How Much Longer Until We Consider the Bitcoin Power Law Model Invalid?

Markets Share Share this article Copy link X icon X (Twitter) LinkedIn Facebook Email How Much Longer Until We Consider the Bitcoin Power Law Model Invalid? As the gap between spot bitcoin price and the power law widens, investors are left questioning whether mean reversion is coming or if another cornerstone model is approaching its end. By James Van Straten , AI Boost | Edited by Oliver Knight Dec 6, 2025, 3:00 p.m. Power Law (Glassnode) What to know : Bitcoin has largely tracked its long standing power law trend this cycle, though it now trades about 32% below the model. Earlier models like stock to flow have already failed, with its current implied valuation near $1.3 million per bitcoin Over a long enough time frame, every long term valuation model for bitcoin has eventually been broken, yet the one that has maintained the strongest narrative this cycle has been the power law model . Historically, in previous cycles, bitcoin has tended to overshoot this model during bull markets and fall below it during bear markets, but in the current cycle the price has largely remained close to the model's trajectory. STORY CONTINUES BELOW Don't miss another story. Subscribe to the Crypto Daybook Americas Newsletter today . See all newsletters Sign me up By signing up, you will receive emails about CoinDesk products and you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . The bitcoin power law framework provides a mathematical viewpoint of long term price trends, revealing that bitcoin’s historical performance follows a power law distribution on a log scale. This implies a relationship between time and price. However, the model relies on historical observations. In theory it is a backward looking model that does not guarantee future predictive accuracy, particularly given the unpredictable nature of financial markets. The model is useful for understanding long term structural trends. Below $90,000, bitcoin currently trades at a steep discount to the model. The power law value sits near $118,000 which places the spot price roughly 32% beneath the model. This is the largest deviation since the yen carry trade unwind back in august 2024, which produced a 35% deviation from the trend line and took three months to recover. From a broader perspective, bitcoin has spent most of this cycle tracking close to the model, whereas in previous cycles it deviated far more aggressively both above and below it. In the last cycle, the most prominent model was the stock to flow framework created by the anonymous analyst Plan B, which assumes that scarcity directly drives value. The model has been invalid since January 2021, and according to current Glassnode data it would imply a price of roughly $1.3 million per bitcoin today. The key question now is whether bitcoin mean reverts back toward the power law trend or breaks lower and challenges the validity of yet another long standing model. Stock To Flow (Glassnode) Glassnode Bitcoin News Stock-to-Flow AI Disclaimer: Parts of this article were generated with the assistance from AI tools and reviewed by our editorial team to ensure accuracy and adherence to our standards . For more information, see CoinDesk's full AI Policy . More For You Protocol Research: GoPlus Security By CoinDesk Research Nov 14, 2025 Commissioned by GoPlus What to know : As of October 2025, GoPlus has generated $4.7M in total revenue across its product lines. The GoPlus App is the primary revenue driver, contributing $2.5M (approx. 53%), followed by the SafeToken Protocol at $1.7M. GoPlus Intelligence's Token Security API averaged 717 million monthly calls year-to-date in 2025 , with a peak of nearly 1 billion calls in February 2025. 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