How Smart Investors Turn Bitcoin Drawdowns Into Tax Wins | Chris Kline
The Pomp Podcast
Anthony Pompliano
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Chris Kline is the COO & Co-Founder of Bitcoin IRA. In this conversation, we discuss how wealthy investors use retirement accounts to reduce taxes, why volatility can create opportunities like Roth conversions, and the mistakes people make by holding assets in the wrong account. We also cover bitcoin in retirement portfolios, estate planning strategies, and how macro conditions like inflation, deflation, and Fed policy may impact long-term asset allocation.
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- 0:00 - Intro
- 1:55 – How to use the tax code to get in better position
- 2:51 – How 401(k)s replaced pensions (why it mattered)Â
- 6:20 – Tax advantages of non-W2 income & retirement accountsÂ
- 9:08 – Long-term asset allocation & bitcoin in retirementÂ
- 13:12 – Using Roth conversions during bitcoin drawdownsÂ
- 21:10 – How taxes create massive long-term performance dragÂ
- 22:39 – Borrowing against bitcoin instead of sellingÂ
- 28:29 – Inflation, deflation, & why government data lags realityÂ
- 33:15 – What macro headwinds mean for assets and portfoliosÂ
- 36:38 – Bitcoin IRA tools, incentives, & next steps
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| 1:04.8 | The wealthy use these downturns for what's called a Roth conversion. These are the tools that are out there, but they just don't teach anybody how to do them. So taking even a little bit of time, |
| 1:09.2 | watching a show like this, and 90% of the time, |
| 1:11.4 | they'll find a way if you have non-W2 income to really put something together that can save you |
| 1:15.0 | over years, thousands of dollars today, but maybe millions tomorrow if you invest in the right tools. |
| 1:20.5 | What's going on, guys? Today we have a great conversation with Chris Klein. He is the co-founder of Bitcoin |
| 1:24.2 | IRA. And in this conversation, we're going to go through three things. One, what are rich people doing? How do they save money on their taxes? How do they use retirement accounts? And what are all the secret strategies that you should be doing, but you might not know about. Two, we talk about Bitcoiners who allocated a Bitcoin. Now they've made some money. They're trying to think through. How do they optimize their taxes, optimize for a state planning? how do they pass their assets on to whether it's their children or other family members? |
| 1:46.3 | And then three, we talk about what's going on in the market and how you should be thinking about allocating your assets if inflation, deflation, or maybe if the government's economic data is wrong. And actually you've got to go look at the private market. All that and more in this conversation with Chris Klein. All right, guys, as many of you guys know, |
| 2:00.1 | my personal goal is to help as many people capture freedom as possible. |
| 2:03.3 | And the way I think about this is essentially that if you control the money, then you control your time. If you control your time, you control your life. But what a lot of Bitcoiners seem to have done similar to me is they took a very large portion of their network, sometimes over 50%. They put into Bitcoin years ago and Bitcoin appreciated significantly. And now all of a sudden people are starting to worry about, well, what's going on with taxes? How do I do estate planning? What do I do with this portfolio that has grown in significant size? And so what we're going to do today is we're going to sit down and talk to Chris Klein. Chris is at Bitcoin IRA. But what they get to see is not just what are people |
| 2:35.0 | doing with Bitcoin in terms of retirement and taxes and estate planning, but they also just see |
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