Jeff Booth has a message for anyone waiting for a far-off future where $BTC transforms the world: you don't have to wait. The author of The Price of Tomorrow admits he has no idea what 2036 will actually look like, and he isn't interested in painting a utopia. His question is simpler and sharper — do people move their time and energy into the new system, starting today?

"It can exist for them right this second," he says, framing the benefits of a Bitcoin-buoyed world as available now to anyone who chooses to participate. In his view, the change doesn't arrive on a calendar date. "We are the change," he adds. "We always have been."

There is a catch. Booth argues that treating Bitcoin as just another asset inside a broken financial system misses the point. To capture its full potential, you have to see it as a protocol — and only through that lens, he says, does the world actually change for you.

He sketches a spectrum of understanding. At one end sit those chasing quick riches through bitcoin or other crypto assets, hunting the next trade. Very few win big, and almost all lose over a longer horizon. One level up are those who treat bitcoin purely as a store of value. Booth warns this traps the asset inside the very system it was meant to replace, centralizing ownership into a new elite and inviting repeat custodian blowups — the kind of failures seen with Celsius and BlockFi, over and over again.

The top of his spectrum belongs to those who understand Bitcoin as a protocol, emerging in layers that make it easier and more private to use as money. They don't wait for someone else to fix things. In Booth's telling, every other perspective rests on "it's somebody else, not me," while the protocol view says, "I create the future from my intention."

That agency is easy to surrender. Booth points to flavor-of-the-month fear, hero worship, panic over quantum computing, and the heated Core versus Knots debate as distractions that siphon power from individuals. He chose not to join the name-calling, instead reading the conflict as a signal worth investigating — and as a chance for participants to fight for what they want Bitcoin to be.

His safeguard is vigilance, not blind loyalty. If enough hypervigilant people focus on the issues, he argues, Bitcoin stays secure; if enough builders stay hypervigilant as they build, it stays decentralized. He also warns that debt-based systems layered on top of Bitcoin push toward centralization and are ultimately doomed. As adoption grows, prices fall fast enough that those trying to concentrate coins must deliver real value to service their debts — something he says they won't manage, forcing them to distribute their bitcoin instead. Bitcoin, in his view, inevitably liquidates zero-sum players. The better focus is what you contribute to the world.

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