What Bitcoin Did - Is The Bitcoin Power Law Broken? | Matthew Mezinskis
Episode Date: July 10, 2026“I think in ten years, the financial system and the Bitcoin system are going to collide.” Matthew Mezinskis is a macroeconomic researcher, host of Crypto Voices and one of the leading voices on... Bitcoin's power law and global money supply data. In this episode, we get into whether the Bitcoin power law has finally broken, why the four-year cycle still appears intact, and what the data suggests about the current market and a possible $500,000 Bitcoin in 2029. We also explore the coming collision between Bitcoin’s slowing power law growth, a financial system built on exponential credit and whether Bitcoin will force that system to change or ultimately be co-opted by it. THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: ANCHORWATCH BLOCKWARE LEDN BITKEY SWAN CAPE FOLLOW: Danny Knowles: https://x.com/\\\_DannyKnowles or https://primal.net/danny Matthew Mezinskis: https://x.com/1basemoney
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The way that power growth manifests itself is, in the case of Bitcoin, is it has started out higher in the early years.
It was, you know, 1,000% a year, right, on a curve, on a trend.
Now it's down to about 40% per year on a trend.
I think that it's totally plausible that the trend could change.
I also think it's plausible that Bitcoin could change other trends in the world.
Common sense tells us constant growth is faster than proportional growth.
It's going to be good.
It's going to be good for Bitcoin holders.
On the one hand, the number go up.
But on the other hand, this is where you get into the idea of, you know, what does that actually
mean? Is Tradfi co-opting the system? Can anyone claim any Bitcoins on an ETF? Can you withdraw
Bitcoins from exchanges after 10 years? There are a lot of things that could play into this.
And by the way, if some of those play out, perhaps as some intents players in Bitcoin want,
then I think, yeah, Bitcoin could go exponential. It could match, it could mirror the exponential
growth rate of the rest of the financial system.
Matthew.
Welcome to the show, man.
One of my favorite quarterly interviews that I do.
You know what?
Last time we were on the show, we were talking about the power law, and we were pretty
much at the bottom of the trend.
And I think we were kind of calling it the bottom, if not close to the bottom.
And then since then, Bitcoin price has gone below the power law trend.
And I don't know.
Does that mean it's broken? Is the power law broken?
Yeah. Great question, Danny.
You know, I come on your show every quarter or so and talk about this stuff a lot.
And for old listeners, maybe it's a little bit repetitive, but just very, very briefly,
when we're doing trends like this, and I've been doing it for a long time, you know,
a little bit less than Giovanni.
He's kind of got his name to the power law.
He first posted it on Reddit in 2018.
fall, something like that on the price. I did it in around December of that year. But it's important
to remember that we're not trying to model like channels or Elliott Wave stuff, you know,
these lines on charts, ABC corrections. If this level of support breaks, then it's over for
this amount of months. All of that stuff can be done. I mean, people can definitely do that and
they do and there's no shortest of articles of that on trading viewer YouTube thumbnails. But
with the general idea of what I'm trying to do when I look at the price or the money supply
is I'm just trying to gauge a relative level of change or the relative growth and see how
the asset is sitting, you know, relative to the range of observations in the past. So just looking at
the statistical probabilities. It can always be that it sort of goes lower and we can look at some
good charts today to talk about that. But it's not anything where you say, okay, if it goes past this
level of support, you know, it's definitely broken or it's over. So another way to look at that
is you just have to, you know, to see if Bitcoin is following this power law. And again,
just quick, quick, quick refresher is a power law is not constant growth.
constant growth like we talk about with our broker or, you know, if you're looking at the stock
market or the bond market, you're looking at bond yields, yield to maturity, IRAs, or just returns,
right? Those are constant returns that you expect to get every year. So 10% a year, 12% a year.
And it's actually getting a little bit faster, which we can talk about on the show as well.
But in general, it's constant growth, right, is what we try to achieve in our stock portfolios.
With Bitcoin, it's interesting.
If you look at the price over a long time, you have a sort of very slightly decelerating rate of growth.
So it's not constant.
But there is still a relationship here, and it's a power relationship.
So it's actually the rate of growth is proportional to many things.
It's actually proportional to addresses, to hash rate.
And it's also proportional to time, to actual existence of time in the system.
How long the system has been around.
Bitcoin has a proportional relationship, say, till the next doubling, that in this particular case,
that proportionality does stay constant. And the number is about 13% a year. So again, I just try to put
that broad, broad overview and talk about like the power law breaking. I think it gets people
that are even in the space like looking at this from an analytical view of the power law,
they kind of wonder, okay, did the Bitcoin gold power law break? Because that thing looks really skewed.
And still the answer is no.
Because relative to all the other trends that we can judge Bitcoin on, that's an exponential trend, logarithmic, linear, Bitcoin is totally, totally on par with a power curve or a power trend.
I know a lot of people get triggered when you say power law, but that's the scientific name for it.
But in any event, it's a sustainable growth rate, and we can look at it.
It's certainly relative to the probabilities, the range of observations in the past, the probability is very, very, it's showing not a lot of likelihood that it breaks too much lower.
But again, it can always surprise us to the downside of the upside.
So basically, that's my overall disclaimer.
No, it's not at all broken.
And I can try to show that with some just simple charts here.
Okay.
Before we do get into the charts, one of the reasons that people have, sort of.
sort of PTSD around a lot of these, like things like the power law is because of what happened
with Stock to Flow and how people became very dogmatic and never admitted that that whole model
broke. What would have to happen for you to say the power law is broken? Is there something
that can happen that breaks it in your opinion? Yep, good question. Great question.
And again, even though I've been tracking this one for a long time, you know, I've also been tracking
Bitcoin as base money for a long time, looking at these major sort of macro trends,
the money supply versus Bitcoin UTXOs, the value.
use of those things.
There's going to have to be a lot that would happen to say that it's not a power law anymore.
And again, it's totally possible.
I'm not at all married to the idea that it needs to stay a power law or a power curve,
power regression, however you want to say it.
The challenge with throwing a lot of different models out here and you'll see it.
By the way, anytime you see like a straight line, people trying to take a straight line
to Bitcoin's trend and the chart is only log linear.
all right, that means log scale on the Y, linear, just normal time on the X axis.
They're trying to shoehorn it into exponential growth.
And it just doesn't do that.
So again, I would say that.
But if you would look at other types of models like stock to flow, they were also trying to shoehorn in some exponential growth factors into the price when Bitcoin doesn't do that.
So it's a bit more confusing with stock to flow because in fact, it is a power law.
He used the power equation to run through it.
But he was running it over the stock to flow value over time, which in itself is about a 16% per year negative kegher, right?
The Bitcoin, if you wanted to average it out, the supply of Bitcoin decreases 16% per year.
And it's not even average, right?
it's not a constant 60%.
We know that it halves every four year.
So he's trying to shoehorn in a power law over some features of Bitcoin, which are exponential.
And that's why it didn't work.
Again, it might be a little bit technical there, but I've talked about it a lot as well.
It's just there, you know, he was trying to compare, say, the Bitcoin, like back when he was doing these early models, 19, 2020, he was trying to compare, say,
the growth of gold or the growth of silver to the growth of Bitcoin. That is actually the units that
came out of the ground in Golden Silver's case or the UTXOs that would come on to the scene every 10
minutes. Everybody knows intuitively that Bitcoin's rate of growth declines, right? It declines there.
It actually, again, that might even sound like power law when I said that, but it's an actual
exponential rate of growth. Those, those, the having every four years, basically, it's a negative 16%
per year on average. And he was trying to compare that to something like gold and silver,
which when those ounces come out of ground, 1.8% in gold's case, and actually 1.5% in silver's
case, even less, those are exponential factors. They come out every year, about 1.5% for silver,
1.8% for gold. So they're just by nature simply incompatible with what Bitcoin does. And so
there was a lot of confusion around that model and it just, like I said before,
you're trying to shoehorn in.
He was actually using a power equation,
but he was using it with this,
a lot of features of Bitcoin that were exponential and it just wouldn't work.
Whereas the power law,
we talk about with Bitcoin,
we're just taking it purely on the signal that Bitcoin produces,
whether it be addresses,
whether it be hash rate,
whether it be price.
We're not even taken into account the having.
We're just looking.
looking at the way that price grows over time or the way that addresses grow over time.
It's like a pure signal, single variable, single unknown variable and running it.
And the regression, the relationship is holding up very, very well.
So this is kind of, these are some of the answers that I would get there to that question.
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So the question that I would have around that is, I guess two things.
Let's start on what would actually have to happen for you to say, yes, this is broken.
Yeah.
It's going to break or not be a model that is applicable.
If another traditional basic scientific regression fits the price, the address growth, the hash rate better.
Now, there is a grand theory that I have around a lot of,
of this stuff, it primarily resolves around exponential growth and power growth, mostly because
those are the two types of growth that, well, really, it's just exponential growth that is most
prevalent in the financial world. And that's primarily driven by the interest rate. So,
you know, your bank loan, your mortgage, whatever you are paying on a capital that you borrow
to acquire assets, whether it be a house, car, something for your business, that's exponential growth.
So when you have bank loan that's 5%, that's fixed constant growth that you got to pay per year, that's your cost, that's the bank's income.
And of course, there are like spreads on that.
And yes, the rates can go up and down.
That's true.
They do change with the market.
But as time goes on, whether it's a little bit up, a little bit down, you're still paying this sort of constant fixed rate of capital.
And so it is hard to imagine.
And I want to go too far off on this tangent with the answer, but it is hard to imagine if Bitcoin's growth right now.
So basically the way that power growth manifests itself is in the case of Bitcoin is it has started out higher in the early years.
It was, you know, 1,000% a year, right, on a curve, on a trend.
Now it's down to about 40% per year on a trend.
There will come a point.
And this plays into something that, you know, Michael Saylor talks about, is we all know basically Saylor.
cost of capital. We've seen that the market's trying to liquidate Sailor in the last couple weeks,
right, with stretch, really being stretched as far as keeping the buck. And his cost of capital
is 10%, 11%, whatever it is, right? But that's a fixed cost of capital. And as long as Bitcoin,
on a trend, grows more than that, Sailor is fine, his shareholders are fine, strategy is fine.
But if Bitcoin ever started to grow less than 10%, Saler's going to have to shrink the cost of his
capital or he would start to have to shed some coins and he would have some liquidity problems.
He's a long way from that. And I can not just just to back of the envelope, even though Bitcoin
on a trend is growing about 40% per year and declining, that means it's doubling every two
years. 40% per year is doubling every two years. But that that growth is declining in a in a
compound fashion like the rate is shrinking and the doubling time is increasing.
Right. But it takes a long time to get to that 10% as we're all modeling it in the power curve space at the moment. It's going to take to about 2070 to get there. The fireworks are going to happen much sooner. I think probably in the 2030s up to 2040 for a variety of reasons that we could talk about this. But when you say fireworks, what do you mean?
Yeah. So I'm already getting ahead of myself sort of in the grand theory. And we can look at some charts to illustrate this.
Should we come back to that then? Because I have some other questions that may.
a bit more of the groundwork before we get to that.
Yeah, yeah, we can do that.
But again, just to let me make sure I answer your question, though,
because about breaking or not, whatever,
if it stops being a power law visually on the chart,
if the R squared starts to shrink,
if something like an exponential trend looks better over the curve,
over the price action of Bitcoin or the address growth or anything,
then Bitcoin would stop to be a power law.
But we're nowhere near that right now, nowhere near that right now.
So the one thing that I want to try and get to the bottom of, because we've spoken about this before, but I don't know if I fully understand the reasoning, is you say that Bitcoin can't follow an exponential trend, whereas like traditional financial assets do follow an exponential trend.
Why is that?
Yeah.
Well, I haven't said it can't.
I just said that it is not.
Okay.
And that's the interesting thing.
So, again, Giovanni's been following this since about fall of 2018, myself at the end of the year.
2018, and at the time, that was the best looking trend that it would fit. It wasn't even hard
to really find that. You can plot it on Excel and look at the trend automatically on
the curve, right? Or Google Sheets. In the early days, like 2014, 2013 on Bitcoin Talk,
there was this kind of relatively well-known account called Trow-low-low-low. And he was doing the same
thing. I was trying to sort of update the work that he was doing. But he was actually
finding a logarithmic trend, which is actually more explosive at the beginning and usually
gradual, more gradual growth at the later periods of the observations. It's a little bit different
than power law. But brass taxes, Bitcoin at the early, early days, kind of did look like that
with the explosive growth. And then from about 2016, 2017, it started to settle into this trend,
which is very sustainable, sort of gradually decelerating growth every year, but still very high growth,
all right, for anybody. And by the way, if you catch the bottoms and then it gets back to trend,
you can get well over that, which we can look at just for fun, some scenarios. That's an example
already right there where Bitcoin seemed to be following one trend, and it actually turned out
it was following another, which is power trend. And I'm totally open, by the way, that it could
follow an exponential trend in the future. And by the way, that is a very important. And by the way, that is a very
plausible scenario in my view, considering the rest of the financial world follows exponential trends.
We have all of our interest rates on our credit, which are exponential trends. And it really,
it does come to, you know, Sailor has this 10%. It costs the capital that everybody knows about.
It does play into sort of my grand theory about how it could all work out, which again, we can
table towards the end of the episode once we look at some charts. I think that it's totally
plausible that the trend could change. I also think it's plausible that Bitcoin could change other
trends in the world, which would probably be the more cypherpunk interesting view. But bottom line
of all this is, I'm just trying to look at this through the lens of more statistics and math
rather than kind of one-off blog posts or whatever YouTube thumbnails. Because I've been charting
this stuff for a long time. And trust me, I'll tell you if I notice that it's breaking.
I like the idea of Bitcoin pulling the financial world.
I guess that is Bitcoin eating the financial system,
is it pulling everything into its time preference?
Yeah, and I can explain that via the math.
So I think that would be...
Let's get into the chart. Can you pull up and we'll go through it?
Yeah, absolutely.
So here's a simple one.
I've shown this in a variety of ways before.
This is just even simpler,
because I've also shown this with stock to full.
flow, but I'm sort of redoing my system, so I don't have it at the moment. So here I'm showing you
the price of Bitcoin up until today as we speak. Everybody knows this chart, log linear.
This is log linear, right? And as you can see, it looks kind of like a rainbow, right? It doesn't
look like a straight line. But I'm showing you, I'm shoehorning in an exponential trend.
So the exponential trend, for those that remember, right, it's a straight line on log linear.
So here's the exponential. When I put it on, straight line. But this curved line,
is the power curve. And yes, we are well below it. We are well below it. All right. In the past,
we've also been well below it. We've also been well above it. But if you just look, just use your eyes.
You don't even look at the map. You can see the nice rainbow power trend looks much better on
Bitcoin's price. And we say Bitcoin's price. It doesn't just mean price. It means supply demand,
the interaction of actors in the market. You know, it can be a proxy for adoption itself.
So there's a lot going on when we look at price.
Versus, if I put on exponential and let's just even take the power curve off, do you think that
looks better or worse?
Definitely worse.
And you can see it.
You really can, like you can just use the eye test for a lot of this stuff.
So we can shoehorn in exponential trends.
The key is to not get too married, I would say, to any of them.
But yeah, if we just look at the exponential trend here, Bitcoin hasn't hit it.
since 2022.
I mean, it just clearly doesn't work.
Yeah, exactly four years ago.
And by the way, stock to flow gives a very similar effect, which again, I was trying to
sort of verbosely go through that other.
But there are aspects of Bitcoin's system that are exponential, which, by the way, the 50
bitcoins every, you know, having every four years, that is.
It's a negative 16% per year.
That is what happens.
It just happens in a weird way.
Regardless, if you try to model that in and then stick a power law on it, which is
what he did, it's shoehorning and it's not, it's not fully scale invariant with a,
what a power law is, it's scale invariant anywhere on the curve, uh, that you pick it.
The growth will be proportional relative to, uh, to where it is. So, so at that point in time.
So you can just see it doesn't work. And now let's look at, uh, the overall kegher here.
All right. I'm going to show you down here. It's a great kegher if we were still on it. It's
108% per year. See it?
108% per year. Okay. And what this is saying is any point on the exponential curve that we would pick, it doesn't matter where you would grow at 108%. If you picked like, you know, you do that present value, future value calculation that, you know, finance people know how to do, it will be 108. It just doesn't do that. So a much better model is a very simple power curve. All right. So if we take off exponential now, we can see, it tracks it. And we'll go into the details here.
But if I go down to my very simple calculations here, now Kager of power is actually higher,
but that's irrelevant.
It's just taking the first point on the power curve.
And I go back to Bitcoin P today, May 22 until today, which the power curve is about $140,000 at the moment, $140,000.
So you can see how far under we are, right, at $62.
It doesn't make sense, right?
Because it's not that that is not a constant growth.
rate. What it is is scale invariant, which we just have to look at the trailing 12 month in the
power. You see 40.2% right there, 40.2%. That's the power laws growth rate at the moment, but that
declines every year. And just to see as well, what does power growth look like in log log,
which means we take all the dates, which are numbers, not dates. You have to take the actual numbers
and starts with Genesis block of one back in January 2009. You see it starts to become
almost self-evident that it's growing according to Paul.
You see, it fits very well.
Yes, we're under, but we've also been under the past.
It fits really well, but you would have to say probably the last 18 months, two years,
is the least well it's fit in its history by the looks of it.
Right, because it is not exploded above.
But this is where, again, you know, not to toot my own horn, Danny,
but, I mean, you just, people got to be, people got to be modest.
here. They got to, you know, I was, all right, let's just go in, let's go into the, to the, to the, to the detail. Here's, here's one I do all the time on my stream. This is quantile regression. Okay, so we're moving to just showing the one curve, the OLS, which is the main, think of it as the mean regression. It's basically just, yeah, it's, it's, it's analogous to the mean. Now we're looking at something that, uh, is analogous actually to the median, but it's trying to find all different levels of, of, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's
of a certain level of price,
like what would be a 10th percentile,
zero percentile, 20th percentile.
And the 50th percentile is actually the median.
So they are slightly different.
It's a slightly different analysis.
It's called a quantile regression
or a percentile quantile regression.
There's two.
Now, I'm showing you the mean and the median.
There's just two different ways to do it.
They're both power.
They're well statistically significant within, you know, each other.
I mean, statistically,
well, the relationship is actually statistically insignificant.
They're so close together that, you know, you can say one or the other is the best way to do it.
Basically the same thing, yeah.
Right, right.
So can I ask you a question on this?
Because like the reason I said the last 18 months, two years or whatever looks, the worst it's looked is because like if you go back to that 2017 one, sure there's loads of time that it's well above that median line.
But there's also plenty of time that it's below.
And it cuts through just by eyeballing it, what you would imagine to be roughly the middle.
Whereas this time it's like at our highs
We just got above it
Like it looks like that line needs to be pulled down
In the last two years
Right
So this is where again I would say
People need to be sort of modest
When you're talking about YouTube thumbnails
Or whoever's predicting a million dollar Bitcoin
Which by the way
Plan B predicted in the fall of 2025
He predicted that what the price would be that way
In the fall of 2025
He did like two years prior
People got to sort of not think about the clicks
and think about the statistics and sort of just at the time
adaptively adjusting your view to what you see.
So this is what I was doing.
I was looking at exactly the analysis that you said,
let's look at the Q80, Q90.
So what these quantiles will do, they kind of,
they try to find their own median kind of.
They try to take a range,
which would give us to the point where the median is precisely 50-50.
All right.
So 50% of observations will be below the line, 50% above.
And what they're doing is trying to find their own,
I'm using the word median, but it's basically their own baseline to the percentage, you tell it.
So I say to the software, again, I'm going to apply the statistics to guys, so I don't try to,
I used to do a lot of the stuff by hand, actually, the power law.
But anyway, AI makes it too easy now.
So I say, give me the Q80.
Give me the quantile approximately where I can look at this, all right?
And I'm just going to show you the Q80 versus, let's say, the median.
All right.
So I only have the median, I only have the Q80.
So that red line slices through the data.
according to a power law, and it is showing you that basically 20% of the observations are above
the line, 80% below. That's Q80. The Q50, median 50. And the OLS, by the way, is more, you think of it
more like the mean. It's slightly different. Like I said, it's statistically almost the same thing
as the Q50 over the long term. But anyway, so here we go. This is what I mean by people need to have
some modesty. I was fully expecting on my stream. I was talking to people, you just, you just,
My streams are there for everybody to see.
I was saying, all right, we know about the four-year cycle,
which, by the way, we haven't talked about,
we can get into that because that's another triggering point for people.
But we know about the four-year cycle.
We know about the power law.
We know about Bitcoin's adoption.
I'm looking forward to on my stream counting the days.
You can find all these episodes I did.
Like, let's count the days that Bitcoin was above the Q80, right?
Back in 2021, 2017, 2013.
Let's imagine that there's a way to sort of,
of, you know, get ahead of the market and do that because I fully expected to be similar
like that. Things like hyper-bitquinization, all that stuff. It's nice to talk about, but the data
suggests differently. It suggests a more gradual approach. When that did not happen, when that
did not happen in the fall, right, we barely got to Q80, you see here, and Q90, Q-100 is like, just
forget about. But when we were in October, so here's August, by the way, and here's October,
When we started to not hit those levels and really fall down, and then Giovanni had a very interesting cycle analysis, which he has pointed. And we can talk about this as well briefly. But it's basically trying to look at, so the power law here, this is looking at the main wiggle, the main trend, right, putting in these straight lines on log log. Of course, we can also look at the cycles, the wiggle within the main wiggle. Giovanni in the spring, he made me want to try to do this analysis myself.
he did sort of a cycle analysis where you look at the returns in log space,
which you can't see him unless you look at log space,
and you try to extract some cycles still using a power law underlying math,
he found that there was a cycle about 4.2 years apart.
And to me, that even further validated it.
But again, he did that at like March or February of this year.
Let's still put ourselves in the mind of fall of 2020.
He still had that analysis.
He was talking about it.
He said there'd be a drop in November.
remember, he was right. I was listening to him. And so I was very cautious to people. First of all,
because the power law is strong the way that it shows its bands about relative risk. Second of all,
because the cycles are a strong signal as well. And people were very, very quick to dismiss both of
those things. How many times do we hear the four year cycle was over in the fall of 2025, right?
I think I said it about a thousand times. Right, because we had this stable, nice growth and everything.
when really I think in reality what happened, if you just look at this is,
notice how quickly we got back to the median here.
This was already in 2024, all right, early 2024.
What I think was really happening was ETFs.
ETFs were on to the scene, right?
It came on in January, 2024.
And I think Wall Street started a front run this idea.
Of course, Wall Street knows about the parallel.
They know about every other model that they do with their quants.
So they started to think, all right, well, this has obviously been a powder keg of 10 years,
you know, politically suppressed idea, Bitcoin ETFs.
We got a front run it.
You saw that there's a lot of growth and it cooled off.
And then again, a lot of growth at the end of 2024, all right, both of which, by the way,
are above the median.
Let's just take, just only show the medium, which was really elevated growth compared to,
say, the last four year cycles.
Just keeping it simple, keeping it simple.
In 2017, right?
we didn't get to the median until 2017, right?
In 2021, we didn't get to the median until December of 2020.
I remember those days as well, and COVID-rater was locked down and all of a sudden
Bitcoin prices exploding and meme stocks and everything.
But notice how the explosion comes very quickly above the median, right?
In 2013 as well, it was the year of 2013, we got back to the median.
So usually, and particularly that crypto winter, as it's called, the, you know, from 2013 top to
2017 time spent a long time under the medium, under the power law. And here we went deep in,
I mean, I might say here for those that are maybe it's harder to listen to this podcast and listen
out watching, but for those in that remember the 2022, you know, SBF gift to us all of, you know,
puking really, really bad in, uh, in November 2020. Peter Zion is saying, you know,
it's $17,000 overvalued on Joe Rogan when the price of 16,000. Very, very deep, deep.
deaths of, uh, depths of depression. It only took, you know, a year, basically a year,
basically 2023 and all the sudden, 2024 is kicking off and we're back to the median.
That was a different trend. That was a different sort of cycle within the cycle. So you need to
adapt a little bit. And, and Giovanni also solidified this further for me, was with,
it's still the overall scheme seems to be up for your trend, which we can get.
to. But we were just, we couldn't stay above that very strong OLS or the median, however
you want to look at it. The OLS was even breaking down further. And so I was just cautious. You can find
it on my streams. I was saying, guys, like, look, I was hoping by this time, October and November,
we were going to be counting the days above these Q90 bands. And just, you know, just having fun with
this seeing, okay, how repeatable is this trend? How strong is this trend? You know, is this something
that we can sort of really, really find some signaling. And the point was, we didn't. And there's just,
there was a lot of people that were super bullish October, November saying the four year cycle was over.
It's just completely ignoring reality. And then all of a sudden, you know, November, we broke down below the trend itself.
And then the start of the year, you know, medals are on tear as well. We just, we broke down very, very fast.
So, yeah, it's not, no four year cycle is repeatable in Bitcoin.
but there is a four-year cycle.
And if the thing is not doing exactly as you think it will, just be cautious.
That's all I can say is be cautious.
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The thing that I can't get my head around on the four year cycle is why it would exist.
Like, I mean, you can observe it and it clearly does.
Like, I thought it was going to be broken.
But I just don't understand what's driving it because you can't really say that the cut in subsidy
is really a leading driver of the four year cycle anymore.
Like I don't know what the sort of driver of that is anymore.
I think you can. I think you can, Danny.
Why? It's such like a small amount of supply commands the market compared to...
That's the reason that people give on the why not, right?
I've interviewed these people. I know you have, and there's plenty of people that have talked about it.
Again, it's not a big deal. It's everybody has their opinion on Bitcoin, but...
Look, the gold market, let me put some of my applied statistics and, you know, I'm interested in financial history and stuff as well.
Mining in general is a huge...
game for the monetary system of any society, right? We have the famous case of Spaniards,
Cortez and such, you know, just stealing a lot of Aztec gold and other gold in the new world
in like, you know, Bolivia, Peru now today. There was this silver mountain that when that got
back to Europe, that can cause great carnage, right? If you overmined, if you flood the supply.
But generally speaking, if you are running a mine or close to the state, the polity, whoever is running the system, it's a pretty good business and it's pretty good for the state.
Again, I'm not, we don't have to judge on if the state is good or bad or what becomes good to the state.
I'm just saying mining is a strong business in the history of monetary, monetary, the civilization that the civilizations that arise around money,
usually have to be very close to a mine.
Of course, they can overmine it.
They can have problems, but, you know, this is the origins of the canthelon effect, by the way, the cantilion effect.
You want to say it is that those that are closest to the mine, you know, have the most power.
It's important.
Now, gold before this huge surge in gold to $5,000 at the start of this year plus, right, $5,200, $500, $500, $500,000.
in February, January, February this year, and say two years ago, the gold mining market in
totality in the whole world was about $100 billion.
And again, gold's different from Bitcoin.
Salers made this observation.
Many people have, I have as well.
You know, gold mining is not like it used to be, right?
People don't try to save some of the gold.
They just want to shed the gold.
It's a revenue profit center, but it's also a cost, right?
So they shed the gold to cover their costs.
and that's it. That's just how the gold market is. Bitcoin's totally different. A lot of miners
huddle Bitcoin. It's much easier to do. It's not easier to do in the fact of mining,
but I mean, it's easier to obviously to transfer around. Bitcoin is changing the economics of mining
in general, just speaking of mining as a general concept. So this is also interesting. But still,
still, to this day, mining can always be disrupted by price. And when the gold price and the silver
price went up to four or five thousand dollars an ounce on a trailing 12 month basis the gold mining
industry went from being a hundred billion dollar industry to over the last couple years being a
400 billion dollar industry and still at the moment it's over you know on a trailing 12 month
basis if that five thousand dollars uh would hold it get up to a 500 billion billion dollar industry
like the oil just for people's another way to understand the comparison the oil markets are
trillion dollar industry a year trillion dollars in revenue sometimes it's
be a trillion five, super volatile, super political. These are huge industries, right? And all of a sudden,
because of a 20-year spike in the gold price, gold is now a $400 billion, $500 billion industry.
That's going to matter. That's going to matter. It affects everybody politically, economically,
geopolitically. Now, with all that little background, imagine applying that 20 years from now into the
Bitcoin mining space. Imagine that we have, whatever, $400,500 billion of Bitcoin mining revenue,
and then it gets halved in a day. It's going to matter. It's going to matter. It's not going to not
matter. This is a just a feature of the Bitcoin system that everybody, I think, kind of wants to
forget, but Satoshi built it in, and that's what we have. It won't necessarily have, though.
like if we're talking that far out, the percentage of the minor revenue coming from fees will be much higher than the revenue, the percentage of revenue coming from fees today. Like today it's largely subsidy. At some point in the future, it has to, that fee, that fee percentage has to be much higher. The fee percentage can and will be higher for sure. But the inflation or whatever you want to call it, the issuance, the subsidy, the block reward, it's still going to be a meaning,
It's still going to be a meaningful number when we're talking about Bitcoin being, you know,
5 million, 10 million a coin.
So I get all the arguments against it.
I get the fact that, you know, many more times a volume and dollar amount of bitcoins flow
between minor wallets or ETF wallets or exchange wallets, right?
I get the whole premise of the idea.
The bottom line is mining is an important topic in the realm of monetary finance, monetary history.
Satoshi specifically designed mining for that reason.
And he decided to have it every four years.
It's a shelling point.
It's a shock.
So I am, again, I'm just trying to be modest about this.
I would not discount mining as quickly as many people are apt to do in the space just because
nominally right now, right?
It's much smaller than, say, 50 bitcoins a block, which it used to be, right?
It still can be a huge amount of money in the future.
And I expect it will be.
And I expect that it will also provide a lot of fireworks and shocks to the system.
That's how it is.
That's how it's designed.
So if we go back to the power law, if you think the four-year cycle is still real,
and are we about as low as we've ever been compared to the median?
on the power law? Like, how far from a bottom do you think we are? Right. So I'll just show you very
quickly the worst and the best. And then I'll also show you another way I'm looking at this now.
So this is all-time data, right? And the reason I'm getting these nice smooth lines is I'm
extending, I'm taking the all-time data, how I find the coefficients, don't worry about it,
whatever, running the math. And then extending the line back and extending forward. All we can do in the
future is extend it forward. But in the past, I'm sort of creating lines that actually didn't exist
at the time. This is a small caveat here.
So there's another way to look at this, which I think will be more helpful.
But basically, if you can imagine, if you look here, you see how we had this big drop here
at the start of June. And now we're basically setting our own new bottom here.
Okay, and we're off it. But this is way too early for me to predict. Like, you know,
we're going up from here. I'm sure a YouTube thumbnail will do that for you. But I would just be
cautious about the levels that we're at. But as you notice, if we paint this line back,
we go back to the SBF levels. There's a huge amount of gap here. At the time, the zero was
actually here. So another way I'm looking at this chart now is I'm showing the evolving trend.
I also have the shades of the bears here. If these charts are constantly evolving, does that
actually mean that they're useful going forward? I'd be really interested to see what this chart
looked like as the sort of statistics were back in, say the SBF crash, like how this cycle would have
looked since then. Right, right. So that's something I'm trying to show more on my
now because precisely to your question, you get the nice smooth lines when you just draw the math
based on the all-time data, right? But the question would be, what did the data show say in 2013,
or 2017 or 2021? So that's why I'm now, when we look forward, okay, we have the same projection of the
lines, right? The percentile quantile bands, basically, for simple language, I'm just calling them the lines.
But here's how it would actually look over time. And I think this is even more helpful to
show people how, you know, trends can change. They can evolve, but still overall, we're still in a power
function. So here's every band, but actually how it would look at the time. And every new day's
worth of data, we change the band. So I'm not projecting backward, which I'm actually doing here to get
the nice smooth lines. I'm just showing you how they would look at the time. So this is, goes back to what
I was talking about with Trolololololo. If you look at the early days here, this 2011 pop, and we're
I start my pricing about Bitcoin P today, sub penny.
I think I used 35 pounds for those 10,000 bitcoins.
Because remember it was a sterling to dollar transaction.
But in any event, notice how these gaps are larger, kind of wild.
The lines are trying to figure themselves out.
And no one in the world was thinking that Bitcoin was running like a power trend at this time.
all right, not even here. And you would see this thing, which is the Q100, which is like the
realm of possibilities of Bitcoin's price. It's fantastic, right? Like, let's just look at what the
number says. Q100 when we were at December 2013, that $1,200, you know, $1,200 top, right, November,
December is saying $350,000 for Bitcoin at the time is theoretically possible. Obviously,
you know, we needed some more time to work out and the price never got close.
to that, but because of the action that occurred in 2011, that's what the math said.
All right.
So let's even take off Q100 just because, again, it sort of distracts, I'd say.
But I'll come back to it because you can find some interesting things here.
Anyway, as particularly as we get into 2016, 2017, and this is where Giovanni and myself,
we started into 2018 looking at how this was forming, notice how the lines get,
A, closer together, and B, straighter on log log.
They're not perfectly straight.
They're not perfectly straight.
But they get pretty good.
You can clearly see from 2017 top, they get, you know, there's a pattern.
And so this is another way to see the power lock.
Now, look, let's look at the worst examples, the worst offenders where we form new bottoms
in this.
We were at, say, a Q0 of 281 bucks in December 2014.
but as that crypto winter, as it's called,
I'm not using that word to trigger anybody,
went down to, you know, 200 bucks at the lows in the 2015.
That Q0 turned into, well, this is log logs.
It actually kind of stayed the same,
but at the worst case, it got to 190 bucks.
And you can just see, for those watching the video,
you can see it's obviously dropping quite consistently.
2018, interestingly, that dropped to 3,000.
nominally we know that 3,000 was well over the 1,200 top of the prior cycle.
That's also an interesting thing to look at.
We didn't really puncture there, right?
That was kind of a nice support.
And then 2020, we did.
And notice here in 2020, the pandemic briefly, we punctured below.
And then let's actually look at what happens.
So the Q0 line is coming down and it's setting a new bottom of, you know,
And if we look at the way that that came down,
and by the way, this also shows you that this has nothing to do with,
are they parallel to each other?
You see the Q0 is actually slightly above the Q10,
which is interesting at the time in 2020.
But it comes down to fully, you know,
be in the current position that is today.
And it took about from 2020 February to, you know,
to 2020 late March,
obviously during the just extreme craziness of the pandemic and scared a lot of people.
And then so that that's sort of the new bottom relative to this, like I said, for lack of a better word, like setting these bands, these individual sort of thresholds of where the price can possibly be.
And we just set a new low.
And that's it.
And so you just have to imagine that that's going to be, not imagine, like just understand this is the probability of reaching this level is.
lower. And then look, we set a new low as well with scam bank and frauds gift to us all.
After, of course, the just defy summer of madness in 2022, all that stuff, Terra, Celsius.
And so it took us again, a couple months. We set a new low. But as Peter Zion was, again,
saying Bitcoin was $17,000 overvalued at $16,000, we were already sort of forming that bottom.
And then it took until January of 2021 to get out. And once you see, just notice here,
Once you see the price start to rise off of the Q0 level,
and when I say Q0, it's actually Q0.001,
it's finding the, it's finding the, like,
least probable event relative to the power law.
And once it starts to move away from that,
usually that bottom holds through the next cycle.
It doesn't always go lower.
Notice in 2018, it didn't go lower,
but it did briefly in 2020.
It did briefly in 2022, and now we're setting a new low.
So from this June fall, we went to a low of Q0 of 67,000.
Now our Q0 is 59,000.
So here you can see it actually as it evolves.
And brass tacks, bottom line, when you do this type of analysis,
which is not lines on charts, I'm not just connecting dots.
These are actual scientific functions here.
And when you see there are more white space between each band,
it just means the range of probabilities is expanding. It means our range of uncertainties based on
prior observations is unfortunately a little bit wider. Risk is possibly a little bit more.
But if passed as prologue, it doesn't last that long. And generally, these are screaming
by opportunities. And frankly, statistically, relative to the power law or the power curve,
this is as cheap as Bitcoin has ever been, in fact. Yeah. So who knows when the bottom will be,
but statistically, this is deep, deep value, as good value as you get.
Deep value, as good as you can get for the brass tax listener here.
But also, like you said, you don't know the bottom.
I'm not saying this as the bottom.
There's nothing here that tells me, you know, in August,
we're not going to dip lower or whatever.
U.S. legislation fails miserably, this clarity act.
And then, you know, people try to, you know, Trump gets impeached or whatever.
And his crypto businesses, he'd be.
becomes an ex-SPF, which I've, by the way,
I said that could even happen like two years ago,
just thinking about the four-year cycle.
I'm not at all saying that.
I have no idea what will happen.
But, you know, these are interesting little nuggets
that line up with the four-year cycle.
And as far as I can tell here,
the four-year cycle is perfectly intact.
It's shallower than prior cycles.
We've only been through nine months of this.
It's 53% percent.
drop, right? 2020, we got to a 77% drop. Sorry, 2020.
2018, we got to an 84% drop. 2014, we got to an 85% drop. So the each drop is less than before,
but I have no idea if it's going to be 53% this time, 60. But what we do see so far is actually
relative to the drops, relative to the trends, the cycle is, you know, the, the, the deviation
from regression are shallower, the shallower this time.
It's interesting that it's the smallest drop in any of these bear markets, but probably the
worst sentiment we've had.
You know the next question I'm going to ask, though.
So let's just assume that the four-year cycle is real.
What would the median line be for the top of the next cycle right now?
So if we assume that the four-year cycle is real, that means it's going to be 2029, right?
and let's just say somewhere 2029 November.
All right.
The OLS there, you can see 386,000, median 365,000.
On a low case, Q0, 184,000,
and on a really fun case, which has put that Q100 back,
which is really looking like, you know,
by the way, those things are technically possible,
but they look like.
A million dollar Bitcoin?
A million dollar Bitcoin, but let's look at the Q90 there, $500,000 Bitcoin.
Another interesting thing is to look at the multiple over under the curve itself.
That's what you see in the parentheses there in the tooltips.
So a 3x multiple used to be more popular.
It used to happen, let's say, more, it was more prevalent.
Now, I think that's less rare.
But getting to a 1.4x, 1.5x, totally possible.
And by the way, notice how those deviations,
I'm talking about the multiples over or under the trend.
So my OLS, let me put this chart back in just so you can see it clear what I'm talking about.
The OLS is one, right?
Q0, Q100 here.
Notice how back in the day, right, when we're establishing this trend, trying to work out the math,
the Q100 could be 20x, right?
The trend, 10x, the trend.
Q0 could be 0.16.0.09, the trend, right? Q0. Wherever it was painted. Today, Q100 is 3.3x. Q0 is 0.42. And as we go in the future, these actually converge.
So you actually get less extremes to the upside, less extremes to the downside, which is in itself a very nice visual of that
scale, scale invariant sort of power law nature where it's a sustainable growth with,
yes, not as much upside, but also not as much downside.
And in general, a more stable type of a growth is actually what power growth represents.
Yeah, I'm here for that.
That sounds good.
Is there like, if you're trying to take into account like efficient market hypothesis,
Is there an argument that as this sort of model ingests more data, it will stop breaking to the downside every couple of years like it is doing now because it will have seen enough previous market moves that it can sort of price in the future?
Or is that too far out there?
Probably.
No, I mean, and again, this gets back to the grand theory, which we can talk about.
I'm trying to think if we need more charts to show you in response to what you're talking about here.
But I would say, you know how I said the power law is projected to slow to a 10% growth rate in 2070?
That's nice to project out that far.
And I do it for fun.
And I show people what the price would be and, you know, what the growth rate is on my streams all the time with this.
But I think that that's more just trying to give us a flavor of how the thing will grow.
And I do think, I don't want to say there comes a time when like I'm using this term a lot like fireworks, right?
often in financial markets, we try to say there comes a point when this stuff breaks or whatever.
That so far hasn't happened.
I could be wrong, though.
Like, we could be geopolitically worldwide.
We don't have to get into it, right?
We're in sort of a realignment now, whether it's NATO, whether it's China, whether it's Russia, whatever.
We're in a realignment of sort of the world order.
It's possible that the dollar loses.
status and Bitcoin ascends rapidly there. And that's why I use this term sort of fireworks. I do see
something like that happening in the 2030s simply because of the way a lot of numbers are lining up,
right? So the power law is going to be about, it's going to fall to, you know, 25% 20% by 2040.
That's going to happen to match, I think, what the stock market is probably doing around then.
And also the market cap of Bitcoin, that you will be around five months.
million per coin at that time. So that's going to be about a hundred trillion dollar market cap.
The monetary base is also going to be about $100 trillion. Again, I don't want to be drawn in by
these round numbers because even when Bitcoin's $100 trillion in the monetary base is $100 trillion,
that's still that 50-50 market share. And it probably will be the case that maybe some central
banks are backing major central banks are backing their balance sheets with Bitcoin at the time.
So it's hard to predict, I would say, like exactly how this plays out.
But what I do think we're on a collision course is Bitcoin's value is going to grow to a number
and also the growth rate of the asset itself is going to shrink to another that's comparable
to the rest of sort of the world, Tradfai.
And then at that point, and again, that point could be many, many years, it could be a decade.
The world's going to have to see, do they want to, like, lend out Bitcoin or, let's
say they lend out fiat units.
Maybe some of them are backed by Bitcoin to try to get a good return,
where we're still using like dollars, euros, yen as the base underlying currency.
Or do we move to this sort of numerare where it's Satoshi's?
And then in that case, do you want to lend out those precious Satoshi's at a rate that is actually
probably either too hard to pay back for the borrower because they're getting the
Satoshi's continued to get stronger.
Or do we go to something like totally different,
like an equity-based system or a system where there's just maybe some very short,
short-term debt.
But if a Bitcoin world where people are investing in projects and trying to, you know,
just develop the world, maybe there's some sort of a different model,
obviously with technology and everything where it can be on more of like an equity-based,
system. But that's part and parcel of the grand theory that I'm thinking about because I think in 10
years, you're going to, a lot of these numbers are going to collide the financial system and the
Bitcoin system. And I'm not exactly sure that plays out. But I do, for anyone in this,
listening to this show or watching the show in the back of their mind wondering, okay, well,
how does this work if Bitcoin's growth rate declines, but the stock market stays at like 15, 20% per year?
What happens? I agree. There's going to have to be a decision that's made there.
by people of all kinds and all sorts of governments.
Are you just going to have Bitcoin sort of locked in some component of the economy like gold?
Withdrawals are almost impossible in the Tradfai world and just exponentially more Fiat units are lent out at interest, just like the system we have.
Or do we move into this system where Bitcoin actually as a stable, scalable asset that grows at a power regression,
will actually pull the rest of the world into their system
and then maybe the system will start growing power.
But the key here is, if it's not clear,
if you grow in power, an interest rate won't work there.
A fixed interest rate won't work.
At some point, Bitcoin's enviable UTXOs,
they're going to accrete in value,
but relative to, I don't know, the dollar or Apple stock,
they actually might fall below that.
So then what's the question, you know, what happens at that point?
See, I think that's really interesting.
It's one of the things that I've always really struggled with because clearly if we went
to a Bitcoin standard, you're not going to get rid of credit.
Like credit is always going to exist in some capacity.
And if there's like a business opportunity or an investment that looks tempting enough,
people will part with Satoshi's to invest in that.
And some people will be able to make enough money on those business decisions or whatever
to pay back those loans, but not everyone.
And I get that in this Fiat world,
we have tons of malinvestment because it's very easy
to get your hands on credit.
But if you, do you have the opposite
where people are unwilling to lend
unless you have an absolute killer idea
and there's actually lack of investment?
Yeah, that's the old, like,
it's almost Keynesian central banker like, right?
I mean, fear of the deflation.
Look, I don't have a full answer.
I'm more thinking about it mathematically.
And I would say it would depend on the system.
It would depend on the monopoly of the system who's in control of the system.
And if we're on a decentralized system where everybody's individual demand is stronger
than the government's actions to compel them and they're just going to want Satoshis,
they're going to want it in their wallet or they're going to want to use lightning,
then I think such a system.
could work just fine, but actually due to the nature of Bitcoin's power growth in this case,
and just the nature of, you know, we know that the supply is extremely limited here, unlike gold,
unlike silverware, again, it exponentially produces 1.8% a year more gold, 1.5% a year more silver.
The system could change. We could have, like, sort of, the best way I could describe it is,
you know, either very short-term, factored.
type debt or people, people are just going to have to take more equity contracts in their
endeavors.
Everyone becomes a VC.
Yeah, exactly.
And you might not be sure the exact, you'll have a range of your return.
Maybe there's like some preferred return that you try to get, but if you don't get it,
then you split the profits or whatever.
Technically, nothing is impossible to do here, but it's just it's not exponential growth.
So we're already going into my sort of the grand theory.
And I have so many different charts, but I don't know where you might want to take this.
But I can show you.
I think the most interesting and most relevant right now is probably talking about the treasury companies.
Because obviously, sailors had a rough couple of weeks.
Ever since they sold that first 32 Bitcoin, I don't know, what was that, a month or so ago, they've kind of been in a mess.
It looks like they've recovered it now.
They've sold Bitcoin to pay dividends, which makes total sense to me.
I think that's what they should do.
I think that's good.
Sure.
But like you said earlier in the show, their cost of capital right now is 12, 13%, whatever it is.
That's fine as long as the Caga stays at around 40%, but as you said, that's not going to continue forever.
And just as like a complete vibe gut check, it's clearly not going to exist forever.
Like, Bitcoin is not going to go up at 40% forever.
The question is, when does that date come?
And what do they do in that situation?
Because it's funny that they've gone from basically a 0% cost of capital when they were doing converts
at zero percent to now paying 13 percent.
I don't know what the market is, like why the market's forced them to do that.
But I mean, 13 percent's pretty high.
The tradeoff is probably the preferred aspect of it.
So it's very, very difficult for him to get liquidated because it's a perpetual instrument,
which is smart on his part.
It's very smart to do it that way.
But yeah, there is a higher hurdle rate there that he has to make.
Let me show you this.
This is the S&P.
I don't know if I showed you this last time,
but this is the S&P over a couple hundred years.
I showed this actually at the cheat code conference,
a variant of this chart.
So exponential growth, again, I'm not going to throw through all this,
but this is S&P 500 back calculated.
There's people that do this back to like the 1800s.
Bottom line is this very slow growth in the 1800s.
The 1900s got a little bit faster.
I do it.
I do this is a little monetary epochs.
So when the Federal Reserve was founded,
then when we went off.
of gold.
Breton Woods ended and we went to 1971,
ended the Bretton Woods standard.
And then from 2008,
when basically banks got bailed out all the time by central banks.
We have this monetary easing sort of pattern.
Notice that the treadmills get faster and faster.
And the treadmills are actually the growth rate.
I'm going to take the growth rates off.
but here's the
this is log linear
exponential growth
but what is actually here
is Jeffrey West
the physicist
he's got a great book called
Scale
talks about this as well
there's others
that talk about this
he calls it super exponential
so it is constant growth
but it actually grows
even faster over time
right if you just take
these sort of long enough horizons
and
that's my question
of actually how the Bitcoin system
marries with this idea
and I do think it's going to be a part of it.
So when Jeffrey Rest wrote his book, just to summarize,
I try to summarize a physics book in 30 seconds here,
he was talking about this very interesting idea of the singularity,
but he wasn't using like the Ray Kurzweil,
it was just using a mathematical singularity.
But if we can see that with our world of,
our fast growing world of technology,
and we know that we grow faster and faster and faster over these epochs,
But notice that the time periods are shorter and shorter and shorter.
We still have some time.
We have some time.
But presumably there'll be another crash, probably a deep crash, more monetary inflation.
But also, also, there is technological development, which causes the stock market to grow faster.
AI is a prime example right now, okay?
There will come a point where we reach about this mathematical singularity, which basically
there's one point and we can't grow any faster.
What happens there?
That's the question he poses in his book.
he leaves it open. And he wrote this book, I think the first draft was 2014, or maybe 2017,
I'm not even sure. He was not mentioning Bitcoin. He did not think about Bitcoin here. So I've
sort of overlaid Bitcoin as an idea of what could take over the mathematical singular. It's just
another data point. And I think by the mid-2030s, you'll see these fireworks. So again,
exponential growth. Let's take off these trends. Let's show you in percentage term,
what these means. So now you have these, this is the treadmills, right?
While you pulling that up, can I ask you a quick question on this? Does it have to stay
exponential? Yes. All, uh, all financial markets have always been exponential.
Primarily, in my opinion, I don't have like vast amounts of underlying research here, but
it's as ancient as, you know, the oldest, uh, contracts that we have is basically the
interest rate. It's an ancient thing and interest by.
definition, applying an interest rate to an asset, to a debt, to a mortgage, whatever, to a company, cost of capital, that's an exponential function. So it will always be exponential. And what's even, let's say, even scarier or wilder for our times is we have massive amounts of technology and faster and faster growth rates. So this is the super exponential. So again, just very basic here. I'm sorry, I'm being an idiot here, but I want to know why. Why does putting an interest rate on it make it exponential? Is it because of compounding?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that is compound interest is the same thing as exponential growth.
Okay.
Geometric growth, continuous compounding, exponential growth.
They're all essentially the same function.
And that is, by the way, a straight line on log scale.
So when you grow, you get a trend that looks, let's just say I'll grow the from 2008.
I split up the trends here.
But from 2008, I have a line going through this.
You can clearly see this is exponential.
So log linear.
And in my opinion, the reason for this is credit.
It's credit.
It's the interest rate.
Yes, the money supply is a part of it and everything,
but the stock market is way more valuable than the money supplies.
So it's credit, actually, that does it.
And notice, by the way, this is another small tangent.
The markets are negatively skewed.
You see that how we have like huge dips to the downside
and then we sort of slowly go up.
But then we always have these stairs up, elevator down.
Right, right.
That is different than Bitcoin.
If we go back to Bitcoin, this is sort of a different topic.
Notice how the crazy spikes are the opposite.
We surprise ourselves to the upside, which is why, by the way, I still think we can do that.
You know, it might not be hyper-bitcoinization all in one day, but I think we can easily go to, you know, 250 or 300,000, whatever.
I saw one of these ideas, maybe Trump buys strategy.
and we have a $250,000, $250,000 god candle or something.
All this stuff is possible.
And Bitcoin actually surprises to the upside.
So you never know.
But that's sort of a small tangent.
Back to the idea of the stair steps, which I got to find.
There's too many charts for you here, Danny.
Where did I put it?
Here it is.
This stock market over a long, long, long period.
The other trend, which is wild, is it's actually faster exponential trends.
that is also appears to happen in markets.
And maybe it happened in old times as well.
Like maybe that was why Rome collapsed.
Maybe that was, you know,
people blame it on money printing.
They blame it on this,
then on that.
But it could have been a situation like this.
Now again, I,
we always want to think this time is different.
I hope that with technology
and with Bitcoin and with everything else in our modern world,
we're not going to go back to Mesopotamia
or anything.
I have like a major crash.
And I also think that there are release valves,
primarily Bitcoin, that could get us out of such a crash.
Yep.
But this is part of the grand theory.
So there's this physicist Sornet.
There's Jeffrey West.
They are posing these ideas that we get to this super exponential growth.
And it happens to be, by the way, late 2030s,
where they think that we could get at this faster and faster point where it's just like,
well, what happens next?
I mean, and that does fit in with the whole AI narrative so well.
It does. It does. So mathematically, what I'm trying to show you here is faster and faster growth. And so now, again, I'll show you the growth rates. This is exponential growth. This is what I was saying about the interest rate. Like, you can think of this as the interest rate. Think of it as the growth rate of the stock market. Whatever. It is the growth rate of the stock market. But also think about interest rate. 2% in the 1800s is how the stock market grew. When the Fed was founded until 1971, 4.73%. Straight line. Compound growth. Take out the noise. Yes, we had the Great Depression, a lot of volatility, whatever.
Brass tax, 5% in the early 1900s.
Late 1900s, 9.5%.
This is when I was studying finance.
We would talk, you know, getting a 10% return was extreme in the stock market.
Now, from 2009, till today, we're at a 12% per year compounded growth rate.
So basically, so again, I know I'm going through a lot here, Danny, but the bottom
line is, I'm trying to visualize, and Jeffrey West actually uses this phrase in the book. He says
faster and faster treadmills of growth. You can even see it in the stock market if you go far enough
back. Look, the dollar is, there are many currencies in the currency graveyard, right? Thousands of
currencies. I'm not saying, I'm not predicting a collapse of the dollar or whatever imminent. I have no
idea. But what we do see with the U.S. stock market, with the dollar, with many currencies,
is faster and faster growth rates of debt, faster and faster growth rates of the stock market.
And then there's a question, how does that work with Bitcoin's interestingly novel model
of being a new digital currency that's not controlled by anybody? But the market is showing
a sort of actually declining growth rate, still growing quite fast, but it's scaling in a different way.
It's a curious, I think it's a very curious overlay to this question of what could happen with the singularity.
So if I put on Bitcoin now, back to our beautiful power curve, hopefully you start to see where I'm going.
I don't even know how you meant to read this.
Right.
So it's the same power curve, but on the right axis, I'm showing trailing 12 month growth.
Now, the noisy one is here, right?
Trailing 12 month growth.
Obviously, you know, you can get thousands of percent, hundreds of percent, whatever.
Um, this is, you know, and then it can go negative. Let's, let's just take that off, take the noise off.
This is actually a curve, trailing 12 month, it's just a trailing 12 month return on the OLS, right, on the average power curve.
So now we can start to see the smooth curve of Bitcoin. And then here's you see. We're at that 40% right there.
Uh, right? It's as of today, July, uh, 20, 26, 40% return, $62,000 Bitcoin.
If I back this out, I used to have this go out to like 2100.
I told you that it's 2070 when it will hit 10%,
but let's just look at when it will hit other levels.
So it hits 30% on a curve, Bitcoin power curve in 2031.
In 2041, it hits 20%, and in 2070, it hits 10%.
So actually that gives you a sky.
scale that it's not linear, it's not constant, right? It slows. And even the rate of this slowing, right, can take longer.
Right? So 2031, 30 percent, right now, 40 percent per year. By 2031, it's projected to slow to 30 percent a year.
By 2041, it's projected to be 20 percent per year. If we match that up with this idea of faster and faster
treadmills and who's to say what's going to happen in the next 10 years of the stock market.
But we're at 12% right now.
By the way, that's without dividends.
So if you reinvest dividends, you got another 2% on there at least.
So you're getting close to 15% as it is in the stock market.
But say, you know, we have another crisis.
Then we have another round of money printing.
It does seem like the late 2030s, 2040s, we're going to have some fireworks because
based on the models that we have with Bitcoin versus the numerator of the dollar,
this is the growth rate that it's tracking,
and it's going to cross with a faster and faster stock market,
probably by late 2030s, maybe early 2040s.
Yeah, the idea of being able to buy like an S&P index
and get more returns than buying Bitcoin is weird,
and I don't know what it means.
Right. Likewise.
What it would mean is if what it would mean is
is that Bitcoin has been co-opted into an exponential asset.
Saylor has this other sort of way too cheeky way that he describes what he thinks is going to happen.
Have you heard him say basically that Bitcoin's going to settle into a 21% return?
I don't know if you heard him say that.
I don't think I've heard him say this.
What does he mean?
Well, he means that it's going to go exponential.
And by the way, he's never give you a little inside baseball on this.
I know that he's talked to Giovanni a little bit.
He said, you know, hey, congrats from the power law.
Giovanni met him at some event.
And then at these things, you can't really talk quickly, right?
And, you know, Sailor's obviously an in-demand fellow at these conferences.
And he tried to get into it a little bit, but Saylor basically said, you know, I think it's at the end of the day, Bitcoin's an exponential asset.
It's going to grow exponentially.
To be clear, none of us that have been studying this for a long time see it right now going exponentially.
It could in the future.
But what does that mean if it goes exponential?
First of all, this growth rate turns into a straight line.
So, by the way, if you hold Bitcoin, I'm not saying this will be like a bad thing, number go up wise, right?
It actually would portend, if we go back to this chart, right, the original chart has showed you exponential versus power.
Take off log.
Log, just look at log linear.
If we get back on exponential growth, which is the straight line, common sense tells us constant growth is faster than proportional growth.
It's going to be good, right?
It's going to be good for Bitcoin holders.
On the one hand, the number go up.
But on the other hand, this is where you get into the idea of, you know, what does that actually mean?
Is Tradfai co-opting the system?
Can anyone claim any Bitcoins on an ETF?
Can you withdraw Bitcoins from exchanges after 10 years?
There are a lot of things that could play into this.
And by the way, if some of those play out, perhaps as some intents players in Bitcoin want, then I think, yeah, Bitcoin could go out.
exponential. It could match, it could mirror the exponential growth rate of the rest of the financial
system. One of my favorite quotes was from Thomas Pachia from Pubke. He said on a show we did years ago,
we're all going to be rich and depressed because the project failed. And that seems like the
example where we're all rich and depressed. I actually remember that show. Thomas is a great dude.
And what he is saying is 100% what I am saying here. I'm just trying to show you the math of it.
I'm trying to show you the math of it.
So I, this is my grand, this is my grand theory, is basically a lot of people that are in the system have a lot of fiat interest that they need to pay back.
In order to pay that back, they have to stay above the level of interest.
To do that, you have to be exponential.
To be exponential, it could require some sacrifices.
It could require a lot of fiat interest.
It could require you not holding your keys.
It could require not an overbearing state on here.
There's a lot of things that could go into that factor.
It also might be a totally different scenario,
which is Bitcoin turning the system power.
But again, that's a different scenario.
Yeah, but I want to know what that scenario is because if Bitcoin going exponential is essentially,
if we simplify it to that being Bitcoin being co-opted by the financial system as we know it today,
what does the inverse of that?
What is Bitcoin co-opting the financial system into power?
Like, what does that mean?
I think it means we started to get into a little bit, but I think it means we're free.
There might be some sort of money monopoly.
I always say the dollar is the best looking horse in the glue factory, right?
It's around for now.
It's been around for a long time.
There's still thousands and thousands of currencies in the graveyard.
I'm not saying the dollar definitely avoids it or definitely doesn't.
But if Bitcoin persists globally, and by the way, if mining is free globally,
where people can mine, people can trade, people can send, you can withdraw your keys,
you know, you've got things like fetidments super popular or chomianmints or whatever,
whether that's a layered system, which it's going to have to be obviously,
but the layered system is also very, very easy to sort of get back in the castle and get back
to on-chain bitcoins. If all of those things persist, then I think there's a real possibility
that we stay in that free cyphor punk Bitcoin world
where Bitcoin keeps growing as it is.
And then once we do have that crossing point,
which I also think about a lot,
people will start to say, look, I don't want to do it.
I don't want to put my capital at risk,
hope that I get 20% in the S&P or whatever.
I'd just rather hold Bitcoin.
I'll invest in some projects.
I'll pay for, you know, employees or whatever.
But the model might look a little bit different.
The model might be more equity.
it might be very, very short-term debt, you know, factoring, invoicing type debt.
Short-term is the best way I can say it.
Because imagine putting these together now.
Sorry, not this one, but the stair stepper, right?
Where we're 12%, 50%, and then the declining interest rate.
The only way that this system holds, which is the power, this mathematical relationship
holds, is if people sort of say, okay, I don't feel like I need to chase Apple
you know, at 20% Kager.
I'd rather hold Bitcoin.
I'd rather do it a different way.
And by the way, I'm not sold on either.
Like, to me, it's 50-50.
It's just 50-50.
I see this is why I'm not married,
that Bitcoin stays power.
I think Bitcoin could lose its power function,
turn into an exponential, like Sailor wants.
So back to what he said,
he has said this sort of cheeky number,
like, oh, it just settles under 21% per year.
that's a total number pulled out of thin air.
It just obviously has the number 21,
and it happens to be 11 percentage points higher
than his cost of capital, so it sounds good.
There's no evidence in the Bitcoin power curve
that it's going to stop at 21% per year.
By the way, 20% is right out here, 2041.
Wait, where is it? There it is.
2040, 2041.
So this is why, this is,
This is part of my grand theory is basically.
This is why I think late 2030s, early 2040s,
we're lining up with the Jeffrey West, Sornet, singularity idea.
Ray Kurzweil, by the way, says the same thing, late 2030s.
We're lining up with probably $100 trillion valuation in Bitcoin,
$100 trillion valuation in base money.
And anything goes.
By the way, to throw one more chart at you, here's monetary base.
We talk about this a lot, right?
I haven't updated this for the third quarter.
Sorry, for the first quarter yet, even.
I have broad money and base money as of 2020.
These things move slower.
We can look at Fed Balance sheets if you want after this.
We can leave much more updated.
Here's the monetary base over 50 years.
I don't want to change too many topics, but basically, this is the money supply that's
comparable with Bitcoin.
It's world central bank money, all right?
It's about $26.4 trillion as of 2025 year and 26.4.
If you run these same regressions, notice how you're an expert.
now, Danny, on exponential versus power. You see straight lines on log linear. Base money is an
exponential function. Notice, where are we in the realm of probabilities? Way low. Way low, right?
We need more. We're at the bottom end. And again, I'm not saying it's going to happen tomorrow.
Fed is being a little bit cagey with their minutes. Warsh is, you know, this sort of hawk-dove,
Griffin sort of, you know, amalgamation. We're not quite sure where he's going to be. But
Basically, as John Tamney, who has a great book on money long ago, said presidents usually get the Federal Reserve chairman they want. And we know what Trump wants. So lower interest rates, more money printing. But anyway, we are at the lower end of the curve globally. We were at the higher end of the curve at $30 trillion in 2021. So here's the point. This is another wrench in the scenario. Sorry, that's further back data, which is not really comparable. At 50-year data.
You look at this Kager.
This is the Kager of the exponential OLS right there.
Kager 10.2% per year.
10.2% per year.
It's actually more than that.
Is the interesting there that so when you pulled up the other chart of the S&P, it was 2% way back.
It's essentially still 2% at 12% today.
No, no.
No, you mean it's essentially growing the way that it was in the 1800s?
Yeah.
No, it's not.
Here's the interesting kick.
is another wrench in the formula.
Money supply is actually growing slower since 2008.
So is U.S. debt.
So here, you might think that it's growing faster.
We had all this money printing in 2008.
And yes, it does kind of depend on where you're starting date when you do these
regressions.
But I started year in 2008, by the way, same time that Bitcoin started.
So this is 1971 trend.
So you see the trend here, 10.2% Kager.
Here's another chart where I started in 2008.
notice first chart second chart first chart second chart when you start the regression later
it's actually shallower growth and i'll show you the kegger 7.7 so in the last 15 20 years i believe
that the powers that be the whatever the central banks they realize how bad they screwed the pooch
in 2006 seven and eight with low interest rates and everything else and the bailouts now
So they're very cautious, actually, about extending.
How is that possible?
How is it lower?
When we know they're printed trillions and trillions of dollars over the last,
especially over the last like six years, 2020, 2020, 2021.
Right.
The bottom line is they don't always print money.
They print more, they print less.
You know, the Federal Reserve wasn't printing money from 2014 until 2020.
Yeah.
A lot of people under us that don't sort of know that.
Now, other currencies were, you see it was generally going up, and there's a huge spike in 2020, 2020.
But since, you know, this is a long five years now where we've taken the money supply back from 30 trillion down to 26.
And if you just run the math from 2008 when Bitcoin started until today, this is the actual Kager.
It's only like 8%.
So let's just round it.
8%. 7.7%, 8% versus 10% over the 50 years.
all in dollar terms.
By the way,
not to throw another wrench in it,
but it's actually probably,
both are probably faster than that
because if you measure,
if you do these regressions
all in their native currency
and then take the average,
it looks different
than if you do it in dollar terms,
it's showing dollar supremacy
because they get weaker against the dollar.
I don't want to throw too much wrench in that,
but they are printing a little bit faster
than this in their native term.
It's true, weighted globally.
Let's forget that for now.
10% versus 8%,
10% 50 year trend.
8% 2008 trend in the money supply, that's another wrench in the curve or another wrench in the
calculation where I think, I think they are well aware of the damage that they have done
in intervening in the market so much. They think that they have all these tools like paying
interest on reserves and, you know, they're just more cautious, so on and so forth. And actually,
the data shows it. Like, U.S. federal debt.
has the same trend.
Until 2008, U.S. federal debt was growing faster than it has been since 2008.
It still grows.
It's still huge, right?
I mean, this is the nature of compounding.
But that exponential trend over the epoch is slightly slower.
So, again, it's a little bit of a wrench in the thesis of this one where the stock market
for sure is growing faster.
So it doesn't matter if they're aware of the issues with that trend.
Because like when push comes to show of, if they need.
need to, they're still going to print money.
Sure, they will. Yeah.
We can be sure that that's the main thing that they know how to do, and that's how they
deal with crises is to add liquidity or basically add zeros to banks, accounts with them
at their master account.
So it's a digital money print that they do as opposed to a physical.
They also do physical money print.
And they have started this too, right?
The Fed balance sheet is growing again after a few years of doing nothing but drop, essentially.
Right.
Here's the Fed balance sheet.
You see it has been growing since November of last year, ever so slightly.
And maybe even cresting a little bit.
And then we have, you know, sort of hawkish-mix signals from the new Fed group.
They're not really, they're very, they just released their minutes this week and they're very cagey.
But some people think they might even hike in September.
We'll see.
But I think I have one of the ECB as well.
No, here it is it. This is the ECB balance sheet. Okay, so it's about 6.12 trillion euros. Again, when I say balance sheet for people that are new to this, it's, it's the monetary base. This is the asset side. The liability side is mostly the monetary base. It's a little bit of other things sometimes, but just keep it simple. ECB, since it's been founded in 1999, has grown its balance sheet at a KGerve 10.6%. So notice that's actually similar to the 50-year curve. But they as well are at the
bottom end, the bottom end of the analysis.
Time to short for a year and buy Bitcoin.
Yeah. Yeah. So it all looks good, I would say, if we assume that money printing is good
for Bitcoin, if we assume there might be some more instability in a very unstable,
exponentially growing system. And we assume that Bitcoin is a sort of more stable power asset
that is still growing tremendously at 40% per year. And by the way, discounted to its low
percentile quantiles, all that looks good.
But the grand theory, as we've sort of been
touching on and off in this episode is,
I think it's, you know, late 2030s,
maybe even a little bit later, as I said,
they can push, if they really want to, they can take off the gas.
And they did that last five years.
So it's just the nature.
All I do is measure this stuff, Danny.
I try to give people the best way to look at this stuff
just by measuring rather than talking,
but I'm giving you hard facts, hard data.
Stock markets growing faster,
exponentially growing sort of stair-step
or super exponential growth.
Base money is actually,
it's growing fast,
but over the last 15, 20 years,
it's actually growing at a slower rate of return.
US debt as well.
So there's a mix there.
But if we want to come back
and just think about Bitcoin as this asset,
we try to grow it,
measure it, how it's growing, and everything.
It's looking pretty good.
Never financial advice always.
And one more thing just to show you here.
If we take the lows, let's say you bought in the low here.
Let's actually even show you the evolving exponential trend, which is here, right?
Which we talked about this one.
Let's say in 2022 when Peter Zion was saying it was overvalued.
You held it just until here we got back to trend.
Okay, this window is 2022.
December until we got here.
The windows a little bit wider,
but what you see, I'll just show you the dates.
What I just zoomed in was 2022 December 7th
until holding until 2024 March.
That's actually when the price got from its low to trend.
Let's look at the actual Kager that you could have earned.
Right there, 176%.
176%.
When the trend itself,
well, this is a little bit different.
because it's evolving. Let me go back to this one just to show you the trend at the time.
Here we go. Roughly here to there.
It could have even gotten 197 percent, right? If you bought whatever, it's going to be slightly off.
180, 190 percent. The trend itself at the time was 48 percent. Forty-eight percent was the power curve.
Trend. Now we're down to 40. So you can still, in Bitcoin, make many multiples over the trend.
Even though I tell you, again and again, again, I tell people it's doubling every.
tiers, but that doubling time will increase, the rate of growth will decrease, you can still,
if you pick the right moments, and by the way, now seems to be a right moment, and six months from
now could still be the right moment. I'm not saying we're out of this bearish period, but if you
have the whole encompassing view, you understand statistics, you understand how this stuff is working,
statistically we're in a very good place for a bullish Bitcoin hodler.
Yeah, who knows if it's the bottom, but it's not an area.
you're probably going to regret buying.
The interesting thing to me is this,
whatever happens mid to late 2030s,
it's like perfectly in the first turning,
two worlds, Bitcoin and the financial system collide.
Who knows what happens,
but that's exciting.
I can't wait to see it.
Yeah, it really is.
We'll be here for it, right?
Danny, I think it's, it's, if you look for it,
you will find all sorts of crazy numbers,
conspiracies, thoughts about, you know,
of gold's coming back.
or whatever. But, you know, if we can measure the Bitcoin system, measure the TradFi system,
there's a lot of interesting things happening in late 2030. So I think that's pretty cool.
Another thing, just one more here, or we can go longer if you want, but there's another chart.
There's UTXOs I like to show against. So let's say Bitcoin's the benchmark now.
How strong are different currencies within that? And actually, Bitcoin is going to become
that true measuring stick. So here now, there's the same power curve, but I'm using it. I'm starting
everything at one on Bitcoin Pizza Day, May 22nd, 2010. So it's the same exact curve, but the numbers
aren't really going to make sense. It's just you can see the power curve. Bitcoin itself is up
15 million times. So good on the person that bought them from Laslo, right, since Bitcoin Pizza Day,
15.5 million times. And the power curve is up 34 million times. So you see the discount on
the power curve there, we're at 45% under the curve.
So this is the dollar.
Is there a currency that I found that is actually stronger, stronger would be lower than the dollar?
There is.
It happens to be the Swiss franc.
Just slightly.
Just slightly.
All right.
So the Swiss franc is only up 10 million.
Only.
You're only up 10.6 million in Swiss franc terms since Bitcoin Pizza Day.
All right.
But it's very similar, right?
It's almost identical.
But it's just we can say that relative to be.
Bitcoin, the Swiss franc is the strongest dollars next. But then here's something cool. Let's look at
weaker currencies, like way weaker. Let's look at Turkey, Turkish lira. They had the right idea of
actually lowering interest rates during massive inflation. That was their sort of policy a few
years ago. So here you see, Bitcoin is doing very well against the Turkish lira. If you are
denominated in lira, you need to save your purchasing power. You'd have
459 million more times Turkish lira if you had bought those bitcoins in 2010. Again, the number
is not important. It's the level of these colors basically or the currencies. And now look at
this. Let's do the power curve on that. Talk about the power curve breaking, Danny. The Turkish
lira hasn't even broken. It's above, it's above its power curve. It's
power regression, which I think is pretty interesting. Now, it's probably going to go under it,
and if pass is prolog, it has. But notice how in the last cycle, it was under its power curve
much shorter than the more dominant global currencies of the dollar and the frank. So that's
interesting. Now, let's look at the Argentine Pacer, just one more. Let me find it for you.
BTCRs. There we go. And this, by the way, is the official bank rate. It's,
Even worse in reality, this is not the black market rate, but just to show you.
So there you'd have 5.8 billion times more Argentine pesos if you bought the, you know,
Bitcoin with those pesos back in the day in 2010. And then let's look at the power curve on that.
It's not even close to the curve. It's never coming back.
So that shows you, by the way, this idea of breaking is the power curve breaking.
Actually, in all currencies, it's power curve, there's a little bit different slopes.
There's different levels.
None of them have broken.
And in fact, in two of these currencies out of four that I'm showing you in this chart,
the price of those currencies relative to the curve that they manifest themselves in the Bitcoin market,
it's actually above.
It's above trend.
Probably going to go below soon in the case of Turkey if we have a couple more months of bearishness.
But that's how it looks.
man Matt this has been awesome
I love that we've done like an hour and a half on the power curve
I initially thought this would be like 15 minutes of the conversation
but it's been awesome
but we'll just have to do it again at some point
thank you thank you for sticking with us
I know you've got a sick kid over there but
appreciate you guys for dealing at some point
with the takes and uh I appreciate it
tell everyone where they can go check out your YouTube channel
pork up list everything you do
yeah you can find me at
all the platforms at one base money,
so the number one base money,
podcasts, streams, whatever.
You just go there on Twitter or YouTube
and you'll find my account.
This is a lot of what I'm doing now every day
is just trying to dig into the numbers
of how these trends work in the Bitcoin world
and in the TradFar world,
trying to reconcile them.
And like you said, it's going to be an interesting
next few years.
I'm glad to be sharing it with you
and others in the space, man. So happy to do it anytime. When are you going to open this up so I can
use these charts? Soon. Hopefully by the fall. Hopefully by the fall. You'll be ready to.
It's about time, man. Ready to go. I know. I know. It's, it's an effort. Like I said,
I'm more applied statistics, guys. So I don't want to just go, only this. I want to get you
some economic data, some money supply data, some other things. Trying to get it all together here
shortly. I will be a subscriber when you do it. Appreciate you, man. Thank you.
No problem, Danny.
