The Pomp Podcast - Bitcoin Is The Best Hedge Fund That's Ever Existed | Jordi Visser

Episode Date: August 1, 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 the Leopold Aschenbrenner hedge fund unwind, the market crashes in South Korea and Japan, Kevin Warsh and the Fed's next move, and the case for compute scarcity as AI demand outpaces supply. We also discuss tokenization and why bitcoin remains the ultimate hedge and store of value in a world being reshaped by AI.======================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! ======================Figure’s $160k Community Appreciation (https://www.figure.com/crypto-community-appreciation/T&Cs (https://www.figure.com/crypto-community-appreciation/disclosures/) Need liquidity without selling your crypto? Take out a Figure Crypto-Backed Loan, allowing you to borrow against your BTC, ETH, or SOL with 12-month terms, 8.91% interest rates, and no prepayment penalties. Or check out Democratized Prime (https://figuremarkets.co/pomp) and earn ~8.5% APY on real world assets.Unlock your crypto’s potential today at Figure! https://figuremarkets.co/pomp Figure Lending LLC dba Figure (NMLS 1717824). Loans subject to approval. Crypto collateral may be liquidated. Terms apply - see full disclosures at http://figure.com/disclosures/======================0:00 - Intro0:48 - Leopold's fund unwind & lessons from past blowups 9:21 - Hedge fund leverage & how AI is reshaping market structure11:45 - Korea & Japan's market collapse13:56 - AI will destroy all public companies?15:20 - The bull case for hyperscalers & compute scarcity27:44 - Why bitcoin is the best hedge fund ever29:12 - Kevin Warsh & the Fed33:48 - Does this help Wall Street or Main Street?36:47- Advice for a 25-year-old starting their career today41:18 - Bitcoin & the rest of crypto industry48:52 - Migration, digital money & the breakdown of borders57:56 - What Jordi is covering in his next video

You don't find Bitcoin, Bitcoin finds you. You don't find Bitcoin until you're either personally or your business has been so destructed that you can't get out of a hole that you're looking for something to park your money while you figure out a plan. In his case, Bitcoin went higher and allowed him to do what he's done with strategy, but that's why most people think this is a scam, in my opinion. What's going on, guys? Today's conversation with Jordy Visser is a great one. We talk about the slowdown in AI stocks, what happened with Ken Griffin and Leopold and the entire book. Then we go into what happened in Korea and Japan and all the liquidations that have happened

there. We talk about Kevin Warsh and the Federal Reserve and all the interest rate decisions. And then, of course, we talk about crypto, Bitcoin, Ethereum, much more. Today's conversation with Jordy Visser is full of insights I think you'll find very valuable. So here's my latest conversation with Jordy. All right, Jordy, there's a huge week. We've got a lot to talk through.

let's start with the Unwind and AI stocks, Leopold and Situational Awareness. They basically are forced to sell their entire book, it sounds like. You've lived through a couple of these unwinds. What are your takeaways, given what's transpired over the last week or so? Well, I guess there's two parts to this. I was in Brazil in 1997 and 1998 into 99. and i was uh i was a part of the ltcm uh unwind i was a part of the true unwind meaning i came back to the u.s in the beginning of 99 and i took over the s&p book and later on in 2007 uh i was managing a portfolio a macro portfolio uh during the quant unwind which was really a GARP unwind, which was during the great financial crisis, but very early.

And that I would even say Archegos or Archegos or whatever the name he had for his thing that blew up in 2021. I've been through a bunch of these. And here's the most important thing. And I don't think I've seen this in the news yet in terms of the way it's written. So the one interesting thing about leverage in the hedge fund world is eventually when you get to the end meaning where you've had a drawdown and that is so significant you have to try and find buyers for your portfolio or it needs to be liquidated and that happened in all three of

those scenarios and once that starts to happen where you start needing to either call people up or your prime brokers know everything and they're calling people which is normally what happens because the prime brokers at the investment banks are the lenders of these and once they're involved everyone starts to see the portfolio they look at their own risk and say where am i exposed and they start hedging so the one thing i want to want to make sure people know this was a cleansing event in my opinion it doesn't mean that we're not going to see continued volatility but what he went through is a situation where you start losing money mainly because of the reasons i talked about the AI mid-cycle slowdown, which is when things become too crowded and everyone has the same

positions, and especially when you're dealing with someone who got all of this fame for making so much money, and you could see his positions reported in 13F holdings, and he hasn't been through this before, and he believes in the fundamentals, stock prices diverge from fundamentals all the time. We saw that with Liberation Day last year. You can have the stock market fall 20%, Nothing changed economically, nothing changed earnings-wise, and it can snap back just as fast. So the AI trade, to me, started getting narratives about Anthropix in trouble, the hyperscalers are in trouble, we're never going to get the revenues, open source, all of these things. Every week, it was a new thing that we had to talk about when the reality is for the month of July, we saw record factor unwind. it took down uh leopold to a level that he needed to get out of his portfolio what we don't know all

the true story about is when did citadel find out when did millennium find out i bring this up because these were the names that were reported in the paper and once they see things they have exposure to this as well so there was a four-day move beginning on friday of last week uh into this week with the final part being in the two hours after the Fed. And to me, that was basically an enormous amount of people that were not only liquidating his portfolio, but making sure that they were reducing their risk and then using his positions to allow them to be in a better position coming out of this. So for everyone who's watching this, who's wondering, well, what's going on? This is markets, and as I've talked about, one of my themes is more bubbles, more parabolas,

and more speed crashes. And we just lived through, quote unquote, a mini bubble that you could see through a parabola, and now we've had a speed crash. And remember, no matter how fast markets go up in a bubble, they look like you're going upstairs during it, and then you fall down the elevator chute on the way down. And I think that's what happened over the course of this month. Do you think that Citadel knew he was in trouble? And so this like surprise Fed hike story, was that like a potentially intentional way to put him in a bad position? Or is that just the internet putting on the tinfoil hat and trying to draw a good story? we'll never know um it helped the case um you know i i did a mid mid week video this week

where i went through um number one the the the losses that happened before these four days so leopold's losses they were not caused by him either being reached out to by ken griffin or reaching out to these places or through the prime brokers, the losses were happening because there was going to be a correction and things don't go straight up. I think what he got caught into is the losses were compounding so fast and so many people had on the same trades that it reached a point where he needed to find something or he could be out of business. And I think whether it was the hyperscaler earnings reports, whether it was the fears that the Fed were going to raise rates.

I will say this. There's a lot of press that Citadel came out and said they'd raise rates. There were other people that thought they would raise rates. The probability was close to 40%. So it's not like they caused this, and I don't think we'll ever know whether that's the case. But I do think when you have someone that is suffering and heading towards a catastrophe, it seems like he was able to get out of this with significant gains still on the year and be able to cleanse his book but the reality is we'll never know the answer to your question

when um when you look at his performance it's now rumored that he was up like 400 percent um and through the month of june uh he had like 25 billion dollars in the hedge fund that he started two, three years ago. It is objectively one of the craziest runs I think someone has had in starting a hedge fund over the last couple of decades. Being down 80%, 70%, whatever the number actually is, still means he may have like $10 billion sitting in the fund. So if you were a potential LP or maybe somebody who was evaluating whether you'd go work there, does this put him in like a negative light and people say hey you know he's he's a failed hedge fund manager everyone's gonna run away or are people gonna be like look now we got a guy who's

obviously skilled he's got a chip on his shoulder just got a great reminder about risk mitigation and so maybe now is actually the most attractive time and he may you know go put up really good numbers i i i think um that whole conversation is uh i i've learned throughout my years of people being able to raise money if you produce returns people will give you money um out of the 10 billion i mean it's being reported that about 5 billion of that is private it's an anthropic position um so i i don't know how much money he raised i don't know what went on i'm sure he did take in money i think it's very hard to come back from a scenario where you're 25 years old and you're talking about you've just had a learning experience which is what was reported in the

the letter that he sent out. I think it's going to be really hard for large people to give him money on this. I'm sure there were people that were using his knowledge as well for what to invest in. So this is a different thing. And I don't know how much we've talked about it, but the market structure is changing. And we've met, you and I, around the nexus of AI and crypto. I like to spend my time on AI. I'll keep saying over and over again for anyone who wants to go to my YouTube and watch that compute demand will be outstripping supply for a long time. And along that journey, unfortunately, we're going to see a lot of what we've seen this year. So let's go back and recap. We saw a collapse in software stocks at the beginning of the year. it spread into other sectors. Everyone was worried that the terminal value of companies,

you couldn't value them three years from now. That's a fact. Hedge fund leverage was at all-time highs to begin the year. And according to data in the papers, Goldman Sachs said it was the largest increase in gross exposure that they had seen in any five-month period in history. If all of that is true, and I believe it is, hedge fund leverage was going up at a time when terminal value or being able to value a company in three years is going down. I think what we saw with Leopold and what we're going to see with the entire market is a structural change. AI agents are getting more involved in decision making. There's more optimized portfolios because it's very easy to go in and do that. Robinhood just put out another agentic tool this week that allows

people sitting at home to immediately get technical indicators immediately from AI agents. the game is speeding up and so innovation's changing we're going through a period where everything is speeding up dramatically and what used to take 30 years is now taking three years and that means that for the entire financial markets but in particular hedge funds that borrow money generally have quarterly liquidity and they're making investments and things at sizes on leverage that they couldn't get out of in a short amount of time if they wanted to and positions are getting more crowded than ever, which is why we've seen the largest momentum unwind in history. The market structure is changing, and I don't think leverage is ever

going to go back to the highs. So in the same way that I've said repeatedly, which has been the case this year, earnings growth in the S&P 500 is above 20%. The S&P is not on pace to be up over 20% for the year. We've seen multiple compressions so far. I think we're going to see the same thing in leverage. So my belief is that for public equities and for hedge funds, there's going to be a scenario where speed crashes are going to happen more often. We're going to see more events like Leopold. It's going to force people and prime brokers to not extend as much leverage as they used to. So not only are indices going to see multiple compression, but you're going to see more and more of these extreme cases with inside hedge funds. Let's talk about Korea

in Japan, I'm going to read you a couple of statistics. So South Korea's stock market collapsed 45% in about 40 days and it raised $2 trillion in market cap. Then in South Korea, there was about 1.2 million leveraged retail trading accounts that got triggered on margin calls as of July, mid-July or so. And then if you go and you look in Japan, there's about $200 billion that was wiped out in the Japanese stock market in a single day when it dropped nearly 3%. And so when I see that, my initial take is that, hey, we live in this interconnected world. And if the US is seeing drawbacks, obviously other markets likely are too. But when I read the statistics around South Korea and the leveraged retail trading accounts, that feels like it is

very unique to that geography versus the United States. How do you read the impact that the Asian markets can have on the US? Well, first of all, Korea is up 56% year to date. So in the same way that Leopold had a huge drawdown needed to be bailed out, according to the data we have, He's still up 80% year-to-date, I believe, based on what I saw today. The Korean market, you just named how big the correction is, but their market's up 56% year-to-date. The S&P 500 is up about 8% year-to-date. I just think that AI is allowing people, because of the speed, to jump into things and trends.

Because fundamentally, I mean, where Samsung, where SK Hynix, where Micron are trading, I mean, they're trading at multiples. That means people are already building in the end of this cycle at some point because they're cyclical companies. And so I think people were buying these because they had a math behind it. Um, again, for everyone who's, who's watching this, who has more of a trad fi mentality and less about Bitcoin, I believe the market is going through, uh, over the course of the next five years, AI will destroy all public companies. And when I say destroy, it will destroy the growth certainty of all companies going forward. And that's why multiple should come down. It's not that companies will go out of business. It's that you won't be able to know whether you

have a company that will survive because it will be eaten away by ai native startup businesses that have much more margins in their business and are able to compete on everything that you do it will take time to get there the physical constraints allow micron and samsung and sk hynix to be able to have again scarcity and that's why the korean market was in there but i do think the mentality of margins is very different in the korean market than it is in the u.s market but But remember, too, the U.S. market has gone through a secular bull market, where from 2007, the S&P has produced over 15% a year, while the rest of the world has only seen equities break out above their 2007 levels as a whole over the course of the last three

years. That's the difference, Anthony, is that you're getting people that are getting a taste of a bull market they haven't seen in a long time. And on the U.S., people have been involved in this. They don't need the leverage as much because the household net worth in the country is over $180 trillion. Now, speaking of leverage, people may think of it a little bit differently, but the large hyperscalers, they are dipping into their free cash flow.

They've been taking on some debt. They are not speculating necessarily on day-to-day stock prices, but they are making a big bet that they're going to see an ROI from the CapEx investment. Dorkesh had a great piece this week that I know you've got some thoughts on. What was your takeaway from his piece? His piece, I'm going to cover a lot over the weekend. I thought it was great, and it kind of took a contrarian bent in one side, and it got into this thing of they're really being concentrated winners. And you can make this case for both Anthropic and OpenAI, but you can also make it for the hyperscalers.

I don't think this is going to happen, but his argument really got into the fact against something that people have talked about, which I happen to agree with. So his argument was that in the case of anthropic and open AI, they're actually going to control even more of AI than people realize because they're going to be the only ones that are going to be able to have the compute and offer it out to people and that the most valuable things are going to want tokens per watt. And this is the thing that gets really efficient. If we never get to the point or if it takes us a long time to get to the point where compute lines up on the supply side with demand, we're going to have a problem. And the analogy that I'm using over the weekend is what happens to the way people think about buying a car if gas at the pump is $1 versus $10 a gallon. So at $1 per gallon, people don't mind buying gas guzzlers. They're cheaper than more expensive cars. But if it's $10 a gallon and now a car is 50% more for an efficient car that gets 40 miles to the gallon as opposed to 10 miles to the gallon, more people are going to go for that efficient car because it makes more sense. And that's what's going to happen. And the company that I just want to use as an example is Disney. How much is the compute available?

If there was only a finite amount of compute that Anthropic could offer to all of the companies in the world. And let's assume, just to make it simple, it was a number, and they had 100 gigawatts worth of compute. And Disney came in and said, I want all of that compute, and I'm willing to pay you a trillion dollars for that compute. And everyone else is only willing to pay $100 billion, and Anthropic goes, fine, you get that compute, and no one else gets compute. The reason Disney would be wanting to do that is because the most token-hungry scenario

is video. So let's assume they wanted to make a movie that instead of costing $3 billion would cost 50 million, but they can go out and sell it at the prices that will bring in revenues. So their revenues per token, they're willing to pay more money for because they have the distribution. This is what his argument is, is that because the supply of compute is just non-existent and every day the capabilities are getting better, people are going to want that. Now, the argument on the other side for why the hyperscalers are at risk and all of this stuff is the fact that people believe that you'll never be able to get the revenues in.

But if you can sell something at a price because there isn't the deflation, if Disney can sell movie tickets at $20 a seat and no one else can underprice that and now they have this, well, this is why Micron is having margins now at levels that we've never seen in memory because they have scarcity of it. compute scarcity is a reality. And I don't care what anyone says, all the CDS on the hyperscalers and all of this. We just went through Amazon, Microsoft, and Google now. And the total sum of their backlog of contracted orders is nearing $2 trillion. If you add in Oracle, you're over $2 trillion. And they all said the same thing on their calls, which I'm going to go through. we have orders to match up with our capex so they didn't cut capex they overall raised capex basically assume it was in line with all the price changes i just think that when you read the dwarkesh article he's making a very contrarian spin which gavin baker echoed as well which is

if there's a finite amount of compute the company that is able to deliver the most efficient models which is what Anthropic and OpenAR, they're going to take the big orders from everyone because they've also been the ones smart enough to secure the compute available. This goes against the open source story. It goes against everything. And I happen to believe that it's going to show up in the ARR numbers for Anthropic and OpenAI until that's not the case. And I don't know when the compute supply is going to get close to demand because demand

just is accelerating. So let's say that he is right on this. Then you go and you look at Microsoft XAI or SpaceX AI. You look at Meta, Google. I mean, these people have enormous access to compute. Why are some of them opening up their compute to others? Do they just not need as much as they've actually built? And then also, does that mean if they have more access to compute than Anthropica OpenAI does,

actually, you know, OpenAI and Anthropic are at a disadvantage compared to these large guys who can catch up? Well, let's go through the difference between who's offering out their compute and who's gobbling up the compute. OpenAI and Anthropic are not offering out compute. They are the gobblers. They are the ones eating everything. XAI or SpaceX is offering compute because he doesn't need it right now. He's going to need it eventually for his humanoids and full self-driving and everything else that he's going to have. On the other side with Meta, Meta cares about personal agents and he cares about the fact that the agents that they're going to need, the demand is much bigger. Sam Altman gave an interview with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

on Invest Like the Best. He specifically talked again about something that I show in my videos every single weekend, which is we are still in the, I mean, we're not even out of the first out in the first inning of the agentic needs for inference. All we're doing so far are the coding agents, the personal agents we haven't got to, until people can speak into a pin, their phone, something with an AI model that is able to talk back like Siri, do things that we want it to do. Siri doesn't work yet. Alexa doesn't work yet.

If you're in a bad cell spot, you can't actually use your open AI on your phone in a way that allows you to go through it. It needs to be on the phone. that means the hardware needs the memory. We're in this situation where, again, I can't say loud enough to people, we just don't have the hardware and the capabilities to get the AI to everything that we need so the demand is going. There are ways, for sure, that supply will catch up with demand, but that is not even close to what's happening. So there will be algorithmic efficiency impacts. And Sam Altman talks about all of these in the interview with Patrick O'Shaughnessy,

but he literally says we underestimated the amount of supply and this is open ai which is arguably been the most agref spender of this and because they underestimated it think about anthropic anthropic underestimated big time dario modai was warning everyone about the roic last year that you're taking a huge bet he was betting that open ai was going crazy and now you know what Dario's thinking? Oh my God, I wish I would have more. Luckily for him, SpaceX and Meta have built so much that in the case of SpaceX, SpaceX not only sold it to Anthropic, they also sold capacity to Google. Google's a major cloud provider that doesn't have enough capacity. And Gemini, they have a major model. And they were one of the leaders on this. So everyone underestimated the

amount of supply of compute that was necessary. And this comes while every investor who's worried, who sends me an email, is telling me that we've overbuilt, that we're not getting the revenues in when every single smart person that's involved with building this stuff and seeing the demand is saying they can't keep up with it. Today's episode is brought to you by Figure Markets. All right, everyone, who wants a slice of $160,000? Our partner, figures running a promo where they're giving back to their community. From July 27th to August 27th, one month, any users who've never completed a crypto-backed loan with them can qualify. You can check out the link in my bio for more information. If you believe in Bitcoin long-term

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You know, if you put Elon up next to Google and said, go, you both have to build, you know, a hundred megawatts or, you know, whatever, who would get it done faster? I think Elon, you know, beats almost every single person in the world. Well, this is one of the things that to me, if there's one takeaway from this week that people should have, go back and read Leopold's 2027 situational awareness paper. He's been spot on about where things would be. He talked about AGI being here by 2027, the government getting more involved with the company. All of these things are actually happening. If anything, they're happening slightly faster than he expected. I think what this whole thing proves with the excess capacity of XAI, with the excess capacity of Meta, with Sam Altman saying he underestimated, with Dario Moda scrambling to find compute from anywhere, the smartest people involved with AI all underestimated one thing.

and this is the human being side the danger with what happened with dario modi if you go back and listen to his arguments last year about what sam was doing his argument was we're not seeing the adoption at the pace that we expected and that had to do with human beings and enterprises what surprised everyone was the enterprises picking up the pace the reason this is important for everyone to matter and this gets heavily into what's going to happen over the next 12 months with crypto, everyone underestimates how quickly that the agentic world brings humans with it. Agentic movement happens fast.

The thing people can't comprehend is what it means to have AI agents doing everything. That's what's happening with inside enterprises for workflows is the agents are figuring out how to do this. Once we get into the point where you use Leopold and you say, hey, if you wanted to compare something with Leopold and you had to find, you said the fastest or the best hedge fund from the start, arguably Bitcoin is the best hedge fund ever. Its returns look like Leopold's. We have corrections.

Leopold gave up, what, 70%, 80% of his gains? Well, Bitcoin at the very early start gave up 70%, 80% of its gains, has continued to compound. Why did you have trouble getting all of the famous people, investors that you mentioned over the course of the last decade to invest in Bitcoin where they threw you out of their office? All of these stories that you have, it was because they knew better. These types of returns don't happen.

In the hedge fund world, if you walk in and you're Leopold and you show I'm making this much money, okay, great, I'll give you tons of money. We saw this happen with Melvin Capital. We saw this happen with everything. It's about your past performance, which is not indicative of future returns. What AI agents are going to look like, they're not going to look at this and say, I don't believe in Bitcoin. They're going to look at the returns and go, OK, let me discount this.

Let me put some probability that it's a new asset. I won't give it all of my money. But what I will do is put 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%. And those people that have 0%, once agents start making decisions for them, the same thing that we've seen with the adoption here, the adoption of crypto will go through the roof when AI agents are more involved in transactions and more involved in investing. kevin warsh he uh he stole the show by doing nothing um i think everyone was pontificating we talked earlier about citadel saying yeah there's a surprise rate hike um i think with

the cooling inflation there's just a lot of moving parts here and so they decided to just kick can down the road agree or disagree with their decision well i agree with their decision um i actually like what kevin warsh is doing um i i believe using old academic models is going to be a problem. This is one of the reasons why the hedge fund leverage situation is going to come down. There's a reason why. And I'm going to show some charts which are going to show people how structurally the stock market has completely changed. For those of you who care about factor risk, I will go through a lot of charts on factor volatility, on S&P volatility, on NASDAQ volatility, comparing them all on single name volatility

versus index volatility, the market's changing and the market's changing because of AI. Kevin Warsh is saying the Fed needs to change because of AI. If you're using the prior three months of data in a world that is now every month is equivalent to three months or 30 months, if everything is 10 times what it used to be in terms of the speed, how can you use inflation data from yesterday to make decisions other than from the psychological basis of dealing with humans. Well, in the case of what the market reacted, we got a steepening of the yield curve when he basically said, well, we didn't really need to do anything because you guys wanted a tightening and the market has tightened for us. Ten-year rates have gone up, two-year rates have

gone up. So really the market already did it for us while inflation came back down a little bit. So we got time to wait for inflation and see where it is. I think this new no forward guidance going into the meeting, people had a 40% chance of a tightening, where in the past, there'd have to be an article released beforehand to be a tightening. I think this is going to add more volatility into the system and more uncertainty. So it gets back to the point I made about leverage. If the Fed was also contributing to the leverage in the system through QE, meaning whenever assets fell, they would grow their balance sheet, he wants to shrink his balance sheet. Well, that means he wants the Fed to be less levered.

All of this leads to the same conclusion, which is there's going to be less leverage in the system. And as tokenization comes, which I believe he and Besant have both talked about, tokenization will release money supply in a way that will allow the Fed to delever at the same time. That's what I believe is going to happen, is that AI agents and tokenization will allow dormant assets, which are just sitting there, but have a value, to be monetized in a way in daily liquidity and in transactions through pieces of them and fractionalization. And I think once that happens, the Fed won't be needed as much. And I think him and Besant both believe this, as people that believe in crypto and Bitcoin. Do you think it's a good idea for the Fed to get de-levered? Yeah, well, I think it's going to happen. and I do, I think it's going to help the distribution of wealth problems. So I think

the K-shaped economy has been formed because of the leverage of the balance sheet. I think since the great financial crisis to avoid a great depression, they had to use their balance sheet whenever there was a problem. We have a financialized stock market, but right now it doesn't seem like we need those tools the way we did in the past. One is there's not as much leverage and the leverage that is growing where CDS is going wider is on the best balance sheets in the world, the hyperscalers. That's why I'm not worried about them. Their CDS should be going higher because clearly the markets are having trouble providing the capital on a short-term basis that's come to the market. I think one thing people need to recognize is that SpaceX comes to

the market. Plus, there's a lot of lockup that's coming in that's going to hit the market. You've got Anthropic. You've got OpenAI. You've got all of them raising money for CapEx for these things. We're tapping the market in big size. Google did an $80 billion. These things have never happened before. It takes a while for this kind of capital coming to the market to be digested. And I think that's what we've seen in AI as all this has gone on. So I think the Fed balance sheet will help the K-shaped economy. I think you have to look at this the way Kevin Walsh does. He's not saying he's going to shrink the balance sheet in the next year. He's saying opportunistically when he can, he wants this stuff to come down. But it would also happen with rates coming down. So I

think when he's comfortable on inflation and when the labor market is soft enough, I think you're see rate cuts combined with the balance sheet being run down a little bit when we look at um the impact that this would have on uh stock market on bitcoin on gold many of these different assets um is that something that investors should be excited about or is this a situation where if you want to help main street you know wall street suffers you want to help wall street mainstream suffers so again i'm going to go back to what i said i think over the course of the next five years, the most important force that's going to happen is AI. So let's just assume that everyone starts with one number. And just assume this number is true, that the total household net

worth of the planet Earth is about $700 trillion, and the total value of crypto is about $3 trillion. So we've all heard, and this is the way I value crypto, what I think will happen over time is that that total value will either stay the same overall, so it's, let's say, $703 trillion. $700 trillion in non-crypto, $3 trillion in crypto. Let's assume in five years, it's still $703 trillion. What I believe will be happening is that the money will be redistributed. Now, some of that will go into crypto in terms of this. And the main point is, I believe small businesses win in AI. So let's assume the winners of the stock market, the companies that win the revenues, they're all AI native. Well, the AI native businesses grow bigger, but a lot of these

AI native businesses are like my business, like Cursor, like Anthropic, like OpenAI, meaning they're AI native businesses with very few employees. They own the majority of their business, not in the case maybe of OpenAI and Anthropic, but of most private companies, the founders are going to own most of their business. And let's assume it only goes to a $100 million business. Well, in the past, that $100 million business needed to go to $5 billion, and I don't think that's going to be the case anymore. And the founder is going to own 75%.

So crypto is going to end up being, say, $100 trillion in a decade. The rest of the assets of the world will still be $603 trillion and will still be around the same overall number, there'll be a transfer. And then within the $600 trillion, I think the public stock markets will be effectively unchanged and private businesses will grow in their valuations. And you'll be able to access these through ETFs that are tokenized, that give you every asset in the world. And that's what the future is going to look like. And as someone who ran ETFs at Morgan Stanley back in the late or the early 2000s, I can just tell you that nobody believed in etfs back in 2000 now it's an accepted thing that dominates the market tokenization is a

massive change to the structure of the market ai agents are a massive change and all of this stuff is coming it's a certainty it's not in not even an if it's not a when anymore it's happening it's happening this based on all of your experience and seeing these different technology trends or different kind of asset structures go from not popular or contrarian to consensus and popular Let's say that you were 25 years old, just starting your career. What would you do in able to benefit from this trend, whether you were starting a business or going and looking for a job? Like, how would you position yourself, given everything you've seen in the past, to get

the tokenization trend as maybe a tailwind? Well, ETFs, the changing of products or structures didn't impact, in my opinion, the overall situation. It hurt mutual funds. It obviously changed stock ownership, meaning BlackRock has been a big winner. But it's not like they've gone parabolic. I think the way to have made money since ETFs came out really was about innovation and which companies were going to dominate.

You're basically betting on where moats will be. Warren Buffett made money on investing in moats. the mag 7 have motes now their stock prices have not moved over the last year for the hyperscalers we're seeing multiple compression but right now i'm trying to invest in scarcity because i think we're at the phase of innovation where we can't actually produce the energy necessary so we're converting as david freeberg said in the podcast this past weekend we're converting molecules into bits and i want to be involved in the molecule side right now and that's why i focus my attention on scarcity so scarcity is not just bitcoin scarcity is micron spare scarcity is um ge

vernova scarcity is all of these things that are necessary to build out the compute that are still going to have the earnings growing their multiples can compress and this is the thing people have to understand just because you're making money i believe in multiple compression because even for for these companies that are based on scarcity, in three years when humanoids are a reality and they're making it cheaper for every physical business, meaning they're involved in buildings and being involved in the semiconductors, including all of the intelligence at the level, I think all businesses and ideas will be disrupted. And that means you have to get into the only thing that gets hurt the least. And that's the thing I want to make sure people

realize if you don't believe in Bitcoin, you have to go back at some point and go listen to the Michael Saylor interviews in 2021 about why. Why he did this. He did this because of two forces that were hurting him. One was competitive innovation. His business had a billion dollars on the balance sheet, but he could not compete with the size of Microsoft and the competition was just not there. And this was after the mag seven had come to existence. He talks about it all the time. So one was he lost to innovation. Number two, he was now losing to debasement from the government. They had moved rates down to zero. So he had a successful business with a billion dollars of balance sheet, but with very, very difficult in terms of making money. So he made

a decision to invest in something that was going to be defendable versus debasement. I think where bitcoin comes in is the same the quote that he uses all time you don't find bitcoin bitcoin finds you you don't find bitcoin until you're either personally or your business has been so destructed that you can't get out of a hole that you're looking for something to park your money while you figure out a plan in his case bitcoin went higher it allowed him to do what he's done with strategy but that's why most people think this is a scam in my opinion five years from now almost every business will be in strategy micro strategy situation where they will be competing against the basement and they will be competing against the pressures of competitive companies but these will

be ai native businesses of which there will be hundreds of millions if not billions of them because one person with an ai agent can set up a hundred businesses it that's the problem is that the scale of competition goes through the roof and so the investment gets into where will people put a store of value where my money is going to be worth more than it is today, three years from now, that's getting harder and harder every year that we go forward. Other than Bitcoin, what else falls in that category for you? Again, I don't know what can be worth more in three years from now. In my store of value view, I mean, I would guess I would select gold just because as much as Bitcoin would be there,

it's a store of value. I think the hardest thing for people is going to be if the deflationary pressures of AI get to the point that we all believe. I mean, I know that you and I believe that it will. At some point, the deflationary pressures destroy all businesses and all assets because there's no need for the assets to be worth the value that they are if everything is heading towards free. And that's the issue that comes up. I think Bitcoin right now, because of the size of it relative to those 700 trillion, it really is more of a hedge against what I'm saying happening than something that people need to believe in. At some point, diversification, even at 5%, is you saying, I want to have diversification in real estate,

in private equity, in private credit, in public equities, in all of these different things. I think crypto needs to be 5%. And three years from now, I don't know if Ethereum is safe on that. I don't know if Solana is safe on that. I don't know if Sui is. I don't know if Betensor is. I don't know because the ideas are going to keep coming faster and faster from AI. So I want to have something that is not built on ideas. It is built on beliefs of people believing that it's a store of value that gets into gold and that gets into Bitcoin. You previously have talked about Ethereum and that seems to be outperforming Bitcoin. What's going on there?

Again, this is a big part of why I'm adding at least two times a month a crypto-focused YouTube. And the reason is because I believe the ecosystem is growing. Despite all the fears and worries over the Clarity Act, despite everything going on, the ecosystem of my 40-name index is based on the energy that's happening inside the ecosystem. And that gets back into AI agents. that gets back into the amount of volumes and transactions. I like looking for a variety of signals that are creating a mosaic that this is happening. Part of them is Ethereum over Bitcoin. It's saying that the ecosystem, the network effects are kicking in. Part of this is how my 40-name basket is doing, which is outperforming Bitcoin at this point. So it's not just Ethereum,

it's the eight verticals or sectors with inside crypto that are equal weight that are outperforming Bitcoin. You've got Stripe heavily involved in looking to make takeovers of companies involved with transactions and volume. So for me, that is a signal that despite all the doom and gloom, that AI is finally starting to kick into the agentic side. It should match up with Meta. It should match up with Siri. It should match up with Alexa, meaning once consumer agents become real, the explosion in volume and transactions should go through the roof. And that's where the financial guardrails matter. So think of Ethereum for me as the asset that most traditional finance people that have a lot of money already know. And so it's the safest of the Solanas,

the SUIs, wherever you want to go at this point from the money that matters that will drive assets, which is the $700 trillion. They chose Bitcoin. That is the store of value. But the energy side for, hey, I think stable coins are going to be used all around the globe. And I think there's going to be more adoption. I think consumer agents are coming. I think Ethereum is going to benefit the most. When you mentioned BitTensor, that seems to be the thing that is most AI crypto overlap. Have you spent time on that? Not enough. One of the things I'm doing as part of being ready And the reason I keep saying September, early October is because I have to be able to answer these questions in a way. I'm never going to be a bottoms up person all over things, but I need to understand how all of the AI agent parts of crypto fit in, how they fit into what should happen.

So I've spent a decent amount of time, but not enough that I want to start having conversations about it because part of being – I spent a lot of time on deep dives. I mean, we won't talk about this, I'm sure, this week, and I don't know if you've seen it, but Ezra Klein had an interview with Kevin Rudd, who's the former prime minister of Australia. Kevin Rudd is kind of world-renowned at this point for his knowledge of Xi Jinping. and because China and their open source plan is so important to investors, I know China really well. I traveled there for a month a year. So one month out of every year from 2007 to 2012, I was in China. And I got to understand the culture. I got to understand things from a grassroots perspective. And you really start to realize that most of what you hear in the Western media is not true. And you want to understand more. Well, Kevin Rudd in this

interview with Ezra Klein really went through what their AI plan is, how they're thinking about things. And a lot of it gets into the K-shaped economy of the Western world. A lot of it gets into their beliefs on Lenin and Marx and what we're seeing. And they believe that socialism is going to rise here because of the K-shaped economy. So he talked a lot about this and where it fits in. And the reason I bring this up to your BitTensor question, I need to do research on things before I want to talk about them. I connect dots really well. Things that I knew in the past all of a sudden pop up. And in the case of this China thing, listening to Ezra Klein interview Kevin Rudd, I had a greater appreciation for the plan that China has in place, what that

means for what David Freeberg talked about in the All In podcast with this molecules to bits and how China basically owns the manufacturing already. They own this. Well, this is all part of their long-term plan, but to hear it presented in a way that is best for their economy and navigating their own situation, which is how do we make sure that we don't have a big problem here, even though college kids are having a tough time getting jobs, entrepreneurs are having a hard time making money, and the housing market is not going up. To hear him talk about it in the AI context was very important. So once I've done the same thing on BitTensor and I've listened to 10 Kevin Rudds give me their opinion on their business and where it fits in,

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this question to you and to the audience, and then next week we can come back and talk about maybe some conclusions we have. But I was watching, I don't know if you've seen these videos of the migrants in Spain. And there's basically thousands, tens of thousands of people who are coming on shore. And I'm not an expert on Spain or the policies or whatever, but it's a pretty jarring video when you see this. And what it made me think about was immigration to the United States used to happen on boats where people would come over and they pretty much could bring whatever they could carry. That was, you know, kind of the, the assets that you could bring with you. And there are stories of, you know, people, uh, getting on trains and, uh, uh, people

confiscating the gold at the train station or, you know, all of these different kinds of things. Right now though, when money moves digital, there's a very different, um, kind of what can you bring with you, but then vice versa, what can you send back? And we know remittances are huge, outside of the United States, leaving the United States or leaving some of these countries, going back into places where immigrants are coming from. And so what I don't yet have a strong opinion on is how important is some of the migration patterns and some of these things that we're seeing that I think a lot of people look through a political lens, but actually in a weird way, the financial rails being digitized, the markets being opened is empowering a participation

that historically wasn't there. You know, you would have to get physical dollars or currency. You'd have to get gold, like these things that just no longer exist. It does feel like that is part of the crypto story. That is part of the digital rail story, et cetera. It's just not, you know, tokenization and, hey, is NYSE or NASDAQ going to win, right? It's much more kind of like on the ground, actual people using this stuff in a way that maybe people in America don't quite yet understand. Yeah. So you left one thing out. And again, I

only do this because I spend so much time on this connection. So everything you said is true. By having digital currency, by having the ability to move things easily to go through it, borders are going to break down by definition. The capitalists, the financial guardrails are changing. But the part that is different, if you go through why people would leave a country and go to another place and let's leave out the debasement because now you have the ability of hiding your money in something that doesn't debase. So if you want to stay in Argentina and the currency is devaluing 50% a year, you just put your money in stable coins, dollar stable coins, you're fine. Like you couldn't do that while I was in Brazil. You had to go to a black

market and do that. So we've already kind of resolved that. The other thing is if you wanted to hire educated people and run a business, get an education. That was the reason why people came to America. You wanted to get an education here. Then you would stay here. You have a big labor force that's educated. If you were from Brazil, there just wasn't enough educated people to kind of build the business the same way. And so what has changed with AI connected to crypto is now you can build a business with no people. You have the cloud, you have platforms, so you can sell your product globally anywhere you want and can have the money come in and stable coins you pay the local tax stripe does all this stuff for you everything has made it easier for you to live

anywhere and run a business you don't have to grow it needing to go to school at a certain place you can use ai to lose learn whatever you want you can hire ai agents so that we don't have to find smart and telling this is where we're going is that to me borders are breaking down and a person I've mentioned to you that's a good friend is Marco Papich. And he wrote a paper on the metaverse back in 2021. Now, it happened to coincide with the crypto peak and the metaverse peak. But a lot of what he wrote in there as a geomacro person was 100% true. Because then you start getting into, well, if the metaverse exists, then aren't all borders breaking down over time? And so I do believe you're losing some of it. You never lose the nationalism of people loving their

country and where they were born. But it does change the fact that over time, I think less people are going to need to leave anything and they can do whatever they want financially, transaction wise, from a location and going anywhere will be easier because you'll be able to virtually go anywhere anyway. So all of this stuff with borders and countries is going to become more fragmented and people's views on are going to change over time. You know, the metaverse thing is always so funny to me. I was never a big believer in what I call like, um, the video game metaverse kind of the, like, we're all going to have avatars and, you know, that, that type of thing. I just, for whatever reason, never really was like, that's

going to be the future. But what I used to talk about is like, you and I are hanging out in the metaverse right now, right? We are talking, uh, um, in a way where we can beam ourselves to a meeting on the internet and we don't have to be together. We can do it in real time. And then we're able to we could be live and you could have people all around the world watching or you can record it and post it and you know watch later so i think that the concept maybe to your point of the metaverse or kind of this like digital uh world is definitely already happened i wouldn't even argue that it's going to happen it's already happened we you know zoom and twitter and all these things at the same time i don't know how much of it is like the you know cartoon avatars

and and that whole thing i think maybe people have gotten a little bit more sour on and probably rightfully so anyone that is a child the same age as my son so 21 has gone through two phenomena one is the crypto side during covid where it just took off but before that fortnight and fortnight was the very metaverse thing you're playing a video game and it grew rapidly from zero i mean I mean, it was the fastest growing video game in history. And we all had that thing of hearing our son or daughter playing this game in a room screaming. And they were talking to friends online, playing the game at the exact same time with the headphone on. Like, this has already happened.

That used to be, you know, me running around playing Fort outside. My mother was like, get out of the house, go run around the backyard. This was happening virtually. The crypto side, my son traded aggressively at 13 years old and made a lot of money and lost a lot of money, something that Leopold just did at 25. He's barely older than my son. My son has already accomplished what Leopold did, blowing up and leverage and getting involved in crypto and going up and down.

But there was something else that happened that I've mentioned before. The Philippines went through an economic change because of Axie Infinity. And for any of you watching that have never read about Axie Infinity, go bring up a YouTube documentary. I know there's a bunch out there. There's one that's 30 minutes. It impacted the entire economy of the Philippines. So that is another form of metaverse. That is gaming meets the economics. It was all about gambling. It was all about a video game. It was like Fortnite, but it was pay to play and it was having an impact on the economy. And I, my son played it for one day and said he could never win because they were too good. That is the world I absolutely

believe we're heading towards the only reason it hasn't happened yet crypto and the ideas are still good they're still all of the entrepreneurs that came up with these things it's going to happen when i hear candy digital and i realize as a sports fan that that scenario of a sports and the memories you have being valuable being at a game the dunk you already have a painting of of OG that I saw in your office, that moment in time, I'll never forget. I'll never forget where I was. I'll never forget being under the basket for that and the people I was with. I'll never forget that even if I never see them again. So I think people have to realize that the world that you're describing, this virtual world, virtual money, all of these things, they're happening and it's

own the money of the world, the 700 trillion is owned predominantly by people that are baby boomers and people that are above the age of 60. As the demographic shifts, these younger people like my son, like Leopold, they believe in this type of, I hate to say it, balls to the wall type approach. The entertainment is coming from living life and going through the ups and downs and virtually traveling and all of this. It's a different world and I think it's going to remain a different world for a long time. I love it. I mean, why not? Why not live life that way versus be bored? You know, that's why I'm in Maine, my friend. All right. What what are you going to cover in your video this week? For anyone who goes go on YouTube and just search Jordy Visser,

go check out the video that he puts out on Sunday morning. But what are you going to cover this week? So I'm going to go through the the Leopold situation. I'm going to go through the details on the factor moves, the market structure change, and then, I mean, again, I think people, based on my subscribers and based on the people that are involved with me on a regular basis, I had to do four videos for this month on top of the four that I already do for the subscribers because during these months, it gets very nerve-wracking and you're more prone to making emotional decisions. I'm going to cover why I think the bottom is in for the AI trade and why people should be going through. I'm going to show how I've created a report called Combing Through

the Carnage to go through all of the details and which names at this point technically didn't break down. They've reset. And as my father used to say, if in May the odds on the AI trade working were one to two and you were barely getting any payoff over the next six months, you'll be shocked right now that with the correction we've had, which is still in a bull market, we're still above moving averages. The odds have now gone back to three to one, a lot of things. So I'd mentioned last week that I bought Micron or two weeks ago. Well, I got a chance to buy a little bit lower. And as I said, these were nibbles. Now I feel more comfortable buying into weakness rather than just buying strength. I don't think we're zooming right to the top of things. I think there's going to be

more liquidations coming, particularly in the first week of August. But I do think that the Leopold situation ended up getting a tremendous amount of cell pressure. So I'm going to go through that, my experience on those, and we'll cover it all this weekend. Amazing. All right, Jordy, thank you very much. We'll talk again next week. Thanks, bud. Have a good one.