I think the Halvening & the Difficulty Adjustment are by far the two most underappreciated/underestimated gifts baked into the protocol.
What happens when you have a ever-growing Hash Rate, compounding at approx. 35% YoY & a supply schedule being cut in half by 50% every 4 years. You have the apex asset of the digital age, playa!
Your stack — the one you should be building — represents a tangible, measurable share of global time and energy. Hash costs money; your BTC represents proof-of-time in a world running on proof-of-energy. Plotted over any time horizon, you can mathematically calculate your stack’s claim on global energy. Every block mined increases the total energy securing the network, and your share of it — however small — commands proportionally more time.
This is without a doubt the most magical part to all of this, as time goes on you can mathematically calculate your stack as a representation of time. At any one point in time your BTC commands more of the world’s energy (time), and therefore money.
I vibe coded a website to help graphically showcase this, you can suss below. I plot price based on a number of factors but price is not what's important, % of the network in time is the best way to visualize how significant a 'small' stack will become when time is the denominator.
https://www.sidmodel.com/
Pic above denotes a 0.1 BTC Stack,
Feedback welcomed and encouraged,
#BTC
Pic above denotes a 0.1 BTC Stack,
Feedback welcomed and encouraged,
#BTC