Why Fiat Capture Breaks the Physics
Fiat subsidies = external energy field steering the system.
Miners, exchanges, institutions — their balance sheets are in USD. Their survival depends on fiat cash flows. They optimize for fiat ROI, not thermodynamic validity.
This adds an external Hamiltonian: H_total = H_bitcoin + H_fiat
These don't commute. The system can't simultaneously minimize both. The ground state shifts from "most work" to "most fiat-subsidized work."
Result: The chain is secured by whoever gets cheapest fiat-denominated energy — not whoever does the most thermodynamic work per joule.
When the fiat subsidy withdraws (and it must — fiat debt is unsustainable), a phase transition occurs. The captured chain purges dead weight. Energy density increases. The true thermodynamic chain emerges.
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