The Bitcoin power-law observation isn’t a marketing narrative. It’s an empirical property of multiple on-chain variables evolving together over 15+ years.
The same power law scaling appears across
- price (value of the network),
- addresses (proxy for users),
- hash rate (computing power / security of the network)
with R²> 0.9.
The # of internet users grew the same way. Also true for other major networks like facebook, weechat, netflix, arxiv, etc.