The Case For Bitcoin As One Of The World’s 4 Most Important Technologies

**Armando Pantoja** (0:00)
So we have about four big technologies that's gonna change everything. One is quantum computing, AI, robotics and blockchain. And people see those four as disconnected, they're all connected. None of those can survive without the other ones.

**LGD Set** (0:13)
What's up everybody, it's LGD Set here, and welcome to The Milk Road Show, the daily crypto show that isn't ready to revisit 60K, but if it's gonna happen, then just let her rip, baby. Today is June 19th, 2026, recording on June 18th. Listen, we hear from a lot of analysts, investors, institutional players and founders on this show, but what we rarely get on is an actual author and futurist who's looking way beyond the day-to-day of crypto and deep into the future. Our guest today is here to do just that. Armando Pantoja, author of The Future of Wealth, The Next 50 Years of Money, Power in the Age of Intelligence, is on with us today to give us a preview of our future lives and even tell us how crypto has been building a platform for that all along. Before we start, also I want to remind you that our analysts are on fire this month. They've made over 30 trades in just the last couple of weeks. There's a lot going on, a lot of buying, lots of selling, and a lot of things being added to their watch lists and portfolios. All that is in Milk Road Pro. The link is below in the description. Today's episode is brought to you by BitGet, Stocks 2 with Real Liquidity, Real Dividends, Nexo, Earn Interest, Borrow and Trade Crypto, and Kalshi, where your takes finally pay out. Armando, what's up, man? Welcome to Milk Road.

**Armando Pantoja** (1:19)
How's it going? I'm glad to be here.

**LGD Set** (1:21)
I'm feeling pretty good, man.
I'm excited to have you on is because we just look at price every day and it drives me insane, especially the last 10 months since I got put into doing the show right as the bear market started just to know a little bit about me. Now, you're going to give us a way zoomed out view of this, which I think is always very refreshing for us and our audience on the show. But first, before we start, man, tell us a little bit about you. You're new to the show. You are an author and futurist, which I think people really always wonder what that means. Tell us a little bit about you, man.

**Armando Pantoja** (1:51)
Well, so I started out in software engineering years ago. So I had a bachelor's in software engineering. So I was doing that. It didn't fulfill me. So I went back to school and they said, what do you want to study? So I want to study software security.
Then they said, well, you got to choose a graduate degree program. I said, well, what are the specialties? They said, well, software security and cryptography. So I ended up being studying cryptography in 2009, right? But I didn't discover Bitcoin until a year and a half later. I heard some people in school talking about it. I was like, what is this? So I bought some and started trying.
But really, I saw the potential early, in 2011, but I saw the wrong potential.
I thought that the potential was integrating it into payment systems. Because at that point, people saw it as more of a currency. So I built a business just integrating Bitcoin into websites and payment systems, POS systems.
And then Bitcoin crashed. It got up to 1,000 and it crashed. And I said, oh, it's over. So I went on and I learned a lot from finance, just messing around with crypto. So I got into stocks, worked for a company who algorithmically traded stocks. So I worked for them for a while, learned a lot about stocks, a lot about how financial markets work. And then around 2015, Ethereum came out. And when I first saw Ethereum, I saw how crypto was transformed and I saw a lot of potential. So I got back into it. I ended up buying a bunch of Ethereum early on. There was a DAO hack that happened shortly after that. I panicked again, got rid of everything. And then about a year later, I saw Ethereum up to $100. And I got in at $6, sold at like $30, $40. Then I forgot about it for a while. I came out and I was like, man, something's happening here. What's going on? Why do I keep giving up to all this? This time I got into it in 2016 and I didn't quit. But around that time, I created a site called ICO Ranker. That was back during the ICO craze of 16 and 17