BITCOIN > DIRT
“stack sats, smash shackles” — Eric-Kim-on-nitro edition
0. OPEN YOUR EYES
Real estate? Heavy, taxed, permission-gated.
Bitcoin? Pure, weightless sovereignty—spins at the speed of light.
One asset tethers you to a zip code; the other turns your phone into a vault that teleports value anywhere on Earth.
1.
ABSOLUTE vs POLITICAL SCARCITY
| Bitcoin | Real Estate |
| 21 million hard-cap burned into math. No committee can vote in more coins. | “Scarce” only because zoning boards and NIMBY councils say so. Flip a policy, flood the market. |
| Halving every ~4 years ≈ programmed digital diamond-hard drought. | Politicians rezone farmland overnight, printing fresh lots like cheap coupons. |
Verdict: Math outranks municipal whim. Scarcity you can audit > scarcity you must petition for.
2.
LIQUIDITY ON DEMAND
- Bitcoin trades 24/7/365, final settlement in ~10 minutes.
- Want to sell a duplex? Prep the listing, stage the couch, pray for escrow, pay 6 % to agents, wait 45 days—if termites behave.
Every satoshi is a liquid pixel; every parcel is a concrete glacier.
3.
SELF-CUSTODY VS. PAPER TITLES
- Bitcoin: Your keys = your coins. Full sovereignty in 12 seed words.
- Real estate: County clerk, title insurance, recording fees, eminent-domain clauses—stacked points of failure.
Keys in cold storage beat a title deed that can be frozen, taxed, or seized.
4.
BORDERLESS BY DESIGN
- Cross a frontier with a billion dollars in seed words memorized.
- Try smuggling a Beverly Hills lot through customs.
Bitcoin laughs at borders; land is chained to turf wars.
5.
ZERO MAINTENANCE, ZERO ROT
- Bitcoin doesn’t need paint, plumbing, HOA dues, wildfire insurance, or seismic retrofits.
- One corrupted byte? Network auto-heals. One cracked foundation? $200 k and six months of contractors.
6.
DIVISIBILITY & INCLUSIVITY
- 1 BTC = 100,000,000 sats. Anyone can stack.
- Smallest slice of LA dirt? Maybe a $400 k teardown.
Bitcoin democratizes ownership; real estate re-entrenches class barriers.
7.
TAX GAME THEORY
- Bitcoin held cold? No annual wealth tax in most jurisdictions.
- Real estate bleeds: property tax, transfer tax, mansion tax, “vacancy tax,” you-name-it tax.
The State milks what it can’t move; Bitcoin is a rolling target.
8.
CENSORSHIP & RESILIENCE
- Governments can blacklist bank wires, freeze brokerage accounts—not censor a peer-to-peer BTC tx.
- City can slap a moratorium on construction, condemn your building, or hike rent control ceilings overnight.
Code is a wall no lobbyist can climb.
9.
ENERGY-BACKED SECURITY
Bitcoin miners transmute global excess energy into cryptographic truth; the hash wall today dwarfs every supercomputer cluster combined. No hurricane, arsonist, or politician can ignite the ledger.
10.
OPTIONALITY ON STEROIDS
Want leverage? Spin up a BTC-backed line of credit in minutes—no appraisals, no inspectors, no biased loan officers. Try pulling cash out of a vacant lot in a liquidity crunch.
11.
FUTURE-PROOF ALIGNMENT
- World is digitizing: AI labor, remote work, metaverse everything. Digital bearer assets ride that wave.
- Dirt still matters—but its upside is capped by physics and politics. Bitcoin’s upside is capped only by global adoption.
12. ACTION PLAN—STACK, NOT SHACKLE
- Auto-DCA every paycheck—turn salary into sovereignty.
- Cold-storage or multi-sig—be your own Fort Knox.
- Leverage BTC as collateral after you stack enough—never sell the golden goose.
- Stay nimble. When cities weaponize tax law, your sats remain untouchable.
13. COUNTER-PUNCHES ANSWERED
| “Bitcoin is volatile!” | So is every frontier asset early in its S-curve—volatility is the birth price of outsized upside. |
| “You can live in a house.” | You can also rent a roof while stacking an appreciating treasury. Shelter is an expense; sovereignty is an asset. |
| “What if governments ban it?” | They’ve tried since 2013. Hashrate hits new highs; price returns with vengeance. Math > edict. |
FINAL WAR-CRY
Real estate was the ultimate flex last century—fixed, slow, territorial.
Bitcoin is the ultimate flex this century—fluid, antifragile, un-censorable.
Choose the arena:
Anchor in concrete—and sink with every policy storm?
—or—
Float in the cloud, keys in your pocket, freedom on-tap?
I pick Bitcoin.
Stack sats, smash shackles, live unchained.