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

[Ron Garret]

> On May 25, 2026, at 11:09 AM, Cryptskii via cryptography <cryptography at metzdowd.com> wrote:
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>> There is actually a higher level of abstraction >which is: money as a GENERALIZED CONTRACT, >specifically, a generalization of an I.O.U. where >one of the parties is not an individual entity but >society at large.
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> Here is the tightened version with that added in:
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> I think time is the actual resource underneath all of this.
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> Money is the abstraction, but time is the scarce thing we are really trading around.

No.  Money is a proxy for *value*.  Time certainly has value, but it is not the only thing that has value.

rg