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Great article. Sadly, I find it hard to disagree.

Replying to Avatar Toxic Bitcoiner

Stay humble and stack sats took a major hit this last year. The 4 year CAGR is a measly 10.4%, below the rate of fiat money debasement. Barely any returns, barely any merchant adoption for MoE. What reason is there now for a potential precoiner to make the switch to a Bitcoin standard? Stay humble and stack: Nvidia, Palantir, or Tron gave better returns over the last 4 years.

Every single person in the developed world has heard of Bitcoin, yet it STILL only makes up ~0.17% of total global wealth. I’m tempted to even go so far as to say that the bear market of 2022 never ended. I don’t see a legion of new enthusiastic faces like I did in 2020, it’s still mostly the same people from that era and before.

We probably still underestimate how much damage ICOs then FTX, Celsius, Terra, and Blockfi caused for adoption. A double whammy for normies. I saw a story on Nostr the other day that a Square merchant wouldn’t turn on Bitcoin payments because they didn’t want anything to do with “crypto scams.” Potential precoiners are now probably more interested in stocks and real estate than Bitcoin. Even if they’re just trying to prudently outrun fiat inflation, Bitcoin failed at that the last 4 years. I know, 4 years is a bit of cherry picking, 5 year CAGR is 39% and 10 year is 73%. So yea, lower your time preference, fine.

Something big needs to change for adoption to start up again. NGU has failed as a driving force for adoption recently, which leaves freedom, libertarianism, computer science, etc…which, frankly, only an extremely small percentage of people care about enough to make the switch, most of them probably already switched. I don’t know what the catalyst(s) will be for adoption to pick up again or even if there will be one soon. Without at least one, the next few years will be a slog through the mud.

Unfortunately, looks like you are right.

At least, as minimum, I hope Bitcoin will track the money printing and long term hold value in the real terms, purchasing power.

Because 21 million on one hand and infinite printing on the other.

So, even if no new capital flows into Bitcoin, even if no increased adoption, unless there is some disaster, Bitcoin should work as digital gold.

And I hope there will be some catalyst for adoption, like you say.

I see a lot of #bitcoin price predictions. $200K, $1 million, $10 million, etc.

I think the truth is: WE DON'T KNOW.

And, even if we knew, say it will be $1 million in 10 years, we would NOT KNOW how much this will be due to inflation (money printing, 1 BTC having THE SAME purchasing power as 1 BTC today) or real purchasing power of 1 BTC growth (e.g. thanks to more adoption, capital inflows, halving impact).

While I continue to think we DON'T KNOW, I think we CAN run different scenarios.

Put in some guesstimates on money supply growth, halving impact, capital inflow impact, economic crises, market crashes (how often they will happen) and see how many times the real (inflation adjusted) price was, say 2x in 20 years (spoiler alert: around 50% of simulations with conservative parameters)

If you want to play with it, the model is here

https://white-historic-booby-179.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/bafkreigvidjuhp2qoptsmszeasdg2hmvcc4lrmhkkixq6utf6reuvdzp3y/bitcoin_price_model_scenarios.xlsx

Feedback welcome. Not financial advice, but tool for thinking. AI-assisted generation. Enjoy.

I built (with AI ;-) a model where you can enter a year on year global money supply growth (percent), and inflation, and it will estimate #Bitcoin price in nominal and inflation adjusted USD (a deterministic path)

and it will run 200 Monte Carlo scenarios, including shocks (you can edit a parameter how often they happen and how severe) and then it will spit not just one price prediction (impossible and useless, I think),

but percentiles: in how many simulation scenarios (e.g. 50%, 75%, 90%) the price was above or below a given value (nominal and real). What do you think?

(it considers halving, adoptions and capital inflow yearly diminishing positive impact, my default parameters are conservative)

https://white-historic-booby-179.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/bafkreigvidjuhp2qoptsmszeasdg2hmvcc4lrmhkkixq6utf6reuvdzp3y/bitcoin_price_model_scenarios.xlsx

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I built a simple Bitcoin projection model in that tries to answer a key question:

What happens to Bitcoin’s value in real terms if governments keep printing money?

It is not intended to predict a specific price point. Look at the percentiles, e.g. in 20 years, in 50% simulated scenarios (which included shocks, inflation, money printing, halving impact, some but diminishing boost from adoption and capital inflow, etc.) the price in inflation adjusted USD is... look at it yourself.

And you can tweak any parameters.

The model takes Global M2 growth (money supply), adds a conservative adoption boost, a halving cycle effect, and then runs Monte Carlo shocks to simulate crises (reflecting the real world where we will have wars, economic crises, etc.)

It outputs both nominal BTCUSD price and real price (adjusted for inflation / purchasing power).

The interesting insight: in high-monetization scenarios, Bitcoin’s nominal price skyrockets… Translation: if you see $10M BTC, it may just mean a $200 loaf of bread. Real long-term upside comes only from adoption/capital inflows beyond money printing.

Model file https://white-historic-booby-179.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/bafkreigvidjuhp2qoptsmszeasdg2hmvcc4lrmhkkixq6utf6reuvdzp3y/bitcoin_price_model_scenarios.xlsx

Use it, tweak it, or share feedback.

This is not financial advice — just a tool for thinking.

AI-assisted work.

isn't it that sooner or later some other small miner (not paid by a country) will be lucky to find a block and do include the transaction that big centralized miners or governments wanted to censor?

and so, "worst case" it would take a bit longer, maybe a few days instead of 10 minutes, but still any valid transaction from anyone could be included, no?

hello world, testing, have a great day, please "like" this note if you see it ;-)

May I ask that you please tell me?

I asked chat GPT by sharing a random post and it said opposition.

Is that right?

Replying to Avatar bitcarnicoin

So, Bitcoin goes up 3 months after M2 went up?

Has this held earlier than 2024 as well?

I guess it largely depends on what the content world be about, like, of there enough news to comment or alike.

On the other hand, if you post ai generated images, of course it could be fine very frequently.

I guess once per day would be my preference, in general.

Ok

But then

What is true, exactly?

How do I tell?

Because out there in the uncensorable social media, like here on NOSTR, there are many "truths" about anything, war, nutrition, etc.

No, but technically, mathematically speaking this is a positive expectancy game.

If I could play it repeatedly with small amounts, yes.