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This Law of Nature Proves $1 Million Bitcoin is Destiny! | Truth Block · Simply Bitcoin

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  Kevin Walsh was just confirmed as the 17th chair of the Federal
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  Reserve. The Clarity Act is being marked
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  up in the Senate right now, and Bitcoin is sitting right on the
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  200 day moving average, the same level that's launched every
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  major move in the last three years.
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  All of this is incredibly bullish, but today I want to
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  show you something underneath all of it.
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  A law of nature. The same mathematical pattern
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  that governs how cities grow, how organisms scale, and how
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  networks compound in value. Bitcoin is the only financial
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  asset in history that follows this law, and it's the reason $1
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  million per coin is inevitable. Today, I give you the clearest
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  explanation of the Bitcoin power law that exists on this side of
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  the Internet. And once you see it, you will
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  never look at the price the same way again.
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  This is truth block. I'm Hurley.
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  Let's mind truth. Now before we dive in, I just
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  Now I want to be upfront about something.
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  I resisted the power law for a long time.
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  I mean, a lot of Bitcoiners did. The truth is many of us got
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  burned by the stock to flow model last cycle.
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  The price targets came and went, and the model broke down, and a
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  lot of us walked away from anything that looked like a
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  mathematical price prediction with deep scars.
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  So when people started talking about the power law, I kept my
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  distance. It's just another model, another
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  set of numbers people would treat like prophecy.
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  It took a friend sending me a video about power laws in nature
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  to start to crack the door open. And once I started looking at
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  the data it when an Italian physicist named Giovanni
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  Sanostasi has been publishing, I realized that this isn't a price
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  model. It's a description of what
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  Bitcoin actually is. Now, Giovanni is a polarizing
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  figure in the Bitcoin world. He's the director of the
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  Scientific Bitcoin Institute, and he's done serious peer
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  reviewed work on this. He's also gotten into some ugly
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  spats online with skeptics, and I think some of that probably
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  traces back to the model allergy I just described.
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  But his work stands on its own. First, to understand what a
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  power law is and why it matters for Bitcoin, we have to start
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  with a question most people have never thought about.
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  What kind of growth are we looking at?
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  Most of us think about growth one way.
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  Something goes up fast, peaks, then comes back down.
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  Think a hot stock, a housing bubble, or a start up that
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  scales until the market saturates.
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  That's called exponential growth.
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  Bacteria in a Petri dish double and double until they run out of
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  food and then they die. Exponential growth has a built
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  in death sentence. Eventually the system runs out
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  of room. A power law works nothing like
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  that. Think about a city.
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  New York didn't double its population every decade until it
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  exploded and collapsed. It grew fast early on, then
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  slower, then slower still, but it never stopped.
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  And the bigger it got, the more productive it became.
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  Double the city's population and you get more than double the
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  patents, the wages, and the innovation.
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  Cities get more efficient with size, not less.
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  That's a power law growth that slows over time but never stops.
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  And the bigger the system gets, the more resilient it becomes.
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  So the question we should ask of any system is, what kind of
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  growth are they running on? Because one of them dies and one
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  of them doesn't. Now, Giovanni was on Coin
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  Stories with Natalie Brunel recently and he lands this part
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  really well. With Bitcoin, we have this
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  beautiful process that is the process that is chosen by nature
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  and also thinks that kind of human construct that grow from
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  the bottom half. Like for example, a city, right?
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  A city is organic, people interact with each other, yes,
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  but it's some planning, but it's not very stronger.
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  And in fact, one of the things that you learn from the power
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  law of it, you should not do much of central planning.
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  Let things organize themselves and then the natural exchange of
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  information and knowledge and cetera creates this process.
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  This is what happened with Bitcoin.
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  It's a bottom up process with self organizes and it chooses
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  for whatever reason, the part that nature likes.
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  Like for example, there is another article that I mentioned
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  in the book and there's a comprehensive article that
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  studies the growth of teeth, horns, shells, thorns in in
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  plants. All of them grow as power loss.
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  So it's what nature likes. Now you know what, in nature
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  some of the bad processes are exponential, like cancer, for
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  example, is an exponential. Cities are eternal.
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  You take Rome, right? Rome has been existing for
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  thousands of years, right? They have cities like Hiroshima
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  and Nagasaki that are being naked and now they are rebuilt
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  and they are very thriving cities and said that it's very
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  difficult to kill a city, right? And they all grow as power laws.
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  But. Corporations.
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  Are a corporation is studied a corporation as an example and
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  then they grow exponential. And he says as a joke, he says a
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  lot of the there are no corporation that maybe there is
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  only one exception that is the Vatican that just makes a joke
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  with as a corporation, right. That has existed more than 150
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  years. Almost all of them die within
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  150 years because they grow as an exponential and then they
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  don't have any other resources. You know, they run out of
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  resources and they die. Their market is not is saturated
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  by their products and they have some other competitor and they
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  die. But what does that mean for
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  corporations that are backed by Bitcoin?
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  Essentially, could they live? Forever could strategy live
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  forever exactly so this is one of the reason why I want a
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  seller to start adopt this language of a power law because
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  he could say exactly that he say we are turning corporations into
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  cities. Which law a system runs on
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  determines whether it lives or dies.
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  Bitcoin is running on the same math as cities.
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  So when someone says Bitcoin could go to 0, they're saying
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  Rome could go to zero. And companies holding Bitcoin on
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  their balance sheet, like strategy, They aren't just
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  buying an asset. They're changing which law
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  governs their survival from company to city.
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  That's what the math does. Now here's another way to see
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  how power law systems work. Imagine a forest.
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  Trees grow. Lightning strikes.
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  Small fires burn and clear out the Deadwood.
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  More trees grow. More small fires.
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  The system regulates itself. No one is managing it.
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  No one is deciding which trees burn and which don't.
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  The forest finds its own balance through constant small
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  corrections. Now imagine someone steps in and
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  starts suppressing every fire. No more small burns.
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  The Deadwood piles up, the fuel accumulates.
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  And when the fire finally breaks through, and it always does, it
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  doesn't clear a patch. It takes the whole forest.
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  That's what the Fed does with the economy.
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  They suppress every small recession.
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  They bail out every failure and the imbalances just stack higher
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  and higher until the system can't hold.
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  Bitcoin is the forest that no one controls.
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  The difficulty adjustment recalibrates every 2016 blocks.
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  Miners come and go, hash rate rises and falls.
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  The network absorbs it all and rebalances all on its own.
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  The system tunes itself the same way forests do, the same way
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  power law systems always do. It's called self organized
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  criticality, and it's one of the deepest signatures of a power
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  law system. Giovanni took 15 years of daily
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  Bitcoin price data and plotted it on a log chart.
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  If Bitcoin followed an exponential, the line would
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  curve. If it follows a power law, the
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  line is straight and it comes out a straight line.
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  In this formula, price equals time raised to the power of 5.7.
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  That single equation explains 96% of Bitcoin's entire price
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  history, from pennies to six figures across 6 orders of
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  magnitude. Through every crash, every
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  bubble, every regulatory crackdown, every exchange
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  collapse, the line holds. And this is where I stopped
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  being skeptical, because Giovanni didn't just find a line
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  that fits the data, he derived why it fits.
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  The exponent 5.7 isn't arbitrary.
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  It comes from two things you can measure independently.
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  First, adoption. Bitcoin addresses grow over time
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  at roughly the rate of time cubed.
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  That's the same rate as how the Internet and Facebook grew.
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  It's the natural pace of a technology spreading bottom up
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  through a network. Second is network value.
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  Price scales with the number of users raised to about the 1.8
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  power. This is the version of Metcalf's
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  law. More users means more
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  connections, and more connections means more value.
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  Multiply those exponents. 3 * 1.8 gives you 5.4.
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  The directly measured value is 5.7.
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  They match it within 2%. The power law isn't a curve that
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  someone drew on top of the price.
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  It falls out of the physics adoption times, network value.
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  That's it. Giovanni actually tested this
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  against Sailor's claim that Bitcoin is exponential.
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  He ran 5 models against 15 years of daily data.
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  Sailor's version is an exponential within a decreasing
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  rate. When you let the data choose, it
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  collapses right into the power law.
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  Sailor's model fit honestly is the power law, and his instinct
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  is right. The growth is slowing.
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  The power law just tells us how and why exponential slow down
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  and die. Power laws slow down and endure.
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  And this connects to something we covered a few weeks ago.
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  The Sailor Curve plan CS logistic model that traces
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  everyone of strategies Bitcoin purchases with stunning
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  precision. That model is real, but it sits
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  inside the power law. The Sailor Curve is bullish
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  noise within the Bitcoin signal. The power law is the climate
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  strategies accumulation, the ETF inflows, the nation state game
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  theory. That's all weather.
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  It's important weather, but the long term trend was set before
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  any of them showed up. And once you see that Bitcoin
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  follows a law of nature, the game theory of adoption stops
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  being speculation. Nations and institutions and
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  corporations aren't choosing Bitcoin because they're
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  visionaries, they're choosing it because the system is selecting
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  for it. Game theory is just the
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  mechanism. One more piece.
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  Saylor noted at Consensus 2026 that Bitcoin's volatility has
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  marched from 80 to 40 / 5 years and is pointing towards 35.
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  Giovanni's work explains why. In a power law system,
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  volatility decays over time because it's built into the
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  math. Lower the Vol means bigger
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  allocations can enter. The power law is engineering its
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  own adoption curve. Every mainstream criticism of
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  Bitcoin assumes it's an exponential.
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  It's a bubble, it's a speculation, it's a Ponzi.
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  All of these things grow exponentially.
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  They go up fast, they peak, and then they die.
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  Here's Giovanni on exactly this. If you can simplify this message
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  and because it's not a poetry science actually based on data
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  and besides, to me is like one of the most convincing a orange
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  peeling argument that you can make right to people that no,
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  it's not this. It's like when people say it's
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  speculation. Absolutely not.
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  It's speculation will not grow. Usually speculation like bubbles
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  and other things like that, they grow exponentially.
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  The opposite of a power law. Power law is self regulating,
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  right? It is a slowing down of things.
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  There is something deeper. There is a network quality of a
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  system and you know, OK, everything else is different
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  from Bitcoin because it's not speculation because it would not
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  grow as an exponential is not the pyramid scheme because also
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  that grow as exponential all the things that it does have value
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  because it's finding value not by people imposing it from
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  outside, but it finds it by itself by growing through
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  adoption. You know, so it's, I think it's
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  beautiful once you understand it.
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  There are a lot of consequences. We are adding a very important
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  story to what Bitcoin is. Every attack on Bitcoin maps to
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  exponential growth, the data says power law and power laws
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  don't die. They self regulate.
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  They find value from the bottom up, not because someone decided,
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  but because the network discovered it on its own.
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  And the climate has always been on our side.
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  The power law has held for 15 years through wars. 90%
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  drawdowns, exchange collapses, China bans regulatory
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  crackdowns. It's never broken, but the
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  weather right now looks unusually good.
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  Here's Taylor at Consensus rattling off the near term
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  catalyst list. There's a global consensus
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  Bitcoin is real. The head the the the tailwinds
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  for Bitcoin of the catalyst will be a cessation or a resolution
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  to the Gulf War. The, the, the installment of
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  Wash at the Fed any, any loosening or any forward
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  accommodation and the interest rate monetary policy and then
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  and then any positive developments in, in trade,
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  right. And those are all of those are
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  positive catalyst. And then the, the passage of
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  resolution on the clarity act, right?
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  When we get a resolution there, those will be positive macro
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  factors for Bitcoin. So let's check that list against
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  what's actually happening. Gulf War resolution, a ceasefire
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  is in effect and negotiations are underway.
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  Warsh at the Fed, He was confirmed yesterday.
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  Monetary accommodation, the bond market is screaming for it. 30
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  year yield is above 5%. Trade developments, tariff
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  pauses is in play. And Trump is currently in
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  Beijing with top tech leaders like Elon Musk and Jensen Huang,
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  and they're there to make a new deal.
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  What about the Clarity Act? Well, it's being marked up in
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  the Senate right now. The power law tells you
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  something these catalysts can't. It doesn't matter which of them
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  hit first. It doesn't matter if some don't
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  hit at all. The power law held through every
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  storm for 15 years. It held when none of these
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  tailwinds existed, and it's still holding now.
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  OK, so let me bring this all together.
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  Jeffrey W sees the problem. We're all in more clearly than
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  almost anyone. He wrote a book called Scale.
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  That's the definitive explanation of power laws in our
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  world. West has the math.
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  Systems like Fiat money approach what he calls a finite time
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  singularity. Each innovation cycle has to
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  arrive faster than the last to keep things from collapsing.
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  Mainframe to desktop to Internet to mobile to AI.
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  The gap keeps shrinking. West's diagnosis is rigorous,
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  His prescription better leadership and cultural change,
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  which he admits is thin. US bitcoiners know the answer
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  isn't a better leader, it's a better monetary system.
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  You can't manage your way out of a mathematical singularity.
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  You need a paradigm reset. And lucky for us, it already
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  exists. Every other financial asset
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  follows an exponential They grow fast, they peak, and then they
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  die. Bitcoin is the first to follow
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  the same law as cities and organisms and networks.
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  The law that says slow down, stabilize and endure.
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  And if you're in a power law world, the strategy changes.
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  You don't trade it, you don't time the cycle.
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  You stay persistent, which means self custody and long time
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  horizons don't trade a law of nature.
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  And I actually think This is why Bitcoin conviction looks
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  religious from the outside. Because when you see that
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  Bitcoin follows the same patterns as biology, as the
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  growth of cities, as the fundamental architecture of how
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  networks scale, you realize the people who've done the work
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  aren't running on faith. They're running on pattern
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  recognition and the deepest kind.
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  And This is why $1 million per Bitcoin isn't a dream.
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  It's where the math and physics point.
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  OK, questions for you. Does the power law change how
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  you think about Bitcoin's price? What's the hardest part about
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  explaining Bitcoin's inevitability to someone who
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  still thinks it's pure speculation?
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  And if Bitcoin follows a law of nature, does that make you a
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  more patient or more aggressive accumulator?
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  Drop your thoughts in the comments below.
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  Have a great weekend everyone, and I'll see you Monday.