Can Bitcoin Really Beat Inflation?

Published September 18, 2025

  • YouTube Video Transcript

    00:01 This is how you beat inflation. You buy
    00:03 Bitcoin, you wait long enough for it to
    00:05 be higher than the price you pay for it,
    00:07 and then you use it to buy everything
    00:09 you need. All right, but I want to dig
    00:11 into the details of that because that
    00:12 sounds too simple and people don’t
    00:13 really, you know, don’t really get that.
    00:15 Okay, so yesterday I was like, okay,
    00:18 I’ve been living for free for three
    00:19 years now. I’ve spent hundreds of
    00:21 thousands of dollars for free, basically
    00:24 free money, because I’m spending the
    00:26 appreciation of Bitcoin. And the
    00:29 original Bitcoin that I started with for
    00:31 all of my living expenses back in late
    00:33 2022 is worth more than twice as much as
    00:36 what it started in US dollars after
    00:39 spending two literally hundreds of
    00:41 thousands of dollars over the last three
    00:42 years. Um, and the value is still more
    00:45 than twice what the the balance started
    00:46 at. Okay. So, uh, I wanted to sort of
    00:49 find a way to really sort of condense
    00:52 what is going on with the Bitcoin price
    00:54 and why I am able to live for free. So,
    00:57 the first thing I did is I loaded the
    00:59 entire price history of Bitcoin into
    01:02 chat GPT. Everything, the highs, the
    01:04 lows, the starting price every day, the
    01:06 ending price every day, all of it. I
    01:07 loaded it all into chat GPT. And I told
    01:09 it to graph for me how many days the
    01:13 Bitcoin price had been within 10% of
    01:16 each $1,000 mark. So for $1,000, that
    01:19 means above or below $100. For $10,000,
    01:21 that means above or below $1,000. For
    01:23 $100,000, that means above and below
    01:25 $10,000. But to do that for every price,
    01:27 1 2 3 4 5,000 all the way to $125,000
    01:32 because $124,000’s the highest it’s ever
    01:34 been. And immediately when you graph
    01:35 that, first of all, uh, one second.
    01:41 I wanted to really focus on the last
    01:42 three years when I’ve been living for
    01:43 free. And immediately what pops out at
    01:46 you is the graph that I posted multiple
    01:47 times to Facebook over the last couple
    01:49 days, which is that there’s basically
    01:51 three there’s sort of three price points
    01:54 that Bitcoin has spent more time within
    01:58 10% of than any other time. That price
    02:01 point in 2023 was $28,000. That price
    02:05 point in 2024 was $64,000 and that price
    02:09 point so far in 2025 has been $17,000.
    02:13 Now, the reason it’s helpful to think
    02:15 about it this way is because it’s easy
    02:17 to get lost in the day-to-day up and
    02:19 down price action. People look at the
    02:20 price, they’re like, “But it’s all over
    02:21 the place and it’s up and it’s down
    02:23 without realizing that no, if you zoom
    02:25 out, it tends to spend quite a bit of
    02:27 time at certain levels and then other
    02:29 levels and then other levels.” In my
    02:32 opinion, we’ll probably never see the
    02:33 other price levels ever again. Um, we
    02:36 might never see 107,000 again. The
    02:38 question is, are you going to buy
    02:40 Bitcoin now so that when it comes up,
    02:43 uh, you know, when it the price jumps to
    02:45 $150,000 and then spend, you know, seven
    02:48 or eight months chilling up at that
    02:50 level? Uh the question is are you going
    02:52 to have Bitcoin that you bought now to
    02:55 spend then or are you going to wait and
    02:57 buy it at 150,000 and then have to wait
    02:59 seven or eight months before it goes to
    03:01 a new higher level. And again my goal is
    03:03 always to say look buy it as soon as you
    03:06 can so that more of the upside in the
    03:08 future you benefit from. So how do you
    03:10 win in the game of inflation? Well the
    03:12 government prints on average 7% more US
    03:15 dollars every year. That means not only
    03:18 are you getting three, four, five, six,
    03:19 seven, eight, nine% inflation, but
    03:21 you’re not benefiting from the fact that
    03:23 humans get better at making stuff
    03:25 literally every single passing day. So,
    03:27 in a world where the government stopped
    03:29 printing new money and giving it to the
    03:31 cronies and the lobbyists and the Wall
    03:33 Street bankers and everybody who always
    03:35 gets the money first before the
    03:37 inflation hits, they get to buy stuff
    03:39 with the money before the inflation
    03:41 hits. You get to buy the stuff with the
    03:43 money after it’s trickled through the
    03:45 economy after the inflation hits. So you
    03:47 get screwed. They get the benefit. You
    03:49 get screwed. And this has been going on
    03:50 for hundreds of year. Well,und however
    03:53 many years since 1913 when the Federal
    03:55 Reserve was invented. This has been
    03:56 going on is they print new money. The
    03:58 cronies get it. They buy up a bunch of
    04:00 stuff before the prices go up. Then the
    04:03 prices go up because they bought up a
    04:04 bunch of stuff and then now you’re stuck
    04:06 with higher prices. And that’s the
    04:08 system. Okay. So uh the way to beat
    04:11 inflation is to hold money that is g
    04:16 gaining value faster than the dollar is
    04:19 losing value. That means you need to
    04:21 find an asset that grows consistently
    04:23 more than between 4% and 9% per year.
    04:26 That way the prices might go up 5% 4% 7%
    04:30 9%. You don’t care because the asset
    04:32 you’re using to pay for stuff is going
    04:34 up faster than that. Therefore you’re
    04:36 actually buying things at a discount
    04:38 every year. every passing year you’re
    04:40 buying things at a steeper and steeper
    04:41 discount whereas everybody else in the
    04:43 world is buying things at a higher and
    04:45 higher price and getting screwed. So
    04:47 that’s how you beat inflation. So if you
    04:50 accumulated Bitcoin in in uh in 2023,
    04:54 there is a greater probability that you
    04:56 accumulated that Bitcoin around $28,000
    04:59 than any other price. Now the early part
    05:01 of 2023 was actually cheaper than that.
    05:03 So if you were buying Bitcoin in early
    05:05 2023, good for you. was actually cheaper
    05:07 than 28,000 but for seven solid months
    05:10 that was it was within 10% of $28,000.
    05:15 Again, the reason I’m not using
    05:16 specifics is I don’t want to build a
    05:18 strategy that says you have to buy
    05:19 Bitcoin at this exact time in 2023. I’m
    05:21 saying no, this strategy works if you
    05:23 bought any Bitcoin at any time in 2023,
    05:27 you know, for 7 months and for a couple
    05:30 of additional month months if you bought
    05:31 it cheaper than that. That’s like eight
    05:34 or nine or 10 months 2023 that you could
    05:36 have bought Bitcoin any time in there
    05:38 and you’re going to have a cost basis
    05:40 within 10% of the $28,000 which means
    05:43 you can spend that Bitcoin with at a
    05:46 radically appreciated price which right
    05:48 now is $118,000. So you can buy Bitcoin
    05:51 you bought at 28 and you’re buying stuff
    05:52 for you know 118,000 and everything’s
    05:55 like 60% off or whatever that is. It’s
    05:58 like actually it’s a lot bigger than
    05:59 that. It’s like 100, I don’t know, 74%
    06:01 off, 78% off. It’s radically higher. So,
    06:04 but again, let’s assume you missed 2023
    06:06 and you didn’t start buying Bitcoin till
    06:08 2024. Well, the most likely range you
    06:11 bought Bitcoin in 2024 was within 10%
    06:16 $6,400. That means within 6,400 of
    06:19 64,000, which means to what is that
    06:23 770,400
    06:25 and as low as
    06:29 57,600
    06:32 if I’m doing the right math. Anyway,
    06:34 6,400 above or below 64,000 within 10%.
    06:38 Again, most people I know that is when
    06:40 they bought it. Now, if you bought in
    06:42 early 2024, you bought a lot cheaper
    06:44 than that. Good for you. You’re living
    06:45 at an even bigger discount. But most,
    06:47 but you had eight months, literally
    06:49 eight months, you had eight solid months
    06:51 where Bitcoin at some point during the
    06:53 day traded within 10% of $64,000. And if
    06:56 you were accumulating back then, then
    06:58 you can buy everything at a, you know,
    07:01 more than a 50% discount. 52, 54, 58%
    07:05 discount, whatever that discount is from
    07:07 118,000 down to 64,000. So you’re living
    07:10 life at a serious radical discount. And
    07:14 the same will be true in the in the
    07:15 future. Now, Bitcoin always doesn’t
    07:17 always go up in a straight line, right?
    07:19 It goes up and down on its way up, as
    07:22 I’ve said numerous times. So what do you
    07:24 do if Bitcoin enters a bare market
    07:26 meaning it starts going down instead of
    07:29 the answer is you just hold on to it
    07:31 instead of spending it if it’s if the
    07:33 price is lower than the price you paid
    07:34 for it you just hold on to it. So you
    07:36 need to your finances need to be able to
    07:38 hold the ups and downs. But the reason
    07:40 this works with Bitcoin rather than any
    07:42 other asset is there’s too great a risk
    07:44 with any other asset that it will go to
    07:46 zero or that it will you know the
    07:48 company will go bankrupt or whatever.
    07:50 Now some people would say yeah but you
    07:51 can do this strategy with the S&P 500
    07:54 which is like the broad index of the
    07:56 stock market but the stock market itself
    07:58 as a whole does not go up more than 7 8
    08:01 9% every year and it goes through if it
    08:04 does go through the stock market goes
    08:06 through uh a correction of its own a
    08:08 bare market a down market typically for
    08:11 the stock market that lasts a long time.
    08:13 So, you’ve got to be ready to ride out a
    08:15 multi-year uh or, you know,
    08:18 significantly. If you were buying stocks
    08:19 at the peak in 2027, you were waiting a
    08:22 long time until those stocks were up and
    08:24 you can actually convert them, you know,
    08:26 to US dollars and spend. Um, so Bitcoin,
    08:30 one second here, Bitcoin doesn’t have
    08:32 that problem because when it goes down,
    08:33 it recovers very quickly and so you can
    08:35 just wait it out. and the price
    08:37 appreciation on the upside is radically
    08:39 higher than the price that is needed to
    08:42 combat inflation. So again, you just
    08:45 don’t have the same problem you do with
    08:47 uh stocks uh that you as with Bitcoin
    08:50 because Bitcoin is just uh much more
    08:52 consistent in its going up over time and
    08:54 it recovers much quicker and the side of
    08:57 Bitcoin is so much radically higher. So
    08:59 the only way you can try to get the kind
    09:01 of uptight you can get with Bitcoin, the
    09:03 only way to get that some other way is
    09:05 by betting on individual stocks, but
    09:07 that is extremely risky because if
    09:09 you’re buying Tesla or Amazon or
    09:11 Facebook or Google or um what is it uh
    09:16 Nvidia or whatever the seventh one that
    09:19 the Magnificent Seven, which is the
    09:21 seven highest performing stocks in the
    09:24 last decade or two, if you’re trying to
    09:26 get upside by only buying one of those
    09:29 stocks, you risk it falling out of favor
    09:32 and your whole strategy blows up and
    09:34 there’s a high risk of that. If you’re
    09:35 buying only the Magnificent Seven
    09:37 stocks, all of those stocks are at
    09:39 record high valuations, which means the
    09:41 price you pay for every dollar of
    09:44 earnings that the company makes, for
    09:45 every dollar of profit, the price you
    09:47 pay per dollar of earnings is
    09:49 stratospherically high right now.
    09:51 Meaning there is a very good chance that
    09:53 that will go through an adjustment and
    09:54 come way down, resulting in once again
    09:56 your strategy blowing up. So this
    09:59 strategy to beat inflation, you need an
    10:01 asset that almost certainly will go up
    10:03 in the long term and that is still early
    10:05 in the adoption cycle so that there’s a
    10:07 huge amount of upside left for price
    10:10 appreciation. That asset is Bitcoin. For
    10:12 all the reasons I’ve covered in numerous
    10:14 videos, bit Bitcoin is not subject to
    10:17 being outco competed or made obsolete
    10:19 the same way a technology is, the same
    10:22 way a stock is or a company is. Bitcoin
    10:25 does not have that same problem of going
    10:28 obsolete or being made obsolete or being
    10:31 uh you know uh uh you know something new
    10:34 upgrading and disruptive innovation.
    10:36 Bitcoin just doesn’t have that problem
    10:37 the way virtually every other stock or
    10:40 bond or real estate has. Uh and it’s
    10:43 early in the adoption cycle. So roughly
    10:45 95% of the world owns zero Bitcoin. That
    10:48 means if you’re buying Bitcoin now,
    10:50 you’re benefiting from the adoption of
    10:52 Bitcoin by the other 95% of the world.
    10:55 Again, there’s just no other asset like
    10:57 that. Um, you know, the vast majority of
    10:59 people that are ever going to own stock
    11:01 in the stock market own some stock
    11:03 already. And the vast majority of people
    11:04 who are going to own a lot of a certain
    11:06 kind of stock or a certain asset of
    11:07 stock, most of those already do. You’re
    11:09 not early to Tesla. You’re not early to
    11:12 Apple. You’re not early to Amazon.
    11:14 You’re not early to any of those. By the
    11:15 time a company goes public on the stock
    11:17 market, often a lot of the early gains
    11:19 are past it and you know, you’re
    11:21 competing with Wall Street. Uh, Bitcoin
    11:23 is the one way you can frontr run Wall
    11:24 Street because it’s an asset that got
    11:27 adopted by individuals before Wall
    11:29 Street and the vast majority of Wall
    11:30 Street has still not adopted Bitcoin.
    11:32 The vast majority of nation states have
    11:34 not adopted Bitcoin. The vast majority
    11:36 of Bitcoin adoption in the world is yet
    11:38 to come. Which means Bitcoin should over
    11:42 time it will go up and down on its way
    11:44 up. But if you are patient, you have the
    11:46 ability to buy Bitcoin today at $118,000
    11:49 and spend it in the future at 150 or 220
    11:52 or if you wait long enough multiple
    11:54 years 350,000 something like that. And
    11:58 essentially instead of the entire rest
    11:60 of the world being gouged by inflation,
    12:03 government money printing, the
    12:04 government printing like they the
    12:06 Federal Reserve decided yesterday,
    12:07 they’re going to print even more money.
    12:09 They lowered interest rates, which means
    12:10 the way they lower interest rates is by
    12:12 printing even more money, which causes
    12:14 inflation. And inflation is already
    12:16 above 3% by government measures and
    12:19 somewhere between, you know, five and 9%
    12:22 by more realistic legit measures of
    12:25 what’s happening in the economy. So, you
    12:27 got to beat that. Otherwise, you’re
    12:28 moving backwards.
    12:30 And almost nobody’s getting a 9% pay
    12:32 raise every year at work, which means
    12:35 you got to put your money in an asset
    12:36 that’s beating inflation consistently.
    12:38 And Bitcoin is the most reliable solid
    12:41 way to do that. So, as always, this is
    12:42 not financial advice, not legal advice,
    12:44 not accounting advice, not investment
    12:46 advice, not any kind of advice. This is
    12:49 just me living for free for the last
    12:51 three years, spending thousands of hours
    12:54 studying Bitcoin, trying to find a
    12:56 solution for inflation myself and trying
    12:58 to find a solution that would give me
    13:00 financial freedom and independence. And
    13:02 it’s Bitcoin and is still very early in
    13:04 the adoption cycle of Bitcoin. And if
    13:06 you feel like you’re late to Bitcoin,
    13:08 literally everyone who’s ever bought
    13:09 Bitcoin has felt like they were late to
    13:11 Bitcoin. Like everybody has felt like
    13:13 they’re late to Bitcoin. You are not
    13:14 late to Bitcoin. 95% of the world owns
    13:17 zero Bitcoin. And the vast majority of
    13:19 the other 5% who own some Bitcoin, it’s
    13:22 50 bucks, 200 bucks. It’s not enough to
    13:24 matter. There’s very, very, very, very
    13:27 few people in the world like me who have
    13:29 literally 100% of my liquid assets in
    13:31 Bitcoin. 100%. And I worked my way up
    13:34 from 0% in 2017 to 100% earlier this
    13:38 year in April of this year when I
    13:40 finally decided to convert the last 1%
    13:43 of my stock portfolio into Bitcoin. I
    13:45 had already converted all of my uh
    13:47 savings, all of my investments, all of
    13:49 my 401k, all of my IRA, everything’s in
    13:53 Bitcoin. Uh for liquid assets that I
    13:55 have, uh it’s all Bitcoin. And it’s all
    13:58 Bitcoin because I’ve spent thousands of
    13:60 hours studying Bitcoin. And my
    14:01 conviction level is it’s the only kind
    14:03 of money in the world that nobody can
    14:05 make more of. It’s the only kind of
    14:07 money that nobody can manipulate. There
    14:10 will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin
    14:12 ever in the world ever. There will only
    14:14 ever be 21 million Bitcoin. And however
    14:17 many of those 21 million Bitcoin or
    14:20 fractions of one you can get right now
    14:23 lets you spend that Bitcoin for the rest
    14:25 of your life or whenever you want to
    14:26 spend it. You can wait and it goes up
    14:28 50% and you spend it then and
    14:30 everything’s 33% off. Um, or you can
    14:33 wait much longer and buy everything when
    14:35 it’s 50% off. Or you can save Bitcoin
    14:37 right now. You can buy a little piece of
    14:40 a Bitcoin. You can buy a dollar of
    14:41 Bitcoin and it’ll probably be worth $20
    14:44 or $100 when you retire, you know, which
    14:46 is a massive upside, which is why you
    14:48 need to buy more than$1 because even if
    14:50 it goes up 20, 30, 50x, uh, you have to
    14:53 have enough to matter. Uh, by the math,
    14:56 if you want to double your liquid net
    14:58 worth in 10 years, assuming Bitcoin goes
    15:01 up by a factor of 10, if you want to
    15:02 double your entire liquid net worth,
    15:05 meaning all or let’s just call it net
    15:06 worth, your assets, you need 11% of your
    15:09 net worth in Bitcoin. If you want to
    15:11 triple all of your net worth, assuming
    15:13 everything stays the same and Bitcoin
    15:15 goes up by a factor of 10, if you want
    15:17 to triple it, you need 22% of your
    15:19 assets in Bitcoin. If you want to
    15:20 quadruple it, you need 33% of your
    15:23 assets in Bitcoin. Now, if you want to
    15:25 your net worth to go up by a factor of
    15:27 10 when Bitcoin goes up by a factor of
    15:30 10, well then you got to be where I am,
    15:31 which is 100% Bitcoin. Because if you’re
    15:33 100% Bitcoin and it goes up, you know,
    15:35 a,000%, well, then you’re up a,000%,
    15:38 which is 10x. So, I continue to believe
    15:41 that now is a great time to buy Bitcoin.
    15:43 Um, I’ve done the research. Could I be
    15:45 wrong? Yes, everybody can be wrong, but
    15:47 I really don’t think I am. and talk
    15:49 about money where your mouth is. I got
    15:50 100% of Bitcoin. I live on Bitcoin.
    15:52 Everything I buy, I buy with a Coinbase
    15:54 debit card, which converts my Bitcoin
    15:56 into the local currency. So whether
    15:58 that’s Honduran and Limpira or euros in
    16:01 Europe or Japanese yen, wherever I
    16:03 happen to be, when I use that Coinbase
    16:06 debit card, it converts Bitcoin to the
    16:08 local currency and I can buy anything I
    16:09 want at whatever the current exchange
    16:11 rate is for Bitcoin in the world. And
    16:13 Bitcoin has a, you know, a floating
    16:15 exchange rate in every single currency
    16:16 around the world. It’s completely
    16:18 liquid, meaning you can buy an unlimited
    16:20 amount of stuff and you’re not going to
    16:22 move the price of Bitcoin. It’s just
    16:23 amazing. It’s an amazing technology. You
    16:25 can store it for safety out of the hands
    16:27 of, you know, hackers and scammers in
    16:29 Bicki, Bit Ty, which I’m constantly
    16:32 posting about. Like, all of these things
    16:34 are at your fingertips. It’s amazing,
    16:36 amazing, amazing technology. And, uh, if
    16:39 I were you, I’d buy as much as I can. I
    16:41 mean, that’s what I’ve already done.
    16:42 That’s what I would do. That’s what I
    16:43 have done. It’s working great for me.
    16:46 And uh I think it will continue to work
    16:47 great for a very long time in the
    16:48 future. So here to serve. Send me
    16:51 questions. Happy to answer anything. And
    16:53 have a great day everyone.

TL&DW (too long and didn’t watch): You buy bitcoin and wait long enough for it to be higher than the price you paid for it, then you use it to buy everything you need.

**Originally recorded 9/18/25**

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