Is this a temporary spike or a forcing regime? — THE DESK
R04 · JUNCTION · LAYER 2 OF 15 (DERIVED)Bitcoin’s Limit
A spike, or a lasting squeeze?
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THE REGISTERED QUESTION
Is this a temporary spike or a forcing regime?
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FALSIFIABLE CLAIM
Bitcoin will experience periods that meet an ex-ante Fee Regime rule combining elevated median fees, persistent mempool pressure, and confirmation uncertainty over a sustained window.
STRENGTHENS IF
Multiple periods pass frozen thresholds and sensitivity tests without post-selection changes.
FRAMEWORK ANCHOR
Ch. 12; Ch. 13, Fee Regimes: Forced-Choice Events
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MECHANISM · FROM THE BOOK · NOT MEASURED — B
OBJ-BITCOIN-VALUE-PROPOSITION-MAP · THE BITCOIN VALUE PROPOSITION MAPOBJ-THE-LIMIT · THE LIMITBOUND METRICS · 6
EACH CHIP NAMES THE METRIC’S REGISTERED EPISTEMIC CLASS — HOW IT WOULD BE READ, NOT A READING. ZERO READINGS EXIST YET.
M-BTC-CONF-SPREADConfirmation-target fee spreadESTIMATED sat/vBM-BTC-FEE-MEDIANBitcoin median transaction feeOBSERVED BTC / USDM-BTC-FEE-REGIMEBitcoin Fee Regime stateINFERRED Normal / Pressure / Fee spike / Fee regimeM-BTC-FEERATE-P90Bitcoin 90th-percentile confirmed fee rateOBSERVED sat/vBM-BTC-MEMPOOLBitcoin mempool backlogOBSERVED vMB / blocksM-BTC-MEMPOOL-AGEMedian mempool transaction ageOBSERVED minutes / hours
ANSWER NO IF
Only brief spikes occur, or candidate events fail the preregistered persistence rule.