Decision-OS Series — Value Dynamics Part III: Settlement Conditions of Value

This note is the third part of the Decision-OS Value Dynamics series. Part I, Time-is-an-Ally, explains accumulation.Part II, Genesis Selection, explains replacement.Part III, Settlement Conditions, explains endurance. The core claim is that intrinsic value alone does not guarantee settlement. A system settles only when it continues to pass updated thresholds across changing environments while sustaining distribution, transmission, adaptive protection, and reproduction. This paper defines settlement as distinct from both accumulation and dominance. It introduces system-side settlement capacity, environment-side threshold pressure, Settlement Margin, and failure modes such as Transmission Failure, Deadline Acceleration, Price–Value Gap Collapse, Malicious Distribution Dominance, and Intrinsic Genesis Degradation. Bitcoin and digital assets are used only as observation cases for settlement conditions. This work does not provide investment advice, price prediction, or a directional claim on Bitcoin. GitHub commit:932f6e01007b13f2efcfff944147a4127215234c SHA256:82e49ef81ca28694463a4f39e63bfdf7c22eb1e1ed5dc0421f6666659e0941a8