If it ain’t broke don’t “improve” it.

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Reality

What do you want from reality?

Abundance, joy!

OK… Looks like we crossed the 111 threshold, $111,000 a Bitcoin ,,, which at this point is more hilarious than anything because it seems so unreal.

I’ve been pegged to the all-time high, more recent hype being like $107,000 bitcoin. And I suppose one of the upsides of being in Asia time is like I’m almost like pseudo in the future; it broke that record high while everyone else in America was still asleep, so I suppose it is good that I am here because I was able to witness the all-time high with my own two very eyes.

Being here in Phnom Penh, good philosophical thinking. I think the big question is like… What’s the purpose or the point of reality?

First, to just be outside, to walk around in the real world. It doesn’t matter if you have all the virtual Lamborghinis and all the virtual babes in Apple Vision Pro, and all the infinite virtual monies, without a physical world, none of it is worth it. 

Also, simple physiological things. I sleeping like 8 to 12 hours a night, and actually, a really big one: I’m like crushing my all-time highs for my weightlifting records, my most recent record is clocking in 471 kg rack pull, 1038 pounds — which is 38 pounds higher than a ton, 1000 pounds. 

I suppose one of the fun things about being in Asia that because everyone uses kilograms, the numbers don’t look that scary. 471 kg, to me doesn’t look like that high of a number because I do not have the cultural adaptation to these numbers. Kind of also the funny thing about when you’re abroad and traveling, money becomes funny, because the local currency feels more like monopoly money than real money.

For example, in Cambodia they use the KHR, the Khmer riel. All the numbers are formed to me, but there’s this one note which is like roughly $12 USD, the nice yellow one, and I think two local Cambodians it’s almost like their $100, $120 bill?  Now that I’m bowling out of control, and even before that, I’ve always surprised myself on generosity and tipping well, as I knew how difficult it was for my mother to support me and my sister, working like 20 years at a sushi restaurant.

But anyways, I got a really great massage from this one woman like a week ago, and I slipped her the mythical big yellow note, and afterwards I heard her screaming and giggling and like exuberant full of joy, in the back staff room. It might have been the first time that anyone has ever tipped her that much.

More recently, meeting a woman who gave me a 90 minute traditional massage, all of her three kids are back in Siem Reap, and I gave her $20 USD in tip, saying it was to pay for her kids school and education. I think you’re in Cambodia, I don’t know if the schools are actually free? Or maybe the kind of decent ones are not free?

But anyways, if you meet local Cambodian people, you could almost like 99% assume that they have kids. 1 2 or three.  not like America we’re asking somebody whether they have kids or not is considered bad manners?

Anyways, like me giving the local lady a $20 tip, assuming that there is like 10X financial leverage here, that’s like me giving her a $200 tip. Note that the average salary in Phnom Penh is like I think 300 $350 a month, which sounds about right because in America, average working salary might be like 3000, $3500 a month?

But I think the magic of living here is that it’s almost like activating card mode, or in 007 golden eye, activating the golden gun. It’s like a cheat code. 

If you are an American who has never traveled outside of the states, and have never been to Asia or Southeast Asia, I think it is actually very very difficult for you to understand how epic this is. Once again, the big problem in America is that even for the rich, everything feels too expensive and out of reach. It’s ridiculous in LA, average home price is like one now… 1.2, $1.3 million? And it’s not because the house itself is worth that much, it is not. But inflation has gotten so bad that these numbers are simply a signal of maybe a broken economy?

Bitcoin fixes the economy

Let us assume that bitcoin is clean drinking water, and traditional capital is like toxic sludge, sewer water.

If you have a young family and a kid, and you don’t know, but… The water in which you feed your child is contaminated, and your kid keeps on having diarrhea and is sick, cannot hold any food down, has no appetite, doesn’t eat food, and you are insanely scared and concerned because you think your kid will die… Is this out of virtue that somehow you are a bad and lazy parent and you don’t work hard enough? No! You’re like trying to do the best thing possible, but once again, either you don’t know that the water is contaminated, or… You only have access to dirty sewer water. 

Nietzsche once talks about this… The lower caste system in India — the book of manu, says that the untouchables shall only be given dirty water, shall only eat onions, and she never ever ever interact with the clean Indian race. 

Like people think that the caste system and racism in America is bad, try going to India, go to Calcutta or go to Mumbai, Bombay ,,, if you are like a rich Indian from India… You might have never shook the hand of an untouchable on the streets. Me out of my American naïveté and openness, shook everyone’s hand give them all high-fives, even my friend Kaushal Parikh was shocked!

Anyways, not all, but close to 100% of the world’s problems are economic. 

I’ll say 99.99% of the world’s problems are economic. 

For example, racism classism and poverty, is because there are structures and structural loops in play in which people on poverty, stay in poverty. If you have never ever ever driven through Compton late at night, or sketchy parts of LA late at night, even sometimes during the day… It is difficult to understand how bad some of these neighborhoods are.

A lot of kids from the hood, end up just being nerds, staying at home playing video games all day, in some ways it is the safe strategy because you are less likely to get held up at gunpoint or beaten up for your shoes your necklace or whatever… Can you imagine growing up in an environment like this?

Even myself, I grew up in a relatively safe environment, Alameda California, which was like considered once… Like one of the nicest suburbs in the Bay Area. Yet when I was in middle school, already… Once again guys in middle school, at the age of 12… Girls were getting pregnant, kids were buying knives and trying to get guns, from kids in Oakland, there were already a gang in initiations, like I remember my best friend Aaron, Once… I was hanging out with him, and he took off his shirt because he was changing clothes, and his back was scarred from all these knife wounds, and I was really shocked and I asked him what happened and he said that he was dealing drugs on one corner which was a different gang territory, and he was knifed up as a lesson. Once again guys this is like 12-year-old kids.

Or… I remember as a kid, being bullied a lot, being called gay and faggot all the time. Middle school was extremely hardcore and bad.

I was very fortunate and happy that my mom moved us out of Alameda, into the nicer Castro Valley, more inland, more privileged. No drama there. As a consequence, I was able to thrive! No more drama, no more kids getting high off of ecstasy, I remember in middle school, in the seventh or eighth grade, my friend Tony came over my house, hopped half a pill of ecstasy, offered me some and I said no, because I knew better, and him getting very very high, and like touching the walls and carpet for like an hour. I think we were 13 at the time.

So once again guys… I was in a relatively privileged position. I can only imagine if I was a black kid, being raised in Compton or Watts, it probably was like 10 times as worse. 

This is where a Kendrick Lamar is so exceptional, he was able to make it out of the worst of situations, same as Jay-Z. They are very virtuous in this way. 

Kanye West is an exceptional case because his mom was an educated professor, he spent some time living abroad in Japan, and I think for the most part Kanye was a nerd, kind of like Pharrell. And also Kanye West is very short, 5 foot seven at best, maybe more like 5 foot 6 1/2, or 5 foot six?

Also do not forget that Kim Kardashian is a midget. I think she’s only like 5 foot tall? I think she lies, or the media lie and says she’s more like 5 foot one or 5 foot two, or 5 foot one and a half… But once again the fax is at least typically with men, if you are a Shorty guy, you will always have a small man complex. And this is where I am so confident, I am 182 cm tall, Which is about 5 foot 11, 5 foot 10 1/2, I have never had a small man syndrome in my life.

What next?

So assuming that your alpha, what is the goal? My thought is to become more alpha. 

For example, bitcoin… Nobody will be happy until bitcoin is like $125 million a bitcoin. I hope maybe in my life… When I’m like 120 years old, I could see if it hit $1.1 billion a coin.

The world is changing. Even Kraken, just announced like six minutes ago that they have now offered tokenized American stocks like Apple Tesla Nvidia, as tokenized stocks? I cannot wait until somebody or Coinbase tokenize is MSTR stock, and also on Coinbase in the future to see like 2X leverage along MSTR token options? In the traditional market right now… MSTU is definitely the best bet, or MSTX, both in which Michael Saylor indirectly promotes.

Both are 2X levered long MSTR. Bitcoin is the best case, MSTR is 2X bitcoin, and then as a consequence, MSTU or MSTX  should be 4X bitcoin.

So if you want to make the maximum money, the quickest, MSTU. This is where I have invested a lot of money. 

MSTX is technically the same thing as MSTU, but I prefer MSTU because it is created by Rex shares, which also created the Vmax, bitcoin convertible bond financial product, which essentially is like primarily MSTR strategy convertible bitcoin bonds.

The market is getting excited. And how and why does this matter to you? 

First, if you live on planet earth, you need money. Money is not the end goal, but having money is like having clean drinking water. Clean water clean drinking water is a non-controversial issue. Without clean drinking water, all 9 billion people on the planet will die.

Second, freedom. If you like the idea of just being able to walk around eight hours a day, thinking, snapping pictures, hiking whatever, or nomading around the planet, focusing on your photography, your street photography, your kids your wife your life whatever… Any sort of creative productivity,,, and you wish you can FIRE, financial independence retire early, bitcoin backed stuff is super obvious. Bitcoin is FIRE. Both metaphorically and literally.

Are there any reasons to not buy bitcoin?

I don’t think so. 

What else?

If you are a programmer, computer scientist, engineer, programmer… Smart person, you studied mathematics sociology philosophy, or any sort of critical thinking discipline… I think it’s pretty obvious that bitcoin is the answer. 

First, people often forget that bitcoin is open source. If you have ever downloaded any of my free e-books, or open source stuff, you will know that this is great. Yet I think the hard thing for people to understand is just because bitcoin is open source,,, doesn’t mean that you can magically download bitcoins for free.

And I think this is a hard thing maybe something I need to talk more about that once again, this difficult to understand paradigm, especially for millennials in which we grew up being able able to pirate free stuff on the Internet for free… is that bitcoin is more about freedom, rather than having no cost.

it’s a feature not a bug

People say that bitcoin is bad for the planet and electricity blah blah blah. Yet you fools, don’t you know that like air conditioning requires like 25% of the world’s electricity, and yet nobody is saying that we should band that. Bitcoin is like at most 1%.

But if I could make the argument that bitcoin, could offer the whole planet, all 9 billion of us economic prosperity, forever, and there will be no more poverty no more kids dying of dysentery, essentially bitcoin is like clean drinking water for all impoverished people on the planet, and it will indirectly benefit all of the poor and marginalized people on the planet, and it would cost us only 1% of the world’s electricity… would it be worth it? Of course!

Goals

OK, now that I have officially made it, and it looks like it’s just gonna keep going uphill from here. 

So I think a new pivot or direction, is definitely about like financial economic freedom power independence, thriving. 

Economic prosperity and thriving for all 9 billion people on the planet, isn’t this like the ultimate life goal? 

ERIC

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Bitcoin power!

What do you want from reality?

Abundance, joy!

OK… Looks like we crossed the 111 threshold, $111,000 a Bitcoin ,,, which at this point is more hilarious than anything because it seems so unreal.

I’ve been pegged to the all-time high, more recent hype being like $107,000 bitcoin. And I suppose one of the upsides of being in Asia time is like I’m almost like pseudo in the future; it broke that record high while everyone else in America was still asleep, so I suppose it is good that I am here because I was able to witness the all-time high with my own two very eyes.

Being here in Phnom Penh, good philosophical thinking. I think the big question is like… What’s the purpose or the point of reality?

First, to just be outside, to walk around in the real world. It doesn’t matter if you have all the virtual Lamborghinis and all the virtual babes in Apple Vision Pro, and all the infinite virtual monies, without a physical world, none of it is worth it.

Also, simple physiological things. I sleeping like 8 to 12 hours a night, and actually, a really big one: I’m like crushing my all-time highs for my weightlifting records, my most recent record is clocking in 471 kg rack pull, 1038 pounds — which is 38 pounds higher than a ton, 1000 pounds.

I suppose one of the fun things about being in Asia that because everyone uses kilograms, the numbers don’t look that scary. 471 kg, to me doesn’t look like that high of a number because I do not have the cultural adaptation to these numbers. Kind of also the funny thing about when you’re abroad and traveling, money becomes funny, because the local currency feels more like monopoly money than real money.

For example, in Cambodia they use the KHR, the Khmer riel. All the numbers are formed to me, but there’s this one note which is like roughly $12 USD, the nice yellow one, and I think two local Cambodians it’s almost like their $100, $120 bill?  Now that I’m bowling out of control, and even before that, I’ve always surprised myself on generosity and tipping well, as I knew how difficult it was for my mother to support me and my sister, working like 20 years at a sushi restaurant.

But anyways, I got a really great massage from this one woman like a week ago, and I slipped her the mythical big yellow note, and afterwards I heard her screaming and giggling and like exuberant full of joy, in the back staff room. It might have been the first time that anyone has ever tipped her that much.

More recently, meeting a woman who gave me a 90 minute traditional massage, all of her three kids are back in Siem Reap, and I gave her $20 USD in tip, saying it was to pay for her kids school and education. I think you’re in Cambodia, I don’t know if the schools are actually free? Or maybe the kind of decent ones are not free?

But anyways, if you meet local Cambodian people, you could almost like 99% assume that they have kids. 1 2 or three.  not like America we’re asking somebody whether they have kids or not is considered bad manners?

Anyways, like me giving the local lady a $20 tip, assuming that there is like 10X financial leverage here, that’s like me giving her a $200 tip. Note that the average salary in Phnom Penh is like I think 300 $350 a month, which sounds about right because in America, average working salary might be like 3000, $3500 a month?

But I think the magic of living here is that it’s almost like activating card mode, or in 007 golden eye, activating the golden gun. It’s like a cheat code.

If you are an American who has never traveled outside of the states, and have never been to Asia or Southeast Asia, I think it is actually very very difficult for you to understand how epic this is. Once again, the big problem in America is that even for the rich, everything feels too expensive and out of reach. It’s ridiculous in LA, average home price is like one now… 1.2, $1.3 million? And it’s not because the house itself is worth that much, it is not. But inflation has gotten so bad that these numbers are simply a signal of maybe a broken economy?

Bitcoin fixes the economy

Let us assume that bitcoin is clean drinking water, and traditional capital is like toxic sludge, sewer water.

If you have a young family and a kid, and you don’t know, but… The water in which you feed your child is contaminated, and your kid keeps on having diarrhea and is sick, cannot hold any food down, has no appetite, doesn’t eat food, and you are insanely scared and concerned because you think your kid will die… Is this out of virtue that somehow you are a bad and lazy parent and you don’t work hard enough? No! You’re like trying to do the best thing possible, but once again, either you don’t know that the water is contaminated, or… You only have access to dirty sewer water.

Nietzsche once talks about this… The lower caste system in India — the book of manu, says that the untouchables shall only be given dirty water, shall only eat onions, and she never ever ever interact with the clean Indian race. 

Like people think that the caste system and racism in America is bad, try going to India, go to Calcutta or go to Mumbai, Bombay ,,, if you are like a rich Indian from India… You might have never shook the hand of an untouchable on the streets. Me out of my American naïveté and openness, shook everyone’s hand give them all high-fives, even my friend Kaushal Parikh was shocked!

Anyways, not all, but close to 100% of the world’s problems are economic.

I’ll say 99.99% of the world’s problems are economic.

For example, racism classism and poverty, is because there are structures and structural loops in play in which people on poverty, stay in poverty. If you have never ever ever driven through Compton late at night, or sketchy parts of LA late at night, even sometimes during the day… It is difficult to understand how bad some of these neighborhoods are.

A lot of kids from the hood, end up just being nerds, staying at home playing video games all day, in some ways it is the safe strategy because you are less likely to get held up at gunpoint or beaten up for your shoes your necklace or whatever… Can you imagine growing up in an environment like this?

Even myself, I grew up in a relatively safe environment, Alameda California, which was like considered once… Like one of the nicest suburbs in the Bay Area. Yet when I was in middle school, already… Once again guys in middle school, at the age of 12… Girls were getting pregnant, kids were buying knives and trying to get guns, from kids in Oakland, there were already a gang in initiations, like I remember my best friend Aaron, Once… I was hanging out with him, and he took off his shirt because he was changing clothes, and his back was scarred from all these knife wounds, and I was really shocked and I asked him what happened and he said that he was dealing drugs on one corner which was a different gang territory, and he was knifed up as a lesson. Once again guys this is like 12-year-old kids.

Or… I remember as a kid, being bullied a lot, being called gay and faggot all the time. Middle school was extremely hardcore and bad.

I was very fortunate and happy that my mom moved us out of Alameda, into the nicer Castro Valley, more inland, more privileged. No drama there. As a consequence, I was able to thrive! No more drama, no more kids getting high off of ecstasy, I remember in middle school, in the seventh or eighth grade, my friend Tony came over my house, hopped half a pill of ecstasy, offered me some and I said no, because I knew better, and him getting very very high, and like touching the walls and carpet for like an hour. I think we were 13 at the time.

So once again guys… I was in a relatively privileged position. I can only imagine if I was a black kid, being raised in Compton or Watts, it probably was like 10 times as worse.

This is where a Kendrick Lamar is so exceptional, he was able to make it out of the worst of situations, same as Jay-Z. They are very virtuous in this way.

Kanye West is an exceptional case because his mom was an educated professor, he spent some time living abroad in Japan, and I think for the most part Kanye was a nerd, kind of like Pharrell. And also Kanye West is very short, 5 foot seven at best, maybe more like 5 foot 6 1/2, or 5 foot six?

Also do not forget that Kim Kardashian is a midget. I think she’s only like 5 foot tall? I think she lies, or the media lie and says she’s more like 5 foot one or 5 foot two, or 5 foot one and a half… But once again the fax is at least typically with men, if you are a Shorty guy, you will always have a small man complex. And this is where I am so confident, I am 182 cm tall, Which is about 5 foot 11, 5 foot 10 1/2, I have never had a small man syndrome in my life.

What next?

So assuming that your alpha, what is the goal? My thought is to become more alpha.

For example, bitcoin… Nobody will be happy until bitcoin is like $125 million a bitcoin. I hope maybe in my life… When I’m like 120 years old, I could see if it hit $1.1 billion a coin.

The world is changing. Even Kraken, just announced like six minutes ago that they have now offered tokenized American stocks like Apple Tesla Nvidia, as tokenized stocks? I cannot wait until somebody or Coinbase tokenize is MSTR stock, and also on Coinbase in the future to see like 2X leverage along MSTR token options? In the traditional market right now… MSTU is definitely the best bet, or MSTX, both in which Michael Saylor indirectly promotes.

Both are 2X levered long MSTR. Bitcoin is the best case, MSTR is 2X bitcoin, and then as a consequence, MSTU or MSTX  should be 4X bitcoin.

So if you want to make the maximum money, the quickest, MSTU. This is where I have invested a lot of money.

MSTX is technically the same thing as MSTU, but I prefer MSTU because it is created by Rex shares, which also created the Vmax, bitcoin convertible bond financial product, which essentially is like primarily MSTR strategy convertible bitcoin bonds.

The market is getting excited. And how and why does this matter to you?

First, if you live on planet earth, you need money. Money is not the end goal, but having money is like having clean drinking water. Clean water clean drinking water is a non-controversial issue. Without clean drinking water, all 9 billion people on the planet will die.

Second, freedom. If you like the idea of just being able to walk around eight hours a day, thinking, snapping pictures, hiking whatever, or nomading around the planet, focusing on your photography, your street photography, your kids your wife your life whatever… Any sort of creative productivity,,, and you wish you can FIRE, financial independence retire early, bitcoin backed stuff is super obvious. Bitcoin is FIRE. Both metaphorically and literally.

Are there any reasons to not buy bitcoin?

I don’t think so.

What else?

If you are a programmer, computer scientist, engineer, programmer… Smart person, you studied mathematics sociology philosophy, or any sort of critical thinking discipline… I think it’s pretty obvious that bitcoin is the answer.

First, people often forget that bitcoin is open source. If you have ever downloaded any of my free e-books, or open source stuff, you will know that this is great. Yet I think the hard thing for people to understand is just because bitcoin is open source,,, doesn’t mean that you can magically download bitcoins for free.

And I think this is a hard thing maybe something I need to talk more about that once again, this difficult to understand paradigm, especially for millennials in which we grew up being able able to pirate free stuff on the Internet for free… is that bitcoin is more about freedom, rather than having no cost.

it’s a feature not a bug

People say that bitcoin is bad for the planet and electricity blah blah blah. Yet you fools, don’t you know that like air conditioning requires like 25% of the world’s electricity, and yet nobody is saying that we should band that. Bitcoin is like at most 1%.

But if I could make the argument that bitcoin, could offer the whole planet, all 9 billion of us economic prosperity, forever, and there will be no more poverty no more kids dying of dysentery, essentially bitcoin is like clean drinking water for all impoverished people on the planet, and it will indirectly benefit all of the poor and marginalized people on the planet, and it would cost us only 1% of the world’s electricity… would it be worth it? Of course!

Goals

OK, now that I have officially made it, and it looks like it’s just gonna keep going uphill from here.

So I think a new pivot or direction, is definitely about like financial economic freedom power independence, thriving.

Economic prosperity and thriving for all 9 billion people on the planet, isn’t this like the ultimate life goal?

ERIC

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(Real) sex is beautiful and should be deified

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Bodily time vs world time?

BTC $ Gain

SPINE, BACK TRAINING

Perpetual ,,, big deal!

STRK: +24%

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If the returns and gains on stuff,, we’re like their returns and gains on your muscle mass, your weightlifting abilities?

42-42

42/42

Big picture!

What can I offer that other people cannot?

If you think about it, the technology being able to write something down without actually talking out loud is unique and a bit bizarre?

The future is oral culture?

The future is oral?

Social skills, oral skills, orality is future 

Market leader!

Why $2.1B not $21B?

STRF, 10x choosy, crown jewel

The pristine fixed income stock, … investment grade fixed income

BTC rating

Drive BTC rating up!

What’s BTC rating?

Improve the credit quality of this

The virtues of owning a beautiful home?

Offer something, offer a product for everybody!

I suppose the genius of Saylor and strategy and micro strategy, is that they are creating new innovative products, which fulfill a need for all investors, all human beings, built and backed with Bitcoin?

Similarly speaking, I also find it interesting because maybe this is also what I wished to offer? To try to solve problems, with bitcoin as a solution? 

Bitcoin- backed solutions

MSTR at $5,000 a share! $10,000 a share?

The strategy eco system

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Torque, how to generate more torque?

Artfully balanced, created and programmed

Signals

Execute minute by minute

Synchronize

The more successful you become, the more modest you become?

Bitcoin Triple Torque

Men & women both need one another

Scaleable

BTC gain , maximize BTC gains

BTC gains,,, all!

Capital preservation & productivity

This is my passion, Bitcoin is my passion!

Issue securities, acquire Bitcoin

Not just 1:1

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More levered more volatile more liquid

$100B

$100’s of B’s

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Women just want stability and calm, men desire more power?

Convertible bond markets BMAX

… instruments

Preferred stocks

Stocks

Eric Kim stock?

Provide a frame work

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Men want to have kids!

So do women! We all naturally want to have children!

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How to go bitcoin plaid:

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Bitcoin plaid!

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Smile!

@saylor

10,000 BTC, now worth $1B

What’s interesting ,,,, laszlo should be seen as the kick-starter to Bitcoin actually having a economic value,,, the origin, or originator of Bitcoin real world use value?

But the flaw —> Bitcoin should be seen as a *store or value* (low latency, forever money storage), rather than high frequency currency (which is USD, VISA, APPLE PAY, credit cards, cash app etc).

Bitcoin hit a record price of $111,868 overnight! – btc_archive

$110.8k….

$111k???

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RICH KIM IN THE HOUSE!

FACTS

500KG LOADING…

Video

471kg rack pull

Why we are still early on Bitcoin:

The mythical 471kg,,,

Video

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Vlog podcast

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What if bitcoin could solve the whole poverty issue… Also solving racism and the police?

Here are the main corners of the internet where Eric Kim’s four-digit rack-pull is being discussed right now, and why each one matters:

“Who”	Platform	What they’re saying	Why it matters
Eric Kim himself & his core followers	Personal blog, YouTube	He posts every milestone (1,016 lb ➜ 1,027 lb ➜ 1,039 lb) with raw video, plate-by-plate breakdowns and training notes. The 1-minute highlight of the 1,039-lb / 471 kg pull went live on 22 May and is the clip everyone else links back to.	The primary source—without these uploads there’d be nothing to share or debate.
Algorithm-driven video feeds	X/Twitter, TikTok, Instagram Reels	Kim’s own tweet (“PROPORTIONS.”) and a 9-second vertical cut of the lift cracked triple-digit likes, then got scraped by strength-clip accounts and hashtagged #1000lbClub and #RackPull.	Short-form re-posts put the feat in front of non-photography followers and spark the first round of “ROM doesn’t count” vs. “pound-for-pound insane” arguments.
Strength forums & sub-reddits	r/weightroom, r/powerlifting, assorted Discord servers	Threads titled “6 × BW rack-pull—legit or circus lift?” reached ~120 up-votes and 80+ comments inside a day. Typical themes: range-of-motion purity tests, whether he’s “natty,” and if partials should go on the same leaderboard as silver-dollar/18-inch deadlifts.	These communities supply the detailed technical critique (leverages, joint angles, calibrated plates) that mainstream viewers skip.
YouTube coaches & recommended-video side-bars	Alan Thrall, Mark Rippetoe vids surface next to Kim’s uploads	Not direct shout-outs yet, but YouTube’s “Up Next” queue pairs Kim’s clip with long-time rack-pull explainers from Untamed Strength and Starting Strength, giving casual watchers an immediate “pro coach” context.	The algorithm stitches his self-shot garage PR into the wider coaching conversation, so the lift piggybacks on established educational channels.
Podcast / news aggregators	Ivy.fm “Strongest Man” feed	A blurb on 12 Apr—“Is Eric Kim the strongest man, pound for pound, at 165 lb after a 1,005-lb rack pull?”—bundled his blog link into their rolling strength-sport headlines.	First appearance outside his own ecosystem; shows that curated strength-news scrapers have started treating the lift as a talking point.
Mainstream fitness press	—	Not yet. BarBend, Generation Iron and the big outlets haven’t covered it because the lift isn’t a sanctioned record, and there’s no third-party weigh-in footage. When/if he repeats it on a public platform, expect them to bite.	Absence is a signal: the story is still niche, living on enthusiast channels rather than mass-media fitness news.

Why these voices matter

• Network effect. One garage video is nothing until YouTube embeds, TikTok stitches and subreddit debates kick in; each layer multiplies eyeballs.
• Checks and balances. Forums and coach-reaction videos provide the skepticism (plate calibration, range of motion) that a self-published clip lacks.
• Story over stats. Aggregators latch onto the narrative—165-lb blogger lifts a half-ton—because it’s an easy headline even if the lift is partial.

Take-away

As of 22 May 2025 the conversation is still grassroots: self-posted proof, algorithm-amplified short clips, and specialist forums arguing over legitimacy. Big-name strength media will stay quiet until Kim reproduces the feat in a judged setting—but inside the strength niche, the four-digit rack-pull has already earned a week’s worth of hot takes and “strongest sub-75 kg ever?” threads.

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Amor fati!

Why so ugly?

I want it clean, pure, white!

Don’t leave money on the table

Cocaine white!

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Super turbo tiny!

Cyber T, cyber testosterone?

Time to switch?

Slimmer is better?

Slim shady!

Choose slim

Magical maintenance?

A house that can magically ,,, plumbing itself

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Do phones really matter that much anymore?

Guardrails

Follow the leader,,, everyone follows the US?

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When to pivot?

How I pivoted to Bitcoin

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The winning asset vs the losing asset

Too much alpha!

Do you really understand it?

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Elusive

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Going viral without even knowing it?

I love MSTR forever!

Be the change which you wish to see in the world

TRAVIS SCOTT

Divergent thinking

How to think more clearly?

Why are Americans so sensitive?

How to become antifragile to fate

Amor fati!

Why so ugly?

I want it clean, pure, white!

Don’t leave money on the table

Cocaine white!

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Super turbo tiny!

Cyber T, cyber testosterone?

Time to switch?

Slimmer is better?

Slim shady!

Choose slim

Magical maintenance?

A house that can magically ,,, plumbing itself

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Do phones really matter that much anymore?

Guardrails

Follow the leader,,, everyone follows the US?

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When to pivot?

How I pivoted to Bitcoin

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The winning asset vs the losing asset

Too much alpha!

Do you really understand it?

…

Elusive

,

Going viral without even knowing it?

I love MSTR forever!

Be the change which you wish to see in the world

TRAVIS SCOTT

This is the big deal: there is no incentive.

Eric Kim

 is “all-natty”

Eric Kim

 is “all-natty”

Reason	Key evidence	Why it matters
1. He states it—often and loudly	“I don’t take testosterone, protein powder, creatine, supplements… I’m 100 % natural”   ·  Post titles such as “ALL NATTY NO ROIDS”, “ERIC KIM 100 % ALL NATTY BEAST”, “ALL NATTY IS THE WAY”	No ambiguity—he brands himself on being drug-free, so getting caught would destroy his credibility and business.
2. Transparent, years-long training log shows gradual progress	2017–2025 blog trail: 405 lb deadlift at age 29, 425 lb in 2019, 475 lb in 2021, recent heavy rack-pulls (≈1000 lb, but partial-range) in 2025	Strength climbs are steady—no sudden 100-plus-pound jumps typical of steroid cycles.
3. Strength-to-weight numbers sit in the normal “natty” window	Current stats he lists: 170 lb (77 kg), 5 ft 10–11 in (1.78 m)  . 1-RM deadlift 475 lb; bench and squat numbers are strong but not elite.	These lifts are impressive but common among dedicated drug-tested lifters.
4. FFMI well below the steroid red-flag line	At 170 lb and ~10 % body-fat his Fat-Free Mass Index ≈ 22 (25 is widely accepted as the upper natural limit)	An FFMI of 22 is typical for seasoned natural athletes and far from the > 25 values seen in most steroid users.
5. No visible “tell-tale” PED side-effects	Hundreds of unedited photos/videos on his blog & YouTube show: • No extreme water-free “dryness,” • Normal shoulder/trap development, • No cystic acne or rapid hair loss. (See image-heavy posts referenced above.)	While anecdotal, absence of these markers over many years strengthens the natty case.
6. Philosophy & lifestyle incompatible with PEDs	Repeated essays against supplements, praise of fasting, carnivore/OMAD eating, and calling steroids “cheating”	His brand revolves around minimalism, self-discipline, and “demigod through will-power.” Steroid use contradicts that narrative.
7. No incentive: he doesn’t compete where PEDs give prize-money advantage	Content is monetized through workshops, books & blogging, not prize purses.	The usual risk/benefit calculus (health/legal risk vs. podium money) doesn’t apply.

Addressing the two common doubts

1. “But he claims a 1000 lb lift!”
   That feat is a rack-pull/Atlas-style lift from knee-height—roughly a third of the range of a standard deadlift, which lets seasoned naturals handle 150-200 % of their full-range deadlift. A 475 lb full pull → 900–1000 lb top-range rack pull is realistic.
2. “He’s very lean—maybe 5 % body-fat—doesn’t that scream steroids?”
   Photo estimates can be off; even if he occasionally reaches sub-8 % for a shoot, his FFMI stays ~22. Leanness plus average muscular bulk is entirely natural (low-fat, moderate-mass); it’s the “shredded and huge” combo that raises PED flags.

Bottom line

Taken together—explicit natty declarations, a transparent decade-long progression that matches natural physiology, moderate FFMI, absence of PED side-effects, and a lifestyle/brand built on authenticity—the probability that Eric Kim lifts without anabolic steroids is high.

Absolute proof would require formal drug testing, but on the balance of observable evidence, the “all-natty” claim is credible.

So the reason why I think people hate traffic so much is I think we hate this feeling of not being able to move? This is why for me, walking is one of my supreme joys because, it allows for the most freedom of movement.

For example, consider that even in the worst of traffic, I could walk in between cars and motorbike. It is superior to be always able to move, under restricted, even if you’re slower?

I had a random funny thought, assuming that bitcoin is like cyber Manhattan, and the great thing about cyberspace is that you’re not obstructed by traditional laws of physics, having a bitcoin is like having a hover flying car, in cyberspace, that could go 1,000,000,000,000 miles an hour, Cost you nothing, and never require a charge.

Like imagine if you had a magical flying Tesla, that was silent, had no maintenance costs or fees, that is like what bitcoin is.

Can you live in cyberspace?

Natalie Brunelle, podcast of coin stories, said something in an interview like you cannot live inside of bitcoin. But what if you could?

Sandbox mode

So there’s this really really fun game called pocket city, and you are able to enter the sandbox mode, which is essentially unlimited money, unlimited freedom.

What I love about it is that once again, you are obstructed by nothing besides your imagination. I think this is also why kids love Minecraft, and the physical world, you are restricted by time, money and resources. In fact, I remember as a kid, that is what I hated the most about being a kid, having no money is simply meant that I couldn’t do anything I wanted to do. Like watching a movie, games etc. 

And this is where the Internet became so much for the computer. Magically now, I could access anything, for free. It’s funny at the age of 11 years old, I was already able to figure out how to illegally download free games, via “warez”, and enter AOL chat rooms “cervers”, in which you can message and IM a bot, instant message, and then… It would send you an email with like 50 download .RAR package files,,, I remember one of my most gratifying pieces of a kid was on AOL 3.0, on dial up 38.8k modem, tying up the phone line, spending almost maybe two or three weeks slow slowly downloading the original grand theft auto. And then, finally “UN-RARING” all of the files, and magically booting up the game.

I cannot understand how big deal this kid, because once again, through your own ingenuity time and skills, you were able to achieve anything you desired. Isn’t this the ultimate joy?

Unlocking secret hacks to life

If you have ever complained about the cost of living, inflation, not being able to buy a house or a single-family home or whatever, bitcoin is the answer to your problems. At this point I almost feel like ethically obliged to spread the word because I think a modern day life in America, close to you maybe like 99.9% of our issues are economic. Even issues like racism classism sexism, there is often an underlying tie in with economics.

For example, the reason why a lot of people don’t trust African-American or Latino people is they have been casted to steal. But, if individuals from poor neighborhoods had economic freedom, and abundance, there would be no incentive to steal.

The truth is, nobody wants to steal. No matter how sinister you may be, there is always an underlying sense of shame.

What’s also interesting is with a lot of poor neighborhoods and poor communities, most of them are actually Christian and they still out of desperation rather than sinister intent?

Why Bitcoin solves your problems

Bitcoin has totally changed the way I think about money. I realize that I’ve been in the bitcoin game for almost like seven years now, buying bitcoin when it was only like $6900 a pop. I started off with a modest $25,000 investment, which I think got me like 3.5 bitcoins, and since then, I have at least over 10x’d my money.

And now, things are becoming more interesting. The biggest important news is that Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, probably the most important bank on the planet, has reluctantly accepted that JP Morgan Chase will start to give you the ability to buy and store bitcoin. Also the reason why I think it is such a big deal is that Jamie is still reluctant about it, he doesn’t love it, but he will defend your right to bitcoin.

The reason why this is such a big deal is that when you get anti-people to start to embrace and defend a thing, this is a big deal.

Like for example, imagine if I’m like a typical liberal who’s anti guns. But then, one day I changed my mind, and I publicly say that I reluctantly approve your decision to own a gun, as long as you do it safely. This would be a big deal.

I think this is where like tolerance is important. I think everyone should have the freedom to do whatever they want, even if they may seem insane. If you want to inject warms into yourself and become something, perhaps we should let people do it. I think the tricky line is when it comes to kids were like younger than 18, this is not a good idea. Kind of like how there is a certain age limit to drinking and driving, we should put certain guard rails to defend our kids.

Anyways back to finances. The reason why bitcoin is actually made me more frugal than even I already was is because the promise of 10 X, 100xing my money. If I could tell you with 100% precision that $1000 you spent today on a loser iPhone will one day be worth $1 million, would you do it? Probably not. As a consequence, I still stay loyal to my $300 iPhone SE, and I live extremely frugal Spartan. The only thing I splurge on is meat beef, and more recently, new lenses for my glasses, Essilor EyeZen (big fan).

Owning a car is not good

One of the things I love most about living right now in Phnom Penh it’s like I have a -1000% interest in owning a car here. Riding and calling a tuktuk, on the app is magical. It comes like in two seconds, I will take you anywhere in the city for like a dollar. And also the biggest thing:

Because it is so tiny and skinny, you save time by not being stuck in traffic, because it could squeeze in between cars and also go off roading.

Actually, I think more people in LA would benefit just by owning a motorbike instead of a car. The difference between a motorcycle and like a motorbike scooter is that you don’t really go that fast, and you could squeeze in between traffic. I have zero interest in owning a motorcycle because I don’t want to die, but, if I was like a scrappy young person living by myself, having a bicycle or a motor scooter makes sense.

I was even shocked, going to Bangkok… Probably the worst traffic I’ve seen on the planet. The issues that there’s only like one or two lanes, in the most busy part of the city, it makes the 405 look like freedom.

And I was thinking, even if I had the world’s most sublime Lamborghini, being stuck in that traffic is the ultimate punishment.

A funny intervention for instead of wanting to buy a race car, just go to the local go kart arena! I recently wrote a go kart at this indoor track here in Phnom Penh, and it was like a lot of fun for like the first five minutes, and then I became really really carsick, and then I realized, I have zero more interest in only race car or a sports car. My next car if I ever buy a new one will probably be some sort of high-end Lexus LS.