Bitcoin Isn’t Volatile, Your Perspective Is

Bitcoin Isn’t Volatile, Your Perspective Is

From Medium of Exchange by Jason Keil

August 7, 2025 · 42 min

About this episode

The episode explores Bitcoin's price volatility and reframes it through the lens of perspective and logarithmic thinking.

🎙️ 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…

People in this episode

Host: Jason Keil

Guest: Jack

Topics covered

  • Bitcoin volatility
  • price perspective
  • logarithmic thinking
  • exponential adoption
  • financial stability
  • self-custody

Keywords

  • Bitcoin
  • volatility
  • logarithmic charts
  • exponential assets
  • financial perspective
  • self-custody
  • price movements
  • power law
  • inflation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bank of America

Products: Bitcoin, Amazon, gold

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