what a “pre-measured” state is with respect to its ontology. Everything changes if time is discrete. Tick, tock.

The rabbit hole of Bitcoin is so much deeper than money, and that’s a good thing for everyone. The rabbit hole cannot be fully known, precisely because it hasn’t happened yet. How many blocks does it take?

The double spend experiment shows the mechanism and process by which quantum information becomes classical information as blocks of time. Bitcoin instantiates AND defines the bounded totality of measurement. Bitcoin shows how epistemology becomes ontology because we exist on the opposite side of the temporal boundary. Behind the particle and field is a network of UTXOs transacting in blocks of time. Team Quantum is in check. Every new block of time without contradiction (double spends) is another check. When does check become checkmate in a game that can’t be stopped? How many blocks does it take?