Episode #190 – Time
By Anon
Aired May 8, 2026 · 50m · Last boosted May 10, 2026
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Somewhere in the world a person has either lost their private keys or has chosen to take them to the grave, and a fixed quantity of Bitcoin will never move again. The surface answer is that the holder gave up purchasing power. This episode argues that what they actually gave up, in a strict physical sense, was time, and that the chronometric identity developed across the last several episodes lets us say that without metaphor. Episode Summary In 1687, Isaac Newton built a mechanics in which time is a single universal clock running everywhere at the...
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The ledger is the mathematical object of time. A block of time has the highest explanatory power of time itself because there is no more fundamental unit of causal resolution beneath it. The block is the limit. The block is what gives rise to the wave. Bitcoin is the logical reification of particle and field through the UTXO and the network. The particle is a localized conserved state, the field is the distributed n…
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