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Why Bitcoin Investor Jeff Booth is Now on the Defensive | AI Deflationary Collapse

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Sep 23, 2025
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Jeff Booth
In this enlightening conversation, Jeff Booth, author of "The Price of Tomorrow" and founding partner at Ego Death Capital, delves into Bitcoin's transformative effects on the economy. He argues that Bitcoin is not only a superior form of hard money compared to gold but also a crucial element in the impending collapse of fiat systems. Jeff discusses the chaos and centralization driven by AI, the inherent deflation in free markets, and practical strategies to safeguard against threats like co-opting and privacy risks. His insights on building Bitcoin-denominated businesses are particularly compelling.
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INSIGHT

Bitcoin As First Free Market

  • Bitcoin creates the first global free market and its natural state is deflation as more people compete to provide value.
  • Adopting Bitcoin requires shifting your mental model from fiat to an energy-bound decentralized protocol.
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AI Amplifies Deflationary Forces

  • AI-driven productivity will accelerate deflation in a hard-money world, worsening outcomes for those inside an inflation-dependent credit system.
  • Centralization of AI benefits concentrates gains and destroys jobs for many, increasing social pain.
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Deflation Versus Credit Money

  • Free markets drive prices toward marginal cost as entrepreneurs remove profit by creating value.
  • Credit-money systems must prevent deflation because falling prices explode real debt burdens and collapse the system.
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