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Crypto trading is not for the weak-hearted.
Unlike traditional market traders,&nbsp;crypto traders never truly clock out. They&nbsp;sleep with one eye open. Chilling over the weekend is a luxury. A crash or a hack can wipe their entire portfolio at 3 a.m. just as easily as at 3 p.m.
Now, with <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bitcoin</a> (BTC) leading its peers to new lows, the internet is rife with memes and jokes on the perils of crypto traders.
And controversial billionaire&nbsp;Bryan Johnson has a take on it.
<a href="https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/top-economist-issues-stark-warning-as-bitcoin-crashes" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Related: Top economist issues stark warning as Bitcoin crashes</a>
<h2 id="who-is-bryan-johnson">Who is Bryan Johnson?</h2>
Johnson is a 48-year-old tech entrepreneur and billionaire best known for<a href="https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/tag/bryan-johnson" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> Project Blueprint</a>, a rigorous self-experimentation protocol designed to slow and reverse his biological aging.&nbsp;
He sold his payments company Braintree, which acquired Venmo, to PayPal for $800 million in 2013, then founded Kernel, a neurotechnology company, and OS Fund, which backs scientists working on extending human lifespan.
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 Bryan Johnson at the Web Summit in Lisbon on November 7, 2017. 
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Johnson spends roughly <a href="https://fortune.com/well/2023/02/01/will-bryan-johnson-reverse-aging-regimen-extend-his-life/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$2 million a year</a> on his body, following a strict regimen of diet, sleep, exercise, and medical testing.&nbsp;
His biological age, as measured by various biomarkers, has reportedly tested significantly younger than his chronological age.
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<h2 id="is-crypto-trading-making-us-old">Is crypto trading making us old?</h2>
A user on X <a href="https://x.com/bryan_johnson/status/2061859868764705160" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">posted</a> a photo of Johnson on X with a simple caption: "How I feel after not touching crypto for a couple days."&nbsp;
Johnson, who has built an entire empire around slowing and reversing the aging process, saw the joke and responded with something far more pointed.
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 "It would be interesting to measure the biological age impact of crypto versus other professions to evaluate if it's an accelerator of aging processes," he said.
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The post lands at a particularly stressful moment for the crypto market. As of June 2, Bitcoin has shed more than 14% over the past month and is down over 24% in the past six months.
It recently<a href="https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/top-economist-issues-stark-warning-as-bitcoin-crashes" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> broke below $70,000</a> for the first time since April, with over $1.2 billion in liquidations recorded in a single 24-hour stretch.&nbsp;
If the market keeps moving like this, Johnson may have an entire industry's worth of aging data to work with.
<a href="https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/bryan-johnson-bitcoin-health-in-common" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Related: Billionaire Bryan Johnson says Bitcoin and human health have a ‘lot in common’</a>

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