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Bitcoin Isn’t Volatile, Your Perspective Is
🎙️ Topic: Is Bitcoin Too Volatile? A Deep Dive into Price, Perspective, and Logarithmic Thinking
This episode is a break from our usual founder interviews. Instead, Jack and Jason tackle a popular listener request: Bitcoin price volatility — and whether it’s really as risky as people claim.
Spoiler: It’s probably not. But only if you zoom out, reframe what “volatility” means, and understand the power law of exponential adoption.
Why Bitcoin's price movements look scary — until you reframe volatility as time-bound instability.
Jason recounts how his “home appreciation” was actually a 99.9% loss when priced in Bitcoin.
Fiat loses value every year by design (5–15% inflation).
Bitcoin is volatile in the short term, but preserves purchasing power long-term.
Jack shares how putting on “orange-colored glasses” flipped his whole worldview.
Why logarithmic charts are critical when viewing exponential assets like Bitcoin.
Jason explains the Amazon dot-com crash, optical illusions in linear charts, and the magic of log-log price behavior.
Chart comparisons: Amazon, gold, and Bitcoin — linear vs. log scale.
Bitcoin behaves like other disruptive technologies: volatile early, stable later.
Power Law thesis: price follows adoption, not noise.
Jack’s take: “Volatility is the price of progress.”
Jason’s nightmare trying to wire funds via Bank of America.
Jack recalls being denied a bank account as a kid and how that shaped his love of self-custody.
“Bitcoin is your emergency money — and your peace of mind.”
“When denominated in Bitcoin, everything is getting cheaper.”
“The central thesis hasn’t changed — so I stay bullish.”
“Volatility is just exponential potential clashing with linear expectations.”
“Sometimes the chart is vibes — and the vibes are good.”
James Lavish’s breakdown on log charts and volatility
Logarithmic vs. linear chart visuals (used during screen share)
Meetup.com – find your local Bitcoin community!
If Bitcoin feels volatile, you're probably looking too closely.
Think long-term. Zoom out. Use log charts.
Ask yourself: has the Bitcoin thesis changed? If not, why panic?
🔶 In This Episode:
1. Is Bitcoin Too Volatile?
2. Volatility vs. Fiat: The Great Inversion
3. Visualizing Bitcoin Differently
4. Adoption Drives Price
5. Banking Horror Stories & Bitcoin as a Fire Extinguisher
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Published on 3 weeks ago