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

[alejandromontana at tutamail.com]

> 20 мая 2026 г., 22:32 От ramses-ramsesi at top.ge:
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>> Why do you consider it lost? Just because there hasn't been a transaction for 13 or 15 years? Is that your measure?I have Bitcoin that I haven't exchanged in 15 years, and if it's lost to you, it's not lost to me.No one has the right to interfere with someone else's currency just because it hasn't been moved.
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Dear Ramses,

You and I agree on this. Dormant is not lost, and no one should be able to touch your coins just because you haven’t moved them. That was never the point.

When “lost” came up earlier in the thread it was an economic question, not a proposal. The question was whether very old coins that never move should still be counted as circulating supply or not, for the math. Nobody suggested taking them or freezing them.

Montana doesn’t reclaim coins for sitting still. The only cleanup the protocol does is on empty accounts, meaning zero balance and idle for months, which is just garbage collection of records that hold nothing. An account with real balance in it is never touched, no matter how long it sits. Your 15 year coins would be just as untouchable here as they are in Bitcoin.

So the principle you’re defending is the same one this protocol is built on. We’re on the same side here.

- Alejandro 
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