'Inflation is aging': Bryan Johnson's war against systemic decay

Source: CryptoNewsNet Original Title: ‘Inflation is aging’: Bryan Johnson’s war against systemic decay Original Link: For Bryan Johnson, the entrepreneur who sold Braintree (and Venmo) to PayPal for $800 million, the transition from fintech to ‘fountain of youth’ isn’t a pivot, it’s a logical progression.

While Johnson is now the public face of Project Blueprint, a rigorous longevity protocol, he views his interest in crypto as part of the same fundamental struggle. In Johnson’s framing, inflation and aging function as invisible taxes. Inflation quietly erodes purchasing power over time, just as aging steadily degrades the body’s biological capital.

“Aging has the same philosophical underpinnings as inflation,” Johnson said. “Both are the slow death of an intelligent system.”

Johnson’s ties to the crypto industry run deep. He was an early partner of a certain compliant platform while running Braintree, experimenting with bitcoin payments when the user experience was still “clunky” and poorly understood. At the time, he said, the goal was not ideological, it was infrastructural. Braintree wanted to be “indifferent as to where the money came from” and simply provide the rails.