Joe Burnett
Host — The Income Show
Bitcoin Strategy @Strive (NASDAQ: $ASST $SATA) | Led Bitcoin Strategy for the 2nd U.S. public company to adopt Bitcoin as its primary treasury asset.
Joe Burnett is Vice President of Bitcoin Strategy at Strive (Nasdaq: ASST | SATA) and host of The Income Show, where he rethinks income investing from first principles and makes the case for digital credit as a new asset class. He has been making the public case for Bitcoin as the world’s most advanced monetary technology since discovering it in 2017, and has worked full-time in the Bitcoin industry since 2021. Before Strive, Joe was Director of Bitcoin Strategy at Semler Scientific, where he helped build a corporate treasury of more than 5,000 BTC ahead of the company’s acquisition by Strive, and Director of Market Research at Unchained. Earlier, as an analyst at Blockware Solutions, his mining and network research was cited by Bloomberg. Joe holds a Master of Science in Business Analytics from the University of Georgia. On True North he writes long-form research, including The Fracture: Breaking Bitcoin’s Power Law and Bitcoin is the Humanity ETF.
Interviews & Appearances
Mike Alfred: AI, Bitcoin, Digital Credit, & The Future of Investing | The Income Show | Ep. 1
$582 Trillion Are About To Flow Into Strategy & Strive | Robin Seyr
The Fed's Impossible Choice Could Send Bitcoin Higher | Mustard Seed Bitcoin Podcast
Michael Saylor on Crypto Casinos, Regulation, and Bitcoin's Volatility | Blockware
What happens when 1 BTC = $1,000,000? | Blockware
Bitcoin Is The Easiest Way to Retire Early! | Mr. M Podcast
In the Press
There have been fewer power curtailments from major miners as they head into the cooler months in the US and Europe
Bloomberg cited Burnett, then head analyst at Blockware Solutions, on Bitcoin mining capacity following the Ethereum Merge.
— Joe Burnett Published Work
The Fracture: Breaking Bitcoin's Power Law
Joe Burnett argues the power law may not be Bitcoin's end state. Borrowing the fatigue crack growth curve from materials science, he maps Bitcoin's monetization in three phases — and makes the case that falling volatility expands the capital and credit that can compete for a fixed 21 million supply, until price breaks above the power-law trend.
Bitcoin Is.
Joe Burnett on how Bitcoin has escaped its creators: the failure of BIP 110 showed that no developer, miner, company, or government can redefine it. Bitcoin has become a permanent economic constraint that markets, institutions, and civilization now adapt to.
Bitcoin is the Humanity ETF
Joe Burnett argues that no traditional asset lets you own human progress itself — competition, construction, and mining dilute every store of wealth. Bitcoin's fixed supply makes it the one asset where the abundance humanity creates can accumulate without being diluted.
There’s a Wealth Shortage
Joe Burnett argues the economy's real problem isn't inequality but a wealth shortage — abundant productive capacity with no durable way to store it — and how bitcoin's perfect scarcity, plus digital credit and digital money, fixes it.
What Is Money Printing?
Joe Burnett explains what money printing really is — not physical cash creation, but the expansion of dollar-denominated credit the market accepts as money. From base money to bank lending to digital credit, he maps the full spectrum of money creation and contrasts short-duration dollars with long-duration Bitcoin.
The 2028 Intelligence Policy Response
Joe Burnett envisions a 2028 scenario where AI-driven deflation triggers zero rates, massive QE, and a liquidity hierarchy that favors digital credit and bitcoin over traditional assets.
The Singularity Has Begun
Joe Burnett argues the singularity began on January 3, 2009 — when perfect digital scarcity entered a world about to experience collapsing intelligence costs. As AI makes everything abundant, wealth converges on what intelligence cannot replicate.