Anti-aging magnate Bryan Johnson has almost dedicated his life to cryptocurrencies.

Tech billionaire Bryan Johnson confesses that if he hadn't sold his payment company Braintree to PayPal in 2013 and hadn't become obsessed with anti-aging, he would probably have dedicated his entire existence to the crypto world.

“If I hadn't sold Braintree, I would have fully immersed myself in cryptocurrencies,” he admits candidly.

Today at 47 years old, although he looks much younger, Johnson is primarily recognized for his pursuit of longevity treatments. His path to success began by founding the mobile payment company Braintree in 2007, which grew an astonishing 4,000% annually. After acquiring Venmo in 2012, he sold everything to PayPal for 800 million dollars, personally pocketing 300 million and accumulating a net worth of approximately 400 million.

During that period, his interest in cryptocurrencies was growing intensely while he was working on a deal between Braintree and Coinbase to process payments in Bitcoin.

“We were pioneers in adopting cryptocurrencies, as evidenced by our famous alliance with Coinbase in 2013,” he recalls with a certain pride mixed with nostalgia.

Johnson is the co-founder of Network School along with the former CTO of Coinbase, Balaji Srinivasan. This three-month educational program brings together 150 tech libertarians in an abandoned artificial city in Malaysia, representing a concrete step towards the dream of establishing a “network state” based on libertarian values and a financial system supported by Bitcoin.

I find it absurd that the ultra-rich in cryptocurrencies always end up obsessed with two things: creating independent micro-states outside of government control and defeating aging. Coincidence? I don't think so.

Johnson explains his attraction to this concept: “If you look at the history of civilization, innovation rarely comes from established institutions. It comes from the external margins. Social innovation typically arises from small groups in suitable structured environments.”

His anti-aging Blueprint regimen, designed to reverse your own biological age, and his Don't Die project to help others extend their lives have attracted a considerable community. Johnson has created workouts, meal plans, and lessons on health and longevity for the Network School.

Why is there this fascination among crypto millionaires with longevity? Johnson is not sure, but he agrees with the theory that these tech experts, used to solving complex engineering problems, see aging as just another technical challenge to overcome.

“Bitcoin fundamentally rejects inflation, and I fundamentally reject aging. Both of us refuse to accept these slow deaths,” Johnson reflects.

Is biological immortality really possible? Johnson believes so: “Biology has already solved the problem. The immortal jellyfish can rejuvenate indefinitely. Biology shows us that immortal beings can exist; we just need to apply it to our species. It is completely solvable.”

Johnson spends millions annually on his longevity project with a team of 30 specialists. His routine includes precise nutrition, 35 different exercises, and an extreme focus on sleep. Surprisingly, he claims that his aging rate is now 0.64, which means he “celebrates his birthday every 19 months.”

For Johnson, this is not just about personal health. His true motivation is to witness the transformation of humanity through artificial intelligence: “I am trying to answer a bigger question: what do we do as a species when we give life to a superintelligence?”

Some observers have compared its movement Don't Die to a religion, something that Johnson does not completely reject, responding: “Question everything we understand about existence, although it turns out to be intuitively correct.”