0/ It has been a hot minute since I let loose my thoughts on #Decred. Combination of taking a break from CT and life throwing lemons.

Enjoyed watching community and stakeholders engage and keep up the discussion

But an on-chain tweet-storm is long overdue!

Seeking Conviction👇
1/ Start with the big picture.

DCR/BTC price has been absolute carnage...

..but we have been here before.

You see Decred is primed to become an oscillator, outperforming BTC in bull markets and underperforming in bears.

The stakeholder block subsidy line is at fractal phase 0
2/ When looking for stakeholder conviction, I use the 142-day metrics. These sample the entire ticket pool and looks as far back as late May.

The Strongest Hand metric.

This shows conviction as measured by DCR volume into tickets.

It oscillates between conviction + uncertainty
3/ The Ticket Funding Rate

This shows the long term risk to reward as judged by DCR stakeholders.

On the 142-day period, a green signal means religious ticket buying

One ticket votes, one fresh ticket gets mined

I know I am one of these people

Mass DCR in a ticket = No Sales
4/ This is further confirmed in Hodler Conversion Rate

This metric looks at relative balance of $DCR moving in regular vs ticket transactions

Over 12 months, we have consistently seen tickets dominate the transaction pool

Symptom of low attention + view of $DCR as undervalued
5/ The 142-day sum of $DCR in tickets is an oscillator which presents the cumulative volume bound to the chain over the period.

These bands form psychological levels and the 50% level has proven to be a long term mean.

Thus we can see where stakeholders ramp up and buy/avoid 🎟️
6/ Finally, we look to the miners.

In my last paper, I estimated that miners stake around 30% of their $DCR.

Despite coin price at local lows, miners are not easing off the pressure.

They are maintaining hashrate ~20% from ATH giving an equilibrium to bull read on Miner Pulse
7/ What I have always loved about on-chain analysis is the way it bakes human psychology into an immutable public ledger.

Each decision, hash, ticket and transaction is expensive and unforgeable.

The data tells me what I need to know.

I believe stakeholders are getting ready.
8/8
This is a coming of age story for #Decred

After years of building hyper-secure, world class, resilient and decentralised technology, v1.6 is getting released.

DCRDEX
CoinShuffle++
Lightning Network
Decentralised Treasury

Look around.
We need all of it.

#DCRisready.

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24 Aug
1/ Very pleased to release my next research paper, focusing on the Mining Market Mechanics for #Decred

This was a fascinating study looking at the history, distribution behaviour and performance of the networks largest compulsory seller

Summary thread👇

medium.com/@_Checkmatey_/…
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.
Read 13 tweets
7 Apr
Time for a #Decred On-chain Update!

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.

This constrains supply.

3/
Read 9 tweets
17 Dec 19
1/ An overview of where I see the #Bitcoin market right now. I prefer to use simple yet robust probabilistic methods.

Four Moving Averages have continued to show relevance to #Bitcoin over it's trading history.

#Bitcoins Magic Lines
- 128DMA
- 200DMA
- 128WMA
- 200WMA
2/ Magic Lines
128D MA is a classic Buy the Dip / Sell the Rally.

200D MA is a Strong BUY/SELL unless crossed, then bias must flip. Right now, this is bearish.

128W MA is accumulation signal when below, similar to the Realised Price.

200W MA catches the bottom wicks of bears.
3/ Based on this, our bias is bearish (under 128D and 200DMA).

However, price has just dipped below the 128WMA signalling accumulation.

Fundamental support is below in the Realised Price ($5600) and 200WMA ($5000), what's $1000 between mates.

Smart money is waiting down here.
Read 6 tweets
15 Oct 19
1/I am extremely pleased to present the first of a three part series on critically reviewing the stock-to-flow model for #Decred and #Bitcoin.

In this paper I undertake numerous regression analyses to validate inputs and compare performance age-for-age.

medium.com/@_Checkmatey_/…
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
Read 6 tweets
16 Sep 19
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.
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