Jeff Booth, Jack, and Nick explore a year-long paper linking Bitcoin to fundamental physics, framing Bitcoin blocks as discrete, quantized units of time. They connect concepts from quantum mechanics and entropy to Bitcoin’s design, argue that its finite, discrete structure may be incompatible with quantum computing threats, and close with plans to experimentally test a Bitcoin miner’s interaction with zero-point energy in a physics lab in Chamonix.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:46 - Bitcoin blocks as quantized units of time challenging the continuous-time assumption in modern physics

00:07:26 - The self-referential problem of time in physics and why time cannot be tested outside of itself

00:13:34 - Parallels between Bitcoin’s mempool and quantum superposition as pre-measurement potential states

00:14:43 - How Bitcoin’s UTXO model separates measurement from observation in a way physics cannot

00:31:13 - Bridging Boltzmann entropy and Shannon entropy through Bitcoin’s finite state space and mining process

00:37:47 - Bitcoin’s 21 million supply cap as a physical boundary analogous to Planck temperature

00:42:26 - Why Bitcoin’s discrete time model may be fundamentally incompatible with quantum computing attacks

01:02:32 - Plans to test a Bitcoin miner’s interaction with zero-point energy at a physics lab in Chamonix

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