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Bitcoin Power Law: The End of Exponential Growth | Matthew Mezinskis

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Aired Nov 10, 2025 · 1h 39m · Last boosted Nov 11, 2025

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Matthew Mezinskis is a macroeconomic researcher, host of Crypto Voices and creator of Porkopolis Economics. In this episode, Matthew breaks down why Bitcoin doesn’t grow exponentially like traditional finance, it grows on a power curve. He explains why this difference matters for sustainability, how it challenges credit-based systems, and what it means for the long-term coexistence of Bitcoin and fiat money. We discuss how the power law reveals Bitcoin’s proportional and sustainable growth, why exponential systems like debt-driven markets inevitably face booms and busts, and how Bitcoin could eventually pull TradFi into a Bitc...

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Great episode!!!
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So, as it turns out a min of 1 sat/vB node policy was working fine in core, but some devs are trying to tell us that mempool policy to limit shitcoins on bitcoin (runes, OP_RETURN data) doesnt work? Make it make sense.
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    Exponential function: y = n^x (most common choice for n is e ~ 2.718) log y = n’ * x + c Power function: y = x^n log y = n * log x + c Like Matthew said power law grows sustainably whereas exponential does NOT.