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The Real Scarcity in an Age of Abundance: Jordi Visser on Bitcoin, Longevity and Rethinking Wealth
In this episode of When Shift Happens, I sit down with Jordi Visser, macro strategist at 22V Research and former Weiss Multi-Strategy CIO, to discuss living to 100, heart rate variability, the limits of money, artificial intelligence, Bitcoin, and whether young people should still make homeownership a life goal. Underneath these ideas is one question: in a world where technology could make more things abundant, what is actually worth protecting? Longevity Starts With Refusing

Kevin Follonier
Aug 194 min read


Scott Melker on Why Most People Won’t Make It Trading Crypto and What Works Instead
In this episode of When Shift Happens, I sit down with Scott Melker, host of The Wolf of All Streets, to discuss his journey from professional DJ to crypto trader and media entrepreneur, and the lessons that changed how he thinks about money. We talk about why trading made him money but was never the foundation of lasting wealth, how Voyager and 2022 reshaped his appetite for risk, why he now prefers consistently buying Bitcoin over chasing the next big token, and why he thin

Kevin Follonier
Aug 124 min read


The One Rule That Separates Great Investors From Everyone Else
In this episode of When Shift Happens, I sit down with Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly, to discuss one of the most misunderstood ideas in investing. A former professional poker player turned venture capitalist, Haseeb has lived through some of crypto's darkest moments. He witnessed the collapse of the ICO boom in 2018, the devastation following FTX, and countless periods when confidence in the industry seemed beyond repair. Yet through each cycle, his philosophy

Kevin Follonier
Jul 84 min read


What It Really Means to Own Your Money: Why Eric Larcheveque Put Everything Into Bitcoin
In this episode of When Shift Happens, I sit down with Eric Larcheveque, entrepreneur and one of Europe's most influential voices in Bitcoin, who's now building TBSO - La Société Bitcoin - a publicly listed company co-founded with NBA legend Tony Parker. While our conversation touches on entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, self-custody, and the future of money, it ultimately explores something much deeper: what does it really mean to own something? Choosing Independenc

Kevin Follonier
Jul 15 min read


Dan Tapiero on Why Most Investors Lose Money Despite Being Right
In this episode of When Shift Happens, I sit down with Dan Tapiero, Founder of 50T Funds and one of Wall Street's earliest public advocates for digital assets, to discuss why he believes crypto represents the greatest macro investment opportunity of our lifetime, why most investors lose money despite being directionally right, and why his $50 trillion thesis may actually be conservative. At first glance, the conversation appears to be about Bitcoin, crypto markets, and digita

Kevin Follonier
Jun 244 min read


How Bitcoin Changed Michael Saylor’s Understanding of Money Forever
In this episode of When Shift Happens, I sit down with Michael Saylor to discuss Bitcoin, wealth creation, monetary collapse, low time preference, and the philosophy that turned a software entrepreneur who once watched his company fall 99.8% into one of the most influential figures in global finance. What begins as a conversation about Bitcoin quickly goes deeper into a reflection on ego, focus, scarcity, survival, and what it actually means to preserve value across generatio

Kevin Follonier
May 275 min read


Why This Might Be the Most Bullish Moment in Crypto History
In this episode of When Shift Happens, I sit down with Hunter Horsley, co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Asset Management, to discuss why he believes we are entering the most structurally bullish phase in crypto’s history, what institutional adoption actually looks like behind closed doors, and how crypto is reshaping capital markets, investor behaviour, and even global power structures. Horsley’s core argument is simple, but difficult to fully grasp: everything is aligning at on

Kevin Follonier
May 64 min read


Jeff Park on Why AI Could Create the Next Generation of Bitcoin Believers
In this episode of When Shift Happens , I sit down with Jeff Park to discuss why so many young people feel locked out of the modern economy, why the old paths to wealth creation no longer work the way they used to, and why he believes Bitcoin may become the clearest escape hatch in an era shaped by currency debasement, unaffordable housing, and AI-driven labour disruption. What emerges is not just a conversation about markets, but a broader thesis about social frustration, ge

Kevin Follonier
Apr 225 min read


How Anthony Pompliano Thinks About Conviction, Risk, and Why He Went All-In on Bitcoin
In this episode of When Shift Happens , I sit down with Anthony Pompliano to discuss what real conviction looks like: why he once put 95% of his net worth into Bitcoin, how deep research separates concentration from gambling, and why he would rather risk going to zero than win at what he calls “insider games” that create no real impact. “Relentless” as a way of operating Pompliano describes himself simply: investor, entrepreneur, someone who likes to have fun, but at the same

Kevin Follonier
Feb 114 min read


Why Andrej Majcen Thinks Bitcoin, Not “Crypto”, Is the Only Bet That Matters
In this episode of When Shift Happens , I sit down with Andrej Majcen, co-founder and Group CEO of Bitcoin Suisse, to unpack one central idea: we are living through a narrow, five-year window that may define who preserves and compounds wealth, and who doesn’t. As pension systems strain, trust in institutions erodes, and inflation quietly eats away at savings, Andrej argues that Bitcoin is no longer a speculative trade but a structural response to a broken financial system. Th

Kevin Follonier
Jan 214 min read


Self-Custody Or Nothing: Matej Zak On Why 98% Of Crypto Users Are Still At Risk
In this episode of When Shift Happens , I sit down with Matej Zak to discuss why self-custody matters, how Czech history shaped his worldview, and what it really takes to build Trezor, the world’s most trusted hardware wallet. From a brutal 1953 monetary reform in Czechoslovakia to today’s billion-dollar exchange hacks, Matej explains why most people in crypto still do not truly own their money, and what would need to change for that to become the norm. A Czech History Lesson

Kevin Follonier
Dec 3, 20254 min read


Inside Arthur Hayes’ Bitcoin Thesis: Liquidity, Cycles, and the Road to $1M
In this episode of When Shift Happens , I sit down with Arthur Hayes to discuss why he keeps most of his wealth in Bitcoin, his framework for turning “shitcoins” into more BTC, the stablecoin meta he thinks will reshape finance, and the human routines like skiing, tennis, and discipline that anchor his risk-taking. The Bitcoin Standard Hayes is the CIO of Maelstrom, co-founder and former CEO of BitMEX, and the inventor of the perpetual swap. Across an hour of fast exchanges

Kevin Follonier
Oct 15, 20254 min read


“Money That Works”: Lily Liu on Bitcoin, Solana, and Banking the Internet
In this episode of When Shift Happens , I sit down with Lily Liu, President of the Solana Foundation, to discuss why Bitcoin and Solana...

Kevin Follonier
Sep 17, 20254 min read
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