The Rational Market Value of Bitcoin: A Production Cost Model

A framework for estimating Bitcoin's intrinsic value from mining energy efficiency, gold pricing, and long-run market convergence.

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The Problem with Bitcoin Valuation

[Author content — why standard valuation frameworks don't apply to Bitcoin.]

The Thermodynamic Floor

[Author content — production cost as the intrinsic value anchor.]

Why Mining Efficiency Is the Only Variable

[Author content — semiconductor trend, market self-selection, why other factors are noise.]

Mining efficiency in TH/kWh — Antminer series 2014–present, with trend line

Pricing Bitcoin in Gold, Not Dollars

[Author content — why gold is the right unit of account.]

BTC/gold ratio vs. energy cost per BTC

Mr. Market and the Random Walk

[Author content — Graham's Mr. Market metaphor and random walk applied to Bitcoin.]

The Regression and What It Tells Us

[Author content — the price-to-production-cost ratio, the declining premium, what the regression means.]

Price-to-production-cost ratio — raw, smoothed, and linear regression

Reading the Output

[Author content — what the model tells you, what it cannot tell you, historical deviation durations.]

Bitcoin price vs. model fair value — full history