
Lux(λ) |光灵|GEB|Aug 18, 2025 15:18
The completeness of Bitcoin vs. the incompleteness of BFT
1/G ö del said:
Any consistent formal system is inevitably incomplete.
In blockchain, this corresponds to:
How does the system choose when multiple legitimate blocks appear at a certain height at the same time?
This is the completeness issue of blockchain.
2/In BFT system (including ETH PoS):
When multiple valid blocks appear at height n, the system cannot automatically select them in the endogenous logic.
In the end, we can only:
Towards consensus through voting/message games;
Or shut down and leave it to human intuition/foundation judgment.
BFT is incomplete.
3/Differences of Bitcoin:
It internalizes' fork selection 'as part of the protocol.
PoW nonce resonance=free particle resonance driven by miner energy
The longest chain rule=the network automatically selects the highest weight chain
This is the oracle of Bitcoin.
Here, 'dissipative structure' is key:
Physics: Non equilibrium systems generate order through energy consumption
Bitcoin: PoW's dissipative process replaces human neuron's' intuition '
Contradictions (forks) no longer rely on human judgment, but are automatically resolved by the system.
5/
But solving only one fork is not enough.
The blockchain must be able to continuously evolve through an infinite number of forks.
This requires an ordinal logic system:
Turing machine: Generate candidate blocks
Oracle Machine: The Only Solution for Judgment
Ordinal logic: ensuring continuity of super poor iterations
6/So:
BFT=Non deterministic Turing Machine+External Oracle+External Guaranteed Continuity → ❌ incomplete
Bitcoin=Non deterministic Turing machine+dissipative structure oracle machine+ordinal logic iteration → ✅ complete
7/Conclusion:
Bitcoin is not just a computing system,
It is a completeness system composed of Turing machines, oracle machines, and ordinal logic.
When encountering a fork, the BFT system can only shut down or rely on human intuition to become incomplete.
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