We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network - BTC224: Global Liquidity and Bitcoin w/ Matthew Mezinskis (Bitcoin Podcast)

Episode Date: March 5, 2025

In this episode, Preston and Matthew dive deep into Bitcoin’s design, its ability to protect financial autonomy, and the macroeconomic trends shaping its value. Matthew breaks down Bitcoin price m...odels, stock-to-flow analysis, and the role of global liquidity. They also explore the impact of Layer-2 solutions and make bold predictions about Bitcoin’s future in global finance. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: 00:00 - Intro 01:47 - Why Bitcoin serves as an "escape hatch" from centralized financial instability 04:34 - How Bitcoin’s design ensures individual financial autonomy in a digital world 06:26 - What historical economic patterns suggest about Bitcoin’s resilience 13:47 - The most overlooked factors in Bitcoin valuation and price modeling 18:48 - How stock-to-flow holds up today and alternative valuation frameworks 20:39 - Key metrics for tracking global liquidity and Bitcoin’s role as a store of value 28:38 - The significance of macro liquidity and its effect on Bitcoin’s adoption 31:38 The impact of Layer-2 scaling solutions on Bitcoin’s liquidity 43:44 - How Bitcoin’s fixed supply interacts with the need for liquidity in a digital economy 44:12 - A bold 10-year prediction for Bitcoin’s role in reshaping global finance Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Porkopolis Economics website. Matthew's X Account. Check out all the books mentioned and discussed in our podcast episodes here. Enjoy ad-free episodes when you subscribe to our Premium Feed. NEW TO THE SHOW? Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, Kyle, and the other community members. Follow our official social media accounts: X (Twitter) | LinkedIn | | Instagram | Facebook | TikTok. Check out our Bitcoin Fundamentals Starter Packs. Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. Try our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool. Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services. Get smarter about valuing businesses in just a few minutes each week through our newsletter, The Intrinsic Value Newsletter. Learn how to better start, manage, and grow your business with the best business podcasts. SPONSORS Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors: SimpleMining AnchorWatch Human Rights Foundation Onramp Superhero Leadership Unchained Vanta Shopify Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You're listening to TIP. Hey, everyone, welcome to this Wednesday's release of the Bitcoin Fundamentals podcast. On today's show, I'm really excited to welcome back a super talented guest, Matthew Mishinsky, who's an expert on global liquidity flows and the impact of broader market conditions. During the show, we talk about the enormous amount of tightening that has happened since the COVID wave of liquidity and what it might mean for the rest of this year. So without further delay, here's my chat with Matthew. You.
Starting point is 00:00:30 Celebrating 10 years. You are listening to Bitcoin Fundamentals by the Investors Podcast Network. Now for your host, Preston Pish. Hey, everyone. Welcome to the show. I'm here back with Matthew. And I'm pretty excited to have this conversation because I have some very genuine questions. I want to ask you about what's going on with the macro liquidity and just Bitcoin landscape.
Starting point is 00:01:03 So Matthew, welcome back to the show. Thank you, Preston. Good to be back and always happy to talk Bitcoin and money with you. So, Matthew, this is where I want to start. I have this very generic, and I think I showed this to you last time you were on, I have this very generic global M2 chart that helps me think through whether liquidity is being added into the system or taken out of the system, but it's not anything near. And I'm bringing it up on the screen right now so you can see this. But this isn't anywhere as near well done as like what you do when you're looking at global liquidity. But when I'm looking at this, and this is kind of the view over the last 10 years for people
Starting point is 00:01:42 that are on YouTube, it's just basically a chart that goes from the bottom left to the top right, showing how the money supply, the Fiat money supply just has to keep being added into the system and that it follows kind of within a trough. And when it starts going on the bottom rail, they have to add liquidity when it's on the top rail. They kind of ease off things. And this is kind of a zoomed in version since COVID of the same chart. But it looks like they basically have been trying to allow the liquidity to not be so aggressive since call it. What was this? Maybe the summer of 2022.
Starting point is 00:02:19 It's gone pretty sideways. Interestingly, from this past summer in 2024, it looks like a lot of liquidity was added into the system. I don't know if that was election-based to maybe juice the markets a bit. But what I find interesting is we've come off of somewhat aggressively brought the liquidity back down globally since September or October when the election was finalizing and finishing up. The reason I bring this up is because in the Bitcoin price action, we've seen Bitcoin really ramp The election happened. You have a pro-crypto U.S. president that he doesn't care like what it is.
Starting point is 00:03:00 Meme coin to Bitcoin, it doesn't matter for this administration. The price went crazy, but then it's been very stagnant since. And I see a corollary between how much liquidity has come out of the global economy since that election until now. And I guess my first question for you is, do you think that that's a factor of why we've seen Bitcoin be stagnant? Or is that a way over simplification of all the different dynamics that make the price bid or contract? Great question. I have many charts as well that show a very similar story. The monetary base chart basically shows the same story. I could show you some charts
Starting point is 00:03:38 in a second, but for the sake of our listeners as well, fine to just talk about it at the beginning. The big story obviously was COVID. So from COVID, we had a monetary base that was like 20 trillion. and then it went up to 30 trillion in scope of a couple of years. Now it's come down to about 25 trillion. But there are a couple things that are happening there. First of all, other currencies are getting weaker against the dollar. And I know that you've talked about that on your show. You've seen that especially with the strong pro-business.
Starting point is 00:04:12 We can talk about politics another time, but pro-business, pro-bitcoin, low-tax environment that you're going to see in the U.S., or presumably going to see in the U.S., just been massive amounts of massive flights to the dollar from many, many currencies. And that was even occurring before Trump was elected, but now it's just continuing. So that's a big factor. And then as far as the global liquidity, which is basically, as many people use different terminology there, my global liquidity is the monetary base. It's the liability side of the central bank balance sheet.
Starting point is 00:04:45 Like I said, it's about $25.5 trillion at the moment. not only is the dollar getting stronger relative to other currencies, but the central banks themselves all around the world are trying to tighten their belts still. And I presume they're going to do that even for the next quarter or so. Inflation is running wild around the world in a lot of different places. You can check the news in many parts of the world and you'll see that. It's not just war-torn countries. It's, you know, have a lot of overhangs still from all the money printing that they did during COVID. So they're trying to work that out of the system, they're trying to raise interest rates globally and, you know, the United States balance
Starting point is 00:05:23 sheet, even though they have cut, as we know, the last couple months lightly, the balance sheet is still declining overall with the Federal Reserve. And that is the case for most of the rest of the world as well. On my sort of blended average native figure, which is very complicated to calculate on a trailing 12-month basis, central banks have pulled in their balance sheets about 3% negative or negative 3% growth over the last year, whereas last quarter, you did last quarter, that would be flat. But again, it even looks worse than that because those currencies, remember we have this basket, it's Whitkinson's rule, all those currencies are also getting weaker against the dollar.
Starting point is 00:06:01 So it still is the same dollar milkshake thesis, wherever you want to talk about it. The dollar still remains the best-looking horse in the glue factory, but it is that flight to the dollar is increasing. assist from what I can see. So on my generic chart that I had up there before, it's showing that from a trend standpoint, we're kind of grinding on this lower rail of when they typically step back in and added more liquidity. Do you think that we're kind of getting their ability to kind of press a little lower than where they normally do? Is that because they added so much liquidity through COVID that there's a lot of excess liquidity still sloshing around to your
Starting point is 00:06:40 comment about inflation kind of happening all over the place so that maybe that's kind of the counterbalance of like why they're able to contract so much more than what they have historically without having to add more? I think so. I think so. And I can share one now for the YouTube viewers. Yeah. I want to see your charts.
Starting point is 00:06:59 Yeah. So what you'll see here, and unfortunately this one I just don't know why I didn't get the last three quarters updated. By the time this episode airs, we'll have that 25.5 trillion expressed. But what you see here is we got the monetary base on long scale, so it's exponential growth, straight line. You know, just a remarkable, let me just take off the bounds, but a remarkable trend in itself.
Starting point is 00:07:19 It's a 99% R squared. So, wow. The monetary markets move in exponential. You know, the stock markets do, the gold markets. Everything but Bitcoin actually moves in exponential, which we can talk about. But you can see here, and this is as of September, I got 27 trillion. This is down now to 25 and a half, okay? I got other charts that we'll show the 25 and a half, but regardless.
Starting point is 00:07:38 We got, we're going down. And now if I put the bounds on where you can see around this trend line, the lifetime over under on the trend, if we go to the two and a half percentile and the 97 and a half percentile, we're very close to the lower bound. And if I take it out there, you can see there, December 2024, the two and a half percent plus 24 trillion. All right, so that would be like only two and a half percent of the observations will be below that number on per the trend.
Starting point is 00:08:04 We're at 25.5 trillion is the latest figure. So again, by the time this is aired, people will be able to see this on my website, that number. But it is a very strong trend, and we are very much at the low end. And if you look back through history before the dot com, boom and bust, before Y2K, we were at historically low levels, a little bit, the Wall Street crash here in the mid-80s. But other than that, the central banks usually pull this trend up, right? This is not something that's fixed. It will go up and down each month, depending on if they're printing more or less.
Starting point is 00:08:35 usually this trend is being pulled up every month. And it hasn't since, like you said, about mid-2020. We've gone under that trend. So it's like major, if you looked at this thing now on just straight up linear scale, you'll see that obviously, you know, we had that 30 trillion. There's like a big, big crash from mid-2020. Central banks have still been printing on balance, although now, like I said, they're down about 3% negative.
Starting point is 00:08:58 But it's a lot of this as well is dollar, dollar strength and other currency weakness. So I can show you here. So, Matthew, on that point, when you're looking at, and I think the way that the market's been interpreting these first 30 days of the Trump administration, especially with all the Doge news, I don't think that that's helped the dollar get weaker relative to all these other currencies. It seems like they're, I mean, they're keeping it at bay, but it just seems like you're going to have a dollar breakout relative to all these other currencies when you look at the
Starting point is 00:09:28 DXY index. I'm curious how they, and I say this because just two days ago, now they're saying they're going to send out $5,000 checks to all Americans for the savings that Doge has had, which would counterbalance this narrative that the dollar's going to get stronger because they're going to be more fiscally responsible. They're going to implement austerity measures and everything else. I was always kind of rolling my eyes hearing this, made a couple videos like why. But I'm curious your take on the U.S.'s current political talk versus what you think is going to happen in reality with the respect of the dollar and the liquidity that they're going to add into the global economy because the expectation is that dollar would just get too strong relative to everything else. Yeah. So just to just that last point, I think big picture, broad strokes, everything stays the same. That means roughly 12.6% per year compounded growth in the global money supply, 12.6%.
Starting point is 00:10:28 So that numbers, it was 12. Matthew, that number is... 12.7% last quarter. Now it's 12.6 because they've been... That's a very deeply, deeply sourced, a lot of numbers go into that weighted average for like the global money supply, the global central bank money supply. It was 12.7%. Actually, during COVID, it was up to 13%.
Starting point is 00:10:45 It's a lifetime figure, this black line here on this chart, the solid black line. It was up to 13% but now it's down to 12.6% per year compounded. But still, at the end of the day, that is 1% a month. And compounding is, you know, if you do 1% a month, you're actually closer to 13% a year, not 12% a year. So just these little things, but the bottom line is we're still very much in that ballpark, but we are indeed at the lower end of that bound. We're shrinking liquidity.
Starting point is 00:11:14 They're trying to shrink liquidity, I should say, right? The money masters, the central bankers. And globally right now, it's down to 3% decrease natively, actually. If you looked at every native currency, this is something that I try to affect. I try to net out all the dollar changes and just look at, okay, let's wait the euro, changes in the euro, the yen, the yuan, all the different currencies. And it's decreasing, but it's not that much. And regardless, if you look at it in dollar terms, it's the only way we can wait it and
Starting point is 00:11:42 sort of globally see it. Yeah, it's on the lower bound, but to your point about the checks or any other sort of stimulus that might come here, I don't see how they can continue this for much longer. Now, a lot of narratives. The tightening of the liquidity you're saying. Of the tightening of liquidity. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:01 There's still a lot of narratives, right? There's still, I think those of us fiscally conservative type folks who believe that governments shouldn't overspend generally are looking at what is happening in Washington as favorable. Of course, as you know, again, but politically there's a lot of people want to argue about how they're doing it and so on and so forth. There are a lot of favorable things there. But as we know, the vast majority of the spending here in the U.S. budget, is entitlements and it is the military.
Starting point is 00:12:28 Yeah. As John Williams, the old shadow stats economist used to say, you could cut every single program of the United States except for entitlements and you would still be in deficit. That's just how it works. And you'd still be running cashful and negative every year. And that's generally the case. I mean, it's just a massive proportion, right? I mean, of the $10 trillion that we're spending now a year, you know, per year, you have
Starting point is 00:12:51 two thirds or something like that as entitlements plus military at least. So there's just, I see that continuing. We could try to take more of a chainsaw approach, not a scalpel approach. It seems like Yelan is trying to do that. But even amidst of all the blustering and the yelling in Washington, I think at the end of the day, Central Banks, the best tool that they have to ease problems in the market is just to print more. And they'll try to use whatever excuse they can do there.
Starting point is 00:13:18 And so yes, it is true. We are at the lower end of that curve, right? We're not at the two and a half percent, right? would be about $24 trillion, where $25.5 trillion globally of central bank money. But I just don't see that continuing on much longer. You think by the end of the year, by the end of 2025, you're going to have a surge in liquidity? Yeah. It's hard to put exact timelines on this. But another thing I would say is, well, to answer your question, I don't know exactly by the end of the year. I don't know. But I would say that if you're looking towards what's happening
Starting point is 00:13:51 in the fiscal government world to how that might affect, say, your Bitcoin portfolio, I would actually tell you that doesn't matter at all, not at all. As much as people talk about purchasing power, like you look at a Bitcoin price chart, this is the chart of people that are worried about their pricing power. And I don't want to change the subject. We can keep it on here, but sort of as a big picture might give comfort to listeners who are bottling Bitcoin, I don't actually see Bitcoin focusing on any of that. I see what happens at Bitcoin is if you look at the price curve. You're looking at a curve of adoption, right? You've heard this. You've talked to many people about this. It's an adoption curve. It looks that it's a power curve, which we can talk about as well.
Starting point is 00:14:30 But the growth is so incredible. It's so, again, those power curves, they run at 96, 97% R squared. It's so resilient that I just don't see any direct short-term connection with the fiscal environment of the monetary, the fiscal environment, I should say, or the monetary environment of the United States or Europe or Japan. It's just something that comes and goes month in and month out. So from that side, Bitcoin gives you a tremendous amount of comfort. And so I would say that. As far as stocks and bonds, yes, they're much more reactive to it, gold as well.
Starting point is 00:15:05 Gold is interesting. It's been having a gangbusters year last year and continuing on this year in the midst of a kind of tightening monetary environment. So that's kind of confusing to people. But again, if I showed you the growth rates of the gold chart, I can show you this, actually, gold would be sort of exponential straight line and Bitcoin would just be flying away at this amazing power curve growth. So the point is Bitcoin still looks like the most superior asset in the world by far. No matter what happens in these sort of short term, what's going to
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Starting point is 00:19:54 Matthew, I want to ask you about this 12.7 figure. So you hear Michael Saylor, you hear myself included and many other people, Lynn Alden, constantly saying this 8% growth rate of M2, we seem to be way underestimated. And for me, I'll just look at like the US M2. I'll look at it over the past 10 years. I do a compound annual growth rate over that 10 year period. And I'm coming up with a figure around 8 to call it 9%. How are you arriving at this 12%?
Starting point is 00:20:26 And then I'm curious if this 8% number is more of a U.S. centric growth rate of the money supply. And the rest of the world is offsetting that by quite a bit for a net of this 12.6 or 12.7 that you're finding. Yeah. So for those that are looking on YouTube here, I got a 65 year chart of the monetary base, got the numbers here on the left, which monetary base started, you know, with not, I have a sample of 50 currencies. This is like 95% of GDP. It's, you're getting into like a couple billion, maybe five billion monetary base size per currency as I add and it just gets too
Starting point is 00:21:06 annoying to do it. So it really doesn't add much. The point is that diminishing returns are sort of extreme. But even back in the 70s, if you look at this, you had like a $200 billion monetary base. And then again, that goes to $30 trillion by the peak of COVID, early 2020, debt now down to $25 trillion. So if you want to know how much of the basket basically is the U.S., it was more, more than 20 percent back in the 70s and the 80s. But now with the growth of People's Bank of China, which is a hugely communist inflated distorted balance sheet, the growth of the European union together as one currency block, which has happened for the last 20 years, and the amazing staying power of the Japanese yen, which is a very, it's a very strong currency relative to the size
Starting point is 00:21:54 of the society, relative to the agent society, and actually holds its value. Those four currencies together, the big four, they are about 20% each of the basket. So just rough numbers, you're getting to 80% of the basket with those four currencies. And none of them are out size. It's kind of like global GDP, actually. Global GDP over 100 trillion. The US is 20 to 25 trillion of that. It's actually almost the exact same ratio. So that's also interesting to note. I don't have my own global sample of M2. You could get that from the IMF, but I haven't sort of done the precise apples to apples with my currencies versus the IMF because you don't want to double count and all that stuff. You know, take more currencies than in one basket versus the other. But in any event, and then if you
Starting point is 00:22:38 I'd say India, Brazil, Switzerland, Australia, sort of these mid-major currencies, Canada, you're getting already over 90%, okay, with those mid-majures. And then the rest of the basket from there is the last 10%. So that's the size, that's the size of how this weighting is, the size of the of the basket. And to answer your question about where you get this number, I'll show you here, the 12 month change, right? If I were to, I have a huge spread sheet literally of all the different currencies of all their growth rates in each individual currency. And then I weight that number by the dollar value of the monetary base in that month. But it's a very, like, I'm not doing it over a period.
Starting point is 00:23:20 I'm doing it like every month. If the dollar value changes, the weight will change. So it's pretty detailed from that perspective. But anyway, that number where you finally will settle on globally worldwide long term is 12.6%. But obviously, of course, even that number, if you look at a traveling 12 month basis, you can be way over it, right? So here you can see in two, you can see in two, 2008, QE1 and 2 in particular standout where you get 30, 35% per year.
Starting point is 00:23:44 Same thing with QE2. And then, of course, COVID. COVID, I think the one of the peaks, 32.8% per year in February 2021, trailing 12 months. So that gives you a picture of sort of the extremes. But you will see, again, which is wild, is from COVID. They knew, they realized how much they overshot it all here. And, you know, the overreaction kind of a, of a symbolism. of what happened worldwide anyway with everything.
Starting point is 00:24:11 They've really tried to cut it back. There's been literally no money growth or flat money growth in a native trailing 12-month basis. And I don't go negative on this. You can see it in the tooltip, but really now in the last few months has been like the deepest negative, like negative, like negative percent per year. Wow. December 2024. Yeah, and that's a native number.
Starting point is 00:24:30 But you look, even if you do it in dollar terms, it's even more than that. But there's, you know, there's two different measurements here. I could give you the dollar. The change in the dollar, value or I can triangulate it first looking at the actual percentages and then weight those. It's different numbers. We don't have to go in the weeds of that. But the point is 12.6% is the number kind of looking at the native unit first.
Starting point is 00:24:52 And actually, the dollar growth, as you can imagine, is less. It's about 10.5%. If you actually just look, I'll show you, if I go back here. Say I just did the slope of this curve, we're going to put it up, right? So the slope of this curve here, that black line, as it's a straight line on log scale, it's clearly exponential growth. The slope of that curve is like somewhere close to 11%. But here I'm actually starting with the dollar values.
Starting point is 00:25:17 And you would expect this to even be higher because like back here in the day, in 70s and the 80s, I have less currencies. So you would expect that with less currencies in this old one with, or not old one, but this sort of very scientific one, the 12.6%. I'm looking at every currency. And if there's one currency that just didn't exist back in the 70s or something that didn't exist now, I just don't count it. Like very, very with a fine tooth comb.
Starting point is 00:25:42 But here, I'm just kind of slapping on a trend line. And you would expect that, okay, since I have more currencies later, this is going to grow higher, but it's actually less. Yeah. So what does that tell you? And it's about a percent and a half less. The Delta is that we're at 12.6 percent. Something like it's close to 11 percent that compound growth rate.
Starting point is 00:26:02 And what that tells you is central banks, other than the dollar, still print a lot of money, and they still can't keep up because they lose value in the currency versus the dollar, which is just another interesting thing in and of itself. The dollar remains, always has remained. I don't see anything that will change that, no matter what China or Russia says, it remains the best-looking horse in the glue factory, like no matter, no matter any way you look at. So anyway, probably parsed through the numbers a little bit too much there. But the point is the growth of the money supply, any way you slice it, is somewhere between
Starting point is 00:26:30 11% compounded to 13% compounded per year. Yeah. It's a massive number. It is true though. It is true. If we want to be very rigorous, like economically about it, we'd have to do Cedars Paribus. It doesn't mean that that's what happens to prices, right? So that's the supply of the money.
Starting point is 00:26:47 If the demand for the money actually went up 13% per year compounded, then prices would not move. But as we know, that doesn't happen, right? Yeah. Yeah. So that's why the demand for that money is not that high and people want to go to gold or or Bitcoin or stocks. So what the actual demand is, no one knows. It's hard to measure, right? We could measure GDP growth or other things. But it's probably, you know, you could use
Starting point is 00:27:08 population growth, right? Population growths 2% per year. That's a global weighted figure, 2% per year compounded exponentially. Money supply grows 13% per year. That's a delta of 11. That might be good enough to show you what you need to do. Yeah, yeah. To get ahead of inflation, right? It's a very simple sort of way to look at it, but that's one way to look at it. World GDP grows a little bit faster than 2% per year, but it doesn't grow 13% per year. When I'm looking at this, the thing that really strikes me, if you go back to the other chart there where it had the bars, yes, this one. And I'm looking at the black bars there,
Starting point is 00:27:42 and you can see how over the last, since COVID really, they've been trying to normalize globally as best they could. What I find so fascinating is if you look at the equity markets, When it started coming off of that liquidity insertion of COVID, you know, we had equity markets just rip, absolutely rip. They adjusted there slightly with the amount of liquidity coming out. But now they're, again, at all-time highs. And what I personally think it is, and I'm curious if you would agree with this, is we're finally seeing a rotation out of this long duration bond trade, which worked for 40 years.
Starting point is 00:28:20 And like, that would be my argument as to why equities are ripping is despite the liquidity that's being sucked out of the markets globally, just based on the chart that you're displaying here, I think that the story there is the market has discovered and figured out that that 40-year long bond trade is dead. That is a doorknail. And as they're selling out of that, they're moving into going long equities to try to preserve their buying power. I'm curious if you agree and if you don't, kind of what your take on that would be of why, how we can see this much liquidity being soaked out of the global economy for the last, call it two years, but yet equity markets are ripping. No, I 100% agree. Nobody wants to be on that side of trade.
Starting point is 00:29:03 If bond yields are going to, we're in a 10, 20 year bear of bonds and yields are just going to persistently go up. And no matter where you buy on that yield curve, you're going to look to have to sell that bond at a higher yield, i.e. lower price. two, three, four years after that, no one wants to be a part of that trade. So that's going to be a huge challenge. It's a huge challenge for any bond investor. And for that reason, equities continue to make sense there.
Starting point is 00:29:27 I would still say, though, the bonds are challenging, right? They're challenging in many ways to sort of value and understand. And certainly when the central bank is becoming as big of a player in the economy as it has been now compared to before, you know, just, I think I showed you this chart. I don't have it ready offhand, but the central bank is about 20% of the U.S. bond market these days, right? So the Federal Reserve's balance sheet, whatever it is, the exact amount with $7 trillion, a little bit under, that's, if you look at the actual treasuries, divided up by the national debt, you're looking at somewhere around 20%, a little less of the US national
Starting point is 00:29:58 debt. It's a huge layer. People get scared of that. A hundred years ago, the central bank was zero percent of the national debt. Just slowly grew over the last 100 years, and now it's up to 20 percent. So people aren't really quite sure, I think, how that's going to play out. That's why people look at gold. That's why people look at Bitcoin. If things don't look you politically, it's just hard to be a bond, like to have a lot of conviction as a bond investor, especially during these times. So that, yeah, I think you're spot on with the way that that tells the story there. But I will say as well with stocks, and this is why I'd like to look at these trend lines. I don't think I have it ready to pull up, but basically stocks, if you did the long-term
Starting point is 00:30:35 trend of the S&P 500, just like you do here of the monetary base, right? If you do the S&P 500, it's the last 80 years, something like since the 50s. Here I show you global money. it's like 11%, right? Or 12%, or 13%, depending on your exact measurement. S&P 500 over the long term is 7% without reinvesting your dividends, 9% if you reinvest those dividends, 7 and 9. And it's even higher in the last 10 years, as you know, it can be like 12%, 30%. So that's just, that's where people want to be, I think. I think that's the trend. I think people are scared to not be there. And if you know that the long term trend is 7%, and if you reinvest those dividends, you get an extra 2%, it's just hard to fight that, right?
Starting point is 00:31:14 But then here's where this beauty of Bitcoin, we bring in Bitcoin, and it's just this new asset completely different, and we can measure the growth of that. The compound annual growth rate of the Bitcoin curve, the power curve right now at the moment, is 45%. So we're running at it. Even if you looked at the power curve today, take the power curve next week,
Starting point is 00:31:31 you measure the slope of that curve. It's about 45%, a little under 45% at the moment. That's just massive. And then here's a really brain-twisting question, Preston, I can ask you. So as the slope of this Bitcoin power curve, let me pull it up, actually, just to show you. I love this. Let me, yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:47 And that number is just totally berserk. It is. It is. So here we have now the Bitcoin price. And I got the old power curve. Oh, I like this. I like this chart. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:01 Let's put it on log scale on the left here. So let's take the old power curve. So for people listening, he has a chart up that's showing the compound. non-annual growth rate in discrete moments in time, and it's all plotted out. And it's showing kind of like, what is that average trend that he told you it's 45% earlier with a R-square value of 96%. Yeah, exactly. So even not looking at the trend, anybody you can imagine, right?
Starting point is 00:32:29 If you bought Bitcoin at $16 in July 2011, you held till today, it's an 89% compound growth. That's just what it is. We can chart it out. And what you do is actually, you'll see that it's higher in 2010, of course. when you're buying for under a dollar, 10 cents, and it gets lower. But we do have this phenomenon, the theta, the time dilation. That is, you get very close, things get a little bit wild and kind of won't have ignore it. We can smooth this out. We can smooth this sort of crazy compound growth curve out by measuring what? Let's measure the slope of the trend. So the trend
Starting point is 00:32:58 is the black line here. Let's measure the slope of that. We're going to get an inverse, nice looking black line. So here, the trend line, just for our listeners, let's say you bought Bitcoin at 6 cents, September 14th, 2010. If you actually bought it at 6 cents, that's 168% return, but the trend line would be 20 cents. Just think about trends versus actual. So, if you bought it that trend, that's 146% compound growth held till today. Point is, you roll that out, you get till today. And what you're going to see is we're right around, yeah, we're under 45 now.
Starting point is 00:33:30 We're at 43, over 43, between 43 and 44% compound annual growth. And that's the slope of the power curve. That's the slope of the trend. And that's going to continue out. Even if you go all the way out to the end of the decade, you're still looking at 35%, $560,000 Bitcoin price, according to the power curve by the end of the decade.
Starting point is 00:33:49 But here's the question, Preston. When do you think that 35% compound annual growth rate per the trend will match the stock market of 7 and 9, or let's just say 10%. When do you think 35%? Oh, that's an interesting question. See, it goes down. Yeah, when do you think it will match 10% according to the growth of
Starting point is 00:34:08 the power curve. A long time from now. You know. Good response. That's a good, you're on, you're on to something. Some people say like maybe only 30 years. Oh, yeah. No, I'm thinking like 100 years based on the math, based on the math. You're getting, you're getting there. Over 100 years, actually. It's going to be like somewhere 2050, excuse me, 2150. So, and now, I hasten to say, this is not saying, I know, anybody knows what the return of Bitcoin is going to be in terms compounded 100 years from now. I'm just saying that is the growth of the curve. And clearly, if you look at a lot of other factors in Bitcoin, if you look at the geopolitical
Starting point is 00:34:45 world, and if you even look at this magical number, which is 100 trillion USD, which obviously has been made famous in many circles, I think that something will probably happen much sooner in Bitcoin. I think probably in the next 10 years, 20 years, two havings, three havings for other reasons we can discuss. But yes, yes, I have no idea what's going to happen in 100 years. I totally agree with that. to me, yeah, it's amazing to me that the strength of that curve is still so strong. People
Starting point is 00:35:11 look at this power curve and like, oh, it's not exciting. You know, it's just smooth growth. Who knows that the market's actually going to work that way? Well, if you actually talk to any financial analysts or hedge fund or pension fund and said, you know, can you consistently deliver 45% per year compounded, yes, you're going to have some huge Maylocks moments every four years with some drawdowns. But, you know, it's unstoppable. There is no other trend. Bond, stocks, gold, that even comes close. I want to pull on this thread that you're saying, the math, as we're looking at it here, projects that if everything stayed on this power law, that it would take that long
Starting point is 00:35:46 for it to get down to the same return profile as the S&P 500. I don't think that it's going to, I think we're going to see something more like, and some folks might laugh at this, but like the stock the FOMO, have you ever seen this chart to stock the FOMO where it's kind of like real aggressive at the start? it's kind of doing like a 45% return profile right now and then it accelerates again. S curve. Like an S curve, yes. I think that that's a much more likely scenario as you have nation state adoption, you have
Starting point is 00:36:18 corporate adoption and it starts to really kind of take hold and really start to dominate fiat currencies as a settlement layer. Where that S curve really starts to pick up, I don't know, is it five years, 10 years, 15, I have no idea, but I suspect that's how this actually plays out as opposed to it taking decades and decades. I'm curious, and you agree. You see me. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:42 I actually, there's a lot of debate and, you know, I know there's people in the power curve camp and the stock to flow camp or stock the FOMO camp, whatever it might be. I happen to be in the power curve camp. This Giovanni from Italy was the first one to observe it. I guess I was the second one, according to all the evidence. that I've seen, not that I'm such a big deal to me, but I'm just saying that I've been following this trend since 2016. Sorry, it's 2018 I posted it, but since 2016, the trend has actually been pretty solid. And from everything that I see, I actually think that the power curve based on
Starting point is 00:37:18 Bitcoin's price and market cap fundamentals is the strongest trend that we have. And I think that I actually could continue on for a long time. And I don't necessarily see that BOMO. I could be wrong. I could be wrong. I'll show you a couple of the charts. But there's a way to explain this without using too many statistical terms and all this stuff. And I'm not a statistician, sort of an applied statistician sort of numbers guy. But we just talked a bunch about exponential curves, right? We talked about the monetary base. We talked about bond markets, obviously is exponential.
Starting point is 00:37:47 Any interest rate you hear is exponential. If it's quoted as an interest rate, that's an exponential market. The stock market, 7, 9% per year, population growth GDP, these are all exponential things. It seems to me that if you look at networks, things where you have this relationship of, say, few large nodes with many people connecting or servers, you can use the word nodes, server, client, whatever, client server. Or you have the situation where you have many small nodes with few connecting, which that's a power law relationship.
Starting point is 00:38:20 This sort of network effect type growth, it seems more likely to me to actually continue. So another example would be the growth. And there's a book that's written by a guy named Jeffrey West. Giovanni has actually talked about this book as well a lot. It's called Scale. Very good book. But my understanding of the way that power curves grow is also the way that cities grow. So even though exponentially the world is growing exponentially one to two percent per year
Starting point is 00:38:45 compounded consistently, cities actually grow different. Even though we're putting, it seems like tons of people into cities every year, they don't just fly into the sun, right? And it's not that the growth of them is slowing down. Just the growth of them is occurring in this sort of structured, interesting network way where you have infrastructure that's just totally different than outside, right? Not as many people need a car. People can live on top of each other.
Starting point is 00:39:09 Utilities can be delivered in a certain way in a city that they couldn't be delivered in the countryside or in a suburb, so on and so forth. And that is actually, if you research the growth of cities, they grow in this sort of power curve way, so as gradual, gradual way that if you look at it on long scale, it's actually not a straight line. It's a decreasing line. And this is what you see with Bitcoin. Let me show you now. So that's my attempt at least to try to not use fancy statistical terms to say why I think power could work for Bitcoin. But here, let me put this now. This is the Bitcoin power trend versus the exponential trend. I got this on long scale. You need to take this off.
Starting point is 00:39:44 Number one is the power trend. Number two is an exponential trend for Bitcoin. They're the same trends, like I'm using the same amount of data. It's all the all-time data of Bitcoin as of when I pulled into the model, which should be today, February 20th, as of our recording, $97,000 Bitcoin, is the price. Right on PowerTrend, by the way. PowerTrent is about $93,000 Bitcoin. Okay, look at the exponential price if Bitcoin followed exponential. It is $392,000. Only 86% are squared. These are the exact same math is applied here. I'm just using the exponential format. for the exponential trend or a power formula for the power trend, Bitcoin just does not look exponential to me.
Starting point is 00:40:23 If you take off the power, you have this, you're just looking at the exponential line now, straight line on long scale, it's how exponential growth works. You can see it just doesn't fit the price growth. You got way under it, obviously, in the 2010s. And then even from this peak in 2013 through that crypto winner, 2017, you don't even go under trend until finally 2022,
Starting point is 00:40:44 Erronica date we already discussed. And then we've been under trends, since 2022. If Bitcoin followed an exponential curve, I think it would have a better R squared. I think it would have an R squared that's closer to 100. I should say power is not exactly 100, but it's 96%. It's pretty good. It doesn't have to be 100%. By the way, like gold is an exponential trend in the R squared might be 87%. I don't know. It's still exponential, but the best trend that fits it is exponential if that makes any sense. And that's only an 87% R squared. That's the gold market. So Bitcoin, I see, what I see when I see with Bitcoin, I don't see like the stock market.
Starting point is 00:41:21 I don't see what Trump is going to say in the next week. I don't see what the Fed is doing. I'm more see an adoption curve. People around the world plugging in, people learning about the Lightning Network, people to raise one small geopolitical trend that I'm living through here in Eastern Europe and the Baltics, like, it's pretty scary time for us right now with what's happening in Ukraine and uncertainty of how that war is going to be resolved. You know, the Baltics, we are next on chopping block for Eastern Europe.
Starting point is 00:41:47 Like, we're NATO countries since 2004, but people are wondering if NATO will even be honored. At some point, that is actually a concern. I think the problem that is still low, but it's a question mark. But I am thankful that I have Bitcoin, even living in Europe and living in Eastern Europe, that if I need to take my family and move, like Bitcoin and Multisig, I don't need to do anything. I don't need to send it anywhere. We can literally just move, have it in multiple jurisdictions, backed up, redundant. And I say this every time I get on a Bitcoin pod as a guess, but it literally is a superpower
Starting point is 00:42:16 to do Bitcoin multisig. It's unbelievable. It's something like we've never seen. So I don't, I just don't look at Bitcoin as sort of something that responds to the whims of the central bank. I look at it more as a network being adopted. You know, a lot of people who haven't figured out the glories of multi-sig or whatever. There's so many things that amazing features with TapRoot.
Starting point is 00:42:36 I think it's going to take a long time. I think you can FOMO into it, but even something like FOMOing into Facebook or Amazon. Yeah, there's huge growth and it's exponential growth. But it still takes a long time. And it's usually not a strong growth rate, right? These other markets, we can talk about social networks, whatever. The Winklewey, that whole story with them and Zuckerberg that happened in 2003. Yeah, Zuckerberg is one of the richest people in the world now and Facebook's a hugely successful top 10 stock. But this is 20 years on. There's a few unicorns. Bitcoin is in my view. It's not going to be any more or less explosive, let's say. I think it's still going to be, whether actually,
Starting point is 00:43:13 this is another point to say, by the way, whether your exponential growth or whether your power growth still can take a long term. I just don't see it to use my analogy. I don't see anything sort of exploding into the sun in the next few years. I think it's just like a long time. A lot of different people around the world have to come to grips with it. And even when they do, are they really going to use multi-stig? Are they really going to plug into the Bitcoin network the right way? Are they just going to phomow in on an ETF and then, I don't know, buy a You can pay off their car payment or something, you know, for the average person. I'm not saying, Matt, I'm not trying to belittle anyone, but that's my view.
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Starting point is 00:47:05 All right. Back to the show. Here's the question I got for you on the power law. At what price would it start looking like that's being, let's say we see a million dollar Bitcoin in the coming two years. I know that that wouldn't violate or make the power law invalid, but it would start to suggest that maybe a price action, because I think the upper rail of this power laws is around like four or five hundred thousand.
Starting point is 00:47:32 Is that correct? as far as keeping it within the... Yeah, that's about right. It's the top end, probably four or five hundred. Yeah, it's probably right. Very rare. Technically, you could get up to 700,000, probably in some 99th percentile charts, but yeah, probably 400,000 in my view, would be a more accurate blowoff.
Starting point is 00:47:51 So if we would get to call it a million or a million five or something like that within two years, that would be an indicator that hold on because maybe there's no model that can actually describe this. Is that an accurate way to look at it or help us understand mathematically like what is inside or outside those limits and what would almost be like a flag that's raised as like, hey, you might want to pay attention to this because something's different. Yeah, yeah. Or even within the next year, right? So if we're talking, if we're talking to say realistically or in the top percentile bands, there's something like 300,000, 400,000 within the next year. And as everybody knows, in Bitcoin land, 25 is.
Starting point is 00:48:33 Theoretically, that's the, you know, December 2025. That's the end of the four-year cycle, which has typically been a blow off top. I would certainly say we should look harder at other ways to talk about Bitcoin if it goes up above a million by the end of this year. That would be very interesting. And by the way, that's why it's awesome even the numbers we're talking about. Could you imagine if like we're just, you know, some of the things statisticians argue about here we're talking about whether Bitcoin might come up to three or 400,000 versus
Starting point is 00:49:03 million and if it's going to invalidate some model or not. So, by the way, I would certainly not be disappointed if it did that. But yeah, just as an example here, right on trend for the exponential by the end of the year, for the exponential, $773,000. That's by the end of this year. Whereas power, as you see. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:25 Yeah, same chart. End of 2025 for the power, only about $123,000. Oh, interesting. So to get to something, yeah, to get to something like three sigma, or 99 percentile, this is not how you do sigma, but let's just very simply say, if you multiply the Bitcoin trend line by three, that's like the most rare thing that could happen. So that's already you're at, you know, 375,000, something like that. That's not what 3 Sigma means, just to be clear, I'm not saying that, but there's no way, like, it's extremely rare per the model to be 3x the trend
Starting point is 00:49:55 by the end of this year. That's an extremely rare number, whereas that number, 3x the trend of the power trend, $375,000, that's like half of what an exponential trend would put us at. So, yeah, I do think actually we're going to get probably a more definitive answer to this in the next two halvings. I think for sure that, I mean, that might sound too long to you, but it's a lot of people. I still think we're going to have to wait another halving to see exactly how this is playing out. But yeah, let's just say, if Bitcoin goes to a million by the end of this year, that would break most of the power law models. Yeah. The power law idea of what Bitcoin is. And I say that not as sort of a embracing one model or the other, just saying that to me, what you see when you
Starting point is 00:50:41 see Bitcoin's price action is really not a reaction of any one politician. I do see it more as like a network, network adoption. That's where I'm sort of the comfort of these models I'm getting it. It's not, it doesn't have anything to do with externalities to Bitcoin. Yeah. What are your thoughts on the having playing a role moving forward because it seems like it was a very powerful force early on. There's a lot of people making arguments that were kind of beyond the having, really having much of an impact. I know Willie Wu's been kind of saying that for quite a while and there's many others that I think agree with him. What are your thoughts on the impact of the having moving forward? I think that they're going to have a proportional effect on the Bitcoin price just as the
Starting point is 00:51:27 price has tended to grow in power. What do I mean by that? Let me show this is my website. I got a power curve on my website. If people want to see, they can play around with the bands and everything. And by the way, on my website, we can just see here by the end of 2025. I got a 97.5 percentile. There's a lot of people who do different analysis.
Starting point is 00:51:46 Mine says 45, $450,000. All right. So that's just, again, really, in my opinion, pretty rare in the end of 2025. I'm going to show these chart and I'll answer the question about how important I think havings are. What does a power law or a power curve mean? Power curve means proportional growth relative to the size of the network, but it does not mean constant growth.
Starting point is 00:52:06 So everything we just talked about at the beginning of the show, base money, the Fiat money supply grows at 11 to 13% per year compounded. That's a fixed number, it's a constant number. We can run doubling times from that. Like 10%, for example, the basic one does not double in 10 years, right? With compounding, rule of 72, it doubles in 7.2 years. So that is the most simple way to talk about exponential growth is because of the compounding feature of exponential growth, we get something that will double faster than what it might seem like, right, with the 10% example. An investment will not double in 10 years under 10% compound growth. It will double in 7.2 years.
Starting point is 00:52:46 That's how you can figure out doubling time. And that's a constant thing. It doesn't matter which percentage you pick for something else, 9%, 15%. These doubling times are the same for each investment or thing in nature that's growing at that rate and the percentages are the same. They're constant. With power, it's different. With power, you get that sloping curve on log scale, but you do get a fixed percent of whatever your X axis is. That's what power is. So if you see here on this chart, I have it on my website and people can see, it's actually a familiar number, but it's unrelated. It's just a coincidence. It's about 12.7 percent, But again, this is not 12.7% per year.
Starting point is 00:53:22 This is what this shows is what the power curve, if we measure the rate of growth of the power curve of Bitcoin, it's a declining growth rate. So remember it was over 100% 10 years ago, now it's 45%, a little bit under 45% per year. But what is fixed or what is proportional is the extra amount of days, if we can find a certain percentage based on the math, an extra amount of days in time, that will always be the same for the price to double or pick a number of the price to go up five. something like this. So I just, as an example, I picked up the doubling percentage, and it happens to be about 12.7%. Not 12.7% per year. It is for every increase in the amount of days of Bitcoin network,
Starting point is 00:54:01 that is 12.7%, Bitcoin's price doubles. That's the trend. So you can see here, when Bitcoin is really young, 2010, there's only 640 days. 12.7% is just a new 72 days. You add 72 days on 640. You get to 722. The trend just went from 25 cents to 50 cents. It only took 72 days. But now, where we are in between this on my little chart here, it's, again, you could pick any days, you could pick any days to run this. It would always do the same, 12.7 percent. We're between here, this 2024, 2026 number, a 12.7 percent increase in the life of Bitcoin as a network is 625 days. So for the model, you need it to double that trend line. You need to now have a lot more days. And that's just how this example of Bitcoin's power curve work. Because you can do power curve
Starting point is 00:54:47 on the hash rate or on address growth or all these other things. But the simple, interesting thing is the dollar price on time, dollar price versus days. And you get this proportional, this proportional growth of Bitcoin, the network. You know, for every 12 to 13 percent increase in time of the network, the adoption seems to double. I'm curious. That's my, that's my interpretation of the power curve. On the hash rate, are you able to do a power law on the hash rate or is it exponential? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:17 Yeah, it's a power law as well. Oh, interesting. Power on addresses. It's a power on addresses. It's power on hash rate. Huh. Thanks as well. Wow.
Starting point is 00:55:25 That's interesting. Yeah. So with that in mind, if someone would ask me about the having, which is a declining exponential function, this is where Bitcoin gets confusing. And it confuse a lot of people, or at least, again, I'm not saying I haven't figured out, but the math of it, if you look at the 50 bitcoins every four years, going out of 25, We're not at 12 and a half, which is all part of the stock to flow, by the way, and also, you know, a lot of other models.
Starting point is 00:55:50 That is a declining exponential curve. It's about 16% per year, I think, is the declining to cut the emission rate of Bitcoin's half in half every four years. You're cutting it at an exponential halving of 16% per year. So what you have with Bitcoin is interesting. Unlike gold, where ounces of the ground come out at 1.8% per year, silver is actually less, weirdly, 1.5%. But stock market, all these things, whether you look at price, supply, demand, everything seems
Starting point is 00:56:20 to be exponential. With Bitcoin, you have a myriad of things. You have declining exponential on the emission. If you looked at the supply curve itself, that means Bitcoin's not market cap. It's logarithmic. And if you look at the supply curve in dollars, it's in power. You have three different curves in Bitcoin. Whereas everything else in the world is exponential.
Starting point is 00:56:40 In Bitcoin, you have three different curves. I won't go deeper. With that, again, I'm not trying to kind of. confuse the picture, but there are a lot of ways to play with those numbers. That's why I think it's exciting. There's a lot of different, you know, you got physicists now looking at this. You've got to let people trying to understand. This is a real living network before our eyes, like a monetary system. So it's incredible to put all these numbers. So that's a long-winded way, Preston, I'm answering your question. I don't necessarily think one way or another about the
Starting point is 00:57:07 having. I think that for every 12.7% increase in days in the life of Bitcoin, I think the adoption doubles. I think the price doubles. Yeah. I mean, if you're a math student and listening to this, you have to be just like a pig in mud with your curiosity should be taking you in a whole bunch of different directions to research further. But Matthew, unfortunately, I have to end the conversation because I've actually got to run somewhere. But this was, it's a good spot that ended up. This is fascinating. I can talk to you all day. I love this. And you're you're somebody in the space who deeply understands the mathematics in so many different directions. and I just love the models that you do with respect to liquidity. And it's just such a pleasure to talk to you every time. And so thank you so much for making time and coming on the show today and talking this. We definitely have to do it again in the future. But thanks so much.
Starting point is 00:57:59 My pleasure, Preston. Thanks for having me on. Look forward to the next one. Yeah. And give people a quick handoff of where they can do more research or dig into some of the stuff that you've been talking about. Yep. My handle on all the socials, Noster included, is one base money, the number one base money.
Starting point is 00:58:13 So you can find me there. Also, my website is corkopolis.io or Cryptovoices.com. That's the podcast. Awesome. Okay. We'll have links to all that in the show notes. Matthew, thank you so much. And we'll see you guys next week. Take care. Thank you for listening to TIP. Make sure to follow Bitcoin Fundamentals on your favorite podcast app and never miss out on episodes. To access our show notes, transcripts or courses, go to theinvestorspodcast.com. This show is for entertainment purposes only. making any decision consult a professional. This show is copyrighted by the Investors Podcast Network.
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