In this episode, we speak with Jeff Booth—entrepreneur, author of The Price of Tomorrow, and founding partner at Ego Death Capital—about what happens when deflation meets a free market for the first time. Jeff unpacks how AI and robotics are accelerating exponential productivity, and why only bitcoin can encode that abundance into the economy without extraction. We talk about what it means to denominate your life in bitcoin, why the future is being built by people who have already opted out of the legacy system, and how venture capital looks different when the benchmark is no longer 8%—but 45%. Jeff offers a deeply moral take on progress, pricing, and why building on bitcoin is no longer risky—it’s necessary.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 – Intro
1:10 – Why Jeff started Ego Death Capital
5:22 – Bitcoin vs crypto: protocol vs casino
8:35 – 45% risk-free rate: why Jeff invests in bitcoin companies
13:40 – How deflation changes the game
17:12 – The new benchmark: outcompete bitcoin
20:44 – Why exponential tech and fiat money can’t coexist
24:20 – How Jeff thinks about AI and marginal cost
29:05 – Productivity, value creation, and economic first principles
33:40 – The myth of capitalism under fiat
36:59 – AI, robotics, and what the merge looks like
41:10 – Bitcoin as mirror and map: get out of the dying system
43:37 – Hope, energy, and building for others
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