I’ve been experiencing the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon with power laws 😅

Gone from a curiosity to suddenly everywhere!

The models seem to fit but our understanding behind them is weak. Geoffrey West explains that oftentimes for these exponential patterns to continue what is actually happening is the underlying hits an inflection point before entering a new exponential and smoothed out this tracks the power law. Understood in this way it would be easy to see how the access to capital via ETFs could be that next step change with corporate balance sheets and nation state adoptions possibly representing future step changes to extend the power law. Once liquidity in Bitcoin approaches gold for example, it opens up new usecases and new adoption that isn’t possible today at sub $1 Trillion, all these things have to follow in a certain natural order predicated on previous cycles but it seems obvious that it will continue on this path over a 10-20 year period.

Regardless, if the power law IS true it provides some interesting anchor points for Bitcoiners to consider:

- $100k floor from the 2028 halving onwards

- $500k floor by 2035 (ie on par with Gold’s 2024 mkt cap)

- $1M is NOT happening this cycle

- $1M is likely 10 years away (circa 2033-34)

- $1M floor from 2038 onwards, by this point you can expect 1 BTC will always be minimum 7 figures of filthy fiat nostr:note1c5xmrqkq8j03kz0zmfe5hl8cn5rdgakcy79ad5gyytndt3ve3ggsa6p04n

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21.000.000

Yes Bitcoin is finite - your and my time on earth is not.

Scarcity, 5,300,000 millionaires in the USA alone.

Are you giving them another 10 years to figure it out?

I don’t think most people will figure it out, and the fiat millionaires will likely be the last to do so. They’re not liquid enough for Bitcoin outside of small allocations for one, and for two they know how to make money inside the system so they’re less likely to think about a parallel system as they have less need.

The majority of HODLers in 10 years won’t be Maxis, they’ll be middle class people who listened to Maxis and saw they were successful so emulated their approach - they won’t know why it works, or how, they’ll just believe NGU is real because the Maxis have been right for 25 years so they’ll copy their strategy.

There's over 21 million millionaires in the US as of 2023

I started low because I wasn't sure about the number you mentioned