Even in crypto, what goes up must come down.

“You really just mathematically can’t have that [explosive upside] forever,” Coinbase (COIN) head of institutional strategy John D’Agostino told Yahoo Finance’s Opening Bid.

He noted that if bitcoin’s (BTC-USD) growth continued indefinitely at its historical compounding rates, the asset would eventually become “larger than the global economy.”

Bitcoin has seen its price fall over 25% year to date. The digital asset’s value now is far below its $125,000 high reached in October 2025.

But these periods of “mean reversion” or so-called corrections are a “very natural” part of a scarce asset’s life cycle, D’Agostino argued.

While the narrative of mean reversion implies a…