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Building an Autonomous AI Research Loop
How hypotheses move through causal data, validation, risk gates, deployment, and continuous learning.
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Market Data as Research Infrastructure
Timestamp contracts, point-in-time datasets, storage layout, quality controls, and live feature parity.
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Scaling AI Systems: GPUs, CUDA, Distributed Training, and Autonomous Research
The compute, storage, compiler, scheduling, and memory systems that expand feasible research.
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Coding Agents as Research Collaborators
Specialized agents, verifiable work, bounded authority, failure memory, and human review.
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Toward a Self-Improving Market Research Lab
A roadmap for continuously better evidence, safer decisions, and transparent market intelligence.
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Graveyard: FTX / FTT — the Exchange-Token Loop
FTT at $85 backed an $8B hole in customer funds. Then Binance sold and the loop snapped.
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What $100 in Bitcoin Would Be Worth Today (Live Numbers)
Pick a year, see the number. Live results from the Bitbank Time Machine for 2013, 2016, 2020 and 2024 entries.
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The Sold-the-Top Calculator: What Perfect Timing Would Have Paid
Nobody sells the top. Here is exactly what it would have been worth, and what buying the top cost, for Bitcoin, gold and Tesla.
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$100 Challenge: Bitcoin vs Gold vs Silver vs S&P 500 vs Nvidia Since 2016
Same $100, same start date, five assets. A live scoreboard with the peaks, the drawdowns and the shareable cards.
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Forecasting Models: From Baselines to Transformers
Why simple rules, boosted trees, and time-series foundation models must compete on equal evidence.
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Feature Discovery, Representation Learning, and Synthetic Markets
Causal feature search, self-supervised market embeddings, transfer, and synthetic stress testing.
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Honest Backtesting: The Discipline of Trying to Be Wrong
Chronological folds, purge gaps, execution costs, locked holdouts, and reproducible promotion gates.
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Risk, Uncertainty, and the Power to Abstain
Calibration, cash as an action, conservative sizing, portfolio controls, and circuit breakers.
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Production ML: Serving, Monitoring, Drift, and Rollback
Immutable artifacts, Go services, model sidecars, shared inference, observability, and safe releases.
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How CPI Moves Bitcoin, Gold, the Dollar, Yields, and Stocks
The short answer: markets do not trade the inflation level in isolation. They trade the difference between the CPI release and what was already expected, then translate that…
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Federal Reserve Rates and Bitcoin: What Actually Matters
Bitcoin trades around the clock, but the price of dollars still matters. Federal Reserve policy changes the return available on cash and Treasury securities, the cost of leverage,…
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Russia's 2022 Invasion of Ukraine: Oil, Gold, Stocks, Bitcoin, and Payments
Published 1 September 2026 · Evidence reviewed through 1 September 2026 · 14 minute read
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Strait of Hormuz Oil Shock: Inflation, S&P 500, Gold, and Bitcoin
The Strait of Hormuz is narrow, but the economic consequences of a serious disruption would spread widely. In the first half of 2025, an average 20.9 million barrels per day of…
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Bitcoin vs Gold in a Geopolitical Crisis: What History Shows
The short answer: gold has the stronger institutional history and the more consistent evidence as a portfolio shock absorber. Bitcoin has a different potential advantage: it can…
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Bitcoin vs Nasdaq-100: Why Correlation Rises—and Why It Changes
Published 1 September 2026 · Evidence reviewed through 1 September 2026 · 12 minute read
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S&P 500 vs Bitcoin: Risk, Correlation, and Portfolio Role
Published 1 September 2026 · Evidence reviewed 1 September 2026 · 11 minute read
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What 70 Time-Series Folds Taught Us About Trading Model Selection
A trading model can look exceptional in one market regime and still have no durable edge. We recently optimized BitBank's BTC strategy over hourly data from 2021 through 2026. The…
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Layer 2 Scaling: Rollups and Channels
Base-layer blockchains are deliberately slow. Every full node re-executes and stores every transaction, which is what makes them trustless, and also what caps throughput at a few…
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Volatility, Spreads and Volume
Most traders focus on exchange fees. But the real cost of a trade often lives in the spread -- the gap between the best bid and best ask. That spread is not fixed. It expands and…
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Retiring the KNN Forecaster
Our original trading bot was built on a KNN-based forecaster that learned from a rich set of live market features. We called these snapshots "featuresets" and they included…
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How to Launch a Memecoin
Over 7 million tokens have been launched on Pump.fun since January 2024. Less than 1.5% of them ever graduated. 98.6% fell under $1,000 in liquidity and are essentially worthless.…
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