Imagine we lived in a simulation where time itself worked like Bitcoin’s block-time.
There is some cosmic consensus process, with an analogue of proof of work, and a “tick” of the clock only occurs when a certain procedure succeeds and a block is “mined.” In this picture, reality advances in discrete steps, one block at a time.
But this does not actually solve any of the conceptual riddles associated with time. The proof-of-work process, the causal interactions that lead to a block being produced, and the physical steps required to carry out that computation would still have to unfold in conti