Inflation likened to ageing in Bryan Johnson’s fight against decay

Entrepreneur Bryan Johnson argues that ageing and inflation are parallel “invisible taxes” that slowly erode biological and economic value.

Johnson said resisting this gradual decline is the most rational response for any intelligent system focused on survival.

Drawing on his background in payments infrastructure, he treats health as an autonomous process driven by data rather than human willpower.

Johnson believes crypto, artificial intelligence and longevity research are linked by shared principles of optimisation and systems thinking.

The former Braintree chief, who later sold the company to PayPal, views his move into longevity as a logical extension of his earlier work.

Johnson is now best known as the public face of Project Blueprint, a strict protocol designed to slow biological ageing.

Aging has the same philosophical underpinnings as inflation.

Bryan Johnson said.

He was an early partner of Coinbase and experimented with bitcoin payments while running Braintree.

Johnson said his interest in crypto was driven by infrastructure rather than ideology, aiming to provide neutral payment rails.

He believes automated, algorithmic health systems can outperform human judgement in the same way as automated trading or self-driving technology.

Johnson argues that the rise of AI is making the future harder to predict, reshaping education, careers and long-term planning.

At the time of reporting, Bitcoin price was $95,396.85.