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Release notes and changelog for thesis versions, substantive revisions, citation metadata, and companion materials.
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v3.2: the propagation pass
A second whole-thesis review found that v3.1 had applied every earlier finding at its site and left the document's summaries and definitions where they were. v3.2 brings them into line with the body, supplies the two tables the text had promised, and adds rows for the three link-9 instruments to the instrument table. No threshold moved, no red line relaxed, no mechanism added.
Peer review of v3.1 — what v3.2 fixes
A fresh whole-thesis read of the v3.1 source: v3.1 applied every earlier finding and did not propagate; the body stood at v3.1 while the summaries and definitions stood at v2.x. Three Critical, about twenty-five Major, all mechanical. Published verbatim; v3.2 is its remediation.
v3.1: the peer-review remediation pass, keyed citations, and Kardashev Labs
Forty-nine findings from an external review applied; every red line re-specified so that it can be failed; [Author Year] keys throughout; a proposed build-and-measure institution with its own kill conditions. Brief v3.1 and essay v1.3 ship alongside.
Peer review of v3.0 — the record behind the v3.1 remediation
The full v3.0 review, published verbatim: grades on six criteria, forty-nine line-anchored findings, the verification log, and the P0–P2 fix plan that v3.1 applied. Published so a reader can check the remediation against what it answered.
The essay: a standalone front door for the thesis
A new SA-shaped artifact — the instrument panel framing — plus the trip-wire feed, the operator checklist, and the reference panel spec.
v2.6 — The Perez Pass
No new claims, no thresholds moved. The thesis's macro model was state-based but not clock-aware; it now has a clock — the capital cycle's clearing event — with every use scoped to mechanism and nothing else.
v2.5 — The Prose Pass
No new claims. The argument now reads like itself: red lines get their paragraphs, the conclusion lands on the right last line, and the constructive chapters stop being spec sheets.
v2.4 — The Household-Transmission Pass
New claims, all bounded: the household layer joins the adversary model. From Green's 'The Vibecession Was Real' — adopted for mechanism, quarantined for quantities — the thesis gains the social contract as a failing soft guarantee, the exhaustion gradient on the participation line, the representation discipline on every published aggregate, distributed resilience (R_state ≠ R_household), the nonlinear-break mechanism, and a new objection: a perfect ledger hardens an unequal starting state.
v2.3 — the coherence pass
A full-thesis mathematical and argumentative audit found 125 coherence defects (2 mathematical errors, 26 local incoherences, 28 progression frictions, 25 minor). v2.3 remediates all of them: the two S1 errors, every definitional contradiction introduced or surfaced by v2.2, and the cross-cutting convention conflicts that predated both.
v2.2 — The Instrument-Hardening Pass
No new claims: the two flagship measurement families, VerifyPrice and VerifyFlow, are audited equation-by-equation and hardened at ten defects — an aggregation double-count, a degenerate elasticity ratio, missing measurement contracts, and a conditional identification rule that was published as absolute. Every fix tightens an instrument; none relaxes one.
v2.1 — The McLuhan Pass
A framing layer, not evidence: eight placements siting the thesis's arguments in the media-transition lineage (McLuhan, Eisenstein, Ong, Anderson), each explicitly bounded as mechanism rather than measurement. No new claims, no red line touched.
v2.0 — The Assessment Pass
A systematic adversarial review of the v1.9 text against its own falsifiability standards: five internal contradictions resolved, four analytical gaps given measurement machinery, the legal posture narrowed to what current law supports, and engineering expectations aligned with reality. No red line relaxed, no threshold moved.
v1.9 assessment pass — contradictions resolved, gaps instrumented
A systematic review of the v1.9 thesis fixed five internal contradictions, added a convenience-yield measurement instrument, named the joint failure mode, engaged stablecoins and the utility-token record, and added securities-law analysis. Full edition now 370 pages.
v1.9 — Deliverability, Holders, and Instrument Separation
A narrower monetary claim and a more testable architecture: ten premises, nine links, fifteen red lines, stress-deliverable capacity, a holder-side anchor condition, explicit separation of the duration-neutral base asset from project credit, and an 18-page author-maintained brief.
v1.8 — Duration of the Claim, Duration of the Project
A completeness amendment, not a new architecture. Duration-neutrality of money is kept. What is added is the missing twin: civilization still needs a duration warehouse, Layers 0–6 are not that warehouse, and proofs must not become a coupon. Buyer quality is distinguished from quantity of demand. The reactor objection is stated and answered.
v1.7 — What the Mechanism Does Not Buy
Version 1.7 makes the thesis claim less. Fees, burns, and collateral are conceded to establish a discounted-cash-flow claim and a balance-sheet floor rather than moneyness; the monetary claim is relocated to a state-contingent holder-side service flow the thesis argues and declines to size; Bitcoin's work function is conceded monetarily superior; and two chain-strength self-ratings are demoted. Nothing in the architecture changed — Layers 0–6 are not renumbered and the Value Capture Lemma keeps its five conditions. The PDF build is now 339 pages.
v1.6 — The Collateralized Sovereign Stack
Version 1.6 adds substantive new claims — the opposite of v1.5, which added none. Where v1.4 asked what the physical substrate depends on, v1.6 asks what the incumbent order depends on, and names a dependency the thesis had described but never given a name: the collateralized sovereign stack. A state's effective fiscal capacity now depends on the market value of the asset complexes it regulates, so asset prices, receipts, fiscal room, and Treasury functioning support each other recursively and fail together — the collateral loop. The PDF build is now 305 pages.
v1.5 — The Argument, Made Findable
No new claims. A coherence, cogency, and saliency release: the seven premises now live in the document, the conditional chain is walked in one place with its weakest links named, the objections are grouped thematically, the reference applications are mapped to the red lines they would trip, and the web edition is resynced with the PDF.
v1.4 — Physical Sovereignty, Energy Interdiction, and the Closed Sovereign Stack
Integrates the physical-sovereignty layer into the thesis. Traces the causal chain from sovereign energy policy through to the hinge red line. Adds sovereign optionality (O_s) as a Layer 0 exposure metric, disruption-adjusted VerifyPrice, Red Line 13 (Energy Sovereignty Failure), a new threat class, risk-haircut extensions, and the first large-scale empirical case study.
v1.3 — The Market Realization Plane, VerifyFlow, and value capture vs. price capture
Formalizes the third step in the causal argument: how the native asset is represented, wrapped, levered, and priced in financial markets. Adds a Market-Price Non-Equivalence Corollary, VerifyFlow as a fourth verification family, compositional adversaries, and a formal flow model in Appendix H.
v1.2 — Agency, administrative repression, and the physical/wrapper layer
Adds a ninth Store-of-Value requirement (agency preservation), formalizes administrative repression and the participation line, elevates wrapper co-option into the Wrapper Dominance Ratio, and extends Layer 0 with Facility Capacity Receipts and Physical VerifyPrice.
v1.1 — The Value Capture Lemma and asset-level value capture
Introduces the Value Capture Lemma and the anti-bypass conditions, adds asset-level value capture as an eighth Store-of-Value requirement, extends the red lines from five to eight, and reframes §8 from 'Proofs as Truth Money' to 'Proofs as Attestation Money'.
v1.0.1 — Publication legitimacy layer, visual identity, and press kit
Adds formal citation infrastructure, scholarly identity, visual branding, reference cleanup, and a downloadable press kit.
v1.0 — Initial canonical web edition
First public release of the thesis as a citable web edition and printable PDF.