<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Time-Layer Scarcity on TimeB.news – Time Economics &amp; Scarcity Theory</title><link>https://timeb.news/categories/time-layer-scarcity/</link><description>Recent content in Time-Layer Scarcity on TimeB.news – Time Economics &amp; Scarcity Theory</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:30:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://timeb.news/categories/time-layer-scarcity/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>The Collector's Discount Rate: How Vintage Market Participants Invert the Fundamental Law of Time Preference</title><link>https://timeb.news/posts/collector-discount-rate/</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://timeb.news/posts/collector-discount-rate/</guid><description>An exploration of how vintage cryptocurrency markets fracture the fundamental assumption of uniform time preference — revealing that collectors and traders applying divergent discount rates to identical assets creates a &amp;lsquo;collector&amp;rsquo;s discount&amp;rsquo; that approaches zero or even goes negative at long holding horizons.</description></item><item><title>The Vintage Coin Maturity Curve: How Holding Duration Predicts Price Appreciation Across BTC, LTC, and DOGE</title><link>https://timeb.news/posts/vintage-coin-maturity-curve/</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://timeb.news/posts/vintage-coin-maturity-curve/</guid><description>An empirical analysis of how holding duration creates a predictable maturity curve for vintage coins across BTC, LTC, and DOGE, revealing that the marginal value of each additional year of HODLing follows a power-law decay function — with important implications for vintage asset valuation.</description></item><item><title>The Block Time Variance Paradox: Why Faster Chains Weaken Time Scarcity</title><link>https://timeb.news/posts/block-time-variance-paradox/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://timeb.news/posts/block-time-variance-paradox/</guid><description>An analysis of how block time variance — not just block speed — determines the time-scarcity properties of different blockchains, revealing why Bitcoin&amp;rsquo;s &amp;lsquo;slow&amp;rsquo; but reliable cadence may paradoxically create superior vintage coin storage compared to faster but more variable chains.</description></item></channel></rss>