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For U.S.-based readers, I hope you are lucky enough to have a long holiday weekend to enjoy. If you do, remember you are given this day off because military personnel gave their lives.

I’m personally taking this long weekend to see one of my closest friends get married. So this week’s newsletter will be short, sweet and a bit off-the-wall (and mostly statistically insignificant). When I asked one of my other closest friends how I would convince y’all to read something like this he gave me some great advice.

So, please. Let me write about the Decoupling. Indulge me.

– Džordž Kaludis

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The Decoupling. The latest iteration of “hopium” for bitcoiners and crypto natives. When it finally inevitably happens, it’ll be up only for Big Crypto and down only for Big Fiat.

But what it actually means is a bit funny. The Decoupling is the moment when bitcoin’s price diverges from equities and starts going up when equities go down (and vice versa). The Decoupling is the moment when bitcoin (BTC) and equities become negatively correlated to each other. Bitcoin will go to $1 million a coin and equities will spiral to zero.

It’s a bit funny because bitcoin was neusklađen to almost all macro assets (gold, S&P 500, bonds, U.S. dollar) not too long ago. We wrote about this in our 2021 research report (page 9). Here is the chart we shared in that report with the accompanying text.

Priča se nastavlja

For the record, correlation simply means how much two measures vary together, divided by how much they usually vary individually (thank you, Noelle Acheson). We care so that we can describe the relationship between the returns of bitcoin and other assets. The correlation coefficient, the number or the “r”, referenced relates to the strength of the relationship. In the context of asset returns a correlation coefficient of:

• +1.0 means when Asset A gained x%, Asset B gained x%.

• 0.0 means when Asset A gained x%, Asset B gained y% with an absence of a linear relationship between x and y (more below).

• -1.0 means when Asset A gained x%, Asset B lost x%.

Koeficijent korelacije 0.0 označava nekorelaciju, i to je ili prilično lako ili prilično teško zamisliti (osim ako nemate haotičan um). Ili su svi brojevi u skupovima podataka potpuno isti, konstanta, koja je matematički definirana kao nedefinirana korelacija, ili skup podataka izgleda kao potpuni haos. Stvarno kreiranje proizvoljnog skupa podataka sa nultom korelacijom nije lako (osim dosadnog ortogonalnog slučaja), pa sam uključio dosadan skup podataka i ilustraciju haotičnog slučaja da vratim ovu tačku kući.

Being uncorrelated is awesome, but wouldn’t it be fascinating if bitcoin was negatively correlated to stocks? And then, when that happened, stocks all went on a hell-train path to zero and bitcoin went up and up forever? That’s the Decoupling.

The Decoupling would force traditional financiers to start thinking about bitcoin as a risk-off asset. Yes – less risky than stocks. The volatile digital cash that mainly acts as a vehicle for speculation now will become less risky than stocks following the Decoupling.

Dakle, kada se razdvaja?

The Decoupling is also supposed to be aggressive; “Gradually, then suddenly” is one of its calling cards. Unfortunately, 2022 has smashed the dreams of an aggressive decoupling. Here are the 90-day trailing correlations in 2022 between bitcoin and the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite Index:

Ovo očigledno nije razdvajanje, ali izgleda zanimljivo. U 2022. godini, ovi indeksi dionica prešli su iz slabe pozitivne korelacije na bitcoin u pozitivan jako korelirani raspon (>0.7). Iako nije tako potencijalno impresivan kao što bi implicirala jaka negativna korelacija, profil prinosa bitcoina i dalje liči na makro imovinu koju do sada nismo baš vidjeli. Prije samo godinu dana koeficijent korelacije S&P 500 i bitcoina bio je negativan i blizu nule. Korelacija koja se kreće od skoro nulte do jake za godinu dana je izuzetna. Povrh svega, ova korelacija je bila jako negativna još 2019.

So yes, bitcoin is unique. And thus, it bears repeating: Bitcoin is unlike any other macro asset we have seen.

This all reads like a whole lot of nothing, aside from bitcoin’s uniqueness (which we already knew). But there was something quite remarkable (and statistically insignificant) I saw last Wednesday when flipping through some charts. I saw this:

There it is, all the way to the left on this chart. The first signs of the Decoupling. When Decoupling? Maybe soon (but probably not).