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Twenty One Capital (XXI): The Bitcoin Treasury, the mNAV Problem, and What Comes Next
Twenty One Capital holds 43,514 bitcoin and trades at either a 41% discount or a 26% premium, depending on who is counting. Where the company came from, how its engine works, and why mNAV needs four labels.
The 200-Week Moving Average and Young Coins: Why the Obvious Fix Backfires
Young coins without 200 weeks of history skip the 200-week filter automatically. We tested the obvious fix across 207 coins — it made everything worse.
Bitcoin's Liquidity Fair Value: Why the Model Fails the Test
The Bitcoin liquidity fair value chart shows R²=0.85 — and claims BTC is "348% above fair value". We ran the cointegration test. It fails.
DCA vs. Lump Sum: What 346 Bitcoin Entries Actually Show
DCA vs. lump sum for Bitcoin? Across 346 historical entries the lump sum won 60 % of the time — but DCA halved the downside. The distribution instead of an opinion.
Oracle Manipulation in DeFi: What Happens When a Protocol Trusts Bad Data
Oracle manipulation drained millions from Ostium — not through a contract bug, but through bad data. The failure modes when DeFi protocols trust their price feeds.
When Simulations Lie: What Persi Diaconis Actually Said About Convergence and Proof
Persi Diaconis shows a simulation can run for thousands of hours, look stable, and still be wrong. What he actually said about convergence and proof.
Consensus Is Not an Edge: Why a Quorum of Correlated Simulations Isn't One
An AI swarm turned $1,000 into nearly a million? The number falls apart at its own source. Why consensus from correlated simulations is not an edge.
Look-Ahead Bias in Macro Data: Why We Rebuilt Our Regime History
Look-ahead bias corrupts backtests when macro data is revised after the fact. Why we rebuilt our regime history to be strictly point-in-time — and proved it.
Bitcoin Yield: Where It Comes From — and What You Sell for It
Bitcoin has no native yield. Every advertised BTC yield is a sold option, a loan, or a token emission. And with the income ETFs, the window decides whether the answer flatters or destroys.
Market Data Licensing: How Price Data Is Licensed — and Why We're Switching Off Four Asset Classes
Market data licensing is tiered, and the decisive line runs between derived values and raw prices. What that costs — and why we're switching off four asset classes for now.
The Gap Tax: Your Daily Backtest Fills at a Price You Can't Trade — How Big Is the Error Really?
Daily backtests compute the signal from the close and fill at that same close — a price you can no longer trade. We recomputed 7,000+ trades twice (close fill vs. next open) to size the distortion. Result: smaller than the myth.
A Backtest With a 100% Win Rate: We're Testing It — Rules Set Before We Compute
A backtest claiming a 100% win rate and 34 million percent returns is circulating. We're rebuilding it — and setting the rules before we compute.
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