Testing the BVT
Research: does the price per kilobyte track attributed bytes? A proposed empirical test of Blockspace Value Theory, an untested thesis.
Status on blockspacelabs.com: Research.
What it asks #
The Labs site puts it in one question and one line: "Does the price per kilobyte track attributed bytes? An empirical test of the thesis."
The thesis is Blockspace Value Theory. In the site's own words it is "a living document and an untested thesis", and this wiki treats it the same way: BVT proposes that the bytes a token occupies on Bitcoin bear on its value. The Blockspace Value Theory page sets out what it proposes. This card describes a way to test it, not a result.
How it would test it #
Two Live projects already produce the two sides of the comparison:
- the blockspace price: asking prices across marketplaces, each turned into a price per KB of blockspace on the buy board;
- the Blockspace Token Indexer: the bytes attributed to each token in the three books.
The study asks whether the first tracks the second. The card names its data as "the buy board and the BTI books".
Where it stands #
It is a descriptive card: it says what the test is and which data it would use. No test has run, and no result is claimed either way. The card links to https://block.space/docs/bvt, "Read the BVT".
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