Prediction evidence
unscoredPolicy v1.0Source post
Published 10 Sept 2026, 13:15 UTC · fetched 13 Oct 2026, 05:55 UTC
Michaël van de Poppe
@CryptoMichNL
Quoting · 8 Sept 2026, 17:00 UTC · context given to the AI
This has been a fascinating conversation with @1basemoney. I love data. I look at data for all the investment decisions that I make, and that’s why I wanted to talk with him about the Power Law. What’s the actual valuation of #Bitcoin? Where are we in the cycle? His model predicts Bitcoin’s price could reach $1.1 million by 2033. Fascinating. Matthew Mezinskis built the model. He's the macro researcher behind the #Bitcoin Power Law model, and his claim isn't that Bitcoin will moon someday, it's that Bitcoin follows a mathematical growth curve, has for its entire life, and is currently trading at about half of where that curve says it should be. His summary of the math: "Let's go out about eight years. We should be at a million dollars per Bitcoin." The mechanics are almost absurdly simple. Every 13% increase in Bitcoin's lifespan doubles the price. That compounds into roughly a 10x every eight years. No halving cycles, no narratives, no adoption guesses, just time and a curve that's held for over a decade while skeptics called it broken. We cover: - The power law explained: why price scales with time, not hype - Why he says the current price sits at half of fair value on the curve - Power law vs stock-to-flow: why the exponential models failed and this one didn't - What a decade of data says about the curve holding - Bitcoin vs gold, and where this ends if the math keeps working Thanks for @OKX for being the sponsor of todays episode! Timestamps: 00:00 - Introductio 01:10 - Bitcoin's Recent Moves 04:06 - Bitcoin's Cycles 07:21 - Bitcoin vs Traditional Assets 10:57 - The Power Law Explained 11:23 - Bitcoin vs Gold 21:16 - Power Law vs Stock-to-Flow 34:56 - The Power Law In Pricing 46:48 - What History Tells Us 51:07 - Bitcoin's Market Position 01:00:26 - Bitcoin's Global RoleMatthew Mezinskis put the number on screen that his entire model hangs on: "The power curve itself is about $145,000. #Bitcoin, as we know, is well under that, about half. So we're well under trend." To understand why he trusts that curve, you need his gold-vs-Bitcoin distinction, and it's the cleanest version of it I've heard. Gold is an exponential asset: a straight line on a log chart, constant growth. He ran the 55-year regression live, gold compounds at "5.7% per year... a doubling every 12 and a half years." That's what normal assets do. Stocks draw the same line. You can be off-trend for 20 years, but the line is the line. Bitcoin doesn't fit that line. At all. Its best fit is a power curve, a straight line only on log-log scale. Different mathematical species: growth that slows over time, but with one proportion that never changes: "For every 13% increase in the life of Bitcoin, the price doubles. That's the brass tacks of what the Bitcoin power curve does. It's a mathematical relationship that we can find and observe, and it's been going on really well for about 13 years." Early on, a doubling took 93 days. Each one takes longer now. But the proportion holds; thirteen years and counting. What I keep sitting with: he's not asking you to believe a story. Gold has a 55-year trend. Bitcoin has a 13-year one. Both are just regressions on data anyone can check. The difference is what the regression says: gold doubles every twelve and a half years on trend. Bitcoin, even as it slows, still doubles multiples faster, from half price. His curve, his math. But if price reverts to trend the way it has for thirteen years, the gap to $145K isn't a prediction. It's an observation with a delay. @1basemoneyView original on X ↗
How this was scored
Deterministic: the same prices and policy always give the same result
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AI interpretation
Uses only text available at publication time
- Asset
- Bitcoin (BTC)
- Direction
- ▲ Bullish
- Intent
- inferred
- Horizon
- 24 hours (default, none stated)
- Evidence span
- “the gap to $145K isn't a prediction. It's an observation with a delay.”
- Confidence
- 80%
- Review state
- auto accepted
- Model / prompt
- gemini-3.1-flash-lite · prompt-v1
Outcome record
- Status
- unscored
- Baseline price
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- Evaluation price
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- Move
- —
- Neutral threshold
- ±1.00%
- Price provider
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- Evaluated at
- 13 Oct 2026, 06:11 UTC
- Policy version
- v1.0
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