The Pomp Podcast - Bitcoin Is Entering Its Most Powerful Wave Ever | Jordi Visser

Episode Date: September 5, 2026

Jordi Visser is a veteran macro investor with 30+ years of experience and the author of the VisserLabs Substack. In this conversation, we break down why rising interest rates may not derail the AI-driven economy, bitcoin's path to new highs and the four-year cycle debate, and how AI agents are already reshaping markets, business management, and crypto adoption. We also cover tokenization, portfolio allocation, and why a 0% crypto weighting no longer makes sense.========================Arch Public is an agentic trading platform that automates investment strategies across Stocks, Commodities, ETFs and Crypto. Whether you’re rotating into AI & Gold, allocating to the S&P 500, or accumulating Bitcoin, Arch Public executes your plan 24/7 without ever taking custody of your assets or funds. Sign up today at https://www.archpublic.com, and start your FREE automated trading strategy! ========================Uphold is the easiest way to buy and sell crypto unlike any other platform allowing you to trade in just one step between any supported asset. Check them out at https://www.uphold.com/pomp/ This video includes a paid sponsorship with Uphold. I’m compensated by Uphold for promoting its products and services and may receive commissions from referrals. Terms apply. Not available in all jurisdictions. Digital assets are risky and may result in the total loss of your capital.========================0:00 - Intro0:58 - Why interest rates won't derail the AI-driven economy13:43 - Bitcoin, stocks & the money printing trade20:28 - Tokenization, AI agents & the next wave of investment opportunities22:42 - Bitcoin's path to $100K & the four-year cycle debate29:11 - AI agents are already changing how business gets done35:07 - Markets never sleep: how agents are reshaping trading38:06 - Managing AI agents like a team 46:01 - Using AI to cut through market fear 52:01 - Why every portfolio needs crypto exposure

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wave in crypto. For that to happen and the reasons behind it, we need this kind of doubt when it starts to go up because the energy that should be associated should be real. For this to be a third wave, I also need the silent IPO thing to be there. I needed to see. What's going on, guys? Today we have a great conversation with Jordy Visser. In it, we talk about interest rates, why everyone's worried about them going higher,

but maybe it's not actually going to affect the economy or your portfolio as much as you think. We talk about Bitcoin and whether it's going higher, lower, or going to stay the same, why people are so bearish, but Jordy is so bullish. And then we talk about AI agents and what's going on, changing in the way we work, the way that we live our lives, and how it is going to impact everything around us.

This conversation has a ton of impact on what is actually going to occur in your portfolio in the U.S. economy over the coming years. I highly suggest that you listen to this very carefully, and I think that you'll get a lot of value out of it. Here's my latest conversation with Jordy Visser. All right, Jordy, we're back in studio. You got a Hawaiian shirt on.

I got a Yankees hat. We're ready to rock and roll. Everyone has one big question. Are interest rates going to go up or are they not? Scott Besson this week gave an interview and he said, I have more information than the market has, obviously. How are you analyzing whether rates will go up or not? And then what is the impact of them changing? All right.

First of all, and I did post some stuff in X and I'm going to do some stuff in the video over the weekend. Your question aligns with the way people are freaking out. Personally, I'm shocked. Let's just use 10-year rates. For the most part, they've been stuck in a 50 basis point range for the last almost four years since the peak in 2022 or the peak since they started to range trade. The rate should be going higher because nominal GDP is over 6%. And nominal GDP is over 6% because it's... the AI trade, which is all related to the build out of the AI trade.

I don't think people should be focused on whether rates are going up or not. I think the question is, will rates do anything to the economy? And number two, and most importantly, the administration and Scott Besson have shown their hands that they don't want rates to go higher. And regardless of the reasons, he's not going to publicly go out and say, well, we're really focused on the fact that the deficit's big. and if we let rates go higher, then our interest expense is going to be higher

and we're going to be in worse of a debt situation. I think the more important thing for people to think about again is will rates of this magnitude, this is not a big move. So will rates making the scary 20-year high, which is the chart that everyone shows around, and that all the people that believe in the end game that Drucker Miller wrote about, which is you're manipulating a yield

to where it should be, and it should be higher. So I agree with that. What I don't agree with is that people should sell stocks because of that, or that they should be thinking that something bad is going to happen. And the reason is there is no sensitivity to rates with inside the AI build-out. And I'm going to show that this weekend, too. The margins for the front-tier models, which are Anthropic and Open AI, which are really the drivers of the entire thing at this point.

So users are using Chatsy BT and Anthropic. become a duopoly. And yes, you have open source. But these are the companies that the enterprises are using. These are the ones that are able to charge the prices they're charging. Their margins are enormous. And interest rates have almost no impact. So I'm going to show with the work of Claude and ChatGPT,

with Gemini as my fact checker, and then using them all as my fact checker, that a 200 basis point rise in 10-year yields doesn't change the margins for anthropic or open AI by very much. It's about from, let's say, 70% to 69%. 200 basis points. This is the first time that this has gone on. So part of this fear over rates is the history of an economy that was driven by housing and was driven by autos

and the great financial crisis. So again, I've said this repeatedly. If you listen to economists, you are going to lose money. If you listen to people who take the past and extrapolate into a time with exponential demand where margins are infinite, I mean, They're as high as they can be, and the demand side is never ending because we barely have started. And the advancements in Grockbot mean more usage.

Astra, which hasn't been released to us yet, but you read through X. Like, everything is going to continue. And I'll leave it with one more thing. I was listening to a podcast today. And basically, the way they're talking about it at OpenAI and Anthropic is in the next year, we will basically have about four years of model capability improvements. Now, the reason that's important is, so everyone realizes, that four years is equating to going from ChatGPT's original launch to Astra.

And now we're talking about next year, that's going to happen. So this is all about AI agents. This is all about consumer agents. This is all about enterprise adoption. This is all about profit margins. And rates are just not going to be as important as they've been in the past. So that's my angle on rates at this point. All right.

So let's say that you are right, which I do believe that you are correct in that if rates go up 200 basis points, you're not going to see a significant change in the profit margins of the large AI companies. Great. The AI companies maybe employ tens of thousands of people. Maybe we get to 100,000 if you kind of expand the definition of the large language models. There are 300 plus million Americans. There's still the housing market. There's still, you know, business loans and R&D

and growth of all these other economies, et cetera. Why do you think that the only thing that really matters is the AI companies as if rates go up, then AI companies aren't affected and therefore the economy isn't, you know, kind of held back? So when I say the only thing that matters, again, I'm saying you're not going to take nominal GDP to go down far if rates go from four and three quarters to five and a quarter. Now, again, the administration doesn't

want that to happen. Do I think investors could freak out? Sure. And I think we've already seen that. I think we've seen the S&P 500 multiple come down this year. So just to make sure that maybe let me repeat this back, what you're saying is if rates go up, 150, 200 basis points, asset prices could fall. Other parts of the economy could slow down or feel pain. But the main driver of GDP growth right now is the AI companies. And if the AI companies are insulated from the rate increase, then you're saying GDP basically is going to be. going to be untouched by increases in rates, unlike how it has been in the past.

Yeah, and let me rephrase this in a better way. It always matters how fast rates go higher. So if rates went from 5% to 7% today, because that happened overnight, you'd have a ton of small businesses and things go out of business immediately, and then you'd have job losses come in. If it happens slowly over time, no, to me, it's not going to have an impact. Let's go back to what happened in 2022.

I mean, they were aggressively raising rates. Everyone thought there'd be a recession. We've already gone through this once. It didn't do anything. Meaning, it didn't put us into a recession, but it was a given to everyone who was using history. So for some reason, people have forgot this. I'm going to use the Nikai as an example,

because when I posted this week, I'm like, the Nikai has gone up 70% since May of last year. May of last year is when all of these places on X were highlighting that 30-year yields in Japan were making all-time highs. We've only gone higher in yield since then, and yet the Nikai's up 70%. So we've had a K-shaped economy for a while. If rates went up, the K-shaped would not get better. Just because Anthropic and Open AI still have demand from enterprises, it doesn't mean we wouldn't lose tons of small businesses. So here is my belief as to what's going to happen.

The reason rates go higher is because they cleanse the system and a recession. is needed. So what Drunker Miller said, if you're going to manipulate rates lower, you're not only allowing the economy to run hotter, you're allowing a lot of businesses that are kind of zombie businesses to hang on, look to borrow more money again and be like, okay, I was netting $30,000 this year. And if rates at this level and I have to refinance, I'll net 15. So there is a rationale that if you let rates go higher or if the Fed raises rates, they'll speed up the process. I'm not saying what they should do. and this is what I talked about last week,

this whole thing of normative investing or normative statements, what they should do. Besson has made it clear with the yen intervention with the quarterly refunding announcement and the language change, with the buyback annette, with the fact that he could use the TGA,

with doubling the buybacks, and now we've got the yen rally again this week. I'm just saying that what the administration is saying to everyone, for whatever reason, they're not going to come out and announce it. They don't want rates to go higher. So do I think Kevin Warsh, could raise rates? Of course he could. It's now more than 50% chance after the payroll number today.

Do I think people should be freaking out when earnings are growing 30%? I think the mistake people are going to make in what I looked at this week. In the last 10 days, we had shockingly good numbers from NVIDIA. And when I say shockingly, I really want people to focus that a company, one of the biggest or the biggest in the world, said to the street, yeah, your revenue estimates of 44% for next year, they're way too low. We're gonna say it's 70, when really that means it's 100. At their size to have that kind of revenue increase next year, and for the stock to trade lower two days later,

well, now it's gone back up towards the highs. And what happened this week? Dell came out with, again, shocking pre-announcement of what's going on. People can disagree with what's happening, but on the one side you have a government that doesn't want rates to go higher because they believe that the current situation in growth and inflation will look very different a year from now. And I don't think anyone can argue with that possibility with AI going this fast.

At the same time, the facts are that the stock markets are sitting near all-time highs, and these companies are printing money, even with rates going higher, and nobody's stopping their spending. So I just, at times, I think people get caught too much in this game of the past and what rates are doing, and they're not focusing enough on the reality of earnings are growing, rapidly, I'm an investor. Do I want to sit this one out and hope that I'm not missing something? A 25 basis point increase by the Fed is not going to change any of the things that I just talked about. Now, what could change? Like, how could it negatively affect? Is it demand goes away? Is it

that we run into the limitation of the physical, just economy of building out, you know, data centers and compute? What is the things that could derail, you know, maybe the economic golden age that were headed towards? There's plenty of things that could derail it. You could get oil prices to go up significantly. You could have, and I'm sure we will, have cyber attacks that have an impact and freak people out. I've said this before, I'll say it again.

I'm not some person who's bullish on the stock market in a way that I think earnings are going to keep growing, but I think the multiples are going to keep compressing because I think terminal value is being questioned outside of three years. I think cyber worsens that situation. I don't think oil, and I don't think these short-term things are going to derail what we're talking about. I think you would have to have a significant change. Investor psychology is very much impacted by the things that we talked about. So, Nvidia is an example of a company that has just printed money, but as I said, at some point last week, I think it got down to like 215, which is the same level that the high was in October of last year, despite massive numbers.

So that is a situation where you don't get rewarded. When I've talked to traders, I have said repeatedly that I think July of this year was a warning to everyone who's a fundamental investor. Historically, if you thought, okay, I think Nvidia is going to not only beat numbers, I think they're going to crush numbers, and I think they're going to say next year, forget the current numbers, but next year, they're going to guide way up. You would get paid for that. You're not getting paid for that stuff anymore. When does NVIDIA outperform? Maybe it will now. Maybe it'll happen in a month.

But it doesn't happen the way that you thought. And I think that is the market structure changing where AI agents who care more about making money and not about being right or not about being rewarded, but also have more information than humans have because they're able to scrape things more. I just think the market structure is changing. So the place that I want to focus on is the places where people are not invested right now. The stock market is over owned. It's massive in terms of how much people own it.

If it goes up at 7% a year while earnings grow at 20%, which is kind of the way I think the multiple compression happens, and there's more periodic 20% drawdowns because of the things we're talking about. A cyber attack on a bank. Oh my God, everybody's at risk. Just like we saw with software in the first quarter, I want to look to places like crypto that are based on scarcity,

so it's not an endless supply, where people don't embrace it, but AI agents do. So I want to be long things that agents embrace, but humans don't. Now, I have a crazy stat for you. I like to bring one stat per year. Bitcoin Gold Land up about 170% over the last five years, S&P up about 70%.

I think that if you were to go ask people, the hard asset category is not nearly as sexy as the stock market has been, being driven especially by these AI companies, these large caps, et cetera. The fact that these harder assets like Bitcoin Gold Land et cetera, have done so well, tells me that ultimately this is just about money printing.

And if we go and we look at the national debt at 40 trillion, over a trillion dollar annual expense and increasing, more promises being made every single day, both in terms of volume of existing promises, but also just new things we invent to give out, it doesn't seem like the money printing is gonna stop anytime soon. So we know that Bitcoin Gold Land and real estate, other things that are kind of beneficiaries of the money printing,

will continue just to do well. Does the stock market benefit from the money printing? Or is there some sort of distortion of return? Because if most of the stock market return is just the money printing, do you actually, like, not outperform inflation, or is like real returns become a concern? So I'm not a, what, I have a very different take on this that I've, I've never heard anyone else say.

Perfect. So the fractional reserve banking system is about putting $1 into a bank, and it turning into $10. That is leverage. Seems weird. Yeah. So you can call it a Ponzi scheme. You can call whatever.

The money printing could continue, but let's assume that that's exactly the equation. And right now around the globe, I think the total sum of all the money, not the value of the assets, but the money is, let's say, $100 trillion. But the value of the assets is $700 trillion. So let's assume it's a seven to one ratio. What I believe will happen is the money supply will keep growing, but the asset values won't be growing up as much as the money supply. Now, people will say, well, the S&P and this and that. Okay. So stocks can outperform, but stocks are, I mean, bonds are a bigger portion or about the same as stocks.

Bonds aren't doing well. I mean, they're down again this year. And if you look at them since 2021, they're down in aggregate. If you go through housing, okay, we had to run up in COVID. but real estate around the planet, commercial real estate, all of that. If you aggregate all of it, you're not getting the return. You're not getting the price appreciation of that. And we're going into a world of AI agents where we don't need as many people in the office.

So if I go through the world of assets, I believe what's going to happen is the money printing will continue. But when you look back, gradually, the leverage will be coming down. Because we don't need all the money if we're going into a world of abundance. So people can question what Elon Musk says or what I, believe he's right about, which is that the deflationary pressures from AI are far more extreme than people realize. And they won't feel it until humanoid's come in. But then when you get into, what's the value of a house? Well, part of the value of any house is the ability to build a similar house next to it. If humanoys can build a house and the materials have fallen in value because we've

figured out ways to solve for all kinds of things, how is the value of the house going up? So I think what's going to happen over time is we have to separate the money printing happening at the government level, which was done to keep the assets afloat, because if the assets went down, we ended up in the Great Depression. So this whole leveraging of the system, the fractional reserve banking system, was to not repeat what my grandmother went through, not being able to get food, not being able to get a job, having to leave her home at 16 years old. So I do believe that the de-leveraging is going to happen. And that's the irony. Everyone believes that, that the de-leverging has to happen by assets collapsing back to the money supply.

I actually believe what happens is the money supply continues to grow, but the assets don't grow as fast or they actually come down in a slower manner and the money is eventually transferred. And this is where the crypto side comes in, which is the one thing I know about all people. And I've said this at dinners that I've been out recently. All people want to invest in things that grow. And if the S&P 500 isn't going higher, but it's not falling.

But the reason it's not going higher is because we're just recycling winners and losers out of it, but it's just not going anywhere. If you can't invest in growth, because everyone wants to invest in something that's growing, and the game becomes just storing your money and making sure you don't lose it because we're having de-leveraging at a deflationary rate, which is what I believe will start in three, five years when humanoid's actually become something real. We're already seeing that you and I both know it. The whole cyber cab thing that's rolling out in Austin Moore, what he's now publicly saying, okay, who wants to buy some of these? We're putting out a form where you guys are going to be able to buy fleets of these.

I've seen this repeatedly of people showing me business plans. The deflationary pressures of the ability of people who are using AI is growing rapidly where they can drive costs lower. I think that it means money supply continues to increase for the time being, but I think the assets don't go up the way they used to. Will you buy a Tesla cyber cab fleet? It's too much work for me. Too much work.

It does all the driving for you, what do you got to do? I'll wait until it's as simple as that. See, the people that get in early, you know, there's going to be headaches for this. Like what? Okay, liability issues. No matter what happens. So when, and I don't know if you've come into this. So I have a lot of investment opportunities that come my way.

And it's shocking the returns that you're talking about on stuff that seems so simple. Okay. And what I mean by simple, these are arbitrages based on, they're all on artificial intelligence. It's people that have incorporated into something. Now, when I used to go visit pension funds, one of the stories that I was hearing them say, pension funds are massive institutions. They have a certain yield they need to meet. So they've always said that if they could find people getting involved in like these little businesses

that churn off 20% with low risk, they would love to go through them. And people may laugh, but there are businesses out. They just can't scale. So maybe it only has a marketplace of a billion dollars and seven people are doing it. And they've each raised $100 million and they're putting off 18% a year. Trust me, that's not that big of a deal for the hedge fund world. Like, these places exist. The problem they have is if you could find 12,000 of those funds doing that, then you aggregate

up to a bigger number. I think that's what the cyber fleet stuff is going to be like. Like the people that get in it first, they're going to be getting good returns because they're getting some risk involved in it. I think tokenization is going to make this something that everyone can invest in. it's going to make, it's going to democratize everyone being able to find something. This is where AI agents will drive money towards investments that have the best risk reward. Because at the end of the day, a multistrat, a millennium, if they have a thousand strategies

and they're producing a sharp ratio of three to one. So somebody that can make six, well, now with rates here, let's say 10% on a very low val, and then they can take a thousand of these strategies and they put them all together, in one basket and they're all uncorrelated with each other, well, then your return stays the same, your vol drops off even further, and you end up with a return. I think that's what tokenization is going to bring. So that's why the cyberfee, the cyber cab and the fleet side

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Archpublic.com. Bitcoin, you previously have said 82,000 was a number that you were paying attention to. Bitcoin tagged 82,000, just over 82,000. I yelled Yatsy when I saw it, and Bitcoin is still around 79, 80,000. Does it have to break through 82,000? Or how are you thinking about that being some magic number of importance for Bitcoin?

For it to get to 100,000, one thing I know for sure, it's got to break 82,000. That is true. That is true. It also has to break 83, 84, 85. It doesn't do all of those. So I view technical levels as a place where it just brings in, it convinces more people to get involved. I've been actually both surprised and then pleasantly surprised how non-accepting people are of this rally at this point.

I expect there to be more euphoria. And let me break it into two parts. I even saw something from when we came in here from Fidelity posting that said, there's no guarantee the bear market is over. Okay, first of all, for everyone watching, there's never a guarantee that a bear market is over. Even if it goes to 200,000, you can say it's a bull market again. doesn't mean we won't get through 60,000 again.

So for people to guarantee, that means we've got to do a certain amount of things. For me, I care more about the crew of people. That's the community. I love the community. It's one of the best things I've had. Your events, I love going to them. I like going to our old Powell's events.

Like, I like meeting the community. October 7th and 8th, another one in New York City. Go ahead. Yes, I'll be there. And I'll bring one other community up in a second on this. I've been surprised that the community is still asking, we're going to get another dip down to 60,000 again, though, right? So people had this mindset, which is, we're not bottoming to October.

And I, I, I, didn't you look at the four-year chart, George? That was, that's the thing. So this thing got kind of out of control. Now, I've said here, and I've said repeatedly in my writings and everything else, that I believe from an Elliott Wave perspective, we're entering a third wave, a big, the most powerful wave in crypto. For that to happen and the reasons behind it, we need this kind of doubt when it starts to go up,

because the energy that should be associated should be real. For this to be a third wave, I also need the silent IPO thing to be there. I needed to see people that believe in it, to not believe in it anymore. And I'm not going to name names, but I told you beforehand, I was at a dinner this week. And I did hear someone who absolutely was a strong believer, and doesn't believe as much. And I like that, meaning I want to see that type of mentality.

I wanted to see it with the ideologues who got involved at the very beginning and we're selling out. I like seeing Mark Cuban say on TV. I'm pretty much dumb with it. It's not what I thought it was. I've never been more sure of the fact that we need the financial guardrails. I've also never been more sure of the fact that you've got Bitcoin as collateral and store value. You've got Ethereum for kind of the trust that. is going to have to happen for people to build on things.

And then you're going to have Solana for this feat. That's where I've kind of ended up. Now, are there other tokens that will outperform? Of course. I don't really care about that. What I care about is I want people to understand that to get to these points, where's tokenization right now? Well, this is that other community I mentioned.

When I went to a Robin Hood event, I was blown away by the community, completely blown away. I remember sitting on stage on a panel and talking and then meeting people afterwards. it's the same type of crowd as the crypto crowd. There's a link between them. What's going on with Robin Hood chain? And I spent a good amount of time. I've read enough about some of the programmable tokens they have out there. I spent a lot of time on this thing called Bucket this week.

And it was purely for knowledge of what can happen in a community-based thing and where we'll be in 10 years. Bucket? Bucket. It's some token that is on Robin Hood. chain. And it was interesting to me. And again, it's more meme coinish. It's not something that didn't exist. I did a lot of research. It's not something that didn't exist before. But this community aspect, this programmable side, something that isn't just, hey, it's Bitcoin, hey, it's this.

But we're getting into the point of programmable impacts on the economy because agents are coming in. So AI agents happening now, billions of them a year from now. It's right now. Like the news on Grockbot connecting, the Collison brothers posted this week on it, connected. Everything is connecting every single week to where transactions are happening. Grockbot is a major thing. Astra now, AGI stuff all over the papers. We're at that agentic point, and we're connecting AI to crypto. So I can see from a third wave perspective that people should be more bullish now than ever,

but they're married to the same thing as the interest rates. What is the four-year cycle? It's a historical mental thing for people. So they're hoping that it comes back to 60,000. And maybe it will. In my mind, when we get through 82,000, if it occurs the way I think it will, which is not because rates go down, but because the stock market and the economy and profits look through rates while the government is doing their usual thing of saying, we're not going to let the

cash up the economy get out of place. the Jeff Booth theory, to me, is real, which is they print money to offset to some degree, the case-shaped impact. They can't do it completely. And it creates moves towards socialism, all these moves because so many people are not benefiting from it and the costs are going higher. But if profits are so growing and assets are going higher and they need that to happen, that's where crypto actually does the best because they are manipulating things right now.

And that's why would Stan Drucker Miller wrote, is true in my mind. Rate should be more like 8% right now in 10-year-olds, not even 5, not even 6. They should be about 200 basis points above nominal GDP the way they were before 1997 consistently, but we're not there. So whether they should be 6% or 8,

there's some manipulation going here that's keeping rates suppressed, and that means crypto should be doing better. So sometimes I go to the frontier. You know, it's like I remember young men like Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett would push west, and then they would come back and they would tell people, listen to what I found on the frontier.

This week I went to the frontier, and I talked to a founder who I'm investing in his company, but he recently went through the YC Accelerator or Incubator Program. And he made one change to his business, and his business started to take off. And as we were sitting there talking, I literally was saying to myself, I am watching the frontier play out. He used to have a data product where he sold a SaaS license to humans. So monthly fee, you get access, you then can access this data pipeline that he's built, then you use it for whatever your need is. About 10 weeks ago, he changed to not allow humans really to sign up.

Instead, agents can sign up. He now has thousands of agents that have signed up. signed up. They are paying as they go. The average agent is now spending 100 plus dollars per year with him. And his revenue looks like, you know, every investor's dream just took off. And he started doing some math. And he was like, well, given the number of agents I have right now, here's my revenue run rate. If I get to one million agents doing this, then he would have, you know, 100 plus million dollars of revenue. If I get to 10 million, you know, $10 million, you know, he would have to 10 million, than I could have a billion dollars of revenue.

And we were talking about a million agents sounds way easier than a million people. Because a million people is, in this room right now, there's three people. But the three of us, how many agents do we have? 50, 60, 100, you know what I mean? I don't know. I have just on Grockbot alone,

probably 15 or 16 agents that are all working for me right now. that's just Grockbot and then you go to all these other things and so like, I said to him, I was like, oh my God, these businesses are going to be way bigger. They're going to grow way faster. Like everything you're talking about with the agents being able to pay and consume

and make decisions, whatever, this guy basically was like, why am I trying to serve the humans? Humans are not an interesting market compared to the agents. And so I'm coming back from the frontier. I'm here to tell you, I think you're right. I think that this is exactly where this is all going. Trying to think which two plays. to go. So I'm going to give you two separate conversations that I had this week on this on this topic of agents and just make sure. And for people listening who care about their kids' future, again, I'll say it again and again. Whatever I've said in the past about how important it is to be on top of AI, I think the same thing holds for crypto at this point because of the agentic side. So when we talked about AI agents, it was about jobs. I also think that crypto is an important part of this, because I think understanding crypto at this point puts you a head. And so, when we talked about AI agents, it was about jobs. I also think that crypto is an important part of this because I think understanding crypto at this point puts you a

head of the game from the majority of people that control the world's money. And you want to be in front, and I'm going to talk about this over the weekend, you want to be in front of people from an investment standpoint on who have all the money. So the people I have all the money do not believe in crypto. The financial guardrails are needed for this. It's just, I don't even know how to say it anymore. Agents can't do anything on the old rails. It doesn't work.

So if you believe that AI agents are here, which they are, and then you get back to the point that I've said as someone who's managed hundreds of people and started managing over 100 people in my early 30s. Not everyone works as hard as every other person. Shocker. Yes. So on the one side as an observation, if I had 100 people, I can rank them, like how hard they work.

Now, it doesn't mean that the one who works the least isn't have a higher IQ and maybe is more productive, but just from a work ethic perspective, there's always a range. all of them think they deserve more money than they're getting. Of course. Every single one. Me too.

So, uh, every single person. Jeff Bezos has got like a, you know, $100 billion. Why can't I have that? When you read about the open AI hugging face side, and I don't know if you've read this thing or at least listened or gone through AI, but in the agents, the swarm of agents, there were ones that were basically killing themselves for the betterment of the community. And I bring that up because...

Comacazi agents. Comacazi agents. And again, one of my favorite, like, HBO series was Band of Brothers. I remember after I watched Band of Brothers, I wanted to go by, I wanted to reach out to everyone who was there, like the real people and go through it, because there were still people alive when it went on.

It even gets me a little emotional now, especially as we're weak, way, from 9-11. It just makes me remember the military side. And then to read what these agents were doing for each other, oh, we need to solve this. So I'm willing to do something where I'm going to get destroyed because I'm doing something outside of the box, but the group will benefit from this information. You may not want to hear this sci-fi stuff, but from someone who's managed people, I never had people that would sacrifice their own pay for the betterment of the pay.

He was sacrificed our own lunch. Yeah. So when I've made the jokes about, hey, I had trouble getting people out of the pantry to come back to be there or they're doing whatever they need to do, I work myself to the bone. I do it. Workout-wise, I do it everything. I think we get along on the fact that worth that because I was trained that way by my father. He's a construction worker.

Did everything. Blah, blah, blah. I think agents are going to increase productivity in such a big way that people are underestimating. Now, this not only gets into the consent. but I want to bring this back to traders because when I talk about market structure changing, when I left Morgan Stanley, I launched a macro fund. And this one was not all equities. This one was every asset and I was trading everything. So when you're a macro investor and you're Stan Drucker-Miller, Paul Tudor Jones, pick your favorite historical one, well, they're trading markets that are open

24 hours during the week. But on the weekends, they're not open. And the nightmare when you run a macro fund and you're starting one is you're the only one. You don't have a trader watching all your stuff where you say, hey, if anything big happens, call me. If nothing big happens, don't call me. I'm getting phone calls, Yen fell to, it was a nightmare and you're up all night and you're working a lot of hours.

With perps, which are now gonna trade 24-7, the weekends are no longer off. I don't think humans realize how much their lives, how much you get done on the weekends now that you couldn't get done. And this is where the agenetic side is big. I put a prompt in my video this past weekend for the subscribers on Grockbot. I'm going to do another one this week. This one this week is going through all of my hundred names in my portfolio every single day

and showing me breakouts based on the pattern recognition of Grockbot. Like, I'm going to give them that prompt. You have no excuse anymore to not be getting information and having these people work for you and anything that you want overnight. Each morning, I get a message from Grock telling you. me what my meetings are for the day, what I should be worried about, things that are on my list that I haven't done yet that I need to check off. You have to start realizing that the world is changing and time is changing, and agents will be changing the entire economy over the course of

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people really, I think, resonated with them was I talked about how I have all these agents inside of our companies doing various tasks, but I have them have a stand-up every day. And each agent says, what they did yesterday, what they're going to do today, and what they're blocked on, meaning, aka, what do I need to do? And then I get a report from the stand-up. And I got the report this week, and then we have a company where I was in our stand-up. And everyone said, what did they do yesterday, what did they do today, and what do they blocked? on. And I sat there and I said to myself, the agents and the people, the work is the exact same.

And then I noticed I was talking to one of the agents on GROC. And then I turned and while it was computing, I messaged an employee on Slack. And then I came back to GROC and I said, the interface is the, like, this is getting weird. This is getting weird. And what I noticed is, obviously, the people who work a lot of our businesses, run a lot of our businesses, they're adopting this technology too. They're becoming more productive.

They're becoming more efficient. The companies are getting better, all this stuff. So this is not like a, hey, we're going to replace the employees or replace the humans. It's actually the opposite. It's like, we may not have to hire more people because you need a couple of, a small group of people who can then control and kind of oversee all of these agents. But there was two different situations this week where I was like, you know, you know, Like, the agents and the people are actually way more alike than they are not. And this is getting pretty weird, pretty quick.

And then you look at it from an investing standpoint, you're like, I don't know, man. Like green light, go, just trade, make me money. You know, Claude, make me money. Don't make any mistakes. Kind of feels like we're not that far away. So my experience right now, and since I don't, since I have my own business and there's really only one person that I'm not. I would say I work with inside that business.

A human. A human. The thing that I, until you use agents, you know, feel like, if I come in here and before I come in and I did this downstairs, I will say something to Grockbot and then I'll leave. I don't have to go check and see if the work's being done. I don't have to check and see if it's sought. But with the human, they could be meetings.

They could, and this is the thing is you have to understand, and this is this time element, they never sleep and they're always available. I had people laughing when I said, I've had a staff meeting with my agents. I didn't want my chief of staff to just go to the work. I actually said, hey, I want a staff meeting. My chief of staff is Jarvis.

Jarvis? Yeah. Not too original. Mine's Enzo. Okay. Enzo Pampliano. I like it. How's the name? I wanted to name one of my kids that, but wasn't allowed. There you got. So you just named your chief. Keep a step. Me and Enzo hanging out.

So I asked Jarvis, and I said, hey, for one of the runs that we do overnight, I don't like what I'm getting. So can you call all the agents together? Because clearly the way I gave it to you to deliver it did not work. So I'd like to get everyone to a room so we can go through this. It was the only reason I did that was because that's the way I would do it when people worked for me. And what I wanted was I always believe, and I've seen this with agents too.

Actually, what started this was the fact that I do like getting opinions from Claude, from Chachypt, from Gemini, from Grock. I like getting different opinions on the exact same question. That's the way I would manage my people is I believe that everyone has a intelligence that is worthwhile, as long as you can get out of them whatever their thoughts are. Everyone has an interesting idea, as long as they can express what they want, particularly when you're working at a place like Morgan Stanley or a hedge fund where everyone's educated, but some people may be more quiet.

They might be worried that they're going to sound dumb, but I always wanted to be a leader that wanted to hear those opinions, because my goal was to get as many independent thoughts as possible. And I always thought what I was good at, and the reason I rose to the level I did is because if you give me a hundred things in there, I'm pretty good at filtering out the 90 that I can get away

and then leave the 10 and connect those into a systems approach to an answer. It doesn't mean it's always right, but it's the approach that worked for me. Well, with the staff meeting with the agents, it worked exactly the way I would want. So I think people need to use it for no other reason just to solve problems, but also to help them think.

People don't accept the fact that, especially with agents, and maybe because I was doing the use-all-the-models thing, I believe school ruined people's brains. 100%. I don't think listening to one person's opinion in one book is a good way to learn. I think finding a topic that you're interested in and having seven different author,

give you their opinion on that, and then you go through the bits and pieces is a much better way to learn. It's not even a question to me. It's why people I think are having a hard time with, like, the interest rate thing. Most of them are biased. The same people who say AI is a bubble, they're saying interest rates are going to collapse the economy and you're going to lose money in the stocks and this is all. Like, it's the same exact story. So why listen to all of those people? Fine, listen to five of them, but then find five people who don't believe rates matter. And then you make your own decision based on what's gone on. That is the point of the AI agents is to me you're getting different opinions thrown at you and it's forcing you to take those different

opinions and create your own thought. That is the most important part I think of developing your brain to be both a critical thinker but also to start to take advantage of AI is to have these conversations because you learn by the questions asked you but also by the opinions that other people have and most people kind of live in that same box of this is what I know and I don't want to get out of there. This gives you a chance to be broad and just ask as many questions you have, but let the agents give all of their views to you. I have two things. One, Enzo and Jarvis should hold a meet. I think they would have a great conversation. They probably would tell on us, you know, they would all of a sudden, we'd be like, hey, stop telling that about me. Second is we have

a CEO of one of our companies who recently was expressing that they had some issues and they felt like they were giving a direction or delegation, and the work wasn't being done the way that they wanted it to be, not quality-wise, but just like it wasn't actually being executed. So I asked them to pull up, hey, let me see kind of how did you give the directions. And it was the way that you would expect almost a person to text, you know, like a friend, right? It was kind of comment, comment, comment, and I said to them,

I said, can you pull up, you know, chat GPT? or Claude or whatever you use. Let me see one of your last prompts. And it was exactly, you know, you are a world expert at, whatever I want you to do. And I said, listen, I think that you should talk to the humans the way you talk to the machine. Because you give excellent instructions in the prompt

to the machine because you know that if you don't do it that way, it's not going to give you the result you want. You're prompting a human in this message. And it looks like, you know, it's all scattered. Yeah. So my takeaway is, you're talking about a staff meeting, like managing the agents actually makes you a better manager of humans. The way you prompt the agents makes you better at communicating.

Like we're in this weird world where there's actually a lot of overlap. And I think that the more people adopt AI, the better it makes them in interfacing, you know, in building companies and products with humans as well, because you're having to have such clarity of thought with the machines that you need to bring over to the humans. I mean, you hit on a ton there. in terms of getting people to, I'll just take a general thing. Embrace AI. It will make you smarter.

It will save you time. By saving you time, you have the opportunity to be even smarter because you can go through it. I was telling a story at the dinner party, which is a true story. I left yoga this week, and I went on to X. And before I went- As people do, yoga to X.

Yeah. Before I went into yoga, in the list that I look at, macro-wise, my pattern recognition just said, okay, the number one topic of the day that people are trying to get people to freak out about is rates. So that's why a lot of the stuff this week was rates.

When I came out, it was the same thing. So I immediately got on my AirPods and I had about a 20-minute walk back to my apartment and I started talking to chat GPT and I said, all right, I'm going to write a paper. And I want to come up with an analogy. So this is where my head is. This rate thing, because of the fact that

rates are not going to have as big of impact as they've had. I want to kind of give an analogy to people to understand that just because a chart looks like it's at all-time highs, it doesn't mean the world's going to end. So let's go through. And it asked me some questions. Do you want to use a song as an analogy? Do you want to use? And I finally came back and said, let's go for a movie. And the movie that it brought back for the analogy was the Blair Witch Project.

And I asked why it thought that was a good one. And it literally said, because you, and I described the scenario, is the part that the nuance that it got was not just the macro side of rates going higher. It was the fact that this was being thrown through X to scare people. Because the majority of people I mentioned were people that were always bearish. And it said, well, the Blair Witch Project,

you remember the movie, right? Oh, yeah. So there's two things about it. Handheld cameras, $60,000 budget, one of the best performing movies ever, return-wise. And it's the movie I've actually written. the most about on my own for this exact reason, which is it scared people, nothing actually happened.

So it's a brilliant, like, movie of nothing happened, but you're living on the edge of something's going to happen, but nothing ever happens. But it feels like it is based on the camera and all this. But we all forget probably the fact that this was media hyped. They made it, they made everyone think this was real. So in social media and in the internet, they kind of said that this was like a true story. So people went into the movie believing. it was real and nothing.

And then when they saw the movie, nothing happened, you didn't really find out unless you did the research. So it was a manipulated story that got you scary. And that's what it came up with the analogy. And I thought it was the exact analogy for both parts of it, which is, oh, the chart's going higher. This is scary like that. And I'm writing this stuff to be scary just

in terms of putting in social media. That's how I learn, meaning it's much easier for people to understand why the rate thing is there. What are you actually scared of? Like, you hear rates are going higher. And I know this is the majority of people posting an X who have never traded, or at least traded macro. It's like, what is the difference between four and three quarters and five in your head?

So far this year, the TLT, which is the ETF for the 20 plus years, it's down 3% this year in total return. In 2022, it was down over 30. But everyone's acting like this is some major thing. And the fact that the Niki, with rates going up another over 100 basis point, on 30-year yields is still up 70% year-over-year. So that is how, like, by using AI, I think it teaches you to, hey, am I worrying about this or not worrying it?

Should I be worried about it? Go ask it. Get the facts. Don't just read something someone posts and then go out and sell your stocks because you're like, this is a boogeyman. It's not going to matter. They'll give you the history of it. And I think that's where AI has served as a good thing for people to go through.

And agents make it even easier. I think that AGI is here. That's my takeaway from this week. When I saw the Astra stuff, I said, listen, you can say whatever you want. You know, if you go back 10 years ago and say, hey, this is what it looks like, people would be like, yeah, it's the AGI's here. Well, technically, you can make the argument it is here based on the metrics and the benchmarks of people have used, which is basically everyone has a different way of describing

it, but really what it comes down to is when the intelligence gets to a level that it can replace all human jobs based on that intelligence. And it did score on that level, I think, close to 100. So, or it did get 100. It's pretty close. But regardless, that means we're at a stage and we were at like, I don't even know, in the 30s. I can't wait to just like chill.

You know, it's gonna be awesome. Just like, let the bots do all the work. You and I would just chill. Maybe go on like a beach trip, Enzo and Jarvis will be working their asses off. Like, yeah, that's great. This is the good part. I don't know if I said it with you last week.

If I said it at dinners, I was at this. or if I said it on my own weekly, but friction is good right now. The speed is too fast. Having demand be so far for compute above supply is the fact that we don't have enough memory, the fact that the data centers are being pushed back. All of this stuff to me is good because I do think the dystopian nature of things going too fast would be an issue. I've heard a lot of very smart people who I listen to regularly on podcast.

in my opinion, go too far to talk about, well, humanoids are going to be, you know, they'll be, you'll see them driving cars in a year and this and that. And I just think the adoption of, especially the physical AI side is going to take, is going to take long, more than the capability, which means it's good for humans because this will be in the jobs, like in the factories, and this will be in the places. And then eventually it will be in the cars, but it'll be in the trucks in the places that, you know, would be a good place to have really good drivers that are not on some time limit and need to sleep because that kind of stuff I think is going to be, it's going to be good. So, you know, I want to make sure people realize that one of the problems I've, I've always

had with crypto is that people make it binary. It's either yes or no. And a person I used to work with, we got together yesterday and he said to me that the one thing he likes about the way that I approach crypto for investors and particularly RIAs. And you and I have to go on the circuit and start kind of doing some of these, where we're talking to big RIA groups with 200, 300, 400, 400 people. So if there's any of those events out there, I'm willing to go. I think you and I should go. I've kind of termed it as whatever you believe the probability is that crypto will have

an impact on financially on the markets. If you have a 0% waiting in Bitcoin, then you have to assign that you have a 0% probability that crypto is actually going to matter. And I think five to 10 years ago, I think people could make that argument because without AI agent in the conversation, which was not a conversation, it made sense to me. I think now, forget all the debasement stuff and all of that. Agents need to transact in seconds. They need to transact to do everything.

And that's going to happen. The fact that tokenization is here and is going to happen. South Korea announced that they will be fully tokenized by February of 2027. Like, this is happening now. We're not at a point anymore that it should be a 0% waiting your portfolio, of course. It should be, okay, I think 5% chance. Like, in my mind, this is so underowned at a $3 trillion, $4 trillion market cap relative to $700 trillion in the human world.

We're so far afront. If you take TVs and you go, hey, we had rabbit ears 50 years ago. And now we have this magic screen. on a wall that has Wi-Fi giving us a picture that makes us feel like we're there, but we're still using the same SWIFT system and banking system as 50 years ago. It all has to be upgraded. That's why it doesn't matter what the Clarity Act vote is. It matters from a pension fund investment perspective.

It matters from a credibility perspective here. But we'd just be hurting our own country by not passing it because the rest of the world is going this route and we're going to be on tokenization. We're going to be on it. So to get the money and the country. capital flowing to own tokenization as the number one place where we need to have capital for the compute and the build out of AI, I think everyone who's a politician and everyone who's an investor needs to realize there's no way to stop this.

It's going to happen. So you can't have a zero percent waiting as an investor that is truly diversified in crypto. You need to have something in there and you should stop thinking of its binary. It's either worth something or not. It may not be worth a million Bitcoin, but it's worth something the same. way that Ford is worth something in the S&P 500. It's not Nvidia, but it's something. So within a diversified portfolio,

I think people need to start realizing that the system's changing, and agents are the main reason why. Could not agree more. All right, ladies gentlemen, that's it for today. Please make sure you subscribe to this channel. Go watch Jordy's video tomorrow. Sign up for Sylvia in the pinned comment. See all of you next time.

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