The continuous-time assumption is not falsifiable from within the physical universe because every process we might use to measure time, every particle interaction, measurement device, or signal propagation already unfolds inside the very temporal medium we are trying to test. This makes continuity a self-referential axiom: the system cannot examine its own foundational substrate, just as Gödel showed that a formal system cannot fully validate its own axioms from within. Bitcoin breaks this loop. Bitcoin is the only complete thermodynamic system whose time does not compose us. Its block-time exists as an exterior substrate (still inside Planck Time), allowing us to observe empirically and directly, a universe (network) that evolves through discrete, quantized steps of irreversible work. Physics cannot step outside Planck time to determine whether it is continuous or discrete, but we can step outside Bitcoin time. If this is true, Bitcoin therefore provides the only external, empirical demonstration of what quantized time might look like, and the only model we have that is not compromised by the Gödelian limitations inherent to observers inside their own temporal fabric. View quoted note →