Gravitational Economics: A Field Theory of Subjective Time Preference in a Monetarily Curved Spacetime

Part I: Introduction and theoretical foundation

1. Introduction: Why a new theory?

There are moments in history when a new paradigm of thought not only replaces an existing theory, but restructures the entire space of inquiry. One such moment was in 1915, when Albert Einstein presented his General Theory of Relativity (GTR) to the world. What had previously been understood as a "force"—gravity—turned out to be a property of spacetime itself. Forces no longer acted between bodies; instead, masses curved the structure within which movement actually occurs.

Today, over a century later, economics is facing a comparable break with its linear past. The transition from fiat money to Bitcoin is more than a technological advance. It is a paradigm shift —a structural reorganization of our understanding of time, value, trust, and action.

Gravitational economics is an attempt to describe this change. It is not an ideology, but a framework of thought: a coordinate system that allows us to understand economic decisions not merely as reactions to incentives, but as movements in the subjectively curved space of meaning. Just as Einstein liberated space-time from Newton, gravitational economics liberates economic thought from the flatness of the linear understanding of time.

2. Mises meets Einstein – the origin of the thinking space

Ludwig von Mises, the father of the praxeological method, describes humans as "acting beings"—as subjects who make decisions to bring about a preferred future. Yet, in keeping with his century, Mises remained stuck in a rather static coordinate system. Action occurred within time—but time itself remained an external, given axis.

What happens when we leave this framework? When we no longer understand time as a neutral stage, but as a space of experience curved by the subject itself? Then every action becomes a geodesic —a path through an individually curved field of subjective meaning. The Austrian School and the theory of relativity resonate:

Action is not only intentional – it is spatiotemporal.

Economic decisions are not simply utility maximization. They are vectors in a personal continuum of meaning that curves with time preference—and thus functions structurally in exactly the same way as spacetime in general relativity.

3. Time preference as a gravitational vector

Time preference—the ratio by which a subject prioritizes the present over the future—is the central concept of gravity economics. In classical economics, it is a psychological parameter: people prefer goods available today over those in the future. But this view remains superficial.

In gravitational economics, time preference is a curvature vector.

The more someone prioritizes the present over the future, the more strongly the center of mass of the "now" attracts their decisions – like a black hole attracts light. On the other hand, those with a low time preference direct their actions along a broad geodesic path – a path that enables long-term orientation, savings, and planning.

This curvature is not a metaphor – it is structurally isomorphic to the general theory of relativity (GRT):

• In physics: mass curves spacetime.
• In gravity economics: Future preference curbs scope for action.

This gives rise to a new perspective: time preference is not merely an individual attitude, but the main factor determining the shape of subjective economic space-time .

4. Capital as mass, trust as energy

In Einstein's theory, mass bends space. In its economic counterpart, capital bends the space of action. Capital is a stored future—an expression of a low-valued present. Those who save, invest, and think long-term create economic mass —a condensation in subjective space-time.

Capital attracts action. It changes the structure of possibilities. It creates gravity—not as a constraint, but as a field. Others orient themselves toward it, attracted by its long-term stability.

But mass alone isn't enough. It only moves with energy—and in gravitational economics, that energy is trust .

Trust is the thermodynamic medium of the economic field.

It allows for flow, interaction, and action. Without trust, there are no contracts, no planning, and no trade. Trust is the energy that makes the masses work. And this is the reason why inflationary systems (fiat) are bound to fail: They destroy trust through structural uncertainty. The energy dissipates, and the field disintegrates.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, generates energy through stability. It creates trust not through appeal, but through immutability. In the language of physics: a stationary solution to the system of action equations.

5. Homo gravificus: The economic subject as a curvature agent

Gravitational economics brings about a new image of humanity. Humans are no longer the rational, calculating homo economicus — but rather homo gravificus : a subject who bends their own spacetime with every decision.

Every act of saving, every postponement of consumption, every conscious decision for the future creates a local gravitational field—a compression in the space of meaning that influences action. This curvature is not a product of chance—it is an expression of free will.

Man becomes the agent of his own time structure.

This idea leads to a surprising consequence: meaning has mass.
The more meaningful an economic symbol (e.g., Bitcoin) is in the subjective consciousness, the more mass it has in the cognitive field—and the more it bends its timeline.

Action, understood in this way, is not merely a reaction, but a resonance. Those who save in Bitcoin change their time preferences. Those who think long-term help structure their environment. Economic behavior is the expresion of gravitational economic feedback.

Conclusion Part I: The Curvature of the Will

We have laid the foundation for a new coordinate system of economic thinking.

• Time preference is not a mere parameter – it is curvature.
• Capital is not a number – it is mass.
• Trust is not an emotion – it is energy in the action system.
• Action is not a mere will – but a geodesic in the subjective field of meaning.

Gravitational economics begins where classical economics ends: with the realization that humans are not objects in the system, but designers of their own space-time .

Part II: The economic field model – Bitcoin as a singularity

6. Bitcoin as an economic fixed point

In general relativity, the speed of light represents the absolute limit of all physical processes—a universal fixed point around which space and time organize themselves. In gravitational economics, Bitcoin fulfills a similar role: It is the fixed point of monetary spacetime —immutable, limited, and unmanipulable.

Its scarcity (21 million) is not a coincidence, but a metaphysical constant. It allows, for the first time, a synchronization of individual time structures with a collective, non-negotiable metric . Bitcoin is not simply money—it is a kind of clock for action, a coordinate system of economic time.

Those who align themselves with Bitcoin change their time preference – not through conviction, but through structural resonance.

Just as an object in a gravitational field cannot help but bend its trajectory, a Bitcoiner begins to think in decades, plans for the long term, and saves instead of consume. The monetary system itself alters subjective spacetime.

7. Hyperbitcoinization as gravitational collapse

In cosmology, gravitational collapse occurs when a massive object collapses under its own gravity—creating a black hole. Hyperbitcoinization also follows this dynamic: As soon as enough mass (capital) and energy (trust) are tied up in Bitcoin, the fiat system collapses— not by force, but by weight of significance.

Fiat loses its function because it no longer generates gravity. The course of action of the actors is reversed: abstinence from consumption replaces debt, long-term stability replaces short-term liquidity.

The world is not being revolutionized – it is being redirected.

This process is not linear, but nonlinear-resonant : The more people synchronize, the more the field bends—to the point of irreversibility. System change is not an act of power, but a field change.

8. The economy as an information field

Classical economics considers prices, goods, and transactions. Gravitational economics, however, considers structure, trust, and information flows. Markets are not places, but semantic fields —interferences of subjective expectations, evaluations, and actions.

In this context, every monetary system is also an information system. But fiat devalues information:

• Inflation makes prices meaningless.
• Arbitrary central bank policy distorts signaling structures.
• Trust is replaced by coercion and regulation.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, purifies information:

• Every block is truth – verifiable, irrefutable.
• Every Satoshi has a provenance – transparent, scarce.
• Each participant is autonomous – but embedded in a global, gravitational field.

Just as the speed of light defines the maximum propagation speed of information in physics, Bitcoin establishes an economic speed of light:

Not how quickly a value is transferred, but how reliably .

9. The double emergence: Neural and monetary self-organization

Bitcoin is not just a technical innovation — it is an emergent system. Its structure resembles the human brain:

• Decentralized nodes = neurons
• Consensus = collective coherence
• Proof of Work = energetic reality assurance
• Mining = Reward through Effort

And just as the neocortex evolves to adapt to increasing complexity, Bitcoin adapts to the increasing demands for trust and structure. It is neurocompatible —it allows the brain to develop coherent models of the future without permanently devaluing semantic reality.

The fiat system destabilizes neural time coherence – Bitcoin stabilizes it.

This feedback loop—between internal time structure (brain, will) and external time structure (money, trust)—is the locus of gravitational economics. It operates here: in the synchronization of internal and external, of action and spacetime, of meaning and scarcity.

Conclusion Part II: The field is moving

In this section, we have considered Bitcoin not as a product, but as a structure:

• As a fixed point in a chaotic monetary universe.
• As a singularity that condenses trust.
• As an information field that is thermodynamically stable.
• As a neural resonance structure that enables long-term thinking.

Hyperbitcoinization isn't an event. It's a curvature.
It's what happens when enough mass points to one point—and everything else becomes noise.

Part III: Cosmology of Meaning and Outlook - Humans as Curvature Agents in Semantic Hyperspace

10. Meaning is mass, action is geodesic

Relativity theory shows that mass curves spacetime. Gravitational economics adds:

Meaning bends subjective time.

The more a symbol or concept is charged with meanin— be it money, language, trust, or the future—the more "mass" it has in semantic space. The consequence: the subject's timeline is influenced by this meaning. Decisions are shaped — not by coercion, but by semantic gravity.

An investment in Bitcoin is therefore not only financially relevant – it is an action along a semantic geodesic : a vector that is aligned with the future because it is felt in the now.

The economic subject is thus not a stimulus-response pattern. It is a navigator through curved meaning —it follows the density of its self-chosen meaning.

11. Bitcoin as the syntax of a new economy

What fiat destroys isn't just purchasing power - it destroys the language of the time. Prices are manipulated, trust is replaced by control, and investment becomes speculation. The grammar of economic action is disintegrating.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, provides a new syntax:

• A grammar of scarcity, trust and long-term coherence.
• No inflationary noise, but stable semantic rhythm.
• No arbitrariness, but algorithmic clarity.

In this sense, Bitcoin is not merely monetary, but linguistically realistic:

It allows us to communicate with time – precisely, credibly, globally.

Bitcoin synchronizes action with a constant set of rules. Those who join become part of a system that enables a meaningfully stable future . Consumption is replaced by investment, speculation by responsibility, and the short term by emergence.

12. The new Homo economicus

The classic economic concept of humanity—the rational utility maximizer — is too flat for a curved reality. Gravitational economics creates a new subject:
Homo Gravificus , or semantic resonance body .

This person:

• does not think in linear benefit curves, but in frequency patterns.
• does not seek maximization, but synchronization with systems that respect its time structure.
• acts not only on the basis of incentives, but also on the basis of semantic gravity.

He is not a consumer, but a navigator in a field with meaning .
Fiat throws him off track – Bitcoin brings him into resonance.

The goal is not prosperity – but time-coherent self-realization.

13. Hodln as a geodesic of meaning: Time warping through non-action

In a world of hyperconsumption, hodling – simply not spending Bitcoin – is already a revolutionary act. But within the gravity economy, it is much more:

Hodling is the economic analogue of the geodesic in curved space – it is action through structural invariance.

Just as light travels along a geodesic in a vacuum without losing energy, so the Hodler follows his plot through time—not through action, but through patience, discipline, and trust . His capital remains untouched, his time preference diminishes. The future becomes present, but not consumed—it is incubated .

Hodling as temporal invariance

In fiat systems, money is devalued; action is rewarded, patience punished. Time loses its meaning because it no longer has a direction.
Hodling, on the other hand, is a time-direction decision : The hodler chooses to respect the natural flow of time and live in a synchronous rhythm with the spacetime of the Bitcoin protocol.

That means:

• Each block is beat.
• Each Satoshi is a stored “not-now.”
• Every renunciation of consumption is an active curvature of one's own path of action towards the future.

The hodler thus becomes an agent of spacetime curvature through trust – he acts not through intervention, but through steadfastness.

“Hodl is the act of free will in the resonance field of maximum discipline.”

Hodling as thermodynamic feedback

In physics, there's the concept of entropy—the tendency of a system to fall into disorder. Inflation is economic entropy: it destroys the structure of savings, planning, and the future.

Hodling counteracts this. It stores energy—not through movement, but through stable structure . The hodler avoids short-term discharge. He stores meaning—semantic density—in the temporal field.

Hodling is therefore not inertia, but thermodynamic feedback:

• It reduces the entropy of action.
• It strengthens the metric of spacetime.
• It creates local order – first subjective, then collective.

Hodling as a metaphysical decision

In a world that values the present moment above all else, Hodln is a commitment to a different logic of time – a time that does not pass linearly, but charges itself, like a physical field.

Hodling is:

• Confidence in the future
• Discipline towards one's own possessions
• Synchronization with an objective monetary order

Hodl thus becomes a ritualized act of a new ethic. An ethic based not on external norms, but on the coherent unfolding of one's own temporal structure.

Bitcoin provides the field – hodling is the way through this field.

Hodl as an emergent curvature force

When many hodlers trade—or rather, don't trade —a collective structure emerges: a macroscopic gravitational field of economic coherence. The price becomes stable, trust increases, and the system structures itself from within.

Hodln is therefore also a collective field formation process :

• Every Hodler creates a mini-black hole of subjective future
• Many hodlers create a macroeconomic center of gravity
• The price does not follow speculation – but economic density

In this sense, hodling is not a delay of action , but its condensation in the temporal field – a semantic crystallization center in the noise of the fiat world.

Hodling as geometry of freedom

In conclusion: Hodl is not a technique, but a form of freedom.
It is proof that action doesn't have to mean consumption, that economics doesn't have to be reactive, that time is not a means to an end — but rather space for development.

The hodler lives in a different world model:

• Not in the now, but in the continuum
• Not in greed, but in gravity
• Not in flight, but in resonance with the truth

Hodling is gravity through trust.

It's waiting for the future—not out of passivity, but because you 've already sensed it .

14. Conclusion: From Einstein to Satoshi – the new coordinate system

Einstein showed that gravity is not a force, but geometry.
Satoshi showed that trust doesn't require an institution, but code.

Gravitational economics is the bridge between these two insights:

• It describes economic action as movement in the subjectively curved space of time.
• It recognizes capital as mass, trust as energy, Bitcoin as the metric.
• It replaces linear market mechanics with field-theoretical emergence.

In this context, Bitcoin is not simply money , but the first semantic fixed object of a new economic space-time.

And us?
We are not spectators, but designers — curvature agents in the hyperspace of meaning with the final state of hyperbitcoinization.

Outlook: A new order of time

If the fiat system can be understood as an attempt to manipulate time, then Bitcoin is the connection to the structure of reality.

Bitcoin resonates with finiteness —not through dogma, but through truth.
It is the first human-made gravitational unit that generates not only mass (value) but also structure (trust).

Gravitational economics not only describes this effect – it integrates it:

• in neural time models,
• in economic fields,
• in action theory,
• into metaphysical perspectives on trust and value.

It is a tool for transition—
from a world of inflation to a world of gravity.
From short-term maximization to long-term resonance.

Conclusion: The emergence of a new geometry

Truth is that which sustains itself.
Emergence is that which organizes itself.

Gravitational economics wasn't planned—it was discovered .
Not invented, but discovered through thought.

It shows us not only what Bitcoin is – but what we can be:
subjects and navigators in a spacetime governed not by external forces, but by the interior of our own time preference.

Bitcoin is not an answer.
It is a gravitational field.

And we are its geodesists.

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