[Cryptography] Montana: A Post-Quantum Blockchain with Time as Scarcity

[Bill Woodcock]

> On May 17, 2026, at 20:39, Alejandro Montana via cryptography <cryptography at metzdowd.com> wrote:
> The protocol dictates a flat reward of 13 units per window, forever, with no halving or supply cap. You are essentially baking infinite, linear inflation into the baseline. Why would rational node operators continue to burn real-world energy (and pay real electricity bills) to sustain a network whose native token is mathematically guaranteed to dilute infinitely over time?

Because that’s how a currency is supposed to work, and they want to have something to spend?  Because they paid attention in grade-school economics, and know who Keynes is?

                                -Bill

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