R04 · JUNCTION · LAYER 8 OF 15 (DERIVED)The Second Bitcoin
Litecoin specifically, or the whole market?
METHOD_REQUIRED
THE REGISTERED QUESTION
Is this Litecoin-specific retention or ‘everything went up’?
LEVEL Intermediate · CONFIDENCE NOT_ASSESSED · DEFINITION DEFINED
FALSIFIABLE CLAIM
Litecoin’s post-regime retention will exceed matched changes in BCH, DOGE, DASH, XMR, and the broad crypto cycle under the registered control design.
STRENGTHENS IF
Litecoin shows repeated durable floors while controls spike and mean-revert.
FRAMEWORK ANCHOR
Ch. 13, Proof-of-Work Substitution Controls
REQUIRES: LTC-RET-001 HISTORICAL_CANDIDATE
FEEDS: LTC-SECOND-001 BLOCKED ↓ TRUNK
FEEDS: LTC-SECOND-001 BLOCKED ↓ TRUNK
GATED BY 2 BLOCKED ANCESTORS
BLOCKING FRONTIER · 1
BTC-LIM-005What do people do when it's too costly?BLOCKED
NEAREST LEVER · BTC-LIM-005 — CLEARING IT DROPS THIS TO GATED BY 1
MECHANISM: OBJ-WHY-BTC-LTC · WHY ONLY BITCOIN AND LITECOIN · FROM THE BOOK · NOT MEASURED — B
BOUND METRICS · 1
M-LTC-CONTROL-DIDControl-adjusted Litecoin retentionESTIMATED percentage points
ANSWER NO IF
Controls retain equally or more, indicating scatter or a broad cycle rather than concentration.