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Subject: Montana — post-quantum blockchain reference paper
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I've been working on a new blockchain whose security rests entirely on
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post-quantum cryptographic primitives, with no transaction fees and time as
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the scarce resource in place of money.
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The paper is available at:
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https://github.com/efir369999/Montana/blob/main/Whitepaper Montana.md
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The main properties:
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Post-quantum signatures (ML-DSA-65) and key encapsulation (ML-KEM-768)
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from primitives up. No ECDSA, no curve25519, no RSA in the protocol.
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Consensus is a verifiable delay function over SHA-256 producing a globally
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ordered chain of windows of approximately 60 seconds each.
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Anti-spam operates on time, not on fees: per-identity per-window rates,
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account chain-length thresholds, seniority gating.
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No mint, no premine, no transaction fee. The single emission is 13 base
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units of Ɉ to the operator who completed each window's VDF.
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Architecturally targets one billion active accounts as the design baseline.
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Full paper and reference implementation in Rust:
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https://github.com/efir369999/Montana
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Alejandro Montana
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