Predictions Scorecard

The methodology articles on this site earn their credibility by being checkable. The thesis articles, the directional ones, spend credibility instead: they make claims about what will happen, and a claim about the future is worth nothing unless it is written down before the fact and graded honestly after.

This page is where that happens. Every directional call gets an entry with the date it was made, a resolution condition specific enough to be settled, and a status. When one resolves, it is marked hit, miss, or partial, and the miss stays exactly as visible as the hit. The point is not to be right. It is to keep a record honest enough that being wrong has a cost, which is the only thing that makes being right mean anything.

This scorecard was seeded in June 2026 from the existing thesis articles. The wording and confidence on each entry are the author's and will be revised in place as evidence arrives; revisions are noted, not hidden.

Open Made 2026-05-15 · Resolves ~mid-Aug 2026

Jane Street's Q2 2026 13F will show its IBIT and FBTC positions flat-to-lower again, consistent with a continued wind-down of the ETF basis trade rather than a re-entry.

Resolution condition: the Q2 2026 13F (due ~14 August 2026) shows IBIT and FBTC holdings at or below the Q1 levels. A material increase resolves this a miss.

Confidence: Medium. Source: Update on the Dam. A 13F shows only the long leg, so this is a directional read, not a certainty (the article weighs the alternatives).

Open Made 2026-05-15 · Review 2027-05

OTC desk balances keep draining over the next year, with no sustained recovery back above roughly 150,000 BTC.

Resolution condition: CryptoQuant-tracked OTC desk balance stays below ~150,000 BTC through May 2027 without a multi-month reversal. A durable climb back above that level resolves this a miss.

Confidence: Medium. Source: Update on the Dam. The earlier "depleted by July 2026" framing was a straight-line guess and has been replaced with this horizon; the direction is the claim, not the exact date.

Open Made 2026-04 · Resolves within the cycle (soft)

The in-kind ETF suppression mechanism is temporary: within this cycle, spot price discovery reasserts and Bitcoin re-rates upward from the in-kind-era lows.

Resolution condition: soft and explicitly hard to date. Treated as confirmed if Bitcoin trades durably above its in-kind-era range while OTC sourcing visibly tightens; treated as a miss if the suppression framing persists for multiple quarters with no re-rating. Flagged as the least precisely falsifiable entry here.

Confidence: Low to medium. Source: The Dam and the River.

Open Made 2026-06 · Multi-year, open-ended

The next large US monetary accommodation arrives framed as an emergency facility (regional-bank stress, a failed long-end Treasury auction, or a foreign-reserve dislocation), not as an announced change of regime.

Resolution condition: the next episode that expands the Fed balance sheet by a comparable magnitude to 2020 or March 2023 is introduced through an emergency facility rather than a planned policy pivot. Open-ended; reviewed when such an episode occurs.

Confidence: Medium. Source: Gradual, Then Big.

Nothing here has resolved yet, which is the honest state of a scorecard started in mid-2026. The first real test is the Q2 13F in August. Check back then, and hold the record to it.