R31-A — EXECUTED R23-G FOLD into ai-power-bottleneck (status: closed; successor: ai-power-bottleneck)

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R31-A — EXECUTED R23-G FOLD into ai-power-bottleneck (status: closed; successor: ai-power-bottleneck)

  • Type: arc-transition (subtype: identity-migration — merge / fold-into-successor)
  • event_id: 2026-05-23-crypto-geopolitics-r31a-fold-executed
  • Source: R31-A authorized perspective-touch session — workflow/RUNS.md 2026-05-23 r31a-r23g-perspective-capacity-action-pack-execution. Prescriptive note: published/research-notes/2026-05-20-r23g-perspective-capacity-action-pack.md section 2. Underlying evidence: R12 stabilizing-but-weakened entry (below); R17 considered-for-FOLD entry (below); R20 13F-correction-continuity entry (below).
  • What changed (identity migration):
    • ACTIVE.json: status: "closed", moved into closed[] with closed_at: "2026-05-23", closed_reason: "Miner-leadership leg re-converged with ai-power-bottleneck's equipment leg as the AI/HPC-pivot rotation matured. Original 'BTC > $75K RSI > 65 confirms trend change' price trigger held on price but not RSI; the action moved to equities (MSTR/RIOT/MARA/CLSK) trading as AI-infra, not as a crypto-bloc. R17 + R20 + R23-G converged on the fold recommendation. R31-A executes the migration. CLSK + RIOT already present in ai-power-bottleneck.key_tickers from a prior touch — no re-add needed; the absorbing-fold note is logged on the successor's log.md. Reopen trigger filed as memory note: 'reopen crypto-geopolitics if BTC > $80K RSI > 65 sustained AND a geopolitics catalyst confirms.'", successor: "ai-power-bottleneck".
    • README.md: closed/redirect banner at top.
  • Verdict (close-with-successor): The original "BTC-geopolitics correlation, MSTR canary" April 10 thesis was largely vindicated on price (BTC > $75K with miner leadership intact) but the correlation structure dissolved. Miners now trade as AI-infrastructure (the AI/HPC pivot story), not as a crypto bloc reacting to geopolitics. The capital-rotation-vs-gold hypothesis (alt-monetary-hedge flowing to BTC + miners + IBIT instead of gold) survives as a one-line cross-reference annotation on the renamed gold-crash perspective (same R31-A session SPLIT).
  • What was absorbed by ai-power-bottleneck:
    • CLSK + RIOT — already in ai-power-bottleneck.key_tickers from a prior touch (joined the cohort organically as the AI/HPC pivot narrative matured). R31-A confirms they belong there; no re-add needed.
    • The "AI/HPC-pivot miners" sub-leg framing — added as a fold note on ai-power-bottleneck/log.md 2026-05-23 entry. The successor's watch_for already covers "BTC-miner→AI conversion announcements" — no additional watch_for edit needed.
    • HUT contested annotation (R20 13F-correction continuity, below) — carries on ai-power-bottleneck's log via the absorb-fold note; HUT is NOT added to ai-power-bottleneck.key_tickers (contested-direction smart money makes single-name conviction too thin).
    • CIFR exit annotation (R20 — Aschenbrenner full equity exit $155M) — carries as a tone note ("not all miners pivoted cleanly"); CIFR remains in ai-power-bottleneck.key_tickers from the prior touch, but its standing weakens.
  • Effect on capacity: ACTIVE.json count -1 (11 → 10 from this row alone; -2 total when combined with the same-session food-security-cascade RETIRE).
  • Reopen trigger (memory note): reopen crypto-geopolitics if BTC > $80K RSI > 65 sustained AND a geopolitics catalyst confirms (e.g., a new sanctions / Iran / Russia / China event with a BTC bid in the first 24 hours). Filed to memory at ~/.claude/projects/-Users-janzheng-Desktop-Projects---active-ticker-tape/memory/reference_crypto_geopolitics_reopen_trigger.md (one-line pointer added to MEMORY.md).
  • Per-ticker: Carries from R20 13F-correction continuity entry. No fresh tape this row.

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