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Montana Manifesto
Version: 1.1.0 Date: 2026-05-28 Author: Alejandro Montana Repository: github.com/efir369999/Montana
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.
- English — for the Metzdowd cryptography list and independent reviewers
- Русский — голос автора
- 中文 — 中文版本
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 and Montana Protocol v35.25.1.
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 isMONT. - 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.
Symbol: Ɉ — Montana.
Alejandro Montana