Closed circle · 101 members · Live since 2018

Algorithmic Bitcoin capital, run for 101.

B-BILLION is a private investor club operating algorithmic trading strategies on Coinbase. Membership is hard-capped at 101 people — and our books closed years ago.

Member Dashboard → How the club works

Capital under algo

$9.2M

Returned to investors

$34M+

Members / cap

101 / 101

BTC / USD · 24h

$94,328

▲ +2.34%

Algo · Live FeedLIVE

BTC/USD · LONG+1.84%

ETH/USD · LONG+0.96%

SOL/USD · SHORT−0.42%

BTC/USD · TAKE-PROFIT+3.12%

01 — The Club

A book of 101. Quietly compounding since 2018.

B-BILLION was conceived as the opposite of a fund-of-everyone. A small, durable circle of allocators sharing a single algorithmic engine, a single counterparty venue, and a single thesis on Bitcoin.

Tightly held capital, transparently traded.

Each of our 101 members contributed to a $9.2M pool that runs through a proprietary algorithmic strategy on Coinbase. Returns are paid out monthly. Every fill, every position, every basis point is auditable from the member dashboard.

We don't sell access. We close access. The 101st seat was filled in 2019 and has not been vacated since.

The club has no marketing budget, no public AUM target, no growth mandate. The book is the size it should be — large enough to extract edge, small enough to stay nimble through any market regime.

Membership SEATS FILLED

101^{/ 101}

Hard cap reached Closed

02 — The Algorithm

An edge built on volatility, executed in milliseconds.

Our system runs continuously across BTC and a curated basket of large-cap pairs on Coinbase. Discretionary input is reserved for risk overrides — the rest is code.

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Adaptive Trend Capture

The model identifies regime shifts on multiple timeframes and scales position size into directional moves. It is built for Bitcoin's signature long, leveraged trends.

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24 / 7 Always-On Execution

Crypto markets never close. Neither does the algorithm. Orders route directly into Coinbase's matching engine with sub-second latency, every hour of every day.

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Risk-First Architecture

Position sizing is governed by realized volatility, not gut feel. Hard drawdown limits cut exposure automatically before damage compounds.

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Cross-Asset Basket

BTC dominates the book, balanced by liquid majors — ETH, SOL, XRP — to harvest correlation breakdowns and isolate idiosyncratic moves.

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Institutional Custody

Capital is held in segregated Coinbase Prime accounts. The algo never has withdrawal authority — only trade authority on a fenced sub-account.

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Member-Only Transparency

Every trade is logged and visible inside the member dashboard within 30 seconds of fill. Full transaction history, every position, no quarterly opacity.

From $9.2M seed to $34M+ returned.

Cumulative profit distributed to club members since 2018. Through the 2018 bear, the 2020 collapse, the 2022 contagion, and the 2024 rally — the algorithm kept executing.

Avg. monthly

+3.4%

Best year

+89%

Max drawdown

−14.2%

Sharpe (3y)

2.18

03 — The Venue

Why we trade exclusively on Coinbase.

A US-listed, regulated exchange with institutional-grade custody, deep BTC liquidity, and a public balance sheet. We picked one venue and committed.

Coinbase Prime

Sub-account · ID 0xB-BILLION

StatusHealthy · synced 4s ago

● ACTIVE

Custody typeSegregated cold storage

SEGREGATED

Trade authorityAlgo · withdrawal disabled

FENCED

Pairs tradedUSD-quoted spot

BTC · ETH · SOL · XRP

24h volume routedThrough algo · last session

$2.41M

Avg. fill latencyOrder-to-confirm

182 ms

Regulated. Liquid. Auditable.

Coinbase is the largest US-listed crypto exchange and a publicly traded company on Nasdaq. Its institutional arm — Coinbase Prime — separates trading from custody, runs SOC-1/SOC-2 audited cold storage, and gives our algorithm direct access to one of the deepest BTC/USD order books in the world.

For B-BILLION members, this means the same thing it means for any serious allocator: capital is held by a regulated US entity, the algo never touches the withdrawal stack, and every basis point of execution is reconcilable against public market data.

✓ US-regulated, Nasdaq-listed counterparty (COIN)
✓ Segregated sub-account · trade-only API key
✓ Insurance on hot-wallet assets up to $320M
✓ Tier-1 BTC/USD liquidity · sub-second routing
✓ Full transaction history exportable to members

04 — The Outlook

Bitcoin is no longer the experiment.

In a decade and a half, Bitcoin has moved from cypherpunk thesis to sovereign reserve consideration. The infrastructure is now institutional. The case is now mainstream.

Global crypto market cap

$3.4T^{~ 2025}

Digital assets have crossed every threshold legacy finance once said they wouldn't: ETF approval, sovereign accumulation, payment-rail integration, and durable institutional flows.

Bitcoin specifically is settling into a role legacy markets recognize — a hard-capped, liquid, globally tradable asset. That re-rating is the thesis B-BILLION was built on, and it isn't finished.

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Hard supply, growing demand

Only 21 million BTC will ever exist. Spot ETFs, corporate treasuries, and sovereign reserves are now permanent buyers of a fixed-supply asset.

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Rails, not just speculation

Stablecoins now settle hundreds of billions in monthly volume. Crypto rails are quietly becoming the default cross-border payment layer.

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Tokenized real-world assets

BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and JPMorgan are issuing tokenized treasuries on public chains. The next trillion in TradFi is moving on-chain.

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Programmatic edge persists

Spot crypto markets remain less efficient than equities. For disciplined algorithms with execution edge, that inefficiency keeps paying.

Bitcoin · key milestones

2009

Genesis block mined. Bitcoin begins.

2017

First mainstream cycle · BTC tops $19K.

2021

El Salvador adopts BTC as legal tender.

2024

US spot BTC ETFs approved. Institutional flood.

Now

Sovereign reserves & tokenized treasuries.

05 — The Founder

Bob Novikowski

Bitcoin miner since 2014. Investor since 2013. Founded B-BILLION in 2018 to put a private trading book in the hands of 100 friends, and one extra seat for himself.

Bob Novikowski

Founder · B-BILLION · Since 2018

Eleven years in. Still obsessed with the same thesis.

Bob Novikowski first bought Bitcoin in 2013, in the back end of the Mt. Gox era, when most people he tried to explain it to thought he was wasting his money. He stayed.

By 2014 he was running mining hardware out of a small industrial space — first a dozen ASICs, then enough to fill a wall. Mining taught him two things: that crypto is mostly an infrastructure game, and that compounding small daily edges beats almost every other strategy.

For the next four years he traded his own book — through the 2017 mania, the 2018 crash, the long flat year that followed. The strategies that survived became the basis of the algorithm B-BILLION runs today.

In 2018 he opened the strategy to a closed circle of friends and operators — capped at 101 seats, never a person more. The book closed in 2019. It hasn't taken a new member since.

The 101 isn't a marketing number. It's the largest seat count where I can still know every person in the book by name and still execute the same strategy without slippage eating us alive. After that, you're a fund. We're not a fund. — Bob Novikowski, Founder

2013

First BTC purchase

2014

Mining operation

2018

Founded B-BILLION

Algorithmic Bitcoin capital, run for 101.

A book of 101. Quietly compounding since 2018.

Tightly held capital, transparently traded.

An edge built on volatility, executed in milliseconds.

Adaptive Trend Capture

24 / 7 Always-On Execution

Risk-First Architecture

Cross-Asset Basket

Institutional Custody

Member-Only Transparency

From $9.2M seed to $34M+ returned.

Why we trade exclusively on Coinbase.

Regulated. Liquid. Auditable.

Bitcoin is no longer the experiment.

Hard supply, growing demand

Rails, not just speculation

Tokenized real-world assets

Programmatic edge persists

Bob Novikowski

Eleven years in. Still obsessed with the same thesis.

For the 101 — the dashboard never sleeps.