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?

Any interpretation of quantum mechanics that treats contradictory states as ontologically real, without a defined temporal resolution mechanism (measurement), is incomplete. No quantum threat should be taken seriously if it relies on a model that cannot explain how contradiction is eliminated across time. Bitcoin enforces non-contradiction through quantized blocks of time. We do not know whether a double spend has occurred until the next block proves otherwise, which means conservation of identity can only be demonstrated as a temporal proof. This directly invalidates the axiom of continuous time. Either it must be shown that Bitcoin can prevent double spending without discrete blocks of time, or it must be accepted that time itself is quantized in order to preserve logic. Physics must account for the double spend experiment as a real model of temporal resolution, or be prepared to falsify Bitcoin to proceed touting “quantum threat”. Check.