The Halving Machine
Two machines that halve themselves. Bitcoin cuts its new supply in half roughly every four years — the ritual that makes it scarce. DOM copies the idea on a faster clock: seven epochs, each half the last, down to a whisper. Both are counting down, live.
The four-year ritual
The seven-epoch echo
Why a machine halves itself
Most money is printed at the discretion of people. Bitcoin took the discretion away: the reward for mining a block is cut in half on a fixed schedule, written into the software and enforced by everyone running it. Fifty coins a block became twenty-five, then 12.5, then 6.25 — and no committee can vote to change it. Scarcity by arithmetic, not promise.
DOM borrows the same discipline. New DOM is mined by staking, and the flow halves every epoch across seven steps — the same shrinking curve, on a faster clock. It's an homage in code: a small machine that copies the big one's most important habit. You can watch both counters fall above.
The DOM halving and ecosystem live on domburns.xyz. Historical and educational — not financial advice.