https://onebig.life/powerlaw

I find bitcoin's adherence to the Power Law fascinating, and for me it has become my favoured price model. It is so beautifully simple, with only one input variable: time.

I built this Bitcoin Power Law web page because the other couple out there didn't allow me to do what I wanted:

- To choose a date (e.g. your retirement, or a major purchase goal), and to see where price might be. Not only the fair price, but perhaps more importantly, the floor price below which bitcoin should never go under again.

- To choose a price (e.g. $1m), and to see the probable date (when fair price reaches the price) and very high probable date (when bottom price reaches it).

- To remind me to stop making too emotionally fantastical price predictions whenever price takes off on one of its major spurts, or I read some ultra-bullish article.

And more importantly, just to be able to show the chart while talking to a noob, with price indisputably sloping from bottom left to top right. Message: it's not too high to buy ;)

Of course, models are not guarantees. They all have their flaws, and the obvious one in this case is the model does not take into account the 4 year halving cycle to refine its price predictions.

But I believe there is less likelihood of this stock-to-flow cycle repeating indefinitely (as the halving becomes a less and less significant part of the bitcoin stock), than of nature's Power Law continuing as we go through the global adoption curve.

Enjoy!

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https://onebig.life/powerlaw

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Nice!

There are much more variables to it other than time. Addresses and hash rate, amongst them. It does, absolutely, follow a power law though. Over a number of orders of magnitude, this has been proven to be true over 15 years. People don't understand log log charts🤷🏻‍♂️.

The variables you’re referring to are different charts.

I give the equation in below the chart on the webpage.

There are two fixed coefficients and the only input is "days since Genesis Block", i.e. time.

So nothing to do with addresses and hash rate. You are thinking of other models (which can also obey Power Law) such as those espoused by PlanB.