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Jeff Booth: Why $1 Million BTC Is Thinking Too Small

Author: Bitcoin Magazine·

Key Takeaways

  • •Jeff Booth, author of "The Price of Tomorrow," argued in a Bitcoin Magazine interview that a $1 million Bitcoin price target understates the change Bitcoin represents.
  • •Booth maintains that dollar-denominated targets misprice Bitcoin because the dollar is subject to debasement.
  • •He characterizes Bitcoin not merely as an asset but as the start of a decentralized, secure, and private protocol stack resembling the internet, calling it evidence of the first free market.
  • •The interview presents his technological-deflation thesis, in which advancing technology pushes prices toward zero while a debt-based monetary system depends on expansion, citing $40 trillion in US debt and a $350 trillion insolvent system.
  • •Later segments extend the argument to Bitcoin adoption timelines, payments and circular economies, and bitcoin-backed private equity.
Jeff Booth: Why $1 Million BTC Is Thinking Too Small

Bitcoin Magazine has published a new video interview with Jeff Booth, author of The Price of Tomorrow, in which he argues that a $1 million Bitcoin price target is thinking too small. The full interview is available on Bitcoin Magazine.

Booth explains why valuing Bitcoin in dollars means pricing it from a game that is rigged by debasement. He argues that Bitcoin is not just a coin or an asset, but the beginning of a decentralized, secure, and private protocol stack that will look a lot like the internet. In his view, Bitcoin is evidence of the first free market that has ever existed.

The framing matters because the familiar debate usually centers on a single number — whether Bitcoin's dollar price reaches seven figures. Booth's position, as laid out in the interview, is that the yardstick itself is the issue: pricing anything in a currency subject to debasement, he argues, means a dollar-denominated target understates the change he is describing. That case draws on the technological-deflation thesis associated with his book — advancing technology pushing prices toward zero while a debt-based monetary system relies on continued expansion — a tension the chapters trace from AI valuations through the cited figures of $40 trillion in US debt and a $350 trillion insolvent system to productivity in a deflationary future.

The interview is organized into the following chapters:

  • 0:00 — Jeff Booth, The Price of Tomorrow & Technological Deflation
  • 0:30 — AI Valuations & Why Free Markets Push AI Prices Toward Zero
  • 1:29 — AI Deflation vs the Debt-Based Monetary System
  • 2:38 — $40 Trillion US Debt, Bond Yields & the $350 Trillion Insolvent System
  • 4:06 — AI Singularity Claims, Fear & Monopoly Regulation
  • 6:50 — Productivity & Bitcoin's True Value in a Deflationary Future
  • 8:43 — Why a $1 Million Bitcoin Price Target Is Thinking Too Small
  • 10:11 — Bitcoin Adoption Timeline & Why Bitcoin Isn't Just an Asset
  • 12:38 — Bitcoin Payments & Circular Economies Scaling Worldwide
  • 13:49 — Bitcoin-Backed Private Equity & Owning Businesses Forever

The headline argument lands in the 8:43 chapter, with the segments that follow extending it to adoption timelines, payments and circular economies, and bitcoin-backed private equity — a progression readers can navigate directly through the timestamps above.

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This post first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Patrick Green.