A single declaration of what Montana is and refuses to be, published in three languages from one canonical version. The three texts say the same thing.
The English version is canonical for cryptographic claims; the Russian version is canonical for the author's voice. For the academic specification of the protocol, see [Whitepaper Montana.md](../Whitepaper%20Montana.md) and [Montana Protocol v35.25.1](../Montana%20Protocol%20v35.25.1.md).
**v1.1.0 (2026-05-28):**
- *Terminology* aligned with Montana Protocol v35.25.1. The primitive is named «sequential delay computation» / «iterated SHA-256 hash chain», not VDF. Montana's chain is deliberately not a verifiable delay function in the Boneh-Pietrzak-Wesolowski sense (see §II for the rationale). Consensus is named Proof of Time. The smallest unit is `moneta`; `1 Ɉ = 10⁹ moneta`; the international ticker is `MONT`.
- *Cash-system frame* foregrounded. §I makes explicit that Bitcoin's title — *A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System* — was never delivered, and identifies the two missing pieces Montana takes on: a cash-system tokenomics (§V) and an economics of time (§VI). §IX names Montana as the cash system Bitcoin promised, built on top of the economics of time the digital-money tradition has not yet built.
- *Finality claim corrected* against spec v35.25.1. Asynchronous finality is at window cementing — within a single window of the canonical order (approximately one minute of wall-clock at the genesis-hardware calibration), not the obsolete «~300 ms» claim carried from an early draft. The wall-clock duration of a window is an emergent property of the operating hardware, not part of consensus state.
- *Reference-implementation count corrected.* Twenty-three crates in `Code/crates/`, not twelve.
