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Montana Manifesto
Version: 2.0.1 Date: 2026-05-29 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.
The manifesto is written in the academic register of a position paper, addressed simultaneously to the general reader and the cryptographer. The pain of ordinary users with money systems is named; the architectural response is grounded in the full protocol; the technical sections (§V–§IX) are the proof that the human-facing claims are achievable, not the headline of the document.
v2.0.1 (2026-05-29) — tone correction. The «last nail in the coffin of two failed worlds» language and the «blue ocean» framing of v2.0.0 are replaced by analytical equivalents. The substance is unchanged. The thesis line now reads: Montana is an architecture that closes the failures of both fiat and cryptocurrency on a single foundation. §IV is named «The Ecosystem» without the strategy-jargon subtitle; the closing of §IV states the structural-incentive case directly: each existing actor (banks, cryptocurrency firms, states, hyperscalers) is bound to a model that prevents it from building the neutral substrate Montana provides. §XI closes analytically: a rail no actor can remove a user from, a money no institution can freeze, a unit that compensates the operator for the work of sealing a window, etc.
v2.0.0 (2026-05-29) — major reframe. The thesis shifted from architectural rail-vs-currency positioning (a cryptographer-facing axis) to the failure of two money systems for the people who use them. §I «Two Worlds That Failed» names the fiat failures (inflation, debanking, censorship, surveillance, 30% remittance corridors, uneconomic small payments, asset-price-driven housing exclusion, sanction targeting, CBDC-as-surveillance) and the crypto failures (Bitcoin-as-digital-gold, Ethereum-as-MEV-land, stablecoins-on-broken-banks, DeFi-as-Ponzi, failing exchanges). The same underlying cause: rail reliability coupled to native-asset price, rail neutrality contingent on next-block producer, rail primitives that Shor breaks. §IV is a new section enumerating the full Montana ecosystem — protocol, Ɉ, wallet, Montana Messenger, Montana VPN, Anchor, Junona, Pluton, Vera Montana, Hub — and the structural reason no existing actor can build it. §III «Montana in Plain Terms» leads with what an ordinary user experiences: 24 words is the money, run a node and be paid, use the rail without running anything, no founder, autonomous agents first-class, post-quantum from day one. The technical sections (§V–§X) carry the protocol-level claims as before.
v1.3.0 (2026-05-29): Ethereum recognized and critiqued alongside Bitcoin in §I; no extractable ordering added to §V as a rail property; §IX closes with «the ether the name promised».
v1.2.0 (2026-05-28): Rail-not-currency positioning from the Metzdowd thread. Bitcoin's title conflated two distinct jobs (stable unit of account vs. neutral settlement and ordering rail). Montana picks the second on purpose. Ɉ is the rail's reward unit, not a stable unit of account. Dormant non-zero accounts are never touched.
v1.1.0 (2026-05-28): Terminology aligned with Montana Protocol v35.25.1: sequential delay computation / iterated SHA-256 hash chain, not VDF. Finality at window cementing (~one minute on commodity x86_64), not «300 ms». Twenty-three crates, not twelve.
Symbol: Ɉ — Montana.
Alejandro Montana