https://timeb.news/tags/bitcoin/Recent content in Bitcoin on TimeB.news – Time Economics & Scarcity TheoryHugoenSat, 06 Jun 2026 00:30:00 +0000https://timeb.news/posts/vintage-coin-maturity-curve/Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:30:00 +0000https://timeb.news/posts/vintage-coin-maturity-curve/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.https://timeb.news/posts/b%C3%B6hm-bawerks-three-reasons-why-vintage-coins-defy-classical-time-preference-theory/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000https://timeb.news/posts/b%C3%B6hm-bawerks-three-reasons-why-vintage-coins-defy-classical-time-preference-theory/Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk’s three reasons why present goods command a premium over future goods — the want-provision discrepancy, systematic underestimation of future wants, and the technical superiority of present goods — provide an unexpected framework for understanding the $100,000 vintage Bitcoin premium. This article tests each reason against on-chain data.https://timeb.news/posts/cross-chain-time-preference-gradient/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:00:00 +0000https://timeb.news/posts/cross-chain-time-preference-gradient/Different blockchains exhibit radically different time preference gradients — the tendency of holders to hold versus trade. This article compares BTC, LTC, and DOGE, showing how each chain’s monetary policy creates a distinct time valuation profile, from Bitcoin’s steep long-term holding gradient to Dogecoin’s high-velocity flat curve.https://timeb.news/posts/block-height-as-the-universal-time-index-why-provenance-in-crypto-is-measured-by-blocks-not-clocks/Fri, 29 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000https://timeb.news/posts/block-height-as-the-universal-time-index-why-provenance-in-crypto-is-measured-by-blocks-not-clocks/Block height is the most precise, immutable, and cross-chain-comparable measure of time in the crypto universe. Unlike wall-clock timestamps — subject to timezone ambiguity, clock drift, and manipulation — block height offers a mathematically monotonically increasing index that converts directly to economic time.https://timeb.news/posts/the-fisher-time-discount-why-vintage-coins-defy-classical-interest-theory/Wed, 27 May 2026 02:00:00 +0000https://timeb.news/posts/the-fisher-time-discount-why-vintage-coins-defy-classical-interest-theory/Irving Fisher’s 1930 theory of interest posited that all assets carry a time-discount rate (δ) reflecting human impatience. But vintage crypto coins — held across 10+ year horizons — exhibit a phenomenon Fisher never anticipated: the long-term holder paradox, where returns escalate with holding period instead of decaying.https://timeb.news/posts/when-time-value-of-money-fails-why-classical-tvm-models-cannot-price-vintage-crypto-assets/Wed, 27 May 2026 02:00:00 +0000https://timeb.news/posts/when-time-value-of-money-fails-why-classical-tvm-models-cannot-price-vintage-crypto-assets/The Time Value of Money (TVM) — the cornerstone of corporate finance, bond pricing, and insurance — assumes that a dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow. For vintage crypto assets, the opposite holds: a coin from 2010 is worth dramatically more than a coin from 2025, challenging 500 years of financial theory.https://timeb.news/posts/time-preference-theory-how-hodling-became-the-ultimate-crypto-time-discount-arbitrage/Tue, 26 May 2026 02:00:00 +0000https://timeb.news/posts/time-preference-theory-how-hodling-became-the-ultimate-crypto-time-discount-arbitrage/Time preference theory — the economist’s framework for why people discount the future — finds its purest expression in crypto HODLing. By examining HODL waves, coin days destroyed, and the realized cap HODL ratio, this article shows that vintage coins are not merely scarce but have paid the highest time tax in financial history.