Jeff Booth vs Simon Dixon: Bitcoin's Abundant Future or Total Dystopian Nightmare?

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Jan 24, 2026

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Simon Dixon

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Jeff Booth

Simon Dixon, ex-investment banker turned Bitcoin infrastructure builder and geopolitical commentator. Jeff Booth, author and entrepreneur focused on deflationary tech and decentralized economies. They clash over Bitcoin as a route to abundance versus a tool co-opted by surveillance and elites. Topics include privacy tech like Nostr/Fedi, centralized custody risks, multipolar currency wars, self-custody, and building parallel circular economies.

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Free Market Is Deflationary

Jeff Booth argues the natural free-market state is deflation, and current systems trap attention and time into extraction.
He says moving personal agency and time into a Bitcoin-based economy creates unstoppable change.

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Multipolarity Fuels Surveillance Risk

Simon Dixon describes a multipolar world where fiat powers split and centralized tech enables surveillance.
He warns custody centralization (ETFs, treasuries) risks co-opting Bitcoin into the financial industrial complex.

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Privacy Prevents Co-Option

Jeff warns that if Bitcoin remains only an open protocol without privacy and layered infrastructure, it will be co-opted and centralized.
He claims privacy tech on top of Bitcoin makes it resilient to capture and chain-fork coercion.

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