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Bitcoin, Boring Wealth, and the Case for Thinking in Decades
In this episode of When Shift Happens , I sit down with Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise, to discuss why Bitcoin may be worth millions per coin, why Solana has one of the strongest setups he has ever seen, and why the most reliable path to wealth in crypto is also the least exciting one. Hougan is not a chain maximalist. He comes from traditional finance, spent more than a decade in ETFs, and now sits at the intersection of institutional capital and digital as

Kevin Follonier
14 hours ago5 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


$10m Isn’t Enough To Retire: Jordi Alexander On Survival, Wealth, And Building Judgment
In this episode of When Shift Happens , I sit down with Jordi Alexander, founder of Selini Capital, to unpack one of the most pressing...

Kevin Follonier
Sep 3, 20254 min read
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