When someone told me about a business combining life insurance and Bitcoin, I thought: this makes no sense. A conservative, heavily regulated industry backed by the most volatile asset of the decade? @ztownsend is the co-founder of @meanwhilelife, a fully licensed life insurer that holds reserves in Bitcoin. It’s real, regulated, and challenges every assumption you have about how the insurance business works. – Why insurance is so hard to disrupt – What makes whole life policies misunderstood – How Bitcoin unlocks new product design – What it means to build financial infrastructure for a parallel global economy A surprising, sharp conversation at the crossroads of legacy finance and crypto’s future.