Alien BTC findings: If humans vanished, Bitcoin’s block time and difficulty would preserve our collapse

An investigative unit arriving on a silent planet analyzed the Bitcoin ledger, finding that its mechanics—block intervals, difficulty, and timestamps—preserved a record of human collapse. By examining block headers and coinbase transactions, the team determined that human-directed payments ceased approximately 10.6 years prior to their arrival, evidenced by coinbase outputs matching the programmed subsidy (zero fees). The subsequent block spacing settled around 60–70 minutes, reflecting the decay of the mining hashrate. The unattended power sources left distinct signatures in the block arrival times, such as diurnal solar patterns and multi-day voids from wind power failures. The difficulty retargeting mechanism created 'terraces' where block times stretched significantly (e.g., one epoch spanned 3.8 years at 16.7 hours per block when hashrate dropped to 1% of pre-event levels). This demonstrates that Bitcoin's protocol rules transduce physical reality—power availability and network partitions—into a durable time series, allowing the reconstruction of events long after economic activity ended.

(Source：CryptoSlate)