{"id":38053,"date":"2026-03-30T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=38053"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:30:52","slug":"bears-thesis-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/bears-thesis-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears Thesis Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; Adam Livingston&#8217;s post dismisses bearish claims of Bitcoin&#8217;s &#8220;broken structure&#8221; after a 50% drawdown to ~$66,000, using a power-law model to show the price is 47% below its long-term trend, with rising R\u00b2 accuracy indicating maturing adoption rather than collapse.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; The embedded video introduces log-periodic oscillations around this trend, framing volatility as inherent mean-reversion cycles; it projects Bitcoin&#8217;s next peak at $508,000 by mid-2028, suggesting the 2022-2026 period was a prolonged bear market primed for reversion.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; Applying the model to MicroStrategy (MSTR), Livingston estimates $5,000 per share by 2036 from current holdings alone\u2014yielding ~0.0022 BTC exposure per share after senior claims\u2014at a $2.24 million Bitcoin price, capturing just 0.19% of a $47 trillion network value against global wealth.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image0.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image0-15.png\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#x1f525;THE BITCOIN BEARS ARE COMPLETELY COOKED + MSTR TO $5,000?!?&#x1f525;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Bitcoin dumps 50 percent and suddenly every economically illiterate ghoul with a WiFi signal starts acting like they just solved the markets.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt\u2019s over.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe structure is broken.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe bubble finally popped.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Fantastic. Incredible work, Sherlock.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">You saw a volatile asset be volatile and concluded that fifteen years of price history, adoption, market structure, and cyclical mean reversion were all just a shared hallucination.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">In this video, I break down a Bitcoin model that says the bears may be COMPLETELY COOKED, and why it means $5,000 MSTR even if Saylor never buys another Bitcoin:<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image1.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image1-9.jpeg\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/adambliv\/status\/2038323399966028278?s=43\">https:\/\/x.com\/adambliv\/status\/2038323399966028278?s=43<\/a><\/div>\n<p><br id=\"lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature\"><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 17pt; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Chapter 1 to Chapter 14\u2019s an \u201cEaster Egg\u201d at&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 17pt;\">#ch1 to #ch14. Including #ch2 which\u2019s chapter 2 at my house in Napa California<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block;\" class=\"\">\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;\" class=\"apple-rich-link\" draggable=\"true\" role=\"link\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ejeIz4EhoJ0\"><a style=\"border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;\" class=\"lp-rich-link\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ejeIz4EhoJ0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"button\" draggable=\"false\" width=\"300\"><\/p>\n<table style=\"table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#E6E6E5;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" class=\"lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td vertical-align=\"center\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:300px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:225px;\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" draggable=\"false\" class=\"lp-rich-link-mediaImage\" alt=\"hqdefault.jpg\" src=\"blob:applewebdata:\/\/e818de0c-c495-4621-aba8-62c71a2b577b\/5eb37646-1f49-4f9a-b3de-d821379861ab\" data-unique-identifier=\"\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td vertical-align=\"center\">\n<table bgcolor=\"#E6E6E5\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"300\" style=\"table-layout:fixed;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;background-color:rgba(230, 230, 229, 1);-apple-color-filter:initial;\" class=\"lp-rich-link-captionBar\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;\" class=\"lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem\">\n<div style=\"max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;\" class=\"lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack\">\n<div style=\"word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;\" class=\"lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ejeIz4EhoJ0\" style=\"text-decoration: none\" draggable=\"false\"><font color=\"#000000\" style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);\">What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;\" class=\"lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ejeIz4EhoJ0\" style=\"text-decoration: none\" draggable=\"false\"><font color=\"#A2A2A9\" style=\"color: rgba(60, 60, 67, 0.6);\">youtube.com<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">On 09-09-39, &#8220;What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School&#8221; 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