This brings me to an intriguing question: Is it possible that Bitcoin is the work of a physicist?
Of course, the possibilities are endless. We do not know the real person behind the creation of bitcoin so it’s difficult to say for sure but if I were to guess, I would say that Satoshi leaned more on being an information tech rather than a physicist.
Chalidze, with his expertise in physics and his interest in human rights and economics, could he have envisioned or even influenced the idea of Bitcoin, a digital currency secured by complex mathematical & physical principles?
While I do see the connection of entropy to cryptography, there are still plenty of aspects that contributed to the creation of bitcoin that someone whose expertise only lies in physics might not be able to create. His discussion of economics in relation to physics has more something to do with analogies and not really technical innovation.