It’s not just about what Bitcoin is for, it’s also about what Bitcoin IS.
Bitcoin is the thermological process that produces irreversible ordered time inside of a bounded network. It just so happens that time is perfect money. This is logical as time is the only real currency we have and energy lives inside of time.
Tbh, it’s better for me to ask questions rather than assert because my assertions miss all of the details that leads up to the how.
What is Bitcoin objectively as a physical process?
Is there any chance Bitcoin is a computer we don’t fully understand and that we have primitively labeled as “just money”? How could such a label constrain further investigation?
Does current physics describe the logic and behavior of time with respect to the smallest unit of change?
What does a quantum computer compute? Is the universe a quantum computer?
What would it theoretically look like if you could stand and operate outside of a universe? Centralized or Decentralized? Ontological or Epistemological? Is a network just a field on the opposite boundary of temporality?
Best to let some of these cook. I’m simply trying to define Bitcoin with reference to the process and empirical observations I can make and not letting prior bias of “money” influence me.
Our prior definitions of money are all wrong/incomplete, so we can only understand it by observing all of Bitcoin’s nature and continuing to ask questions.
Jackk / Jack K
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2026-03-18 16:24:42 UTC
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