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@ Jack K
2025-02-25 14:08:23
Fundamentally, quantum mechanics has been a language problem since discovery. We haven’t had a “language” to actually understand and communicate it until bitcoin; which describes the relationship of energy, information and time. Use Bitcoin as the lens to think through.
What physicists call a qubit has an identical nature to UTXO. In both, energy is fundamental.
Superposition: UTXOs are in a constant state of spendability (0 or 1) and their state is unknown until blocks are mined; only probabilistic.
Entanglement: A single UTXO can be sent to infinite addresses, split innumerable ways, can interact with any other UTXO and can interact with UTXOs from different times. Remember, all UTXOs exist in the past except the ones in the present block.
Measurement: Mining is the measurement of hashes per valid nonce and the measurement collapses the indeterminate block config into a single deterministic verifiable state. This also sets the direction in quantum measurement (which UTXOs become spent and which remain unspent)
UTXOs persist indefinitely through time; it appears Satoshi solved decoherence 16 years ago. Again, it’s a language and expectation problem. We are told QM is too complex to for us understand, trust the physicists.
The ledger is the “timespace” (history from Genesis) and the current block is the “spacetime” or the present.
Given this context, is it possible a UTXO is a qubit? What properties is a UTXO missing to be one?
What effects could centralization have on a quantum system? (Think Bitcoin, ownership, nodes, mining)
What is more important for a quantum computer to compute than perfect money and a shared equal reality with no singular observer?
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