Personal Edition

Free Reference Implementation of Progressive Depletion Minting

The Personal Edition is provided as a free illustrative reference implementation of the Progressive Depletion Minting (PDM) mechanism. It is available at no cost for personal use, education, research, and for nonprofit community and charity projects serving fewer than 10,000 users as determined by good faith assessment.

Anyone can download it, run it, and observe how PDM behaves under simulated or user-defined conditions on their own machine. No licence fee. No registration. No permission required.

Why It Is Free

Progressive Depletion Minting was designed to serve long term stability and public benefit. Making the reference implementation freely available ensures that the mechanism can be evaluated, tested, and explored by the widest possible audience prior to institutional evaluation.

The more individuals, communities, and nonprofit organisations that implement PDM, the stronger the evidence base becomes and the clearer the case for institutional adoption.

What It Does

The Personal Edition runs a local instance of the PDM control mechanism. It monitors a configurable resource pool, applies the core PDM logic (conditional minting, automatic depletion, and progressive resistance), and produces a full audit trail of every step.

The system includes a local web dashboard for visual monitoring, three telemetry input modes (manual entry, CSV import, and webhook integration), and persistent state with a chained cryptographic audit trail.

Users can configure their own pool parameters, observe how the mechanism responds to different inputs over time, and export the complete step history for independent analysis.

Who It Is For

The Personal Edition is free for:

Individuals using it for personal learning, research, or experimentation
Nonprofit organisations, community projects, and charities with fewer than 10,000 users as determined by good faith assessment
Researchers and academics evaluating mechanism design
Engineers and system architects exploring adaptive control models
Students learning about rule-based issuance and depletion dynamics
Policy thinkers and institutional analysts assessing conceptual feasibility

Commercial use, production deployment at scale, or integration into revenue-generating systems requires a separate written licence.

What It Is Not

The Personal Edition is not a production deployment, a certified implementation, or a commercial product. It does not create money, set prices, or intermediate transactions. It operates solely as a local, auditable system control mechanism.

The Personal Edition is provided as a reference implementation for educational and exploratory purposes and is not intended for operational or production decision making. It should not be relied upon for operational, financial, or policy decisions.

Use of the Personal Edition does not confer certification status, compliance claims, or authorised implementation rights.

Technical Overview

The implementation is written in Go and runs as a lightweight local server. Configuration is managed through a single YAML file. The core mechanism executes once daily at a scheduled time and logs every step to both CSV and JSON formats.

Full source code is provided for inspection. The repository includes a comprehensive setup guide, API documentation, common use cases, and a simplified explanation of the underlying mechanism.

Licensing and Patent Notice

The Personal Edition is released under the PDM Personal Edition License. Use is free for personal, educational, research, and qualifying nonprofit purposes as described above.

The software is provided without warranties or guarantees of performance.

Progressive Depletion Minting includes mechanisms subject to granted patent protection and pending patent applications where applicable. The Personal Edition licence does not grant any rights under patent law. Implementation of patented methods without appropriate authorisation may constitute infringement regardless of software licence status.