It occurred to me that understanding both Bitcoin and the power law resembles the way we understand any complex subject at progressively deeper levels: elementary school, high school, university, and finally the level of active research.

At the most basic level, people see a single power-law line and ask whether the price is above or below it. But the idea that there is no uniquely privileged line—and that the dynamics of the system matter more than its exact price at any particular moment—is already a university-level understanding.
The deepest language is the language of local slopes. What matters most is not simply where Bitcoin sits relative to an average curve, but whether its local scaling behavior preserves the same exponent across different periods and price regimes.
That is the most profound way to understand the Bitcoin power law: not as a static line that price must follow, but as a persistent dynamical law revealed through the stability of its local slopes.