https://timeb.news/tags/blockchain-timestamps/Recent content in Blockchain Timestamps on TimeB.news – Time Economics & Scarcity TheoryHugoenWed, 27 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000https://timeb.news/posts/why-blockchain-timestamps-create-a-new-class-of-economic-goods/Wed, 27 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000https://timeb.news/posts/why-blockchain-timestamps-create-a-new-class-of-economic-goods/<h2 id="introduction-a-new-category-of-good">Introduction: A New Category of Good</h2> <p>Economics classifies goods along several axes: rivalrous vs. non-rivalrous, excludable vs. non-excludable, durable vs. perishable. Digital goods have traditionally been classified as non-rivalrous (one person&rsquo;s use doesn&rsquo;t diminish another&rsquo;s) and often non-excludable (easy to copy).</p> <p>Blockchain timestamps fundamentally alter this classification. A bitcoin, an NFT, or any token with a verifiable creation timestamp is <strong>not</strong> a standard digital good. It is something new — a <strong>timestamped digital good</strong> — with economic properties that existing categories fail to capture.</p>