Bitcoin Power Law: where is the floor today?

Power-law floor, live

$66,212.31

The floor is 0.42× Bitcoin’s power-law trend. It never stops rising: ~36% / yr, a few cents every minute.

Bitcoin price

$80,811 22% above the floor
Close on Oct 25
Plan your retirement on the floor

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Five bear markets. One straight line.

Daily closes since July 2010 with both axes on log scales, where the power-law floor is a straight line. Rings mark each bear-market low and its distance from the floor. Hover or tap to read any day.

Why trust the floor

Sixteen years of data, three things you can check

The floor is not a forecast. It is a line that Bitcoin’s price has kept returning to, with swings that get smaller every cycle.

R² 0.956

One curve across six orders of magnitude

A single power law fits 5,944 daily closes, from $0.09 in 2010 to $123k in 2025. Other researchers reach the same exponent independently.

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3.8%of days below the floor

A planning worst case, not a guarantee

Price closed below the floor on 223 days across 23 dips, and recovered every time. The longest dip lasted 86 days. It would take 125 days in a row to break the model.

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Build your plan on the floor, not the price

When your spending fits inside the floor’s growth, a crash no longer decides when you can stop working.

Retire on the floor

Enter your stack, your spending and your age. Sats Planner shows the year the floor alone can carry you, and how much room the rest of Bitcoin’s volatility leaves.

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Daily closes since 2015 with a full year after them. Educational, not financial advice. Past results, not a promise.

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