What Bitcoin Did

Jeff Booth: Everything They Told You About Money Is Wrong

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Apr 7, 2026
Jeff Booth, entrepreneur and author on money, technology, and deflationary economics, returns to challenge common money beliefs. He discusses Bitcoin as a path to personal agency. He explores AI-driven job disruption, supply shocks, mass money printing, and a brutal global repricing. He warns about digital credit risks, custody tradeoffs, and what a deflationary, Bitcoin-denominated economy might look like.
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INSIGHT

Free Market Naturally Produces Deflation

  • The natural state of a free market is deflation driven by entrepreneurs delivering increasing value.
  • Jeff Booth ties exponential idea/AI growth to falling prices and says abundance will emerge as solutions deliver more value faster than before.
ADVICE

Back Builders Who Keep Bitcoin Decentralised

  • Build and support protocol layers and people who preserve decentralisation; small committed communities can sustain Bitcoin's free-market emergence.
  • Booth points to thousands of developers and entrepreneurs creating layers and circular economies that resist centralised attacks.
ANECDOTE

House Price Shift From 300 BTC To 15 BTC

  • Jeff recounts his house costing 300 Bitcoin years ago and now 15 Bitcoin to illustrate Bitcoin repricing real assets.
  • He uses the example to show buyers can choose timing or mortgages as the system reprices houses in Bitcoin.
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