Giovanni, the Italian physicist lacking people skills behind the more sustainable power law model, is big on claiming stock to flow is “wrong” or “disproven.” But that’s intrinsically a stupid thing to say. His rationale, to steelman it, goes something like this: S2F correlates poorly with price on short time scales, therefore correlation must be poor or non-causal on long time scales. But this is silly because there’s no such thing as a cause when it comes to predicting the future of human behavior.

Ultimately, Giovanni will be proven right in this regard: S2F can’t possibly fit bitcoin price over a longer time scale than power law, by definition. T^x vs. x^T eventually diverge massively, even if they are reasonably close over a wide interval.

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yeah, we are in uncharted territory as to the money supply, as inflation gets more and more out of control they burn more of the stock of fiat denominated debt to try and politically manipulate it

then at some point there is no meaning to the dollar value anyway

so logically there has to come a point in the near future where the dollar exchange rate for bitcoins is meaningless and on the path to that is going to be volatility, and probably only in the last days of this process it goes to the sky and then ceases to matter