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The Growing Gap Between Bitcoin and Tech Valuations
The SpaceX IPO Is Becoming a Full-Scale FOMO Event
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The Growing Gap Between Bitcoin and Tech Valuations
It’s one of those weird market moments where Bitcoin looks “expensive” on your gut…
…but cheap on the data.
Let me explain.
Right now, Bitcoin is trading below its long-term valuation average.
At least according to Bitwise.
Its MVRV ratio sits around 1.42 - which basically means BTC is still far from overheated when you compare price vs onchain cost basis.

Bitcoin and NASDAQ 100 valuation metrics analysis. Source: Bitwise
Now here’s where it gets interesting.
If you zoom into US tech stocks…
It’s the complete opposite story.
Nearly 99% of historical Nasdaq-100 price-to-book readings are below current levels.
Translation: tech is sitting near extreme valuation territory.
Bitcoin? Not even close.
So you’ve got this growing divergence:
• BTC = below historical “fair value” range
• Tech stocks = near record premium territory
And that’s not random.
A lot of capital has been crowding into mega-cap tech — especially anything tied to AI.
Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft… they’re basically being treated like “new age hard assets” by parts of the market.
But here’s the twist.
That same concentration is starting to look fragile.
Hedge fund leverage is elevated, short positioning is crowded, and positioning across equities is getting stretched.
So what happens when markets are this one-sided?
You usually get rotation.
Now add Bitcoin into the picture.
Because something important has changed since the last cycle:
BTC isn’t moving purely like a risk-on tech proxy anymore.
Since 2025, its correlation with the S&P 500 has started to break down in bursts.
Not fully decoupled…
But more independent than before.

Bitcoin spot taker CVD vs S&P 500 Comparison. Source: CryptoQuant
And one of the big drivers behind that shift?
Spot ETF flows + direct spot demand.
That’s real money entering BTC through regulated channels - not just leverage cycles and retail speculation.
Then you layer in sentiment indicators.
Bitcoin’s risk index recently climbed back above 2 - a level that historically shows up near market bottoms or early recovery phases.
Not euphoria.
Not panic.
More like… reset conditions.

BTC risk index. Source: CryptoQuant
And that’s the weird tension right now:
On one side: BTC looks “lagging” compared to tech mania.
On the other: it looks structurally underpriced relative to its own history.
So the real question isn’t:
“Is Bitcoin expensive?”
It’s:
What happens if capital rotates out of crowded tech trades and starts looking for asymmetric upside again?
Because historically, when that rotation starts…
Bitcoin doesn’t move slowly.

The SpaceX IPO Is Becoming a Full-Scale FOMO Event
It’s one of those moments where retail isn’t waiting for permission anymore.
If there’s a SpaceX IPO coming… people are already positioning like it’s live.
Not quietly either.
Retail is basically rotating into anything that even smells like space exposure.
First stop: ETFs.
Space-themed funds like UFO are seeing their strongest inflows since 2021.
At one point, retail net buying hit $6.2M in a single day - roughly 3x above previous peaks.
That’s not “slow accumulation”…
That’s chasing.
But it doesn’t stop there.
Now we’re seeing the classic “picks and shovels” trade kick in.
Smaller space infrastructure names are getting bid hard:
• Redwire
• Sidus Space
• Satellogic
• Planet Labs
Redwire alone pulled in ~$41M in retail inflows over 20 trading days.
Translation: people aren’t just betting on rockets…
They’re betting on everything around rockets.
And then you zoom out and realize what this is really about:
SpaceX.
The rumored IPO is being priced like a cultural event, not just a financial one.
We’re talking:
• ~$1.75T valuation target
• ~$18.7B revenue in 2025
• Starlink already doing ~$11.4B of that
• But also… a $4.2B quarterly GAAP loss

The SpaceX IPO is shaping up to be huge. (Source: Yahoo Finance AlphaSpace)
So yeah — it’s growth + narrative + massive losses all at once.
And still…
Retail doesn’t care.
Because the allocation structure itself is unusual.
Reports suggest ~30% of the IPO float may go to retail investors.
That’s 3–5x higher than typical IPOs.
Which basically guarantees one thing:
FOMO is going to be loud.
But here’s where it gets interesting.
Some early institutional voices are already saying the quiet part out loud:
This isn’t a “buy day one” setup.
It’s more like a “let it price, let it hype, then reassess” situation.
Because when IPOs are this emotionally charged…
The first trade is rarely the cleanest one.
And that’s the real dynamic here.
Retail is treating SpaceX like a once-in-a-decade opportunity.
Institutions are treating it like:
“Let’s see where the price stabilizes after the excitement.”
Two completely different games.
And usually, in markets like this…
The second one wins patience.

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