Can data beat Buy & Hold? ₿ Bitcoin quantitative research • Backtests • Systematic strategies.

Joined September 2026
If you already made my previous strategies go viral, you're gonna LOVE this one. My new strategy outperformed simply holding bitcoin:native by more than 10x. No leverage. No shorts. Spot only.
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A $1 crypto card with 8% cashback, a $100,000 limit and no KYC. It's a fake site using Trust Wallet's brand. Trust Wallet's security team confirmed it's not theirs. The trap isn't the $1. It's the step where you connect your wallet and sign an approval. That can let a contract move your tokens. No seed phrase needed. 3 habits: • Only use the official app and site • Use a separate wallet for connecting to sites • Review and revoke old token approvals Which one do you actually do? A repost might keep someone from signing the wrong thing.
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$176M went into US spot Bitcoin ETFs on Tuesday. Two funds took all of it. IBIT: +$151.5M FBTC: +$24.5M The other 10 funds: zero. Second inflow day in a row, right before the Fed. But since Oct 9, daily flows have swung from -$635.6M to +$526.7M. One day of $BTc ETF flows tells you shares were created. Not who bought or why. Do you track flows daily or weekly? Bookmark this and compare it with next week's flows.
Fed + ECB + BoJ balance sheets in USD vs $BTC since 2014; Michael Howell calls $70K the critical level. Repost if useful.
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Unmoved isn't the same as convicted. Lost keys and cold custodian wallets also sit still. What does the series look like with estimated lost supply stripped out? That's the number that would say something about holders.
JUST IN: 37.4% of the total Bitcoin supply remains unmoved for 4+ years 👀 Conviction is building. HODL ✊
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Motivation doesn't run your $BTC strategy. Rules do. On a 'great day' you follow them. On a bad day you follow them too. That's the whole point of writing them down. What's your rule for today?
Good morning. Today is going to be a great day. Let’s get after it relentlessly.
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"Anyone can create a cryptocurrency." True. Anyone can also print a stock certificate. The question isn't who can copy the code. It's who can copy 15+ years of uptime, liquidity and a supply nobody has changed. That part is checkable. Go check it. $BTC
Saying there’s no reason to buy Bitcoin because anyone can create a cryptocurrency is like saying there’s no reason to learn English because anyone can invent a language.
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"Arkham claims it was a sale." Has MARA confirmed it? Moving coins to a custodian and selling them aren't the same event. And if it's ~1 month of output (their figure, verify), why is it headline news?
BITCOIN MINER MARA SENDS 1,000 BTC TO BITGO, WORTH $80M. Arkham claims it was a sale. Business as usual, given they mine 800 BTC per month. Nothing to worry about!
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Everyone says AI agents will change the internet. Ok. Will they change your $BTC process? An agent can run a backtest in seconds. It can't tell you if the assumptions are garbage. Tools scale. Bad logic scales too.
I have been thinking a lot about the rise of AI agents and how it will change the way we interact with internet products. It feels like we have officially left the Internet 2.0 era and are now in the take-off phase of Internet 3.0. The biggest change I see happening in our day-to-day lives is a lack of future interactions with multiple product interfaces. Rather than navigating to various websites and using these products like neanderthals, we are more likely to talk with our agents, then these agents will "use" the internet and various products. Everything becomes more digitally connected, including information and money, but we see a massive overhaul of the consumer internet experience at the same time. You can think of this as the internet plumbing getting more complex, but the interface getting simpler. This will be very obvious when it comes to software interfaces. I also see the same trend happening with how we interact with our computers and phones. The amount of typing done by the average worker will quickly contract the same way that writing with a pen has largely contracted as a percentage of overall communication. Speaking is faster than typing. It is easier and more natural. And it will unlock productivity, which drives economic returns for people and companies. We will look back and think it is ridiculous that we used to put our hands on a keyboard, type in a URL, navigate to a website, and click a bunch of buttons to accomplish something. You can see early signs of this shift towards simple, agentic workflows today. There is still a ton of opportunity ahead though. I would love to hear whether others are seeing these shifts in their own behavior over recent months?
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I backtested my own BTC strategy, and I'm publishing the uncomfortable parts too. Weekly closes. Long only. No leverage. 0.1% fees. $1 → $764 since 2014, vs $200 for Buy & Hold. But the headline isn't the story. 🧵
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Uptober has 5 days left and Bitcoin is still deciding what it wants to be when it grows up.
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I backtested my own BTC strategy, and I'm publishing the uncomfortable parts too. Weekly closes. Long only. No leverage. 0.1% fees. $1 → $764 since 2014, vs $200 for Buy & Hold. But the headline isn't the story. 🧵
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How it fails: • Chop: the first trade lost 12.5% • Late exits: −65% max drawdown • Late re-entries: the 2019 buy was ~$5.2K vs a ~$3.2K low Fills at the next open (767x) or 0.25% fees (755x) barely change anything.
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$126K to $80K. If your thesis didn't change, your price shouldn't scare you. But did you buy at $126K with leverage? Then the thesis doesn't matter. Liquidation does. No leverage. No shorts. Spot only.
If you liked Bitcoin at $126,000, you should love it at $80,000.
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Buying $BTC inside your bank app sounds like adoption. Ask the boring questions first. Can you withdraw to your own wallet? Who holds the keys? What does the spread cost you? Easy access isn't the same as ownership.
JUST IN: Coinbase Institutional Co-CEO says they enable JPMorgan, Citi, and PNC to let clients buy BTC directly in banking apps. “If I can do that with hundreds...thousands of clients, then we've activated the whole US in order to facilitate everyone's ability to buy Bitcoin" 🚀
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"$537K by 2030. 95% probability of $200K+." A Monte Carlo is only as good as the assumptions you feed it. Change the volatility or the drift a little and the 'probability' moves a lot. What inputs did they use? Has anyone checked?
Bitcoin expected to hit $537K by 2030 and $1.48M by 2034 according to Monte Carlo simulation. 🟠🚀 🟠🚀 95% probability of $200K+ by 2030. 150% upside. 🫡 @sminston_with
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