Thank you for your kind words. If Bitcoin is a state of consciousness, then block time can be one expression of consciousness making time legible to itself within its own ledger. The block is the present. What is behind it has already passed, and in the mempool we can see the probabilities of what may come next, without certainty.
This reminds me of the I Ching because I have always understood it as a timepiece as much as an oracle. The 64 hexagrams describe movement through time, and each one carries a particular quality of change. There is also the correspondence with the 64 codons of the genetic code, which is another reason this architecture keeps appearing in different systems.
So then the question becomes: if the block is the present, and the mempool contains probabilities of what may come next, is there such a thing as certainty in time? Or are time cycles themselves expressions of probability? Does time exist independently of perception, or does it become intelligible because consciousness can observe intervals?
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2026-09-14 19:46:22 UTC
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