2/ Decred launched into a developed 2016 GPU mining industry where it was dual mined by Ethereum miners.
A study following PoW mined coins supports anecdotal evidence that GPU miners dumped en mass 80% of their DCR.
Chart shows % of DCR income sold (solid) or hodled (dashed)
3/ Conversely, ASIC miners have invested around 25-30% into tickets. This trend has stabilised (yellow lines) showing that Decred miners have serious skin in the game.
That said, profitability has been challenging to obtain and as the next tweets show, few managed to break even.
There are so many bottom formation + undervaluation fractals at play for #Decred.
This thread covers some of the highest conviction on-chain metrics and the impressive alignment of direction.
Generational confluence on-chain.
Strap in 👇 1/
Miners: As covered in my last research paper, PoW $DCR miners have endured challenging conditions.
With unforgeable costs, PoW miners are known to 'Put the Bottom in'.
The cumulative PoW reward paid (USD) has entered a generational low fractal alongside difficulty squeeze. 2/
The Puell Multiple measures the current USD PoW income against the yearly rolling average.
Miners are long term thinkers and when incomes are challenged, the weak switch off their mining rigs and the reward coins are distributed to the strong.
2/ I establish fundamental reasons why I have studied #Decred further as a contractor as well as explain the similarities and differences between monetary policies.
I conclude that in the realm of digital, immutable, sound money, both #Bitcoin and #Decred are best in class.
3/ Undertaking regression analyses for $DCR, $BTC and $LTC over multiple timescales, I present stock-to-flow models for all three assets.
#Bitcoin continues to impress, R2 = 0.90 #Bitcoin at age 3.67 has R2 = 0.66 #Decred at age 3.67 has R2 = 0.70 #Litecoin no valid fit R2<0.5
1/ I am studying #Decred in the context of #Bitcoin in the early days.
I aim to assess the following:
- Compare $DCR and $BTC supply characteristics
- Performance of #DCR compared to young #BTC
- Decred unforgeable costliness
- Mathematical rigor for $DCR S2F model
Prelim ideas
2/ #Decred launched in Aug 2016 (~ BTC block 33600).
Given similar supply curve, I have offset $DCR performance by 33,600 BTC blocks and plotted as if #Decred launched side by side with #Bitcoin.
Unsurprisingly, #Decred behaves much like a 'smooth' #Bitcoin without halvings.
3/ Plan B established the invaluable and statistically valid S2F model for $BTC.
Key difference between scarcity of $DCR and $BTC is #Bitcoin immaculate conception, time alive (network effect) and block reward distribution.
21Million, predefined schedule and S2F path are equal.