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The greatest fortune in world history is changing hands at this very moment. And whoever prepares themselves can take a good portion of it and put it in their own pocket. On December 5, 2024, a group of analysts from CULA Associates published a report where they pinpointed a number that is quite difficult to imagine: 124 trillion dollars. This is the amount of money that will change hands by 2048. And to give you an idea of what 124 trillion is, the GDP of the entire United States, the largest economy on the planet, is 29 trillion dollars per year. In other words, we are talking about more than four times all of that. In fact, 124 trillion dollars is more than the entire planet Earth produces in a year. All countries in the world, from the largest to the smallest, combined, generate about 110 trillion dollars. And according to Seruli, of these 124 trillion, about 106 trillion will end up in the hands of heirs. And 81% of all this money is leaving the hands of a single generation, which is the baby boomer generation. These are people who are between 60 and 80 years old, right? They are your parents, your grandparents. They built the largest mountain of wealth humanity has ever seen. And now this mountain is starting to flow to the next generation. It is the largest wealth transfer in the world. And it is not a prediction for the future, it has already begun. However, there is one thing in this story that almost no one is paying attention to. And this is where it gets really interesting, because the generation that has almost all the money is the same generation that practically doesn't trust Bitcoin. It is the same generation that saw the world change beneath their own feet. They grew up with black and white television. They saw the telephone go from the wall to fitting in their pocket. They traded letters for email. They heard the dial-up internet sound. They learned to use WhatsApp. They learned to pay with Pix. But Bitcoin, Bitcoin went too far. For a large part of this generation, crypto is internet money, it's a scam, right? They simply don't trust it, and because they don't trust it, they don't invest. However, the generation that will receive this money is precisely the one that believes most in Bitcoin in the entire world. Now answer me this question. What happens when 106 trillion dollars leave the hands of those who reject Bitcoin and fall into the hands of those who love Bitcoin? Given that there will only ever be a limited number of 21 million bitcoins in the world? Well, the math doesn't add up, and when something doesn't add up, there's almost always money to be made in the midst of it all. And it is precisely about this wealth transfer that I will talk about in today's video, about a gigantic wave that is forming, about how it is practically inevitable, and about what you can do now with your own money to be on the right side of it. But before we dive headfirst into this story, let me tell you something. Nothing I will say in this video is my own speculation. My team and I spent days, you know, poring over this. So here on my desk, you have several reports. The world's largest banks, from UBS, from Bank of America, from the CFA Institute, which train some of the best analysts on the planet. We went after papers from Fidelity, you know, which is a manager that handles over 4 trillion dollars and that practically no one has access to. Anyway, we cross-referenced all of this to bring you the most accurate portrait possible of what is happening and to help you improve your investments with all of this. And honestly, it was a hell of a lot of work, and that's why I have a simple request for you. Leave a like on the video and subscribe to the channel. This is very important for YouTube to understand that you like this type of content. It helps our team immensely and motivates us to produce increasingly complete content like this for you, okay? And another thing, man, comment on the video, comment down below, talk to me, don't just comment once, talk to me throughout the video, man, about the topic, you know, like, I agree, I disagree, cool, keep talking to me, man, you save on comments there. Well, let's go. I've divided the video into four parts. First, I'll show you who truly owns the world's money today. Second, I'll prove to you with numbers that there is a chasm between generations when it comes to Bitcoin. Third, I'll explain to you how this wealth transfer will work. And finally, I'll show you what all of this means for your pocket and how you can get rich with this movement. So, let's go. To start, I need to take you back about 18 years, okay? More specifically to 2008, because it was then, in the same year, that two things were born. One almost destroyed the world, and the other was born precisely to be an alternative to it, an alternative to this system that almost collapsed. It was September 2008, and Lehman Brothers, one of the oldest and most powerful banks in the world, with over 150 years of history, simply collapsed, and it was the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. It was the subprime crisis, the American housing crisis. You had banks, you know, lending money to people who couldn't pay, packaging all of that, you know, into very complicated financial products, and then selling it to the whole world as if it were something very safe. And it wasn't. When the house of cards started to fall, it took the global financial system down with it. And to prevent everything from turning to dust, the U.S. government did something that still generates a lot of discussion today. The U.S. government injected 700 billion dollars of public money into the financial market to try to save the banks. In other words, the banks lent, the banks gambled, the banks lost, and who paid the bill were not the banks, but the common citizen. And there, amidst the rubble of that crisis, some people looked at that system and thought: "Man, you can't trust this 100%. Someone needs to do something." It was at that exact moment that on October 31, 2008, someone under the codename Satoshi Nakamoto published this nine-page document online. And to this day, no one knows who Satoshi is. No one knows, right? It could be one person, it could be a group of people, it could be a company, who knows. The only thing we know is that Satoshi Nakamoto changed the rules of the game. And this document in my hands was the announcement of the creation of Bitcoin. And on page four of this document, in a section called Incentive, there is a sentence that summarizes the spirit of everything he believed in. It says: "Once a predetermined number of coins are issued, the incentive can be entirely based on transaction fees and be completely inflation-free." In Portuguese, it basically says that once a predetermined number of coins enter circulation, inflation ends. And while the government had just printed 700 billion dollars out of thin air to fix the mess the banks made, or their greed, right? At the same time, an asset was born that, by definition, no one can print more of. A truly scarce asset, it was like gold, but it was digital. It is digital. The problem is that in 2008, no one cared about this. Bitcoin was worth zero, and the baby boomers, who were at the peak of their financial power at that time, continued doing what always worked for them. And this is where I need to explain to you why this baby boomer generation became so rich. In 2023, a study was conducted by The New York Times using data from the American Central Bank, and it answers this question. Right on the first page of this report, it says: "In 1989, the total wealth of households in the United States was 38 trillion dollars. In 2022, this wealth reached 140 trillion dollars. It almost quadrupled. And then comes the question: 'Guess who got the largest share of this mountain, this pile of money?'" Well, on the same page of this study, there is a graph titled "Baby Boomers Hold Half of the Nation's Wealth." In other words, baby boomers hold half of the country's wealth. And to be more precise, baby boomers alone hold 78 trillion and 300 billion dollars, more than any other generation. But why? Because this generation, precisely because of two things that happened in their lives, two gigantic waves they caught at the right time. On page three of The New York Times study, it says: "The average price of a U.S. home has risen about 500% since 1983, when most baby boomers were in their 20s or 30s, you know, the exact age to buy their first home. So this was the first wave, real estate. The second wave was the stock market. According to the study, the S&P 500 has risen more than 2800% since the beginning of 1983. This was the helping hand that the boomers received, and they played the game well. That's why baby boomers control 51.7% of all wealth in the United States. More than half of everything is in the hands of a generation that is now between 60 and 80 years old. Ah, this doesn't just happen in the United States, no. In Brazil, the story is very similar. According to B3 itself, Brazil has almost 5.5 million stock market investors with a total of R$ 635 billion reais invested. Investors over 60 years old are only 10% of the group, but these 10% alone have R$ 292 billion, meaning 46% of all money invested in the Brazilian stock market, almost half here. It's the same pattern as the United States, and it's not just the stock market. And the Swiss bank UBS, in a 2025 report, pinpointed Brazil as the second country in the world with the most fortune to be passed down in the coming years. That's 9 trillion dollars. And to give you an idea, Brazil will transfer more wealth than China. We have 200 million inhabitants, and they are a nation of 1.4 billion. That's seven times our population. And do you know the reason UBS itself gave for this? In their report, it says that the main culprit for Brazil is its large population over 75 years old. In other words, Brazil also has a generation that spent its life accumulating assets, who worked, bought houses, saw assets appreciate, and who are now at the very beginning of this process of passing the baton on. And none of this is speculation. According to IBGE, for the first time in history, Brazil has more elderly people than young people. Today there are 33 million elderly people. And the projection is that by 2060, one in every four Brazilians will be elderly. The inevitable part of this story, and that almost no one likes to talk about, is that this generation is aging. Unfortunately, our parents and grandparents are not eternal, there's no escaping that. It's life, and all that money, that mountain of 78 trillion dollars, it won't disappear, it will be passed on to the next generation, it will be given away, right? So this is the first piece of the puzzle. And now comes the second piece. The question of the second piece on our board is what the generation that will receive this money thinks about money, and how is it different from previous generations? And to help us answer this question, we looked for a study called "Study of Wealthy Americans," or "Study of Rich Americans" from 2024, conducted by Bank of America, one of the largest banks in the world. And the name of the study is quite self-explanatory. They interviewed over 1,000 wealthy individuals with at least 3 million dollars to invest. And they separated the answers into two groups: younger investors, aged 21 to 43, and older investors, aged 44 and up. On page 9, it states that 72% of young investors believe it is no longer possible to achieve above-average returns by investing solely in traditional stocks and bonds. In other words, three out of every four wealthy young people are saying: "The method my parents used to get rich will no longer work for me, because today I wouldn't be able to achieve above-average returns using a more traditional investment model." When Bank of America asked about the biggest investment opportunities these young people saw today, they placed crypto and digital assets in second place, behind only real estate. On the other hand, for investors aged 44 and up, crypto was considered irrelevant. Only 4% saw an investment opportunity there. And when you look at how much each group actually has in their portfolio, then this gap becomes very large, because the young wealthy investor has an average of 14% of their portfolio in crypto, and the older investor has 1%. The younger generation allocates 14 times more to crypto than older generations. In March 2026, the CFA Institute, which is the institution that trains and certifies the world's most respected investment analysts, published this report called "Next Gen Investors: A Guide for Wealth Managers and Financial Advisors." They surveyed over 2,400 high-net-worth investors. That's the crowd with real money, separated by six countries, you know, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Singapore, India, and the United Arab Emirates. All of this to understand how the new generation of wealthy people thinks. And on page 20 of this report, there is a graph that shows the following: among wealthy investors, 50% of young people already have crypto in their portfolio. Half of the people who are engineers and belong to the younger generation already invest in some crypto asset. On page 21, the same report shows the list of assets that young people intend to buy in the future. And guess which asset leads the list? It's not stocks, it's not fixed income, and it's not real estate. The assets that young people most intend to buy in the future are cryptos. On the same page 21, the CFA Institute wrote the following: "To address young investors' expectations of cryptocurrency in the future, firms should carefully examine the suitability and feasibility of crypto assets in client portfolios." Basically, what they are saying here is that the new generation, who has money in their pockets, is knocking on the doors of banks and financial institutions and saying: "I want to buy Bitcoin." And then you might be thinking: "Okay, but what if, when the young people inherit the money, they simply keep everything as their father left it? That changes nothing." And yes, that is a point. And that is precisely why there is the third piece of our puzzle. More than 2300 years ago, in ancient Greece, the philosopher Aristotle was already complaining about young people. He wrote that youth thinks they know everything and are too categorical about everything. This was over two millennia ago. It was the old complaining about the new, and the new wanting to do things differently. In ancient Rome, about 20 years before Christ, there was a poet named Horace. He was one of the most respected poets in the entire empire, and his most famous work was a collection of poems called Odes, meant to be recited, almost sung. And in one of these Odes, Horace wrote: "The generation of our parents, worse than our grandparents, begot us, even worse, and soon we will produce even more decadent children." In other words, again, the same clash between generations. In 1854, in the United States, a writer named Henry David Thoreau published a book called Walden. The book basically tells how Henry left city life and went to live alone in a cabin he built himself in the woods, by a lake, to live a simple life and prove to the world that it was possible to live outside the rules and customs that society imposed on people. And in the first few pages, he wrote that elders do not have any particularly important advice to give to the young. So it was once again the new looking at the old and saying: "I'm not going to do the same thing you did." So whether out of spite, or because it simply doesn't work for me anymore, this generational divide has never been different when it comes to money. In 1930, an English economist named John Maynard Keynes wrote a book called "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren." The idea of this book by Keynes is that future generations will look at wealth and money in a completely different way than previous generations, that is, what his generation revered, tomorrow's generation would question. Keynes synthesized in a single essay, almost 100 years ago, a truth that thousands of generations have already known. The way one generation deals with money, or with anything else, is almost never the same as the previous generation. So, most likely, the children of this generation will not invest like their parents. A portion may even be more conservative, but this generation is by nature different from the previous ones. And the previous ones are different from the ones before them. This is the principle I am bringing to you. And now I need to close the reasoning with the final piece of our puzzle. Piece number one of our video is that the largest mountain of money in history, 124 trillion dollars, is leaving the hands of the older generation for the next. Piece number two is that this next generation that will receive all of this is precisely the one that loves Bitcoin the most in the world. Piece number three is that every generation, from ancient Greece to today, does things differently from the previous one. So the chance of this money having the same destiny as previous generations is almost zero. The heirs will take what they received and will reassemble it all in their own way. And a part of this, for the first time in history, will become Bitcoin. Putting the three pieces together, you have only one thing: the largest wave of demand for Bitcoin that the world has ever seen, beginning to form at this very moment. However, for you to understand the magnitude of what can happen here, the final piece is missing, and it is the most important of all. We need to look at the other side of this story, the supply side. And this is where the magic lies, or depending on how you look at the problem. Let me explain it in a very simple way. Remember that nine-page document, right, from Satoshi at the beginning of the video, the one that says the system would be inflation-free? Well, the seed of the idea was born here, a fixed number of coins and nothing more, hardcoded into Bitcoin's code, into the program that makes Bitcoin work. And within it, there is a rule that can never be changed. There will be 21 million bitcoins forever. This is called fixed supply, and it is something extremely valuable. Think about the Real (Brazilian currency); when the government needs it, it prints more. The amount of money in the world only grows. That's why prices rise. That's why money loses value over time. It's the famous inflation. With Bitcoin, this is impossible. No one, no government, no bank, no company can create Bitcoin number 21,000,001. And that's not all. In fact, the issuance of the bitcoins that are still missing is becoming slower and slower. From time to time, more or less every 4 years, something called a halving occurs. And with each halving, the amount of new bitcoins entering the market is cut in half. The last one happened in April 2024, and with it, the number of new bitcoins created per day dropped from about 900 to 450. To give you an idea of how advanced this is, of the 21 million bitcoins that can exist, over 95% have already been issued. Less than 5% remain to be distributed. This will be spread out over more than 100 years. And mind you, a large portion of these bitcoins that already exist are lost forever. There are people who bought in the beginning when Bitcoin was worth almost nothing and lost their password, threw away their computer, died without passing on the key to anyone. No one knows for sure, but there are estimates that between 2.3 and 3.7 million bitcoins are lost and will never circulate again. In other words, the real supply that can actually be bought and sold is even smaller than 21 million. And what happens when many people want to buy something whose quantity cannot increase? The price necessarily goes up. Fidelity, one of the largest asset managers on the planet, with over 4 trillion dollars under management, conducted a study called "Bitcoin First Revisited." On page seven, there is a sentence that is the heart of everything I am telling you. It says: "As more people believe Bitcoin has superior monetary properties and opt to hold it, demand increases, which, given the fixed supply, drives up the price." In other words, the more people decide to store their money in Bitcoin, the more demand rises. And since the supply is limited, the price goes up. And there is something even more interesting in this report. On the same page 7, Fidelity shows that this is not a one-time movement. In fact, it's almost like a self-feeding cycle. It works like this: more people buy and hold Bitcoin. This increases demand. Demand pushes the price up. The higher price attracts more people to mine, which is what secures the network. More security makes Bitcoin more reliable. Reliability attracts even more people, and then the cycle restarts. And here we have the meeting of two certainties. A demographic certainty, that the greatest wealth in history will change hands because generations succeed each other, and a mathematical certainty. Bitcoin's supply is fixed and does not increase, no matter what happens. Big money, institutional money, took a while to understand all of this. And when they truly understood, they switched sides. There is a man named Larry Fink. He is the CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment manager, which alone manages over 10 trillion dollars. In 2017, this same Larry Fink was giving a lecture and told thousands of people that Bitcoin was nothing more than a money laundering index. Basically, he was saying that crypto was for criminals, and he wasn't alone because at the time, you know, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan, one of the largest banks in the world, called Bitcoin a fraud and said that those who bought it were "silly traders." The two most powerful men on Wall Street were laughing at Bitcoin. It turns out that the same Larry Fink, the very same man, gave a recent interview, and instead of criticism, there was a lot of praise. He started calling Bitcoin "Digital Gold." He said it was a hedge against inflation and against the devaluation of national currencies. He classified Bitcoin as an international asset that does not depend on any government, free from the risk of any economy on the planet. And he completely changed his discourse in a few years, and it wasn't just lip service, because BlackRock, which previously turned up its nose, dove headfirst into the crypto world. They launched a series of Bitcoin funds. Then other companies did the same thing; there was a flood of ETFs entering the market, and Michael Saylor's strategy was to transform his company's cash into Bitcoin. Today, this company alone holds over 3% of all bitcoins that will ever exist. In 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as its official currency. Then, several other countries also began to buy Bitcoin to compose their international reserves. Shortly before the wave of heirs arrived in full force, smart money in the market began to position itself. They know they cannot wait, that this wealth transfer has already begun and will intensify in the coming years. And that's why, before we continue the video, I wanted to take this moment to tell you something. As you may have noticed, I am starting a new journey, diving headfirst into the crypto world, you know? And now I am also a partner and client of Mercado Bitcoin. Here at Grupo Primo, we always look for serious partners, you know, aligned with what I believe in. Mercado Bitcoin has always been in favor of promoting the crypto market, and it has always sought to bring more security to those who invest. From now on, we are also together to carry even further this mission of democratizing Bitcoin for all of Brazil, as I have been trying to do for almost 10 years. And Mercado Bitcoin has been here since day zero of the crypto market. They have over 12 years of history, over 4 million clients, and they have gone through every type of scenario you can imagine. And only those who have lived through all of this understand that this moment we are going through now, this moment of fear, this moment when no one wants to talk about crypto, might be the ideal time for you to take your first steps and diversify your capital better. Because it's no use understanding all this wealth transfer story I'm telling you and doing nothing about it. And since I have a commitment to you to not only help you understand what's happening but also teach you how to invest, then from now on, we will invest together. If you download the Mercado Bitcoin app through the link in the description, open your account, and use the coupon primo250, if you trade R$ 250, you will get R$ 50 in Bitcoin cashback. And think about the gift that Mercado Bitcoin decided to give you along with Grupo Primo. If you invest R$ 250 and get R$ 50 as a bonus, it's as if you're already starting to invest with R$ 300. In other words, you're already starting with a 20% return right off the bat just for deciding to start now. It's your chance to invest with an absurdly good condition that will only exist for a limited time. The link is in the description, okay? And comment on the video if you actually opened a Mercado Bitcoin account so I know. Now, returning to our subject, let's connect all the points of the video so far. Point one, there is a mountain of 124 trillion dollars changing hands. It is the largest wealth transfer in history. Point two, those who have this money today are the older generation, who practically have no Bitcoin. Point three, those who will receive this money are the younger generation, and the first item on their portfolio is crypto. And point four, when the money changes hands, the heirs will reallocate, and part of this money will become Bitcoin for the first time. Point five, while this demand wave is forming, Bitcoin's supply is fixed at 21 million, and 95% has already been mined, with millions still lost forever. Point six, big institutional money has already understood all of this. BlackRock, Michael Saylor, several companies, and even countries have already started buying and accumulating Bitcoin. And then you put all of this together, and you have only one thing: a giant wave of demand forming on one side and a locked supply that cannot grow on the other. Now, I wouldn't be honest with you if I ended this video with only the beautiful side of the story. So let me show you the other side of the same coin. First, Bitcoin is extremely volatile. From its all-time high in October 2025 to the moment I am recording this video, Bitcoin has fallen more than 45%. There have been other even larger drops in the past. So if you can't stand to see your money cut in half and remain calm about it, either allocate a small amount or reconsider if it makes sense to have Bitcoin in your portfolio. Second, that figure of 124 trillion dollars might be smaller in practice. The New York Times itself said that many people in the older generation will spend a good portion of their wealth on healthcare, on elder care, on the rising cost of living, or even on leisure. A part of this inheritance will shrink along the way, but obviously, a large part will also be left as inheritance. And third, no one can predict the future. It may be that when young people actually inherit the money, they become more conservative than they claim to be today. It may be that governments tighten regulations, making life difficult for those who invest in crypto. It may be that a large portion of heirs will use this money to pay off debt, buy their own homes, or simply spend it instead of accumulating Bitcoin. It may be that the market has already priced in a part of this story. It may be that the boomers live much longer than imagined, and this transfer takes decades longer to truly happen. So these are real caveats. I don't have a crystal ball, and neither does anyone else. But the direction this wealth transfer is taking is hard to ignore. The data, reports from the world's largest banks, the mathematics behind supply and demand, everything points to the same place: the greatest wealth transfer in history. That's it, folks. A big hug, see you in the next video.