{
  "meta": {
    "schema": "plain-language-labels-v1",
    "generated_at": "2026-07-25",
    "revision": "r2 — operator reordering + 2 title changes + 1 relabel + 2 Valuation additions (2026-07-25)",
    "status": "RATIFIED 2026-07-25 — 7 chain names + 39 node labels + per-chain sequence LOCKED (incl. MAC-EXIT-001 accepted at position 7). The 2 Valuation additions (FLOW-TO-STOCK card, valuation slider) are locked in placement; the FLOW-TO-STOCK card COPY remains operator-voice-pass-pending.",
    "authority": "7 chain names ratified 2026-07-25 ('those names are perfect'); 2 chain names amended in r2 (Bitcoin's Limit + The Second Bitcoin). Node labels are plain-language translations of each registered publicQuestion; per-chain SEQUENCE is operator-directed presentation order.",
    "law": "chains[].sequence is PRESENTATION order for the navigator + chain reading list — NOT causal order. The DAG's edges, layers, gates, states, and node lanes are unchanged (survey df4abafa…). No methodology change. Items: a bare claimId, or {card} (a new authored framework panel), or {tool} (an existing interactive).",
    "tiers": "foreground = plain label · midground = publicQuestion (on focus) · background = claimId + receipts (key N)"
  },
  "chains": [
    {
      "gate": "Macro Migration", "name": "Are people leaving state money?", "ratified": true, "room": "ROOM-02-EXIT",
      "sequence": ["MAC-STAY-005","MAC-STAY-001","MAC-STAY-002","MAC-STAY-003","MAC-STAY-004","MAC-COHORT-001","MAC-EXIT-001","MAC-EXIT-002","MAC-EXIT-003","MAC-MIG-001","MAC-EXIT-004"]
    },
    {
      "gate": "Bitcoin’s Limit", "name": "Why Bitcoin gets too expensive to use — for some", "ratified": "amended-r2", "room": "ROOM-04-CASE-BTCLTC",
      "sequence": ["BTC-LIM-001","BTC-LIM-004","BTC-LIM-005","BTC-LIM-003","BTC-LIM-002"]
    },
    {
      "gate": "The Second Bitcoin", "name": "Does Litecoin absorb migration from Bitcoin?", "ratified": "amended-r2", "room": "ROOM-04-CASE-BTCLTC",
      "sequence": ["LTC-TRIAL-001","LTC-BAND-001","LTC-RET-001","LTC-CORR-001","LTC-CTRL-001","LTC-COORD-001","LTC-FLY-001","LTC-SECOND-001"]
    },
    {
      "gate": "Settlement Quality", "name": "Is real money actually moving?", "ratified": true, "room": "ROOM-05-SETTLEMENT",
      "sequence": ["SET-NOISE-001","SET-TAIL-001","SET-LEAD-001","SET-MON-001","SET-BOUNDS-001","SET-CORR-001"]
    },
    {
      "gate": "Valuation", "name": "What would it be worth?", "ratified": true, "room": "ROOM-05-SETTLEMENT",
      "sequence": [ {"card": "FLOW-TO-STOCK"}, "VAL-FLOW-001","VAL-HOLD-001","VAL-PROB-001","VAL-RECLASS-001", {"tool": "OBJ-VALUATION-HYPOTHETICAL"} ]
    },
    {
      "gate": "Regime Legibility", "name": "Is the world starting to notice?", "ratified": true, "room": "ROOM-06-RECOGNITION",
      "sequence": ["REG-PRICE-001","REG-LANG-001","REG-LEG-001","REG-ORDER-001"]
    },
    {
      "gate": "Core Model", "name": "The verdict", "ratified": true, "room": "ROOM-01-CONTROL",
      "sequence": ["TSB-CORE-001"]
    }
  ],
  "nodes": {
    "MAC-STAY-005":   { "label": "Is staying getting more expensive?" },
    "MAC-STAY-001":   { "label": "How much government/public debt is there?" },
    "MAC-STAY-002":   { "label": "Is the bill coming due?" },
    "MAC-STAY-003":   { "label": "How does the bill reach people?" },
    "MAC-STAY-004":   { "label": "Is access getting more conditional?" },
    "MAC-COHORT-001": { "label": "Who moves first?" },
    "MAC-EXIT-001":   { "label": "Can people work independently yet?" },
    "MAC-EXIT-002":   { "label": "Is work becoming portable?" },
    "MAC-EXIT-003":   { "label": "Is self-settlement getting easier?" },
    "MAC-MIG-001":    { "label": "Have people actually started leaving?" },
    "MAC-EXIT-004":   { "label": "Is leaving becoming routine?" },

    "BTC-LIM-001": { "label": "Can Bitcoin hold everyone at once?" },
    "BTC-LIM-004": { "label": "Do layers fix it or just move the cost?" },
    "BTC-LIM-005": { "label": "What do people do when it's too costly?" },
    "BTC-LIM-003": { "label": "Who gets priced out first?" },
    "BTC-LIM-002": { "label": "A spike, or a lasting squeeze?" },

    "LTC-TRIAL-001":  { "label": "Do fee spikes send people to Litecoin?" },
    "LTC-BAND-001":   { "label": "Is the moved money real?" },
    "LTC-RET-001":    { "label": "Does trial become a habit?" },
    "LTC-CORR-001":   { "label": "Does outside data back it up?" },
    "LTC-CTRL-001":   { "label": "Litecoin specifically, or the whole market?" },
    "LTC-COORD-001":  { "label": "Are users coordinating on it?" },
    "LTC-FLY-001":    { "label": "Is each move making the next easier?" },
    "LTC-SECOND-001": { "label": "Has Litecoin become the second Bitcoin?" },

    "SET-NOISE-001":  { "label": "Is the increase just noise?" },
    "SET-TAIL-001":   { "label": "Are a few big players faking the trend?" },
    "SET-LEAD-001":   { "label": "Is behavior moving before the story?" },
    "SET-MON-001":    { "label": "Is real usage rising and holding?" },
    "SET-BOUNDS-001": { "label": "How much can we honestly claim?" },
    "SET-CORR-001":   { "label": "Do independent sources agree?" },

    "VAL-FLOW-001":    { "label": "What has to be true for this value?" },
    "VAL-HOLD-001":    { "label": "Is it held, not just passed through?" },
    "VAL-PROB-001":    { "label": "Which way did the odds move?" },
    "VAL-RECLASS-001": { "label": "Did behavior change, or just the price?" },

    "REG-PRICE-001": { "label": "Is price catching up to reality?" },
    "REG-LANG-001":  { "label": "Is the language catching up?" },
    "REG-LEG-001":   { "label": "Is everyone seeing the same thing?" },
    "REG-ORDER-001": { "label": "Is it unfolding in the right order?" },

    "TSB-CORE-001": { "label": "Has the Second Bitcoin arrived?" }
  },
  "cards": {
    "FLOW-TO-STOCK": {
      "type": "card",
      "title": "Flow to Stock, Not Stock to Flow",
      "eyebrow": "FRAMEWORK · NOT MEASURED",
      "status": "DRAFT — operator voice pass pending",
      "placement": "opens the Valuation chain",
      "lede": "A money is worth what its settlement is worth. People who need permissionless settlement route to whoever clears it at the lowest cost — and that flow of settlement is capitalized into the value people hold. Flow becomes stock, not the other way around. Supply does not set the price; demand does. So the question is never how many coins exist — it is how much real settlement flows through, and how much of it stays held.",
      "diagram": "SETTLEMENT FLOW (demand · lowest cost) → capitalized → MONETARY STOCK (what is held); statute: demand sets the price, not supply."
    }
  },
  "tools": {
    "OBJ-VALUATION-HYPOTHETICAL": {
      "type": "tool",
      "label": "The valuation slider",
      "placement": "closes the Valuation chain",
      "note": "Existing interactive (settlement flow × holding period → monetary base). The 'settlement and velocity slider' — a play-with-it demonstration of the flow-to-stock model. Renders under the ILLUSTRATIVE · NOT A REGISTERED READING eyebrow; numbers are illustrative, never a live reading."
    }
  }
}