The Pomp Podcast - #767 Bitcoin Year In Review w/ Dylan LeClair
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All right.
We've got a special treat for everybody.
We've got Dylan LeClaire, who's going to be joining us.
And today we're going to do a year in review through the metrics.
Dylan, you there?
Hey guys, how we doing?
What up?
Let's start with the hash rate.
I mean, obviously a just insane year.
When we look back over 2021 for the hash rate, how do you evaluate what happened?
Yeah, we've talked about it a bunch, but just kind of, you know, going, coming through all
of these things that, you know, that happened in the Bitcoin network in 2021, it feels like,
you know, a few years, at least time, time has flown by, but also it's, it's felt like
a, you know, quite a long year with, with all that's went down, China banning Bitcoin,
Bitcoin mining in particular in May, kind of near those all-time highs.
And we saw 50% of that network hash rate basically shut off overnight.
Not really.
And it was basically the biggest attack the Bitcoin network has ever faced, maybe besides
the fork wars, but from a nation state level, it was truly unprecedented.
And the Bitcoin network went on completely uninterrupted, essentially, difficulty adjusted
downwards, I think four or five times in a row.
And seemingly all that hash rate is back online.
And it's quite the recovery.
Almost no one saw it happening this fast.
So, um, you know, quite a unprecedented year, but, um, you know, the resilience of the Bitcoin
network cannot be understated. I, uh, I also see that you've got the total,
total minor revenue here. Uh, and I actually didn't know this until I saw that you, uh,
you sent this chart over that we started with $30 million a day on January 1st of 2021.
And even though all the volatility, the China band, like the whole nine yards,
$45 million a day, 12, 29, 21, uh, talk to us about this. Like how important is this
to see that that minor revenue continues to increase at, you know, what ends up being
a pretty significant rate. Yeah. So this was a, this was a seven day moving average. I probably
should just throw the annual average in over the course of history. It probably would have given a
better kind of context, but I think the most remarkable thing about this chart, it looks
quite similar to the Bitcoin chart. But what you're not taking into account when you're looking at
this in dollar terms is that, is that the halving happens every, every four years it's happened
three times already. So that, that block subsidy that miners are getting first, it was
50 Bitcoin every block, cut in half to 25, cut in half to 12 and a half. And just last May,
I guess, May of 2020, they got cut in half to 6.25 Bitcoin every 10 minutes for the block subsidy.
So, minor revenue continues to go up and to the right over the course of Bitcoin's history,
despite the actual, the BTC amount going down in Bitcoin terms. And so, this is just kind of
another chart that's showing how exponential this network is growing. And we did see,
despite all the volatility and the hash rate dropping and difficulty ramping up,
going down again and ramping back up, minor revenue has been increasing in dollar terms.
It's crazy to see this too. And what do you think is more important? Is the hash rate more
important there or is it the actual price of Bitcoin? Yeah. I mean, it's almost like chicken
and the egg because the price of Bitcoin going up, a lot of miners can just plug back in. A lot
of these miners are just like almost automated and they take into account multiple variables,
such as the efficiency of their ASICs, you know, that's kind of the baseline, but really like power
prices and the price of Bitcoin. And a lot of these things say, like, if you're integrated with
the grid, they're going off baseload demand. So if demand is expected to go up, or if, you know,
there's a surge in say, California or Texas, then these miners will shut right off. But when the
price of Bitcoin goes up, hash price is also going up, which is basically it's minor revenue divided
by hash rate. And when hash rates pump in, the value of all ASICs is going up and every Bitcoin
miner is happy because they're more profitable in dollar terms. Yeah, it makes sense. All right,
we got realized market cap and MVRV ratio. Explain what both of these are for folks.
Yeah. So we talk about this a lot. We have the market cap, which is pretty simple,
circulating supply times the price. Realized cap is circulating supply and it's the price
that every coin is last moved. And we can take a ratio of that and kind of evaluate
how overheated or cheap Bitcoin is on a relative basis.
And so we kind of can visualize these bull and bear cycles over Bitcoin's history.
And if you look at April 2021, you see that that ratio was really, really high.
And it obviously crashed into May, June, into that summer area.
And now we've kind of, with realized cap continuing to increase, we're starting to get to those
pretty cheap levels again.
But this is just kind of a broad view of what's happening in the Bitcoin market.
And I think it's a good long-term kind of view of what's happening.
Looks like it's bullish.
All right.
Lightning Network public channel capacity seems to have gone on an epic run, but a little
bit of a drawback here.
Is that something to be concerned of?
And what do you think about the full year kind of performance of the public channel
capacity?
Yeah.
So this is in dollar terms.
So it's obviously it's taking into account two variables.
It's taking into account the growth of the Lightning Network and Bitcoin terms or that
public channel capacity.
And it's also taking into account the Bitcoin price.
So we've seen a small pullback in the actual public channel capacity in BTC terms, but really that pullback there is more associated with the Bitcoin price falling about 25, 30 percent from the highs.
But really what we see, 2021 was a pretty remarkable year for the Lightning Network and the growth of it.
We saw a nation state adopt Bitcoin as legal tender and really sort of kind of be adopted as a transactional medium in a way that it never has before at a large scale.
So $160 million, it seems pretty small, especially with all these numbers in the crypto space.
You see a lot of, say, DeFi protocols with a total value locked of billions and billions
of dollars.
But the Lightning Network is something completely different and unique, I would say, in the
sense that it allows this traditional store of value or monetary asset that most people
just kind of sit on and hodl.
It allowed that to be more of a transactional medium where you could actually buy coffee
with Bitcoin. For the longest time, it was a meme that you couldn't buy coffee with Bitcoin and it
was too cheap. It was too expensive and slow and you needed something else. Well, the Lightning
Network actually fixed that. And so I think 2022, we're going to see that remarkable growth continue.
Got it. Now, one of my favorite charts to look at is usually the 0.1 or 0.01 BTC Bitcoin addresses.
So these are people who have a Bitcoin address with at least 0.1 or 0.01 Bitcoin. You've got
here, the supply held by entities with a balance of 0.1 to one full Bitcoin. Talk to us about this
one. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's pretty obvious it's up and to the right. And so, uh, I think this is
just one of the things that, uh, you can kind of feel when you, when you're talking to people in
the Bitcoin space, when you're on Bitcoin Twitter, uh, you know, see all those accounts with laser
eyes continuing to grow. Uh, there's just, you know, a relentless group of, of hodlers and
stackers out there all over the world, um, on Twitter or not. Uh, you know, you may, they may
be public Bitcoiners or not that are just continuing to stack sats and increase their
proportion of the Bitcoin monetary network. And so regardless of price going up, down,
or sideways, there's a cohort of people with size would say like Michael Saylor, but also
just humbly stacking away, getting to 10 million sats, getting to that full Bitcoin,
100 million Satoshis, and they're just continuing to increase their holdings.
And so this is kind of that, that, uh, you know, stacker hodler of last resort mentality.
And this is, you know, what is, what stops the price of Bitcoin from going down is, is
those stackers and hodlers of last resort.
Got it.
And then when you start to look at things like, uh, the dollar cost averaging that occurs,
how much of that do you think is, um, individuals intentionally doing it?
Like, Hey, I set every Friday, I go ahead and I buy $10 worth of Bitcoin versus, uh,
I'm actually going in and, uh, I earned some Bitcoin.
So I got my paycheck this week in Bitcoin.
oh, I got more money here. Okay. Let me go put some of it in Bitcoin. And like, it's not so much
like automated in the sense of, uh, kind of what we see in the FinTech world around like roundups
or, uh, automated investing. This is more so like people are getting paid and then going and doing
it. Like, do we have any sense for that? Yeah, I think that's, that's hard to quantify. Um,
especially with something like the on-chain metrics, because, um, a lot of this stuff,
um, you know, say the dollar cost averaging strategies aren't occurring on chain,
um, where say I'm purchasing Bitcoin every hour, which I am with the new strike app.
And there's there's all sorts of of, you know, there's been a huge increase in the dollar cost averaging platforms and strategies and the cost of all these things recently.
And then say once every week or once every couple of weeks, I take all those purchases and I send it to cold storage.
And so that's one transaction on chain. But I think increasingly we've seen not only the dollar cost averaging, you know, cohort of individuals around the world increasing, but also people adopting Bitcoin as their their almost their native currency.
Right. So, for example, I know being kind of in the in the Bitcoin industry, per se, there's a lot of people that have fixed negotiation salaries in Bitcoin terms.
So the price goes up, down or sideways. They're getting the same amount of Bitcoin week to week.
Bonus is denominated in Bitcoin. This is happening all over the world.
And there are some tax implications, obviously. But, you know, I think we're seeing both of those things, whether it's just automated stacking or, you know, getting paid a fixed amount in Bitcoin.
Got it. Bitcoin, the percent supply last active one plus years ago. What is this showing us?
Yeah. So this is just the amount of Bitcoin, the circulating supply, the percentage of that,
that has moved in the last year. And so this is just, you know, year to date. And we can see kind
of that, that, that drew down into the bull run. And we saw, we see that kind of going parabolic
again. So what that means is just coins are now being, coins that have moved in the last year
are increasing. So, you know, a lot of stacking occurred during that kind of mini bear market we
saw and not as much as spending is occurring despite the recent pullback. And so I just like
it. It's kind of a simple visual of the one plus year hodling activity. All right. Now we got the
Bitcoin liveliness. I've never seen this before, and I know you took some time to do it because
there's arrows all over this baby. So what is this one showing us? Yeah. So liveliness is a
pretty jam packed metric, which describes hodling activities. So for instance, here's a thought
experiment. If there was a blockchain, it could be Bitcoin or it could be another crypto asset.
But if there was a blockchain that was just the blocks were mined and then there was no spending activity whatsoever, liveliness would be zero.
And in theory, if there was a blockchain that basically every single coin was moved at once, liveliness would temporarily hop to 1.0.
So when liveliness is increasing, it means that there's spending, there's distribution happening on a net basis.
And when liveliness is decreasing, it means that accumulation or hodling is happening on a net basis.
And so what you can see here is into 2020, we saw basically a pretty massive accumulation phase.
And as the bull market kicked off, we saw a lot of those coins that were accumulated basically since the 2017 bubble through that entire three-year bear market consolidation period.
We saw a lot of those coins distribute.
So new hodlers, new capital comes into the space and old coins distribute.
And then following that kind of blow off top we saw into the bear market, we saw basically that that accumulation phase has kicked off again.
We're seeing that that downtrend continue.
And so just just a recap of the last two years.
But liveliness is a really good job of showing that accumulation and distribution in a pure sense.
Yeah, I love that.
I've never seen that before.
That's awesome.
We're going to keep updating that as as we go into 2022.
All right, we've got Bitcoin price weighted by long-term holder supply 30-day percent change.
It's a mouthpiece, but it's a great chart.
And then we have the long-term holder supply 30-day percent change without the Bitcoin price weighted.
So tell us about what these two are showing us.
Yeah, so this is just a sneak peek of our deep dive annual kind of year in review.
And this chart's by my friend, analyst at Bitcoin Magazine, Sam Rule, does a great job kind of showing this data in a really cool way here.
So the red is showing when long-term holders are distributing, when they're basically parting with their holdings.
And the blue, and specifically the dark blue, is when there's a huge net accumulation period.
And so we can kind of see since 2015, during run-ups, we see a lot of these coins distribute.
And then kind of the floor is set by the accumulation periods that follow these downturns.
And so this is just kind of a little bit of an update.
We've seen light distribution over the last month or two here, but nothing to be really
too concerned about.
And I think that accumulation period that we saw in the last six months of 2021 will
pick up into the new year.
Got it.
And then if we go ahead and we look at the last chart that you gave us here, you've got
the Bitcoin price weighted by PERPS funding rate and then just the PERPS funding rate.
Why is this important?
Yeah, so perps, derivatives, it's a lot. Well, perps stands for perpetual swap futures contracts. And it's something that's not really too well understood, but it's pretty important for the price action of Bitcoin, especially, you know, in these huge, huge volatile moves, whether it's tops or bottoms.
you see these perps funding rates are really skewed to the downside or upside when you see
these bottoms or tops. And there's a reason for that. So basically, the derivatives market has
the Bitcoin derivatives market, as well as all crypto, kind of has a native cost of capital to
it. And so if you want to be long, say, into March of 2020, before the 50% dump, there was a pretty
hefty price you had to pay to do that. But following that dump in March of 2020, funding
rate went negative, which means that the price of the futures contract was below that of the spot
market. So say on Coinbase, where you just swap $1 for some Bitcoin, that's a spot market where
derivatives, you're using leverage and you're margin betting, speculating on the price of
Bitcoin. When the funding rate's negative, you're actually getting paid to go long. You're getting
paid to bet on the Bitcoin price to go up. And so this just kind of shows the positioning or the
the long or short bias in the market. And you can kind of see, um, when, when it's very, very blue,
uh, there's the, the leverage in the system on the long side is, is, is unsustainable. And then
it's very, very red, a short squeeze is, is, you know, impending. And so this is just kind of a
cool way to visualize, um, these, these sentiment shifts and, and the leverage on both sides of the
market and Bitcoin derivatives. And they play quite a big, uh, big role in the price action.
Got it. And then when you think about just the market, if we zoom out of the data for a second,
From like a sentiment standpoint, I think there's a lot of people, myself included, that thought, hey, Bitcoin's going to hit about $100,000 or so this year.
Is it something where like the bull market is over and we're now headed more into a bear market?
Or is it something where you're more of a believer that like this is an elongated bull market?
And so the past kind of 18 months post halving timeframes is just going to get extended out in Q1 and maybe even into Q2 could be exciting.
Yeah, I mean, I would agree. And I'm on the record with saying that I also expected 100K and more of a parabolic blow off top into into Q4.
Obviously, that didn't occur and has a lot of people saying the bull market's over, the halving cycle's dead.
And I think that's maybe a little bit premature in the sense that Bitcoin isn't going anywhere, obviously.
And more so than ever, it's a macroeconomic asset and people, capital allocators all over the world are thinking of it as such.
And so for Bitcoin to go really, you know, parabolic, 100K, 200K, these kind of moon targets that a lot of people think are coming or will come in the future, you're going to need an immense amount of capital.
And so I think more so that the Bitcoin cycles are less about, you know, say the halving where that block subsidy is cut in half.
While that still will play an effect and it will play an effect again in 2024, I think it's more so about the kind of instability in the legacy financial system and the boom and bust of credit contraction and credit expansion in the legacy system.
And so in March of 2020, they injected trillions of dollars following that. Bitcoin goes absolutely parabolic. Since then, that kind of rate of change of, say, central bank asset purchases, balance sheet expansion all over the world, it's slowed down a little bit.
But I think the next major catalyst of the Bitcoin bull market, despite the secular adoption that's occurring every single day, that that floor of Bitcoin is just rising every single day, even if we can't see it with the stackers and hodlers of last resort.
I think that next catalyst will be when when the legacy system kind of falters again and, you know, the Fed blinks and and they ramp up that printing.
And I think that's when Bitcoin really, really becomes what a lot of people think it's going to going to become when it's, you know, a five, ten trillion dollar asset.
when the Fed blinks, baby. All right, Joe, what questions you got?
I agree. Dylan, so what role do institutions play in this, right? I think a lot of people
are looking at it and saying, hey, retail is one thing, but if the institutions come to play,
we could see the demand for this really ratchet up and we could see the price kind of follow in
suit. How do you think about institutions? What are you tracking? And is this something that like,
is it just focused on regulation? Are they waiting? Are we going to see more in Q1? Just
walk me through kind of how you think about institutions getting involved.
Yeah, it's a great question. I think there's a few things that we have to look at going into 2022.
The first, and it was on the top of everyone's mind in October when that futures ETF was passed, was the passing of a spot Bitcoin ETF, right?
So even still going into 2022, it's still kind of quite the hurdle or challenge for, say, a corporation or a publicly traded entity to put Bitcoin on their balance sheet in a way that doesn't really hinder what they're trying to do.
So, for example, if you buy Bitcoin as a corporation, if the price of Bitcoin goes down, you take an earnings hit.
So while it's nothing more than an accounting thing and you don't actually lose money, you have to mark to market that loss.
And shareholders, if they're not aligned with the Bitcoin mission or don't really understand it from a fundamental level, aren't going to be happy with that.
So that's limited a lot of, say, corporate entities from doing what Michael Saylor or maybe Elon Musk and Tesla have done with just a little bit of a Bitcoin allocation.
So the accounting standard is changing and a spot ETF proving, I think, passing are two things that I would think are going to be changed in 2022.
And I think that's one of the things that we're going to have to wait to see for institutions to really start to allocate much more seriously.
But I think those things will come.
It's just, you know, it's more about just the kind of standard of, you know, acceptance of Bitcoin as a monetary asset.
And that's coming in 2022.
We're seeing that in the political circles as well.
Do you have any ideas or guests on when a spot ETF might be approved?
You know, the ETF guys at Bloomberg have been all over it.
And I think they're saying kind of middle of 2022 is their best guess.
I don't really know what Gensler is doing and it's not,
it's certainly not protecting any investors. That's for sure.
But we'll have to wait and see, I guess.
John.
Yeah, Dylan. Nice to see you again.
Congrats on the a hundred K followers I mentioned earlier.
So my question is about on the macro level,
what metrics are you looking at going into the new year?
Is it hash rate? Is it what the whales are doing?
What metrics do you just look at on the macro level?
Yeah. So from, from the Bitcoin standpoint,
I mean, hash rate's definitely a key in terms of just assessing overall network health.
I really like to look at that realized value as kind of a baseline for Bitcoin.
It almost has that kind of floor.
So worst case scenario, right?
I'm certainly not expecting Bitcoin to go to $25,000, which is that realized price value.
But I think worst case scenario, thinking about it in a probabilistic lens, I'm not
going to bet my entire Bitcoin stack and leverage up with the premise that Bitcoin could never go
below $25,000. I think that's just kind of a ridiculous thing to do. So there's always a
probability or chance of that occurring. But I think looking at something like realized price,
that market value to realized value ratio, say the funding rates and the overall kind of leverage in
the system and the Bitcoin derivatives market, if everyone gets very, very over leveraged on
alongside again, despite being completely macro bullish over the long term, it's something to
hold and pause and say, hey, maybe now is not the best time to bet the farm. And so there's just a
few things like that in terms of what I'm looking for in terms of going into 2022. And then obviously
from the macroeconomic lens, it's what is the Fed doing? Is S&P continuing to make new all-time
highs. What I would actually love to see is equities take a 10 to 15, 20% dip, which is
completely standard in the Bitcoin crypto world. And in the legacy world, the house would be on
fire if that happened. But the response to that would be more than advantageous for all asset
prices. Do you expect volatility to happen in the new year? Yeah. I mean, I think Bitcoin,
the volatility is certainly not going away. And I'm definitely going to be looking forward to
seeing what the first, I think, two to one month, maybe two weeks to one month, maybe six weeks of
Bitcoin's price action is, I think there's certainly some merit to all these funds kind of
refreshing their P&L into the new year. And after a record year of S&P performance and all-time
highs, after a record year of Bitcoin, maybe not a record year, but 70% year-to-date performance
for Bitcoin, a lot of these fund managers are looking to get their bonuses, ride it easy into
the new year and start fresh in Q1. So I would definitely not be surprised with some bullish
price action into the new year, but we'll have to wait and see there. Dylan, when you start to look
at 2022, are you going to do anything different based on what, like any of this, right? So like,
obviously my read on everything that you've been doing, we've been talking about for a while now,
it's just, Hey, I watch all the data, but I just dollar cost average into Bitcoin. Anything going
to change about that strategy and, you know, get into any other, uh, types of, uh, activities or
just continue to dollar cost average into Bitcoin? Yeah. So, I mean, the baseline is I, I dollar
cost average into Bitcoin and just continue to accumulate my, my stack. Um, I, I use Bitcoin.
I've, you know, been pretty transparent about using Bitcoin as my unit of account. So I'm,
you know, completely fine with the price and dollar terms withdrawn, you know, going down by
50%. Uh, and when it's advantageous, I'll take a small percentage of that, uh, portfolio and a
personal basis, as well as what I'm doing with UTXO. And we use that Bitcoin collateral to maybe
do some things with some leverage, betting on the price to go up or other things, right?
You guys were talking about, say, Elon Musk and Tesla right before I hopped on. So if we're
thinking about investing with Bitcoin as a unit of account, I think Tesla is a fantastic company.
And I was pretty blown away when I went in one of their cars, but I'm not going to buy Tesla when
the market cap is 23 million Bitcoin, right? So like some of these things, I just, I think it's
important to have a long-term view on things. And right now I'm more than just happy to continue
saving money. I don't even really consider it investing almost, saving money in Bitcoin terms.
And when, you know, I think, you know, when I find more things attractive to allocate capital
on a Bitcoin standard, I'll do that. But for the most part, I think people should just zoom out,
stay patient and continuing to save the best money the world's ever seen. I think that's
just what everyone should do. Got it. When you start to think about content in the space,
we haven't talked about this in a while. How do you think that that's evolving? It seems like
there's way more sophisticated, intelligent people coming in and being able to analyze not
only the data that's already exists, but also the creation of new metrics and really start to kind
of like build out what I would consider the robustness of the understanding of the market,
the price, various players, etc. Is that your feeling as well? Yeah, 100%. I think, you know,
Bitcoin, the reason that, you know, people are so fascinated with Bitcoin on-chain metrics and all
this stuff, including myself, who I'm digging through all this data, you know, every single
day, it's that it's completely transparent. It's like, you know, the source of truth is in every
Bitcoin full node. And you can verify that history, you know, since the Genesis block in 2009. So if
you want to spin that up your own full node and run the data through Python, you can do that.
Or Glassnode could do it for you or Coinmetrics or any of these other, you know, data aggregation
platforms. And so I think in terms of the transparency of blockchain technology and
this immutable ledger, it's pretty fascinating. And I think the industry as a whole is just kind
of getting started with what we're doing here and all the data and analysis that everyone's looking
at. I agree. I think that's spot on analysis. John, just so we're clear, he doesn't have 100k
followers. He has 102.1k followers. Get it right. That's a 2% growth by the minute.
yeah well if he gets through this week he may have as much growth as inflation i mean he's moving
here all right buddy how well how was christmas everything good yeah it's fantastic i was in uh
i was in st petersburg it's beautiful florida's awesome uh i gotta stop in miami sometime i missed
that i haven't been there in a while let's go it's always summer in miami just moved to florida
yeah why don't you just move to miami what's stopping you yeah i mean no uh no income tax
warm sunny states i think that's in my future hey he gets it i like that hey listen you said it not
me all right i appreciate you joining we'll see you next tuesday new year same dylan same us
same information no uh no issues uh maybe dylan will have a shirt on next time maybe not i mean
listen we've actually hold on this is important i think dylan and us have had conversations
indoors outdoors shirt on shirt off hat on hat off like we've done it all you you could get a uh
you should go for like a modeling contract be like hey listen if you pay me then i'll go on
the best business show someone in the comments plug your merch when he showed up literally said
typed out dylan always looking fly which is true that was dylan who wrote that oh was it no i'm
joking all right buddy thanks so much like yourself yeah appreciate you guys later
