E182: Jordi Visser: Wall Street Is All In On AI, But He's Buying Bitcoin Instead

13 Aug 2026 · 1 h 8 min · 25 chapters

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In short

Jordi Visser argues that AI will drive an “abundance” future and that Bitcoin should be held as an “insurance policy” (about 5% of a portfolio) against fiat devaluation. He also discusses longevity/biohacking, claiming nutrition and balance improve healthspan, and that heart rate variability (HRV) is a key indicator of recovery and stress regulation.

Guest background

Jordi Visser is leading AI macro nexus research at 22V. He previously worked as a Weiss CIO and as a Morgan Stanley executive/macro strategist focused on AI, digital assets, and economic transformation.

Key claims

  1. Aging is a disease; healthspan can be improved via habits (MINS: meditation, immune system, nutrition, education, sleep).
  2. HRV reflects the ability to shift out of fight-or-flight; higher HRV reduces rumination and improves happiness.
  3. Money/Wall Street success is influenced by “zip code” and risk-taking behavior, not pure intelligence.
  4. Bitcoin is a hedge against abundance; he hasn’t sold and expects it to be higher in 10 years.

Notable examples

his son turning $700 into $70,000 in crypto (then losing it); HRV training via aura ring/Whoop; “fractional reserve run on a bank” analogy from It’s a Wonderful Life; COVID-era money printing as a catalyst for his Bitcoin interest.

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Chapters

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Bitcoin as a Hedge Against Abundance

0:00 to 1:40

Explore why Bitcoin is viewed as a safety measure in an abundant future.

“So what I would say to those people is Bitcoin is a hedge against abundance.”

Jordi Visser's Background

1:40 to 2:10

Learn about Jordi Visser's expertise in AI and macro strategy.

“improve what we're doing for you every single week.”

The Importance of Mobility Over Homeownership

2:10 to 3:50

Discuss the value of mobility over traditional investments like property.

“What do you do during the weekend to have a great weekend?”

Skiing as a Late Passion

3:50 to 5:50

Delve into the reasons behind starting skiing later in life and its benefits.

“well that's easy how do we do that easy part you have to stop aging so you have to realize that aging is a disease and it's not something that has to happen so how deep are you down this rabbit hole?”

Longevity and Aging Myths

5:50 to 7:40

Investigate the concept of aging as a disease and potential solutions.

“Is it not something that I would say either you're healthy or not, like it's something that either you say, okay, I'm going to the gym, I'm eating clean.”

Nutrition's Role in Longevity

7:40 to 9:30

Understand how nutrition impacts longevity and overall health.

“But if you have a bad episode to get back on track, sometimes it can be really useful to get a kick.”

Nutrition's Role in Longevity

10:00 to 10:11

Understand how nutrition impacts longevity and overall health.

Nutrition's Role in Longevity

10:18 to 10:40

Understand how nutrition impacts longevity and overall health.

“Big thanks to my friends at Bitwise Asset Management for backing today's conversation.”

The Importance of Personalized Nutrition

10:40 to 12:10

Explore the need for tailored nutrition for health and longevity.

“What's the first step that someone needs to take if they fall down the rabbit hole, the longevity rabbit hole?”

Challenges with Modern Diets and Supplements

12:10 to 14:00

Discuss the complexities of modern diets, supplements, and their effects.

“And that's why I think it should start with nutrition.”
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The Impact of Biochemistry on Health

14:00 to 18:50

Explore how biochemistry influences our health and wellness, including the importance of balance.

“What's your thoughts on, you talked about Ozympic, there's these different peptide things, obviously a big trend.”

Heart Rate Variability Explained

18:50 to 28:00

Learn about heart rate variability, its significance, and how it relates to overall health.

“And the only reason I know that is because I looked it up in AI to see because I was writing about this.”

The Realities of Money and Happiness

28:00 to 32:22

Explore how money impacts happiness and the perceptions surrounding wealth.

“So number one, money doesn't mean the person's smart.”

The Future of Money and AI

32:40 to 38:20

Discuss how AI will transform access to wealth and knowledge in the future.

“Yeah, but there's no answer to life in general.”

Community, Capitalism, and Human Nature

38:20 to 41:20

Examine the relationship between community, wealth, and human behavior.

“And I'm sure there'll be some outliers like going to Mars and things that are kind of new and people may want to do.”

The Evolution of Bitcoin Interest

41:20 to 42:00

Understand how COVID-19 shifted perspectives on Bitcoin and blockchain.

“How do you get so fascinated by the world of Bitcoin?”

Understanding COVID's Economic Impact

42:00 to 44:34

Explore insights on government money printing during COVID and its effects on wealth distribution.

“And the reason I say 2020, two things happened in 2020.”

Bitcoin's Appeal Amid Economic Concerns

44:34 to 47:40

Learn about the rise of Bitcoin during economic turmoil and its unique position as an asset.

“Then the next year, my son turned$700 into$70 ,000 and then subsequently lost it all when the winter of crypto came.”

The Value of Bitcoin Explained

47:40 to 50:48

Understand the fundamentals of Bitcoin and its potential as a hedge against economic abundance.

“Explained as simply as possible to a 40 or 50 or 60 year old person who doesn't really understand it.”

Bitcoin's Future and Investment Perspective

50:48 to 51:52

Discover insights on Bitcoin's valuation and long-term potential in the financial landscape.

“I have no interest whatsoever in selling it as of today.”

Merging of Crypto and Traditional Finance

52:38 to 56:00

Discuss the integration of Bitcoin within both crypto and traditional financial markets.

“It's part of the thing that I don't think people understand is it's all about purchasing power of things.”

Investing in Scarcity: Beyond Bitcoin

56:00 to 58:08

Explore various investments in scarce assets beyond Bitcoin, including Ethereum and metals.

“tokens coming and going and coming and going.”

The Case Against Homeownership

58:08 to 1:00:29

Discuss the importance of mobility over traditional homeownership for younger generations.

“I don't believe in owning any software companies that are SaaS related.”

The Importance of New Experiences

1:00:29 to 1:02:38

Learn why seeking new experiences can enhance mental youth and stave off aging.

“It feels today that the home is more of a status game than actually a smart investment.”

Understanding Allergies and Immunity

1:02:38 to 1:06:39

Gain insight into the nature of allergies and how they relate to overall health and immunity.

“So I don't view that as necessarily a routine, but I vary up things, workouts too.”
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0:00I believe in abundance. So what I would say to those people is Bitcoin is a hedge against abundance. If we're heading to a world of abundance, I think 5 % of your portfolio always deserves to have some insurance policy, just like your house or your car or anything. So if you want to keep your wealth, why not put 5 % into the asset that young people believe is a real asset? You talk about 5%. How much of your personal portfolio in Bitcoin? I don't get into whether. Jordi Visser, leading AI macro nexus research at 22V.

0:28Jordi Visser:A former Weiss CIO and Morgan Stanley executive. A macro strategist specializing in AI, digital assets and economic transformation. Should someone in his 20s or 30s put all their efforts to buy a house? I just believe mobility is an option you always want to have. And I don't think it's ever been more important than it is today. I would rather have people enjoy the ability to be young and travel when you have the chance rather than focus on implanting yourself in one place and buying a house. Do you consider selling Bitcoin one day? I have no interest whatsoever in selling devices today. The total sum of all the assets on the planet are about$750 trillion, and crypto is$2.7 trillion.

1:08I believe the fiat assets go down and the crypto assets go higher. Just so people realize, Ford is still a company. It's been around for over 100 years. If you own the stock, it's the exact same price as it was 35 years ago. I'll even say Bitcoin is the only one I can guarantee will be higher in 10 years. How about that? What's your answer to someone who says that a Bitcoin at 60k or 80k or 100k or 120k is expensive in 2026? I missed it. Everyone has their own opinion and most people that I speak with. Hey everyone, one of our absolute favorite things at WhenShift happens is to look at our data to improve what we're doing for you every single week.

1:46And one of the things that we notice every week when going through our data is how many of you regularly watch this podcast but still have not subscribed. And so if you want to help us get even better guests every week, take two seconds and click that subscribe button just below this video. Thank you for being with us today and for supporting us every week. And now let's get to today's show. Do you like it? What do you like? Tell me. Tell us everything. You ask me questions. Everything looks good. Everything looks good. Are we happy? Did we have a good weekend? I had a great weekend. Always have a great weekend.

2:23Always. What do you do during the weekend to have a great weekend? To disconnect? Breathe, walk through nature, chill out, eat, cook. What's the nature around here? I normally go up to either upstate New York. I'm going to Maine for a while. I'll be gone for the next five months in Maine. So I spend a lot of time up there, a lot of time out in Utah skiing, and then a lot of time in Brooklyn. Skiing? Yeah. Wow. Just got to ski a long time ago? No. No? Recent? In my 40s. Well, what made you want to start skiing in your 40s? Risk taker. Late risk taker. It was good for my kids. So I wanted them to have something I didn't have.

3:10And I had had a taste of it. fell like a million times but I'm a type a person I went oh I like this this could be good and I want to do this when I'm 100 so let me figure it out so I got my kids skiing when they could and then I just took a lot of lessons with a very high end group that taught me how to ski as slow as possible which is what I want to do I want to be able to ski anything in the mountain as slow as possible so technical and I've got a good engineering mind and that's why I wanted to do it and now I just love it but I don't ski like crazy stuff I just enjoy nature so how do you live until 100 how yeah because if you want to ski until 100 you need to live until 100 well that's easy how do we do that easy part you have to stop aging so you have to realize that aging is a disease and it's not something that has to happen so how deep are you down this rabbit hole?

4:06I do a weekly sub stack on it. So I'm fairly, fairly deep. I have my aura ring. I have my iWatch. I can talk about longevity for a whole podcast. Who are you? Who am I? I don't know. Just a person who wakes up every day happy and curious.

4:30tell me a bit more about the longevity stuff how did you get how did you get so fascinated by longevity i see a problem i spend time learning about how i could not have that problem happen and it was my grandfather who died too early in life and i don't mean when he actually died he He died probably about the lifespan of a human being in his early 70s. But he died way before then as far as I was concerned. He couldn't walk very well. He had a huge beard gut. There were all kinds of things. And I just decided at that point, what's the solution to that problem? I want to be able to ski when I'm 100, even though at that time that's not what I was thinking.

5:17I was still fairly young. but I decided at that point, how do you make sure that you live a long time? And at that point, all my research was not on longevity. It was just on how can I be as healthy as I can? And then the more that you do that, if you ever don't do that for a period of three months, you feel really bad and you start to realize that the time when you're the happiest is usually when you're also the healthiest. What do you not do for three months to not be healthy? Is it not something that I would say either you're healthy or not, like it's something that either you say, okay, I'm going to the gym, I'm eating clean.

5:57This is just like a habit. Actually, I need this thing to feel better. How can you change that thing? Well, this is the beauty of what I studied and how it came back to heart rate variability. So I have this acronym MINS, which stands for meditation, immune system, nutrition, education, sleep. So what can destroy all of those things over three months? An injury. Travel. If you're traveling to Asia, and I would travel extensively at that time of my life, if you've got a new job and you're working. I'm flying tomorrow evening to Singapore. There you go. I try to fly as little as I can to Asia now.

6:34As you get older, you have to kind of counterbalance everything and not travel as much, not play basketball as much, not all of these things, not drink as much, not anything as much. So I just realized in that three-month period that a lot of those things, I wasn't breathing at the time, meditation was not part of my life the way it is now, but my immune system, I was getting allergies. And the reason was I was too run down, I was tired, I was traveling too much over the poles, back and forth, Europe, Brazil, all these places, and work and travel and even being in relationships with people that were probably not good, you start realizing you just got to surround yourself with joy.

7:20What do you think of taking, I would not say supplements, but now people talk about peptides, there's bodybuilders or other people or sports people who would use some other type of substances to perform better. But it's also those who say, if you do it long term, it's not good. But if you have a bad episode to get back on track, sometimes it can be really useful to get a kick. Almost everything that you need from my studies comes from food. So usually when you don't, when you need to take a supplement, the number one cause is going to be your diet. so the first thing that I kind of focused on because I don't take supplements I don't even take Advil it's Tylenol anything unless I have to which I'm going to guess is maybe 10 pills a year so how do you get to that point how do you not take allergy pills how do you not take I just wrote a sub stack on allergy so that's why it's kind of front of mind but what do I take supplements for well the soils changed in the world which means the nutrients in our vegetables and our animals have gone down no matter where you get it from.

8:33So you're not getting as many nutrients as you used to. How do you get enough magnesium in your body? Because magnesium is really important. And as you get older, all of these things matter because protein synthesis drops down. So if you want to stay muscular, if you want to actually stay young, and muscle is the youth agent, well, you can take supplements, you can take HGH, you can take steroids, you can take whatever, or you You can do resistance training and have an inordinate amount of protein. But then if you don't have enough vegetables, you're not going to have the ability of turning that protein into muscle because you have to synthesize it.

9:08And that takes magnesium and potassium and calcium and all these things that come from vegetables. So it's a very complex system, the body. And that's why aging is so easy for it to happen. And like I said, I go down deep rabbit holes to try and figure out how I can do it as naturally as possible. but I'm also a big believer in artificial intelligence, which will allow us to live forever. So my goal has been stay as young as I can, which basically means just stay the same age as long as you can. So the earlier you fall down the rabbit hole, the better, because the younger you stay forever. A lot of things go against you as you get older.

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10:30That includes ETFs, index funds, SMAs, custom option strategies, staking, vaults, and more. However you want to invest in crypto, the experts at Bitwise have you covered. What's the first step that someone needs to take if they fall down the rabbit hole, the longevity rabbit hole? First thing they should do? I really think that people have to spend a lot of time on nutrition and understand it. I think nutrition is the key thing for every living creature, what it uses to convert energy into what we are, whether it's a plant that obviously needs water, needs sun. I mean, I always found it fascinating as I went down the longevity rabbit hole that if you put a plant away from the sun and you come back later in the day, it's turned itself to face the sun because it needs that.

11:29So nutrition to me is the number one thing for people. And understanding the importance of balance, diversity. It'll lead to the other parts. Your immune system is based on your microbiome. And to understand your microbiome, you need to have a variety of different foods. And you need to understand what it takes to get it. Why fiber is so important in your diet? You need a certain amount of fiber. Why do you need the fiber? All of those things in nutrition will start to feed back through the body and your health. And you'll start to realize that a lot of the problems you have for longevity are directly related to the food that you're eating.

12:03And as time goes on, the medical community prescribes pills to offset those deficiencies that you've created yourself. And that's why I think it should start with nutrition. The problem with this is, whether you talk about biohacking or longevity, is everyone is different. and if everyone is different everyone has different needs because everyone has different problems and this shit is expensive

12:40well let's go through everyone should um if they have insurance should be able to get blood work done at least once a year and if you have a good doctor you can get it done more times The blood work is customized to you. Most people don't realize this, but doctors, when you go to visit them, the most important information the doctor needs is how you feel. They ask you, they give you a hundred questions to fill out. Do you smoke? Do you drink? How often do you do that? They need all that information. You have all that information. So if you lie on the thing, then they have no way of actually knowing what's going on.

13:18The blood work is a way to give you a sense as to what your age is. If you have insurance and can go get other tests, you can go get them. But you're right. It is expensive. And this is one of the reasons why the distribution of wealth problem has contributed to the unhealthy situation that the country is in, the rise of diabetes, the need for Ozempic. All of these things have come from a combination of nutrition, but also because we created fast food and we really drove people towards things. and then you have all the diet books that said only eat meat, only eat this, don't eat meat. All of these things contribute to a lack of diversity and they create imbalances for sure.

14:03What's your thoughts on, you talked about Ozympic, there's these different peptide things, obviously a big trend. We could probably talk about it for 10 or 15 or 20 hours. My first thought, having not tried any, but having tried when I had really bad health issues, I tried some pro-hormones, which is one seventh of the potency of testosterone, which had crazy effect. I realized everything is biochemistry. I sleep super deep. I had these crazy vivid dreams. I don't procrastinate anything. I go smash work. I go smash the gym 15 days. It's crazy, right? 15 days in a row. Well, it's amazing. It's like this limitless movie, right?

14:44But there must be a downside to it. If you're taking a pill that now there's this Rita True Tide thing that people say, oh man, in three months, these are my results. I hear some people saying, I fell out of love with my partner because of these different things. Because they rewire the way your brain works. I mean, you say you try to do everything naturally. So I guess you have some pretty strong thoughts on these things. I do but so I don't know how much you know or people know about heart rate variability but I believe it is the closest. I'm a data person. I like data but I especially like data that tells a very good story.

15:28So any kind of interesting data point that kind of breaks the mold of what you're saying is very important to me. So heart rate variability is really a balance indicator. So you were describing feeling good, being energetic, and all of these type A qualities that make you look on the outside like you're super healthy. But there's a reason why meditation, there's a reason why nature, there's a reason why breathing. The word that always has to come up is balance. I'm very big into little tiny simple things to say to people. And if everyone wants to know within 10 years whether they're going to die or not, a simple test is to see if you can stand on one leg for 10 seconds.

16:19And if you go through why balance is so important, your brain has to be good, your ears, like everything up here has to be good, your core has to be good, your legs. if you've got a beer gut, you're going down. If you don't have strength in your body as you get older, you go down. The number two killer in the world behind heart disease is falling. And it's not from dying from the fall. It's that once you fall and you're older, muscle atrophy goes much faster than when you're younger. And so all of these things line up. So I really, for people, I always think of a leaf in the wind just kind of floating around and if the breeze was strong enough the leaf wouldn't come down for a long period of time and aging is the thing where you you have more control over your aging than you realize and if you try to get a quick fix for anything like you said there are consequences and it starts to ruin the balance absolutely Absolutely.

17:16I mean, it makes sense. Obviously, you mentioned heart rate variability as kind of this ultimate KPI. Yes. What is, I mean, I have that, right? And I see that, but I actually don't really pay attention to it. Exactly. Exactly, right? I look more at how much do I sleep, do I sleep well, all that stuff. And do I train enough? And what's my age on OOP, right? What is heart rate variability and what's considered a healthy heart rate variability or more? If I'm not around those numbers, I should have a kind of a yellow or red flag. So I'm sure you know what VO2 max is. Well, not really. Okay. But you know it's another metric that's important.

18:09Yeah. It's in there too. it's in there too but it is definitely more for people who are athletic it's much more of a how how young is your heart how young is the relationship between your lungs and your heart and your ability to breathe so great that that that one very easy to do the great thing about heart rate variability is number one you have control over so you mentioned the movie limitless but you didn't mention the documentary limitless that was done with peter atia and Chris Hemsworth. And this was on longevity. And they didn't specifically mention heart rate variability in any kind of manner.

18:50I think they said it once. And the only reason I know that is because I looked it up in AI to see because I was writing about this. And it's an important documentary for anyone who wants to start to realize some of the myths behind this. But also, it starts with a very simple thing. Chris Hemsworth has virtual reality goggles on, and he's standing in a room like this. And as he puts them on, he thinks he's now on the ledge of a building a hundred stories up. They have him all hooked up to his body and the metrics that are happening. Everything's freaking out. Now, he knows he's standing in a room.

19:32So this is not a type A thing. It just shows how much your mind, even though you know what's going on, it's coming through your eyes and it's sending a signal to your body. This is not your brain. You have no control over this part. So heart rate variability is the ability for you to go into fight or flight, but then quickly go back to something normal. This is important for firefighters. This is important for policemen. This is important for Navy SEALs who have to stay underwater for a long period of time. How do you swim underwater for three minutes. How do you do that? Most people can't make it for 20 seconds before they start freaking out.

20:12So heart rate variability is the relationship, I like to say, between our biological brain, the one that is like a plant, the one that is like a lion. It does not have this thing in our head. And then we have our computational brain, the one that separates us from animals. It allows us to think about things. Some of the things that happen are not created here. Everything that we do physically to try and make ourselves healthy, we're thinking of. The part that we don't do is the part that our body is sending up. And to control that, to not overreact to things, is something that is genetic. It is how you were brought up in the house.

20:49We don't remember anything from zero to four. That's a long period of time for us not to remember what happened to us. There's a lot of things that are brought into our body that we have to overcome. And that's why the Buddhist monks and all the meditation and all the things and the cosmonauts who were really the originators of heart rate variability and why they did it to make sure people didn't panic in space. It's a very important metric to see how aligned you are in your body with the ability of calming it down and identifying when you're in a state of fight or flight. What does it look like?

21:22A number? so your question about an age the greatest thing about this metric is if you look at it and aura ring gives it to you this is what it looks like with age it's directly correlated so you can keep your heart rate at the same level it kind of varies if you keep working out it'll stay there heart rate variability declines as you get older so so the so the age i see on my whoop or on your aura biological age is basically directly linked to this heart rate variability or i don't know what they have in their algorithm they don't disclose what goes in but i guarantee you it is not solely heart rate variability what you can look at is for everyone who uses this with their age what is the average it'll be and they give you a range so an aura ring mine when i basically made the decision that i wanted to as you say biohack but really what i wanted to do was commit down the rabbit hole raising my HRV.

22:20That's what my whole substack is about. And so at the time, it was in the middle of the range for my age. And I decided, well, let me change some things in my life to make it go higher. What do I have to do to make it go higher? So according to my blood work, according to everything that I did, my physical activity, my ability to do things with people in their 20s. I was physically healthy, but my HRV was only average, and I wanted it to be above average. I wanted to see if I could make it go higher, and that took a lot of different things. So this is somewhat similar to anyone who wants to kind play this, but what I realized was for HRV, it is such a complex thing.

23:01If you want to lose weight, it's easy to figure out how to lose weight. You just starve yourself, or you change your diet, and you go exercise more. To raise your HRV, very few people that I've met because people reach out to me have been able to do it. So that's where I spent my time trying to figure out how to do it. How different do you feel when you have an average HRV for your age versus when you manage after a few months or a few years to increase that number? the biggest change for me uh is 100 not ruminating over things not worrying about things for very long interesting um and that leads to more happiness so a type a person when they leave that gym and they're feeling good i don't care who it is i've worked in the industry long enough to see everyone they're stressed when they leave the gym they might be full of energy but then they go to work.

23:58They're not getting paid enough. They should be running things. How are they going to get on that next trip? Everything is about money and about the way the world is. So there's no way that people that go in the gym to kill themselves and work hard are not caring about the things in life that cause stress or cause need and desire and everything else. So for me, it was really the ability to not ruminate about things. And it just, it's much easier when your HRV is high.

24:33What's another, you mentioned doctors multiple times and pills. The classic thing is doctors give you a pill to fight a symptom, but not the underlying cause. And that's when then you enter into a rabbit hole of functional medicine or biohacking or longevity, which means that there's a big issue out there in terms of health and how the entire system is built, which we can probably talk for another 30 hours. What's another industry where you fell down the rabbit hole? I mean, you've been financed for 30 years, right? Tell us more about the finance industry rabbit hole and the actual truth, the HRV that you found in the rabbit hole for finance that actually is not what people think.

25:36I guess I picked up on this quickly. um i moved up the ladder on wall street very quickly um in general meaning i i started at a firm and within five years i was asked to open an office for the firm overseas that was just opening in brazil and this was at morgan stanley so it wasn't a small company it was a big company Um, so just on itself, that was not normal. But when you add in the fact that I graduated, graduated from a college that they don't recruit at for jobs at a high level, I was hired as basically a, uh, a controller and someone who did accounting stuff in the derivative area. But I, um, my father didn't graduate high school.

26:32so I really I was the first person to graduate college in my in my family so I was not someone that really knew anything about the industry but I had a good math brain so here's where the rabbit hole was very quickly for me I realized after about the first six months that even though I didn't go to the best schools in the world I knew I was as smart as everyone now when I say as smart the things that go into trading, the things that go into derivatives, calculating math in your head, all of those things. I wasn't trained in school in that, but my father trained me in handicapping a horse race.

27:12So I realized very early that this myth that you have to go to the best schools to actually succeed at something was a myth. What I also realized, there were two things that happen. One was the bigger the sociopath risk taker, the more likely that you make the most money. So if 10 people are sociopaths, psychopaths, whatever you want, and they all take as much risk as possible, at least one of them will make lots of money, even if they're cheating, stealing, doing whatever. And then as time goes on, people associate smarts with the big wallet. So that is a myth. That is a rabbit hole that I realized very quickly.

27:57And then I also realized that those are some of the most miserable people I've ever met in my lifetime. So number one, money doesn't mean the person's smart. And number two, money doesn't bring happiness in every case. Now, you want to have money to enjoy good things in life. But I started to realize that very early. And because I didn't come from any money, I didn't understand this concept. So I will tell everyone the metric for determining a lot of the success that is money-based in Wall Street is based on zip code. It's based on where you were born. If you're born in the right zip code, you probably had a lot of advantages that other people didn't have.

28:36And I recognized this when I moved to Brazil and I saw people that never were able to leave the countryside and be poor their whole lives. And the main reason was because they grew up in a zip code that didn't have education. And so over time, as I've become more involved with artificial intelligence, as I've become more involved with teaching people as part of my life, I care more about kind of breaking this myth and this arbitrage. People are much smarter than they realize. They just need to use their brain, remain curious, and talk to someone who's smarter than they are. And that's the beauty of technology and artificial intelligence.

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29:10When did you start understanding the concept of money? because you said money doesn't make you necessarily happy but people need it and people need to understand everyone need to understand what money is how to make some how to grow it how to keep what you made because it's hard to make

29:34so because i grew up with very little money uh at the very early stages i was just grateful to be getting the money I was getting. And it was not large at the very beginning. Because when you start at the bottom of a firm and they keep telling you, well, we can only pay you twice as much in your case as what you were, which is great percentage wise. But if you double a penny every day, it becomes a big number after about 30 days, which is fine. But I realized that even though I didn't need much money and my initial statement was if I ever make$100 ,000 in a year, I will be happy. Now, my father was a construction worker.

30:19So this was where my mentality came from. He's not making$100 ,000 in a year. So my mentality was that would be a level that I would be set for life. And what I realized is no matter how much money you make, you always think you need more. And the second thing is money becomes the competition. I didn't care about school because my father didn't graduate. So I wanted to find the level that I could keep my parents off my back. So they said, how are you doing school? As long as I was getting a B plus, they were going to leave me alone. So I was like, okay, that's what I'll get. So I did the least I could to get the grades that would keep them off my back.

31:02I wasn't one of those kids that just would work hard and hard and hard. Now, what I cared about was sports. In sports, whether it's scoring a basket, scoring a goal, hitting a home run, doesn't really matter. You have some benchmark, some KPI, as you said. Now, when you get to work, it's all money because you realize titles don't matter. I was a partner at Morgan Stanley, I think when I turned 30. And I realized this doesn't actually change anything in my life, getting a title. I don't care if I'm a president or a partner or whatever. What I care about is give me more money then. Pay me more money.

31:34And as time went on, I realized that money didn't, no matter how much you had, it did not make you happy. And more importantly, when you have children, as they start looking around, you realize, wait, I grew up without money. I worked hard. You guys have money. Are you going to work as hard? So it creates issues that you don't think about later in life.

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32:47so what's the point of making all this money if it's to at the end realize if i mean happiness comes from probably like simple things obviously i need to have enough money but then even the people in my life probably don't want to attract a partner who is not too money thirsty and then you have your kids but actually having more money creates more problems because they probably become more entitled what's the freaking point of all of this. Yeah, but there's no answer to life in general. If someone said, how do you be happy? There is no formula. So I think money along with, you know, the partners you choose in life, the jobs you choose, these are all choices that people have.

33:32And as time goes on and you get older, you know, the phrase that I use more than ever, if you surround yourself with only things that bring you joy, you will have a much better life. Now, money will bring people joy. Being able to go experience a trip in Italy or in Japan, those are phenomenal things. Like to see cultures that are different and not everyone has the money to do that. And until virtual reality is perfect and people can go visit these places and actually not go anywhere, which I believe will occur at some point. Money is the thing that allows people to do things. Unfortunately, they can't.

34:15It allows you to be more secure in your health if something does go wrong and you have the money to take care of it. So all of these things, unfortunately, the way the system is right now, money is just something that's there. And if people want it, it's actually easier than they think to get in today's world, especially with artificial intelligence. So I have tried to make it a point right now to help people both younger than me, older than me, in a variety of different ways, all using artificial intelligence, because it really does allow you to get that arbitrage that I said at the beginning, which is just because you went to a good school doesn't mean you're smarter than another person.

34:57It just means you memorize things in school better than they did, or you were taught by people that were smarter. But the reality is now with artificial intelligence, You can learn from the smartest person you would ever meet in your lifetime times two, three, four, ten, a hundred, and just growing every day. And I think that just normalizes the arbitrage that's been there. AI is about to make everything abundant. Can you explain? yeah within the next 15 to 20 years um i think people are going to be blown away by how much things are at our fingertips uh it's really hard for me to have conversations with people about artificial intelligence these days because i need to know how much they use them and for the most part people don't use them at least nowhere near as much as they should partly because schools don't let kids use them.

35:56Workplaces select what you're allowed to use. They don't allow you to use everything. They don't want you to put your data into it. So it's very hard to use it all the time, which is why I don't work for anyone and never will again. Because now that I have my own digital employees, I don't get complaints. And I also don't have to deal with bosses or anyone that I've ever had to kind of tell me what I'm supposed to do or not do or regulators to tell me what I can't do. It's my business. I can do what I want. So I think when people start to realize that every year exponential change is happening quickly and that aging will no longer be something you have to worry about, that we will have cures for almost all diseases in 20 years, we will have cures for every problem.

36:43And the easiest way for me to get people to accept it is to use something they're all familiar with. So the movie Oppenheimer, when it came out, if you really paid attention to it and you converted it into artificial intelligence, we had a huge problem in the world. And they wanted to solve it by coming up with the atomic bomb. So they took all of the smartest people and brought them into one location to figure out how to solve this one problem. the IQ of Albert Einstein was estimated to be 160. The IQ right now of chat GPT 5.5 is above 140. By the end of this year, we'll have Einsteins everywhere, which means we already have AI agents.

37:31You will have billions of Einsteins that can work on every problem. So forget nuclear, forget atomic bombs, solving fusion, fission, cancer, name whatever problem you've ever wanted to solve. We will have Manhattan projects going on 24 hours a day solving all of the world's problems, which means abundance will be here because behind every cost of something, behind everything that goes on is energy and technology. And if energy is free and we've solved that problem, if we don't have to worry about where copper comes from because we've come up with advanced materials that we can 3D print. I can do this all day long.

38:09It will be work, humanoids working, all of these things will happen. So we will, within 20 years, be at a point where abundance is a real thing. If everything becomes abundant, does that mean that everything becomes more affordable? It should. And I'm sure there'll be some outliers like going to Mars and things that are kind of new and people may want to do. But for daily living and for things that are the basic needs of transportation and food and health and everything else, I see absolutely no reason why they all won't be free. If we get pretty much everything at low cost or even free because AI makes everything abundant?

39:00Why do we still need to build wealth?

39:06This is a good question. And it's probably the reason that I've ended up in the crypto mindset. I don't know how to answer it other than you have to go back to before capitalism, which is a world with communities. And so this is something I don't think people understand. This form of country is like looking at a map that didn't exist 2 ,000 years ago. You kind of did and you had wars that were going on, but people were living in little communities and they were bartering skills. They were not going to the store and buying things 2 ,000 years ago. And it was when the plow basically started that it allowed people, oh, one thing can feed lots of people.

40:02So the rest of you people can now go off to the city and become doctors and lawyers and all these different things and start going to school. And that is what started this whole job thing. It's what started the whole you go out and you do this, where in a community, people were helping each other out and doing things. There's a reason why I go to Maine, and I always say Maine is the state in the United States where capitalism has only peaked its head inside. It's still a very, very laid back place, still has lobstermen, still has people that I can relate to. It's very calm. It's filled with nature.

40:33There's very few people there, and it's a beautiful country on the coast, or a beautiful state on the coast. There's just not many places that can compare for me to Maine, but I go there for that reason because it reminds me or makes me think about community much more. And I think that's going to be the case as time goes on. So the wealth part, if you don't need money, human beings are still greedy. They're still power hungry. They still want that. And I don't think that's going to leave because animals have that too. They fight over women. They fight over men. They fight over everything. Animals are no different on that element.

41:09So I would imagine that if wealth doesn't matter, we'll find some way to make sure it still survives and still show who the best is in some form. But I don't know how to answer it. How do you get so fascinated by the world of Bitcoin?

41:31my fascination with it um was from was looking at it through a window uh until 2020 until 2020 so before that i didn't care about it I didn't care to partake. I was definitely one of those people that understood that the blockchain was something real and that Bitcoin to some degree was the way to play the blockchain. But I didn't understand it until 2020. And the reason I say 2020, two things happened in 2020. The first was COVID happened and I saw what the government did, which I was already an exponential innovation, a believer in exponential innovation, completely ending recessions. And so when COVID happened, I saw the money printing and I listened to human beings thinking that we'd have a recession or a depression.

42:34And I just remember having conversations with people that run major companies who I've known for a long time saying the world was going to end. I went, how can you believe that? Like we just print enough money and everything's fine. And he said, you can't stop this. And I went, no, you can. If you give people money, trust me, you're misrepresenting the Great Depression. They didn't have money. So they couldn't get food. But if you just throw money out of a window to every single person and you let them order things on their phone to be delivered, the world will absolutely be back. And I couldn't convince them.

43:14So I said, all right, let me ask it a different way. So far, we've printed$6 trillion. If we did$100 trillion, would you change your mind? And there was always dead silence on the phone. And that's when I realized at this point that, oh my gosh, human beings that are even highly educated believe in this risk. They believe in this thing that doesn't exist anymore. Which is? Recessions and this thing of human emotions carrying things out. And so knowing that the distribution of wealth problem was so big and knowing that the reason we were printing all this money was for the people who could not live.

43:54That's what the Great Depression was about. But on the flip side, all of the wealthiest people that I were talking to didn't think there was enough money that could print that would protect them. So the wealthy were worried and the poor were getting their checks and YOLOing it. So I realized there was something strange that was happening. And so Bitcoin became more interesting to me because it started to rally before all of the other inflation things rallied. And that's when I realized that whether it was demographics or whether it was the distribution of wealth, the masses were not worried about COVID the same way that a wealthy person perched behind their walls with their guards was worried.

44:34Then the next year, my son turned$700 into$70 ,000 and then subsequently lost it all when the winter of crypto came. But in that time where I said to him, hey, you're 13, I've got a bunch of portfolio managers that work for me. I want you to come in like you're a portfolio manager. I want me to explain your positions and how you've made this money. And we went on a ski trip and he talked to me about it. And it was phenomenal. He knew every token. He knew why he was invested in them. Some of them are still around today. And it made me realize that there was something here that was interesting to him.

45:12And when I asked him how he learned all of this, it was through Reddit and through Twitter. And that's when the phrase pump and dump was brought to my occasion. That's when all of these things and I went, so this is a real thing. Like this is something my kid turned into real money. He knows about it. It's no different than the game that I play. It's ideas that are hopefully going to be monetized. That's no different than Apple or all these things that I'm involved in. So I listened to Michael Saylor about seven times over the course of the next week. And luckily, Michael was the only spokesperson really at that time that was getting attention.

45:51And the reason I say luckily is because I said I was already a believer in exponential innovation. The reason that's critical to this journey, and for anyone who's hearing this that has not yet entered the Bitcoin belief system, what Michael Saylor talked about, which very seldom gets amplified, is his business was destroyed by exponential innovation. His business was destroyed by Microsoft. and then the government came in to print a bunch of money and his business was now going to get destroyed again by the government and the reason that was important is because they were moving rates to zero he already had a dying business where it was bleeding every year but he had tons of money on the balance sheet so it's not that he didn't make a lot of money and now the government was in his mind stealing from him and so he went back as a smart guy who graduated from MIT he's not a dummy.

46:44And he went to go learn about the history of money. Now, these are things that I was already familiar with. So when he spoke about those things, I already got that. He was talking to me about how the future is about all companies being disrupted. And that's what I saw. AI will destroy all businesses. Every single business will have a shorter lifespan than it used to have, all of them, even the ones that are going parabolic right now. And so for me, that was my understanding of the distribution of wealth problem is that the game will speed up. It will go much faster. The volatility of Bitcoin, which is no longer the same as what it was back then, will decline over time.

47:22And we will see it in my world, the world of micron technology and the world of NVIDIA and the world of all these places where now those volatilities are at the same level as Bitcoin's old volatility. But no one is complaining about those because they're making money off those. And they call it a bubble. So Bitcoin joined my life back in 2020 and 2021. What's your thesis on Bitcoin? Explained as simply as possible to a 40 or 50 or 60 year old person who doesn't really understand it. So the first thing I say to those people is, do you really understand what the fractional reserve banking system is?

48:01And if you do, please explain it because you don't know what it is. go back to it's a wonderful life the movie i don't know if you've seen it kevin it's a wonderful life there's a scene in it it's the you know one of the most popular movies of all time and it's played every year at christmas but there's a scene in there where there's a run on a bank this is taking place during the great depression and at some point with all the people in there they go your money's not here your money's in their house and they he describes the fractional reserve banking system. You give us your money and then we lever it up and lend it out to everyone else in the community.

48:37And as long as everyone doesn't try to get their money back at the same time, everything is fine. So for people who say they don't understand Bitcoin, the first thing I say is, do you actually understand the system you're playing in as it is right now? The second thing is there are only three moats in my lifetime that I believe religion has lasted for thousands of years. Gold has lasted for thousands of years. Bitcoin has been chosen by hundreds of millions of people around the world since the white paper came out as a place of a store of value. The store of values that people invest in today, their house, bonds, private equity, private credit, stocks, I don't care what it is.

49:21They have a belief system in those and they believe there's a mathematical side to it. So as long as the math is real, it's fine. So what we talked about before, I believe in abundance. So what I would say to those people is Bitcoin is a hedge against abundance. If we're heading to a world of abundance, I think 5 % of your portfolio of your wealth that you've accumulated over time always deserves to have some insurance policy, just like your house or your car or anything. So if you want to keep your wealth, why not put 5 % into the asset that young people believe is a real asset? and they're getting more money every day handed down from people who are taking Ozempic and not surviving long enough to actually live their life that they want to live.

50:04So let's take some of that money. So Bitcoin is a hedge against abundance. You talk about 5%. How much of your personal portfolio is in Bitcoin? I don't get into it. It's the largest percentage of my net worth at this point. Now, again, anyone who invests in Bitcoin from 2020 on, it's almost impossible not to, because you're talking about something that's up over 10 times, even with the level it is today. So for everyone listening, I've never sold any of it. So the way that you accumulate wealth like Warren Buffett is if you believe in something and it was a small percentage of your portfolio at the beginning and then it does so well, it becomes the largest portion.

50:48Do you consider selling Bitcoin one day?

50:54Maybe. I have no interest whatsoever in selling it as of today. I don't even think it's gotten anywhere near where it's going to get. And just so people know the valuation of it, the total sum of all the assets on the planet earth are about$750 trillion and crypto is$2.7 trillion. I believe in abundance, the fiat assets go down and the crypto assets go higher. Bitcoin is the only beneficiary of the crypto assets that I know for a fact will be here 10 years from now. No offense to all the people out there who like all these other things, but it's the only one I'm sure of will be here in 10 years.

51:33There will be plenty that do better than Bitcoin over the next 10 years, but it's the only one I can say with certainty will still be here. Just so people realize, Ford is still a company. It's been around for over 100 years. If you own the stock, it's the exact same price as it was 35 years ago. So I'll even say Bitcoin is the only one I can guarantee will be higher in 10 years. How about that? Quick shout out to the legendary team at Jupyter, the DeFi super app. Anything you want to do on chain, from trading to earning yield, you can just use Jupyter. Personally, I recommend getting the Jupyter wallet on either your phone or your laptop.

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52:43if we have infinite money printing and infinite abundance thanks to ai

52:52i i think it's hard to say because the true value of bitcoin in the sense of what it's replacing has to do with how much ai causes deflation so if everything is free then money is not important that Bitcoin doesn't need to be any higher than it is today. It's part of the thing that I don't think people understand is it's all about purchasing power of things. If everything is free, then why does the value of Bitcoin matter just like the other things don't matter? So I haven't thought about it other than as a hedge against the other wealth that's been there, because what should happen up until abundance is Bitcoin should outperform every asset on the planet.

53:38Everything. Not maybe a company for a year. But over the course of every five years, you should look back and be like, what was the best performing asset? That was Bitcoin. And that's what's happened since its beginning. And that's the way I believe it is that it should just outperform everything over time. And this is not about to stop happening. Not in my mind. What's your answer to someone who says that a Bitcoin at 60k or 80k, or 100k, 120k is expensive or is too expensive today in 2026. I missed it. Again, everyone has their own opinion. And most people that I speak with, since I'm in, most of the people I speak with, it's funny, I spend one leg in the crypto world, one leg in the TradFi world.

54:27The video I do every week on YouTube is 80%, 90 % TradFi. I'm about to start a second one, which will be 90 % crypto. And the reason is because I believe at the end of this year that those people who don't believe there's any value to it are starting to change their mind. And that's because of tokenization. That's because of stable coins. Circle kind of got them going last year. There's a communication that's happening in the equity market that ends up in Bitcoin. Bitcoin miners, the AI compute story. The worlds are merging. So for anyone who thinks the value is wrong, I will just tell you that I look at it relative to the two worlds.

55:09There's the digital economy, which owns our world right now with the internet and with social platforms and the Mag7. And then there's the money side, the digital money side, which is still very, very small relative to the other side. So I think it's going to go up significantly from here. You mentioned 90 % crypto in your future videos. you didn't say 90 bitcoin you mentioned crypto there's a reason for that why my view on um bitcoin is not the way most people have been trained to think so bitcoin is the s &p 500 it's amorphous it is the thing that survives over time the s &p 500 could have 500 new companies next year and people would still be invested in it.

55:59Bitcoin is the end result of all of these tokens coming and going and coming and going. The excess wealth that's created goes into Bitcoin and then we go fund another vehicle. So Bitcoin to me is the thing that'll be here. So when I say 90 % crypto, the audience cares about things other than Bitcoin. I myself care more about Bitcoin, but I'm a macro person. I also care more about the S &P than I do about individual stocks. Does that mean that you have or could one day invest in another crypto asset than Bitcoin? I own Ethereum right now. And again, I believe Ethereum will outperform Bitcoin this year.

56:37And this is on the network effects. I believe people are not fully understanding the importance of tokenization. I don't think they've fully understood the importance of stable coins for Ethereum and tokenization for Ethereum. And that just leads me to believe that by the end of this year, because Ethereum is the easiest asset, in my opinion, with inside the crypto world to be converted into a stock that people are familiar with, a discounted cash flow yield, all of that stuff. I just think Ethereum is probably going to outperform Bitcoin. And maybe Solana outperforms ethereum maybe sui up before i i i don't know i'm focused and ethereum is the only other one i own at this point what are some other scarce assets that you are invested in that are not bitcoin related well so currently there's a lot of scarce assets that i'm invested in um d ram so memory uh Optical fiber, optical semiconductors, power semiconductors, those are all scarce.

57:45But let's make it easier for people not just on the stock side. Just this week, I rotated out of most of my memory stocks and into silver. So I own silver. I own gold. I own copper. I own countries that mine those things. I own stocks that mine those things. So I'm a very big believer in scarce assets. So my videos are all focused on being long scarcity and short abundance. I don't believe in owning any software companies that are SaaS related. I think they will be disrupted by AI. I don't know any of the hyperscalers at this point. I'm fully focused on the companies that make assets that people can't get right now that are in shortage.

58:25They won't be in shortage forever, but they will be for the next few years. What about real estate? Should someone in his or her 20s or 30s, you have kids. should someone in his 20s or 30s put all their efforts into working hard to buy a house which our parents would be so proud of I would be extremely happy if my kids would never own a home um i am definitely my my oldest daughter has called me the world's oldest millennial because of things like this i just believe mobility is an option you always want to have and um i don't think it's ever been more important than it is today and i just mean that from the basis of you don't know what you're gonna think about you might visit a city and be like oh my gosh it's nice here.

59:32As you travel more, you want to have the options to do that. And work can be done really anywhere. And with artificial intelligence, I mean, I spend, my goal is to spend a third, a third, a third broken up between Maine, Utah, and Brooklyn, New York. I think everyone should have that kind of ability to do that. And you can, because there's lots of people that I see living in, that have moved to Europe. They live in a different country like every six months. And they just moved from Montenegro to France and then back. I see this all the time on X. So I would rather have people enjoy the ability to be young and travel when you have the chance rather than focus on planting yourself in one place and buying a house.

1:00:21And it's not because you want to live in three different places in a year that you need to own a house or flat in all these places, right? It's kind of back to what you said in the beginning regarding this kind of like status game or money, right? It feels today that the home is more of a status game than actually a smart investment. So a phrase that I said to someone who asked me for wisdom on how to stay young, the first thing that came out of my mouth was do new. and the reason that's important if you go to the same restaurant every week if you take the same commute in every week if you if you have a routine oriented job your brain is aging very very quickly when you do something new it actually makes your brain younger so i believe if you live in a place for too long and you take the same thing in and this is another thing i saw from my grandfather other.

1:01:24I just saw him aging and he did the same thing every day. He had the same food in the morning, the same food at lunchtime, something different at dinner, but it was one of five things that happened during the week. And he'd sit down, have his cookies, he'd put his feet up, he'd wet all on like clockwork. That's not a good way to go through life. There has to be variability. Things thrive when you stress them more. And our body shows that with workouts. You seem like you work out. Okay, if you do the same workout every day, it'll start having less impact on your body. You have to vary things up.

1:02:00This still goes against building companies, for example, or building a physique. Or, I mean, you need to do things with a certain routine to actually become better at those things. Well, when you say a routine... Habits. Well, so I have a smoothie every day. But inside that smoothie, the ingredients change. I mean, I have over 100 plants in my smoothie, over 100. And a lot of it's powders. It's dehydrated stuff, but it's a way for me to get a ton of antioxidants and a ton of things to make sure that I meet my daily needs. So I don't view that as necessarily a routine, but I vary up things, workouts too.

1:02:50I do three to four different types of workouts during the week. I never do the same routine. I use different people and I make sure I go to classes that are different. I do different things on the bike. I vary things up. So I think you're mistaken if you believe you have to do the same routine. I think where routines become important is to make sure that you don't forget things and that they're incorporated into getting them done. So I do breathe every day when I every day unless I have some a trip or something. But when I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do, first thing, chop some garlic, go sit on the couch and I meditate for 15 to 20 minutes.

1:03:32Then I go take the garlic and I go have a tonic with a bunch of things in it for the first thing of the day. those two things are routine for me every single day that i can do them but part of that is because i believe it is critical for my health and i need to shove it in every day but it's not something i would view as as a ocd routine oriented thing where i could be doing something new at five o 'clock in the morning instead thank you so much jordy for doing this we probably covered like five percent of the topics i thought we'd cover but it was amazing uh and means that we might have another one in the future that was awesome thank you it was great and very seldom do podcasts start with me on longevity so it felt good interesting and you could have gone lots of places i got a lot of things in my head to talk about so well we'll do a part two and we'll talk about a bunch of other things.

1:04:27Great. Sounds good. Nice. Nice. Well, I go, like if you start to talk about longevity, which I think is super interesting, obviously we're going to have to talk about that. Well, you care about it clearly. So. Yeah. I mean, I just care. Yeah. I'm curious and. Yeah. No, but longevity. And the HR thing, I just had it, but I never look at it. It's true. Yeah. And you should go look and see what the, how your age matches up with it and then realize that there are ways to raise it. And literally, I write a sub stack every week and it's on one, this one was on seasonal allergies this week. And this is because a person who reads it sent me something saying, hey, have you ever looked at HRV and seasonal allergies?

1:05:06I'm like, yes, allergies are not real. Like allergies are not a thing. And the person said, what do you mean? And I went, a peanut allergy is real, meaning your body, you could die from it. allergies to pollen are not real. They are your immune system overreacting to a toxin that enters your body, which means your immune system is screwed up. So if you want your immune system to be better, you should start realizing what allergies are. It's really just your body's, your immune system is overreacting. That's why when COVID happened, and I remember I was talking to my mother, and I'm like, my, you have to understand people are dying from their immune system overreacting the virus is gone before they die they don't have the virus when they die the virus is gone it's the symptoms that stay so the allergy or the virus it means you have poor health or not health that is good enough exactly to fight that external thing yeah and it's it's not so hrv measures balance your immune system everyone your body a pollen comes in your nose and your body goes, whoa, what is that?

1:06:15Mine does too. I just don't sneeze and cough and have watery eyes and all that stuff because my body looks at it. It starts to fight it and it goes, eh, that's fine. Let's go back. So I call it your immune system is drunk. It just doesn't know what to do. And the reason it doesn't know what to do is because you haven't given it all the nutrients to make it healthy. Your body gets destroyed by toxins. And that's what I studied to go. So really it's the soil. Your gut and your immune system is the soil and most of it's in your gut. So that is the reason why if you have allergies, you want to understand why you have them.

1:06:49And if you go to the doctor, they prick you and then they go, okay, you need to take this shot every year. And they just mess with people. It's actually horrendous because they're trying to get you to survive on clarity and everything else. As you probably know by now, I host some of the biggest names in Bitcoin and crypto on my podcast. but a lot of the best stuff never makes it on air. The Shift newsletter is where I share that raw behind the scene alpha, the insights, stories, and lessons straight from my guests that you won't hear anywhere else. If you want the real insight take on Bitcoin and crypto, join my newsletter, The Shift, in the description down below.

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Jordi Visser, macro strategist at 22V Research and former Weiss Multi-Strategy CIO, breaks down why Bitcoin is his hedge against a coming age of AI-driven abundance and why he holds no interest in ever selling. 

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🌱 Bitwise Asset Management manages $15B+ across 30+ crypto investment products — ETFs, index funds, alpha, staking, and more. https://bitwiseinvestments.com/

⚖️ Ethena is a synthetic dollar protocol on Ethereum, offering a crypto-native, non-bank-dependent stablecoin called USDe. It uses a delta-neutral hedging strategy with staked ETH to maintain a $1 peg. https://ethena.fi/

♾️ Coinsilium provides vital funding and expert advice to Web3 and AI-powered early-stage technology companies. https://www.coinsilium.com

🚀 Kalshi is a US regulated financial exchange that allows users to trade on the outcomes of real-world events : https://kalshi.com/category/crypto

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CONNECT WITH JORDI

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DISCLAIMER

The info contained herein is for informational purposes only. Nothing herein shall be construed to be financial, legal, or tax advice. The content of this video is solely the opinions of the speakers who are not a licensed financial advisor or registered investment advisor. Trading cryptocurrencies poses considerable risk of loss. The speakers do not guarantee any particular outcome.


0:00 Introduction

2:10 Was Jordi Happy With His Weekend & Activities

3:49 How Does One Live Until 100 Years Old

4:31 Why Jordi Is Fascinated With Longevity

5:44 What Kills The Habit Of Living Healthy

7:20 Jordi’s Thoughts On Supplements & Meds

9:51 Partnerships: @Variational @BitwiseInvest

12:17 How Distribution Of Wealth Affects Longevity

14:03 Jordi’s Opinion On Peptides & Hormones

17:47 What Is Heart-Rate Variability

21:21 How Can You Track Heart-Rate Variability

25:12 Jordi’s Findings Within The Finance World

29:10 When Jordi Learned The Concept Of Money

31:58 Partnership: @KASTxyz

32:47 What’s The Point Of Making More Mone

38:20 Does Abundance = More Affordable 

38:54 Why Would We Still Need To Build Wealth

41:22 How Jordi Became Fascinated With Bitcoin

47:44 Jordi’s Thesis On Bitcoin Explained Simply

50:10 How Much Of Jordi’s Portfolio Is Bitcoin

50:48 Would Jordi Ever Sell His Bitcoin

51:52 Partnerships: @JupiterExchange @Ethena

52:38 How Big Does Bitcoin Get

54:00 Jordi’s Thoughts On “Bitcoin Is Too Expensive”

55:28 Why Have A Channel About Crypto & Not Bitcoin

56:25 Does Jordi Invest In Other Crypto Assets

57:24 Other Scarce Assets Jordi’s Invested In

58:41 Should 20 Year Olds Work Towards Buying A House

1:02:00 The Difference Between Routine & Unique

1:03:57 Why You Should Prioritize Longevity

1:07:02 Closing Thoughts


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