Travel town!

Can Bitcoin Make You Healthier?

In today’s chaotic world, where traditional values seem eroded by the forces of hyper-consumerism and infinite distraction, we find ourselves searching for meaning, order, and ultimately, health—both physical and mental. Among the emerging paradigms of thought and systems of value, Bitcoin has transcended its original identity as a mere digital currency. It has become a movement, a philosophy, and for many, a religion. But here’s the provocative question: can Bitcoin actually make you healthier? Not richer, not freer—healthier.

Let’s break this down by considering health in its holistic sense. Health isn’t just about hitting the gym or eating salads; it’s about the full alignment of body, mind, and spirit. Bitcoin, in its deepest essence, is about more than money. It’s about discipline, sovereignty, and the rejection of mediocrity—qualities that could revolutionize our approach to health.

The Discipline of Scarcity

Bitcoin’s fixed supply—the sacred 21 million—offers a profound lesson in discipline. Its very nature rejects the endless printing of fiat currency, and with it, the bloated excesses of modern consumer society. By embracing Bitcoin’s philosophy of scarcity, we are reminded that our time, energy, and bodies are also finite resources.

Ask yourself: do you treat your health with the same reverence as Bitcoiners treat their private keys? If you consider your body as your personal blockchain, then every action—every workout, every meal, every night of restful sleep—is a block that builds upon the foundation of a healthier self. Much like Bitcoin mining requires proof-of-work, building a healthy life requires effort, consistency, and patience. It’s not about immediate gratification but long-term compounding returns.

Bitcoin’s Anti-Fragility and Human Resilience

Nassim Taleb’s concept of anti-fragility—where systems become stronger in the face of volatility—resonates deeply within the Bitcoin ethos. Bitcoin thrives amidst chaos, adapting and growing stronger with each attack or critique. Similarly, a healthy individual becomes resilient through stress. Exercise, for instance, is controlled stress; fasting is the strategic application of hunger. By pushing the body slightly out of equilibrium, we train it to return stronger.

Bitcoin teaches us to embrace volatility rather than fear it. Could we apply this mindset to health? Imagine seeing every challenge to your well-being—whether it’s a hard workout, a fast, or even an illness—not as a setback but as an opportunity to grow. Much like the hodler who withstands market downturns, the healthy individual thrives by leaning into discomfort.

Sovereignty Over Mind and Body

Bitcoin is fundamentally about sovereignty. It wrests control away from centralized institutions and places it firmly in the hands of the individual. This shift in power parallels the journey of taking control of one’s health.

In a world where health is increasingly outsourced—to fad diets, pharmaceutical companies, and corporate-sponsored “wellness”—Bitcoin reminds us to reclaim our autonomy. Just as a Bitcoiner safeguards their wallet, you must safeguard your body. It’s not about trusting the system; it’s about building your own.

What if you treated your health the way Bitcoiners treat their security protocols? Would you allow junk food (the fiat of nutrition) to enter your body, or would you carefully vet every calorie? Would you waste hours scrolling on your phone, or would you invest that time in meditation, mobility, or mastery? Bitcoin demands intentionality—and so does health.

The Time Horizon of Longevity

Hodling Bitcoin is an exercise in long-term thinking. It requires a profound understanding of delayed gratification and a willingness to prioritize the future over fleeting pleasures. The same principle applies to health. Your body today is the result of decisions made years ago, and the choices you make now will determine your future self.

A Bitcoin hodler doesn’t panic sell during a dip; similarly, a healthy individual doesn’t abandon their habits during hard times. Consistency, rooted in belief and vision, is the key. Just as Bitcoin teaches us to value the long-term over the short-term, a commitment to health requires us to see beyond the immediate gratification of comfort food or laziness.

Bitcoin as a Mental Model for Health

At its core, Bitcoin isn’t just a technology—it’s a mental model. It challenges us to question the systems we take for granted and to imagine alternative ways of living. When applied to health, this mindset becomes transformative. Instead of blindly trusting the “experts” or falling prey to the latest health trends, we begin to think critically. What is truly nourishing? What habits create value over time? What is the proof-of-work for a meaningful, healthy life?

The Future of Health in a Bitcoin World

As Bitcoin continues to reshape our economic systems, it may also reshape our approach to health. Imagine a world where Bitcoin incentivizes wellness: earning sats for every mile run, every healthy meal logged, every meditation completed. This isn’t far-fetched; it’s the logical next step in a society that values decentralization and self-improvement.

But even without these technological advances, Bitcoin’s philosophy can already guide us toward a healthier existence. It reminds us that value comes from effort, that discipline breeds freedom, and that sovereignty is the highest form of wealth.

Conclusion

Can Bitcoin make you healthier? Indirectly, perhaps, but powerfully so. By adopting the principles that Bitcoin embodies—discipline, anti-fragility, sovereignty, and long-term thinking—you can transform not just your financial life but your physical and mental well-being. Bitcoin may not replace your doctor, but it can offer something deeper: a framework for living well in an uncertain world.

So, the next time you stack sats, ask yourself: are you stacking health too? After all, true wealth is impossible without it.

Only 21 million coins ,,, forever! Big deal —

Never sell the bitcoin!

Fiat currency you can stack it forever? With bitcoin, it is the first and only true numerical scarcity on the planet?

Physical, physiological abundance and over-abundance!

And fat, adipose tissue, bodily body fat as solidified degeneracy?

Not to achieve a certain physique, or even hit certain numbers, but rather, always gain more strength power physiological power and muscle!

Muscle as simply solidified power?

I desire more physiological power! Also more economic, capital power?

There is no second best. Don’t trade the best for the “second best”, as there is no second best.

The Traveler

It’s a trap!

Visual joy?

Property value

Categorically different

Paradigm shift

Don’t diversify from the best 

Joy, maybe the simplest three letter word in the American dictionary, but kind of what we are aiming for.

For example, The Joyful Wisdom from Nietzsche (The Gay Science, La Gaya Scienzia) or thinking about Christmas carols, “Joy to the world!”

How and why is joy so elusive?

Many problems at hand:

First, modern Day society is not about joy, rather it is about like hedonic pleasure maximization, which is different to me than joy.

What is joy? Joy is the hug and snuggle and embrace of your child, reading him a bedtime story, or the joy of getting all you can eat eat Korean Japanese Wagyu barbecue with your beautiful family (Chubby cattle, my new favorite joint!)

Simple joys

Joy is the joy of discovering an interesting idea or concept, and also the joy of sharing it with others.

The reason why joy is such a difficult notion is that actually, modern day society is more focused about misery. Misery is much more profitable than joy.

For example, when is the last time you watched a joyful movie or film or television series that did not have some sort of strange fake drama added to it? The only good movies are maybe kid movies — fun, joyful, full of optimism and joy (LEGO BATMAN movie, the LEGO movie etc)

---

Joy is already within you

If I invoke Thic Nhat Hanh, the wise zen sage, the general idea that the seeds of happiness are already within us, they lie nascent within us.

For example, even Jesus, I think his words are often misconstrued, like a simple one… The kingdom of God is already within you. And that heaven, is essentially the joy of your family on earth. Heaven is not a place that you go in the afterlife.

Even the Jesus saying about the kingdom of God, the wisdom of a child.

St. Paulism

Generally a lot of modern day Christian theology should just be thought of as “St. Paulism”– who was kind of a troubled man, fighting his own demons, and seeking salvation and trying to misconstrue the teachings of Jesus to fit his own personal narrative?

Anyways, joy is critical. I almost feel like it is our duty to be joyful, and also more importantly to spread joy, seeds of joy and hope to others!

Why?

I mean first thing is kind of like a love of humanity. For example if you have dear friends and family, who you care for, and they do not show any signs of joy, in fact they show the signs of misery the exact opposite… obviously from a basic perspective we’re going to feel some sort of compassion and we’re going to want to help alleviate their situation and reduce their suffering. I think there’s naturally a bit of altruism in all of us, even though that these haters of humanity might think otherwise.

Smile!

My mom told me this interesting saying in Korean is that you cannot spit on the face of somebody who smiles at you.

So generally, I always try to approach and treat everybody with love, kindness, gratitude, even if it looks like they’re not having it. Why? It doesn’t really cost me anything, and also, it just feels like the right thing to do!

The best is to be kind, loving and smile at someone and get the cold shoulder than to never attempt it at all?

---

How to spread seeds of joy

First, I think joy could be infectious, and I also believe that the power of joy can actually supersede that of hate envy jealousy and all these other negative emotions.

I think the first thing is to posit that we desire joy. That joy is a desirable thing.

The archer

So for example, if you’re an archer, and your goal is to hit the mark, you need to know what to aim for. If you’re aiming for other random stuff, you might hit the mark, but you’ve hit the mark and the target of something other random thing.

THE MARK IS JOY

Joy is not purchasing power? 

So for example most of modern day capitalism and hedonism maximization has to deal with silly notions of purchasing stuff? Like purchasing the Rolls, the Lambo, or having a certain amount of money in your bank account. Now that I have achieved all of my flesh bound goals, and have achieved all the rings of success, I could actually honestly attest that even achieving all the crowns of success in the traditional sense, — it is all fine, but not really the goal. To me joy is much more interesting.

So for example, the joy of being outside, the joy of walking, even Thich Nhat Hanh talk a lot about the joy of walking meditation. The general idea and just is every time you take a step, you just repeated to yourself “I have arrived, I have arrived, I have arrived.”

The general idea is that you don’t really have a destination you need to get to, but instead the joy in itself is the walking.

To experience more joy, walk more! 

Walking is joy?

To me actually the only thing I hate the feeling of being cramped at home. I don’t know… maybe my personal ethos and spirit is like an outdoor spirit; I must be outside.

Often times the reason that I hate the winter months is simply that it is kind of a discouragement from going outside. If the ultimate goal is to be outside, any sort of circumstances which allow for it is good.

For example, it seems like in America at least, Los Angeles may be the least bad place to be because you could essentially always be outside. Even when it gets cold, trust me LA does get cold, but it never gets that cold. Like not Michigan winter cold.

All day all day for the entire day outside!

As a consequence, I think the wise goal is to be outside all day every day! The only thing I hated about employment was feeling trapped like a prisoner inside the cubicle office; I almost feel like the humane thing to do is give your employees the option; of going to the office whenever they want to, or just working from home if they want to. Or be able to take Zoom calls while hiking in the mountains with their AirPods, voice without WebCam on.

Unleash the birds!

The issue of most of employment is that it is more about monitoring, rather than productivity maximization. It seems that everyone is so afraid that your employees are going to become lazy, complacent, fail to obey the rules etc. Or worse, they’re going to be degenerates just watching Netflix all day, while they “should” be working.

The happy cage

For example, if I were the CEO or head of Apple Amazon Google Facebook whatever… Once again, the office is an option not an obligation. 

And also I get a low-key suspicion that the only reason why employees are forced to go into the office like once or twice a week is because these corporations and companies are paying a lot of money for these expensive offices, and they need to justify the need of paying rent for these expensive office buildings. Rather than being in the office in itself as being a good thing.

What yields the most productivity? 

My personal belief and thought is that actually… Perhaps the purpose of it all should be to simply maximize your efficiency yield, which does not require a simple mathematical equation: more hours in the office do not equal more productivity. For example, if the ultimate goal is productivity maximization, then actually, the real wise goal is instead, to allow your employees to work however they want, because the truth is happy employees are productive employees.

And isn’t the goal to squeeze out productivity from your employees and or yourself? If that is the case, make happiness and joy your goal ethos and method.

Joyful tips

As a general thought, anything which encourages you to do more walking, taking the bus or public transit, the train or whatever is good. Anything that motivates you to be stuck in a car is bad.

Throw the Rolls or the Lambo into the trash 

For example, one of the worst trade-offs that people do is to live somewhere super super far away, in the suburbs somewhere in order to somehow increase their living space, like buying a bigger house outside of their general workplace or whatever. But once again this is like the worst trade-off ever.

Better to pay more money for a 100% pedestrian style than live in a bigger house with zero walking 

To be stuck in a car more than necessary almost seems unethical to me. It’s like chickens stuck in a cage, forced to cluck more and more, to produce more eggs, stimulated by fake natural and artificial sleep cycles. 

And if you think about the average human being, the average worker bee, it is almost kind of like the same idea. We are conditioned to think that the desired outcome is to be stuck inside some sort of cubicle luxury cage, even this whole ridiculous notion of wanting some sort of luxury vehicle is like promoting sitting?

To sit is the exact opposite of joy 

The joy of life is inside your legs, the muscularity of your biped lifestyle, not your butt. To me butts are only for pooing, nothing else.

And also, I think it is quite apparent, that the more time somebody spends seated, it actually shuts down your metabolism, power, energy etc. For example even if you’re in the world‘s best Ferrari Lamborghini Porsche 911 GT 3S whatever, or even a Tesla model S plaid or a cyber truck, the losing bet you have here is that once again, you’re forced to sit on your butt! Another crime against humanity.

To think more, walk more 

Many of us, thoughts are our primary joy, the joy of thinking, of being, of existing in the world.

No human being wants to be stuck inside an Apple Vision Pro with a multi directional treadmill thing, with all the haptics in the world, even if you have a fleshlight attached to your dick, and something licking your testicles, no no no this is not the goal.

Has Mark Zuckerberg seen virtual reality porn with oculus yet?

Once again, this sounds like a bad joke but it’s actually pretty true. For women you might not know but I would actually say with quite certainty that 99.999% of men probably release their seed at least once a day on some sort of laptop iPad or iPhone device, often in incognito mode, or a VPN enabled. Just ask any techie, what their opinion of Maria Ozawa is, and you could see the wheels turning in their head. 

Or, a simple thing is if you have a friend with a laptop, like a MacBook Air or a MacBook Pro or whatever, just go to the application folder, and see whether they have a VPN enabled or not, whether they have some sort of torrenting application. I could then guarantee you with almost 100% precision that they’re dipping into pirate Bay, and also probably downloading stuff which has something to do with naked women doing stuff.

So why does this any of this matter?

I think this matters a lot because at least for men… 99.9% of all this consumer nonsense we are being sold is apparently to increase our sex appeal, in order to bang more beautiful babes?

Even money, it’s typically seen as a conduit to attracting beautiful women, with marvelous breasts, butts, faces physiques etc., in order to ejaculate in them or on them or whatever.

Energy suicide

Now I find this whole thing kind of ridiculous because once again, actually if you think about the real men of antiquity, they would actually practice semen retention, knowing that their seed was the most valuable thing of them all, for example, if you wanted to obtain the semen of Elon Musk, How expensive would it be worth? A lot.

Even the ancient Chinese emperor’s knew that releasing your seed was “energy suicide”, and one of the funny thoughts they thought about immortality was being able to intercourse with as many beautiful young chaste concubines as possible, to increase their “yin”,,, the goal was to never ejaculate ,,, which would release their “yang” (the source of all their power).

Don’t spill your seed

And actually, this is where the whole thing is a bit tragic is that we men are simply wasting our energy and physiological power, into thin air.

In the Bible or whatever or Christian morality we are taught that masturbation or spilling your seed on the floor is considered sinful. But I don’t think it is sinful, it is just like wasted energy. For example if you had 1 million bucks, and you just threw it into the shredder or furnace, certainly this would be a poor idea. If you think about your semen like being economic and physiological energy and power, your physiological capital,  would you just dump it somewhere that does not yield a child? Obviously not!

NEW GOALS

So I thought I had this morning is why is it so difficult to become new? Do you think new, to adopt new lines of thinking etc.

I think it might be a natural thing, we are like dogs, trained in our old ways and habits etc. This is where traveling could be so beneficial to many people because when you start to travel, it forces you to break out of your routine, to find new grooves in your old vinyl record.

I think the human mind is also similar, the only reason people typically consume three square meals a day is that they have been conditioned to do so. The human body is not like an automobile gasoline car, you do not need to insert food in order to yield energy and movement. The average human has enough body fit on themselves to themselves for 40 days without dying. Let alone four hours, maybe even four days.

And for people who think that this is so crazy, I’ve essentially done intermittent fasting ever since as in Vietnam in 2017, for almost 7 years now. No breakfast no lunch, only a 100% carnivorous dinner.

---

The joy of bitcoin

A lot of people ask me what the point of purchasing bitcoin is, there’s almost like the joy of ownership, the joy of owning property. So for example if you’re like an average American, a baby boomer or maybe even Gen X, the general idea is that if you own a piece of land property, you can sit on your patio, And smile thinking that “this belongs to me!” But the sad reality is that it does not, it belongs to the government, to the federal government.

And this is where I think the great innovation and disruption of bitcoin is; it actually belongs to you and cannot be seized or text without your consent.

However, if you own prime real estate in Manhattan or Gangnam or Tokyo, you cannot hide it from the government or the local federal government agencies. They’re going to find a way to text you, find a way to spite you and hate you for owning all that stuff.

invisible wealth

Once again, the reason why bitcoin is so disruptive is that it is like having invisible property and well, which is real.

For example, people often criticize bitcoin for not being real, but then again… Are the ones and zeros in your bank account balance real? Is your Apple stock “real“, can you print out a piece of Apple stock or 100 or 1000 of it, or can you print out Tesla stock, and say that it is “real”?

One might then say the analogy that it is real because Apple critic is real products and services and Tesla produces real vehicles.

But look at Google, do they produce anything “real”? No. Their search business is like 99% of their revenue, but does Google exist in the physical realm? No! But then you can talk about the data centers whatever… Then if you use that analogy, then, don’t you realize that the bitcoin network is like if you took all the data centers of Apple Amazon Facebook Google and combined all of them, it wouldn’t even be a 10th of the power of the bitcoin network?

Also what a lot of people don’t understand is that there has already been like $890 billion of real US dollars injected into the network. And there has also been billions of dollars invested in the bitcoin mining centers, which should just be better seen as a security network, one does not really “mine“ bitcoin, rather, you just protect it.

And also if you think about cryptography it is just like a bunch of computers solving very difficult mathematical equations, to prove security.

ephemeral things are difficult to understand

It is difficult to explain the cloud to your mom or grandma.

Even for my mom, for a very very long time I tried to explain the whole idea of the Google cloud etc. to her, it doesn’t really make sense.

We understand money, dollar bills, paying the rent and paying for food and gas etc., but how many Americans or people really understand how money is created, minted, and also destroyed by a central government agency?

Even in the past, people understood that gold was money. That gold coins and gold bricks were money. Can you imagine showing up to King Agamemnon or Achilles with a bunch of green blue paper notes, with a face printed on it, telling them that they could exchange this for 100 heads of oxen? No! Or can you try imagine getting them to trade their mythical armor for a suitcase of paper slips? No!

Even Fernandina Kalyani in his treaty on money, de Monetta, commented how it was strange for the Puritans in America at the time, I think he wrote this in the 1700s, over 300 years ago, the only reason why paper trade was facilitated amongst the Quakers was because there was some sort of religious God trust between them; One of the earliest accounts of paper fiat currency.

Even if you think about a stock, or a bond, historically it was just a piece of paper which was a certificate which was faith in the US government or the other party, and there was often a trusted intermediary in between. And if you did not have a trusted intermediary, The whole thing would fall apart.

And this is where bitcoin is so radical, you could essentially store or transfer value an economic energy power and capital without a trusted intermediary, and now that we live in the year 2024, and we have self driving cars, robot etc.… Come on, Shouldn’t we make money cyber digital and infallible?

Nobody knows how many US dollars actually exist

The closest thing we could do is track the M2 money supply, but even that… It is impossible to account for every single hundred dollar bill stuffed under a mattress in Brooklyn Queens, or in Saigon, or how many US dollars have simply been lost, or fell to the bottom of the floor in a shipwreck.

With bitcoin, you could exactly 100% track all the bitcoins on the planet. 21 million, forever. Forever times forever. And it could exist even if America no longer exists, and this is a big idea because America has been around for what like 350 years so far? It will probably be around for another three 400 years, if we think about the Lindy effect of Nasim Taleb, but doubtful if America will be around 3000 years from now, but bitcoin will.

The unity and unifier of humanity

If bitcoin bonds me with somebody from Sri Lanka, the Middle East, northern Sweden, Nigeria, Lagos, El Salvador and the like,,, and we could all accept the fact that this is in fact, valuable digital capital, digital property, isn’t this a good thing for humanity?

Even the biggest threats that we have is about China maybe Russia and North Korea; etc., but if everyone adopted bitcoin, certainly no one would want a World War III because without a world there would be no bitcoin.

Peer to peer seems to make more sense.

So one of the things I like about cash is that if you give somebody a $20 bill, or $100 bill or $50 bill, it means something. To me I consider cash paper money to be warm currency, for example if you tip the waiter $60 in three $20 bills, or if you insert a $10 bill to your local coffee bar barista, it will bring them 1 million times more joy than if you deposited that money in a computer.

I almost think that bitcoin and Satoshi’s should be the same: for example if I want to buy your house, and let us say that your house is worth one bitcoin, isn’t it easier that I just use my iPhone to send you a bitcoin, directly to your iPhone, and we could immediately prove that the bitcoin was sent, and then you could just hand over the deed to your house? This would be a big deal because we would no longer need these sleazy real estate agents.

Or, let us say that I like your cyber truck, and you like my bitcoin. Then I could send you like a 10th of a bitcoin for your cyber truck. Or I could send you half of bitcoin for your Lamborghini. Or I could send you a bitcoin for your yacht. Whatever it may be.

It seems to be so much easier, even right now on craigslist, cryptocurrency OK is an option. And to me it seems much safer than walking around with a suitcase full of cash, for example if you just want to buy even a basic vehicle from somebody, on craigslist, assuming that it is less than $5000, it seems kind of dangerous to try to wire somebody the money through a bank, or certainly showing up with a suitcase of $100 notes also seems dangerous. I would not trust this.

With bitcoin it is great because nobody could like confiscate it from you, and also… Nobody has any idea how much bitcoins you own, you could just memorize the number inside your head.

inclusive vs exclusive 

Nowadays the rhetoric is all about inclusivity, the truth is we seek exclusivity.

For example, if you really believe that inclusivity or a virtue you would probably say that McDonald’s was the best restaurant on the planet. Or that a Starbucks Frappuccino is in fact the best vintage on the planet. Or that a Toyota Corolla was the most desirable car. Or that Cal State Fullerton was the most desirable university to go to.

Everybody knows that exclusivity is critical here; for example, the reason why Harvard is the number one institution in the states and possibly the planet is because of their exclusivity. Ain’t not nobody could just go to Harvard, you can’t even pay your way in, you need money and you need skills and brains.

Everyone wants to send their kids to Harvard, every rich mainland Chinese person, all the Gark from South Korea whatever. Even I believe that Kim Jong-un studied abroad as a student at some sort of private UK university?

I think people get a little bit confused with words; certainly I believe in the notion of equal access like anybody could apply to go into Harvard, but whether everybody will be accepted into Harvard is a different thing. 

So currently people like to throw around the word crypto, thinking that crypto and bitcoin is the same thing. No it is not.

It’s also kind of like how people like to use the notion of just calling it a smart phone, but no it is not a smart phone it is an iPhone, just like we called a Kleenex not a paper tissue, these differences matter.

Even the whole notion of a EV electric vehicle is bizarre; it is either a Tesla or nothing.

So I think the whole market of cryptocurrencies, essentially anything that is not bitcoin is kind of bad. Why? Considering that Ethereum and everything after it is based on proof of stake, like proof of stake it makes no sense, imagine like staking a piece of wood into a piece of land and property and just exclaiming to the universe that “this belongs to me“!” Versus proof of work, proof of work is like actually inputted energy and physical power to yield this product.

To anybody who says that bitcoin is bad for the planet… Don’t you realize that air conditioning accounts for like 33% of the worlds electricity? And nobody is really on a Crusade to ban air conditioning. I think bitcoin accounts for like .01% of the world energy usage.

I think… If we banned air-conditioning what would happen to all the poor people in Arizona and Nevada? 

Also another random environmental thing, apparently I learned that gasoline petroleum and oil prevents like 95% of humanity from dying.

If you think of bitcoin like the first true perfected money, like switching the From toxic to clean, shouldn’t this be the primary focus of humanity?

For example, if the whole time you just been drinking sewer water, and then somebody finally gives you a glass of Fiji, wouldn’t you want yourself with your family and your best friends to drink the Fiji not the sewer water?

The traditional fiat currency US dollars and its derivatives is like sewer water, bitcoin is like the Fiji water. 

a new purpose in life

So I think my first decade and a half of my journey was focused on photography Street photography open-source photography and photography empowerment and the like. And I’m still going to do it for the rest of my life – people are a little bit confused with my interest in bitcoin and economics and money, but don’t you understand… If you have financial freedom using bitcoin, like if you could retire right now with bitcoin, wouldn’t you just retire right now travel the planet and shoot photos?

So in this sense, bitcoin may be more important than photography and our hobbies because if bitcoin could enable you 100% financial independence, shouldn’t this be your focus?

how to retire right now with bitcoin

So some simple ways you could do it:

The first thought is just figuring out your monthly expenses, and actually ideally, you would not live in America, but rather live in a developing country like Cambodia allows Thailand, Vietnam, even in Mexico City or I guess El Salvador?

Things in America is starting to get ridiculous.  even now… When I stare at a $20 bill it almost feels like the new five dollar bill? A dollar bill feels like a quarter, even $100 bill feels like the new 20?

I mean just look at housing prices, a tiny single-family house in Culver city is 1.5 million for a two bedroom one bath.

Or eating out, the average all you eat Korean barbecue is not like $75 a person. Compare this to Vietnam where you could afford the same meal for like $8 to $12.

Or rent, $3200 a month for a nice two bed one bath apartment in Los Angeles, maybe $320 a month in Hanoi or Saigon for the same level. You’re literally overpaying 10 X in America, assuming that you live abroad you could reduce your living expenses by like 90%.

52 years of paying rent?

So Trump has not yet taken office, and it seems that the truth is nobody knows with 100% certainty what is going to happen to the future of the economy.

The tricky thing with inflation is that it is kind of like a one-way ratchet; if you increase the minimum wage to $20, you cannot rewind it back to 18 or $19 an hour, there might be riots.

So at best, we can either slow down or maybe potentially stop inflation, but the damage has already been done.

Even in LA, buying a single-family house in the hood is going to run you at least 1 million, $1.1 million. And if you do the math, with interest rates or whatever… You’re gonna be paying like what $8000-$10,000a month? That’s insane!

If there’s no strong reason for you to be in America I recommend you to leave.

Living forever

So the great promise I have with bitcoin, micro strategy stock is that I will never run out of money, neither will Seneca or his kids.

Creating immortal capital for your kids and their kids kids kids kids, seems to be a good idea.

And also the good thing with bitcoin is that assuming that bitcoin is the first true digital and cyber property and real estate, that doesn’t require maintenance costs, or the decay of physicality, this is kind of a big idea. Why? They could just sit and do nothing and remain wealthy forever. The only dumb thing to do is sell the bitcoin.

Never sell the bitcoin, it’s like selling land or property on fifth Avenue in New York!

ERIC

---

Learn more:

Introduction to bitcoin workshop 2024, December 24– Free registration here!

EK SHOPS >

---

Never stop thinking:

START HERE >

---

Cyber truck goals, except with your body!

Tougher, is better.

Steal over iron, the toughest shall win!

Maybe this is also where bitcoin is so interesting, it is the toughest in the universe. It will not decay, rust, it is invisible, infinitely transportable, no friction.

Also with the kids, toughness, tough love, but with happiness and joy?

 With tools and equipment, choose the toughest?

## tough

The word “tough” originates from the Old English word “tōh,” which meant “strong, tenacious, or enduring.” This word is related to the Proto-Germanic “tāhus” and the Proto-Indo-European root ”deu-” or ”dhew-”, which conveys notions of firmness, persistence, or durability.

Over time, the word maintained its core meanings of resilience and strength while branching into metaphorical uses in English, such as describing difficult situations or stubborn personalities. It also influenced idiomatic expressions like “tough luck” or “tough it out,” which emphasize endurance or hardship.

Interestingly, related terms exist in other Germanic languages, such as Dutch “taai” (tough, chewy) and German “zäh” (tenacious, tough). These share a similar semantic root tied to physical or metaphorical toughness.

*

The word “tough” originates from Old English tōh, meaning “strong, firm in texture, tenacious.” This Old English term is derived from the Proto-Germanic *tanhuz, which has cognates in several Germanic languages, such as Old High German zāhi (modern German zäh) meaning “tough” or “tenacious,” and Dutch taai with a similar meaning.

The Proto-Germanic root *tanhuz is believed to come from the Proto-Indo-European root *denk-, meaning “to bite” or “to chew.” This connection reflects the idea of something that is difficult to bite through, emphasizing its resilience and strength.

*

Cyber tough

You know when you tell your kid to not do something because it’s dangerous, and then they do it anyways and they get hurt, don’t say the whole quote “I told you so!”— this is a positively evil to do, because you are essentially punishing your kid

Pain, blood-money (poine)—

Payment, punishment, vengeance — koyneh

*key— to pay. To avenge.

kwey—

A very simple thing in life is to analyze and consider the regrets of others, or the downsides of others, to prevent yourself from doing the same.

TITAN.FITNESS calibrated steel plates, the 50 kg ones I got, amazing!

Capital is for masters!

Why rappers make poor role models

Rappers are always talking about money, never capital.

Even the good rappers like Jay Z… They then talk about wealth and generational wealth, but never capital?

Capital?

what people don’t understand about capital, like becoming a great capitalist is that actually, is not about money in the traditional sense.

So for example, my personal thought is money is more about purchasing power, not real economic power.

For example, who has more power, the guy who lives on fifth Avenue and owns like 20 square blocks on the main island, or the person who lives in the suburbs of Long Island or Queens with a big house in the middle of nowhere, and has a lot of US dollars in his bank account? But owns no physical property in Manhattan?

LA

The funny thing about LA is most people are not from LA, nor do they intend on staying in LA etc. And also it is the culture in which it is true; you are your car your car is you.

It is easy to stereotype people based on the car they drive, and how they drive their personality their whole ethos etc.

The only people I trust are people who drive a Toyota Prius; if in fact you were a real economist or capitalist, you would know that the primary goal is to live as ascetic and spartan frugal lifestyle humanly possible, and to just pour all of your money into accumulating your capital.

New Capital

I had a random thought, so Korean people immigrated to America because they called it the beautiful country (Mee-Gguk), (Beautiful Country). They did so to seek greater economic opportunities than stuffy Korea.

it seems that most physical hand is already tapped out, that was a 20th century notion like 100 200 300 years ago… But now that we live in the year 2024 and beyond… The new property is cyber space.

I think the thing that is difficult to understand about cyberspace is that conceptually it seems infinite and unlimited like the Internet, but if we think bitcoin, which is limited 21 million blocks, 21 million coins, 21 million units, then,… Bitcoin or the whole cyber real estate notion is the most valuable thing of them all.

Why? it seems that most people are always looking on places to park their capital and economic work and wealth; they don’t want it to be seized by a bunch of communist, like the poor Vietnamese people who fled Vietnam during the communist takeover, even people who fled from Mao Zedong, or even the poor Lebanese for fleeing from the attacks from Israel.

Trust no Marxist, communist spoon fed kid

If you’re just an American like a typical American who is born here with your American citizenship… And you never had to face peril… You probably don’t really know how much of the world works. It seems that historically much of wealth is seized forcibly from other people, governments, or revolutionary regimes.

Why is it that a lot of these kids who are born with trust funds, or born from wealthy families are the ones who embrace communism Karl Marx and Marxism? Because they are the ones who were never raised with true poverty, — I think for any family that actually had to deal with true oppression, poverty, everyone knows that capitalism is the best system.

Infinite opportunity

Capitalism is not zero sum. Understanding that wealth is just a human made notion, the ability for growth and prosperity is infinite for all.

And this is my personal imperative behind bitcoin; because I personally grew up super poor, always in financial peril, and finally kind of making it in America, I feel like it is almost my ethical duty to give back or at least to share the things I’ve learned along the way.

Any individual family or nation nation state on the bitcoin standard shall prosper. There are no losers on the bitcoin standard, only varying degrees of success.

ERIC

Economics by KIM

1. Money is For Slaves
2. Growth
3. Think Volume
4. Think Payoffs
5. Kaizen Gains
6. Cost to Capital
7. Price vs Value
8. EVERYONE WINS!
9. INVESTING PR’S
10. The Philosophy of Investing
11. ERIC KIM VENTURE CAPITALIST
12. How to FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early)
13. How to *Save* a Million Dollars
14. Increase Value
15. MAYBE IT IS A GOOD IDEA TO BUY HIGH
16. Banks Are the True Menace to Society
17. THE PROMISE OF FUTURE MONOPOLY PROFITS?
18. High gas prices are good
19. What is Capitalism?
20. Pride in What You Paid For
21. On Making Money from Nothing
22. Save Money Towards What Ends?
23. No Regret Investment

The Imperative of Joy

Joy, maybe the simplest three letter word in the American dictionary, but kind of what we are aiming for.

For example, The Joyful Wisdom from Nietzsche (The Gay Science, La Gaya Scienzia) or thinking about Christmas carols, “Joy to the world!”

How and why is joy so elusive?

Many problems at hand:

First, modern Day society is not about joy, rather it is about like hedonic pleasure maximization, which is different to me than joy.

What is joy? Joy is the hug and snuggle and embrace of your child, reading him a bedtime story, or the joy of getting all you can eat eat Korean Japanese Wagyu barbecue with your beautiful family (Chubby cattle, my new favorite joint!)

Simple joys

Joy is the joy of discovering an interesting idea or concept, and also the joy of sharing it with others.

The reason why joy is such a difficult notion is that actually, modern day society is more focused about misery. Misery is much more profitable than joy.

For example, when is the last time you watched a joyful movie or film or television series that did not have some sort of strange fake drama added to it? The only good movies are maybe kid movies — fun, joyful, full of optimism and joy (LEGO BATMAN movie, the LEGO movie etc)

---

Joy is already within you

If I invoke Thic Nhat Hanh, the wise zen sage, the general idea that the seeds of happiness are already within us, they lie nascent within us.

For example, even Jesus, I think his words are often misconstrued, like a simple one… The kingdom of God is already within you. And that heaven, is essentially the joy of your family on earth. Heaven is not a place that you go in the afterlife.

Even the Jesus saying about the kingdom of God, the wisdom of a child.

St. Paulism

Generally a lot of modern day Christian theology should just be thought of as “St. Paulism”– who was kind of a troubled man, fighting his own demons, and seeking salvation and trying to misconstrue the teachings of Jesus to fit his own personal narrative?

Anyways, joy is critical. I almost feel like it is our duty to be joyful, and also more importantly to spread joy, seeds of joy and hope to others!

Why?

I mean first thing is kind of like a love of humanity. For example if you have dear friends and family, who you care for, and they do not show any signs of joy, in fact they show the signs of misery the exact opposite… obviously from a basic perspective we’re going to feel some sort of compassion and we’re going to want to help alleviate their situation and reduce their suffering. I think there’s naturally a bit of altruism in all of us, even though that these haters of humanity might think otherwise.

Smile!

My mom told me this interesting saying in Korean is that you cannot spit on the face of somebody who smiles at you.

So generally, I always try to approach and treat everybody with love, kindness, gratitude, even if it looks like they’re not having it. Why? It Doesn’t really cost me anything, and also, it just feels like the right thing to do!

The worst is to be kind, loving and smile at someone and get the cold shoulder than to never attempt it at all?

---

How to spread seeds of joy

First, I think joy could be infectious, and I also believe that the power of joy can actually supersede that of hate envy jealousy and all these other negative emotions.

I think the first thing is to deposit that we desire joy. That it is a desirable thing.

The archer

So for example, if you’re an archer, and your goals to hit the mark, you kinda need to know what to aim for. If you’re aiming for other random stuff, you might hit the mark, but you’ve hit the mark and the target of something other random thing.

So for example most of modern day capitalism and hedonism maximization has to deal with silly notions of purchasing stuff? Like purchasing the Rolls, the Lambo, or having a certain amount of money in your bank account. Now that I have achieved all of my flesh found goals, and have achieved all the rings of success, I could actually honestly a test now that it is all fine, but not really the goal. Maybe to me joy is much more interesting.

So for example, the joy of being outside, the joy of walking, even Thich Nhat Hanh talk a lot about the joy of walking meditation. The general idea and just is every time you take a step, you just repeated to yourself “I have arrived, I have arrived, I have arrived.

The general idea is that you don’t really have a destination you need to get to, but instead the joint itself is the walking.

Walking is joy?

To me actually the thing I hit the most feeling cramped at home. I don’t know… Maybe my personal ethos and spirit is like an outdoor spirit; I must be outside.

Often times the reason that I hate the winter months is simply that it is kind of a discouragement from going outside. If the ultimate goal is to be outside, any sort of circumstances which allow for it is good.

For example, it seems like in America at least, Los Angeles may be the least bad place to be because you could essentially always be outside. Even when it gets cold, trust me you could get cold, but it never gets that cold. Like not Michigan winter cold.

As a consequence, I think the wise goal is to be outside all day every day! The only thing I hated about employment was feeling trapped like a prisoner inside the cubicle office; I almost feel like the humane thing to do is give your employees the option; I’m going to the office whenever they want to, or just working from home if they want to. Or be able to take Zoom calls while hiking in the mountains with their AirPods, voice without WebCam.

Because the issue is post of employment is more about monitoring, rather than maximization. It seems that everyone is so afraid that your employees are going to become lazy, complacent, fail to obey the rules etc. Or worse, they’re going to be degenerates just watching Netflix all day, while they should be working.

My personal belief and thought is that actually… Perhaps the purpose of it all should be to simply maximize your efficiency yield, which does not require a simple mathematical equation: more hours in the office do not equal more productivity. For example, if the ultimate goal is productivity maximization, then actually, the real wise goal is instead, to allow your employees to work however they want, because the truth is happy employees are productive employees.

And isn’t the goal to squeeze out productivity from your employees and or yourself? If that is the case, make happiness enjoy your goal ethos and method.

Tips

As a general thought, anything which encourages you to do more walking, taking the bus or public transit, the train or whatever is good. Anything that motivates you to be stuck in a car is bad.

For example, one of the worst trade-offs that people do is to live somewhere super super far away, in the suburb somewhere in order to somehow increase their living space, like buying a bigger house outside of their general workplace or whatever. But once again this is like the worst trade-off ever.

To be stuck in a car More than necessary almost seems unethical to me. It’s like chickens stuck in a cage, forced to cluck more and more, to produce more eggs, stimulated by fake natural and artificial sleep cycles. 

And if you think about the average human being, the average worker be, it is almost kind of like the same idea. We are conditioned to think that the desired outcome is to be stuck inside some sort of cubicle luxury cage, even this whole ridiculous notion of wanting some sort of luxury vehicle is like promoting sitting?

To sit is the exact opposite of joy 

The joy of life is inside your legs, the muscularity of your Bipe lifestyle, not your butt. To me butts are only for pooing, nothing else.

And also, I think it is quite apparent, that the more time somebody spends seated, it actually shuts down your metabolism, power, energy etc. For example even if you’re in the world‘s best Ferrari Lamborghini Porsche 911 GT 3S whatever, or even a Tesla model S plaid or a cyber truck, the losing bet you have here is that once again, you’re forced to sit on your butt! Another crime against humanity.

To think more walk more 

Many of us, thoughts are our primary joy, the joy of thinking, of being, of existing in the world.

No human being wants to be stuck inside an apple Vision Pro with a multi directional treadmill thing, with all the haptics in the world, even if you have a flashlight attached to your dick, and something licking your testicles, no no no this is not the goal.

Once again, this sounds like a bad joke but it’s actually pretty true. For women you might not know but I would actually say with quite certainty that 99.999% of men probably release their seed at least once a day on some sort of laptop iPad or iPhone device, often in incognito mode, or a VPN enabled. Just ask any techie, what their opinion of Maria Ozawa is, and you could see the wheels turning in their head. 

Or, a simple thing is if you have a friend with a laptop, like a MacBook Air or a MacBook Pro or whatever, just go to the application folder, and see whether they have a VPN enabled or not, whether they have some sort of torrenting application. I could then guarantee you with almost 100% precision that they’re dipping into pirate Bay, and also probably downloading stuff which has something to do with naked women doing stuff.

so why does this any of this matter?

I think this matters a lot because at least for men… 99.9% of all this consumer nonsense we are being sold is apparently to increase our sex appeal, in order to bang more beautiful babes?

Even money, it’s typically seen as a conduit to attracting beautiful women, with marvelous breasts, butts, faces physiques etc., in order to ejaculate in them or on them or whatever.

Now I find this whole thing kind of ridiculous because once again, actually if you think about the real men of antiquity, they would actually practice semen retention, knowing that their seed was the most valuable thing of them all, for example, if you wanted to obtain the semen of Elon Musk, How expensive would it be worth? A lot.

Or, if you obtain the semen of like an old 80-year-old man, was like 4’10” tall, how much would that be worth? Not much.

And actually, this is where the whole thing is a bit tragic is that we men are simply wasting our energy and physiological power, into thin air.

In the Bible or whatever or Christian morality we are taught that masturbation or spilling your seed on the floor is considered sinful. But I don’t think it is sinful, it is just like wasted energy. For example if you had 1 million bucks, and you just threw it into the shredder or furnace, Certainly this would be a poor idea. If you think about your semen like being economic and physiological energy and power, your physiological capital,  would you just dump it somewhere that does not yield a child? Obviously not!

NEW GOALS

So I thought I had this morning is why is it so difficult to become new? Do you think new, to adopt new lines of thinking etc.

I think it might be a natural thing, we are like dogs, trained in our old ways and habits etc. This is where traveling could be so beneficial to many people because when you start to travel, it forces you to break out of your routine, to find new grooves in your old vinyl record.

I think the human mind is also similar, the only reason people typically consume three square meals a day is that they have been conditioned to do so. The human body is not like an automobile gasoline car, you do not need to insert food in order to yield energy and movement. The average human has enough body fit on themselves to themselves for 40 days without dying. Let alone four hours, maybe even four days.

And for people who think that this is so crazy, I’ve essentially done intermittent fasting ever since as in Vietnam in 2017, for almost 7 years now. No breakfast no lunch, only a 100% carnivorous dinner.

---

The joy of bitcoin

A lot of people ask me what the point of purchasing bitcoin is, there’s almost like the joy of ownership, the joy of owning property. So for example if you’re like an average American, a baby boomer or maybe even Gen X, the general idea is that if you own a piece of land property, you can sit on your patio, And smile thinking that “this belongs to me!” But the sad reality is that it does not, it belongs to the government, to the federal government.

And this is where I think the great innovation and disruption of bitcoin is; it actually belongs to you and cannot be seized or text without your consent.

However, if you own prime real estate in Manhattan or Gangnam or Tokyo, you cannot hide it from the government or the local federal government agencies. They’re going to find a way to text you, find a way to spite you and hate you for owning all that stuff.

invisible wealth

Once again, the reason why bitcoin is so disruptive is that it is like having invisible property and well, which is real.

For example, people often criticize bitcoin for not being real, but then again… Are the ones and zeros in your bank account balance real? Is your Apple stock “real“, can you print out a piece of Apple stock or 100 or 1000 of it, or can you print out Tesla stock, and say that it is “real”?

One might then say the analogy that it is real because Apple critic is real products and services and Tesla produces real vehicles.

But look at Google, do they produce anything “real”? No. Their search business is like 99% of their revenue, but does Google exist in the physical realm? No! But then you can talk about the data centers whatever… Then if you use that analogy, then, don’t you realize that the bitcoin network is like if you took all the data centers of Apple Amazon Facebook Google and combined all of them, it wouldn’t even be a 10th of the power of the bitcoin network?

Also what a lot of people don’t understand is that there has already been like $890 billion of real US dollars injected into the network. And there has also been billions of dollars invested in the bitcoin mining centers, which should just be better seen as a security network, one does not really “mine“ bitcoin, rather, you just protect it.

And also if you think about cryptography it is just like a bunch of computers solving very difficult mathematical equations, to prove security.

ephemeral things are difficult to understand

It is difficult to explain the cloud to your mom or grandma.

Even for my mom, for a very very long time I tried to explain the whole idea of the Google cloud etc. to her, it doesn’t really make sense.

We understand money, dollar bills, paying the rent and paying for food and gas etc., but how many Americans or people really understand how money is created, minted, and also destroyed by a central government agency?

Even in the past, people understood that gold was money. That gold coins and gold bricks were money. Can you imagine showing up to King Agamemnon or Achilles with a bunch of green blue paper notes, with a face printed on it, telling them that they could exchange this for 100 heads of oxen? No! Or can you try imagine getting them to trade their mythical armor for a suitcase of paper slips? No!

Even Fernandina Kalyani in his treaty on money, de Monetta, commented how it was strange for the Puritans in America at the time, I think he wrote this in the 1700s, over 300 years ago, the only reason why paper trade was facilitated amongst the Quakers was because there was some sort of religious God trust between them; One of the earliest accounts of paper fiat currency.

Even if you think about a stock, or a bond, historically it was just a piece of paper which was a certificate which was faith in the US government or the other party, and there was often a trusted intermediary in between. And if you did not have a trusted intermediary, The whole thing would fall apart.

And this is where bitcoin is so radical, you could essentially store or transfer value an economic energy power and capital without a trusted intermediary, and now that we live in the year 2024, and we have self driving cars, robot etc.… Come on, Shouldn’t we make money cyber digital and infallible?

Nobody knows how many US dollars actually exist

The closest thing we could do is track the M2 money supply, but even that… It is impossible to account for every single hundred dollar bill stuffed under a mattress in Brooklyn Queens, or in Saigon, or how many US dollars have simply been lost, or fell to the bottom of the floor in a shipwreck.

With bitcoin, you could exactly 100% track all the bitcoins on the planet. 21 million, forever. Forever times forever. And it could exist even if America no longer exists, and this is a big idea because America has been around for what like 350 years so far? It will probably be around for another three 400 years, if we think about the Lindy effect of Nasim Taleb, but doubtful if America will be around 3000 years from now, but bitcoin will.

The unity and unifier of humanity

If bitcoin bonds me with somebody from Sri Lanka, the Middle East, northern Sweden, Nigeria, Lagos, El Salvador and the like,,, and we could all accept the fact that this is in fact, valuable digital capital, digital property, isn’t this a good thing for humanity?

Even the biggest threats that we have is about China maybe Russia and North Korea; etc., but if everyone adopted bitcoin, certainly no one would want a World War III because without a world there would be no bitcoin.

Peer to peer seems to make more sense.

So one of the things I like about cash is that if you give somebody a $20 bill, or $100 bill or $50 bill, it means something. To me I consider cash paper money to be warm currency, for example if you tip the waiter $60 in three $20 bills, or if you insert a $10 bill to your local coffee bar barista, it will bring them 1 million times more joy than if you deposited that money in a computer.

I almost think that bitcoin and Satoshi’s should be the same: for example if I want to buy your house, and let us say that your house is worth one bitcoin, isn’t it easier that I just use my iPhone to send you a bitcoin, directly to your iPhone, and we could immediately prove that the bitcoin was sent, and then you could just hand over the deed to your house? This would be a big deal because we would no longer need these sleazy real estate agents.

Or, let us say that I like your cyber truck, and you like my bitcoin. Then I could send you like a 10th of a bitcoin for your cyber truck. Or I could send you half of bitcoin for your Lamborghini. Or I could send you a bitcoin for your yacht. Whatever it may be.

It seems to be so much easier, even right now on craigslist, cryptocurrency OK is an option. And to me it seems much safer than walking around with a suitcase full of cash, for example if you just want to buy even a basic vehicle from somebody, on craigslist, assuming that it is less than $5000, it seems kind of dangerous to try to wire somebody the money through a bank, or certainly showing up with a suitcase of $100 notes also seems dangerous. I would not trust this.

With bitcoin it is great because nobody could like confiscate it from you, and also… Nobody has any idea how much bitcoins you own, you could just memorize the number inside your head.

inclusive vs exclusive 

Nowadays the rhetoric is all about inclusivity, the truth is we seek exclusivity.

For example, if you really believe that inclusivity or a virtue you would probably say that McDonald’s was the best restaurant on the planet. Or that a Starbucks Frappuccino is in fact the best vintage on the planet. Or that a Toyota Corolla was the most desirable car. Or that Cal State Fullerton was the most desirable university to go to.

Everybody knows that exclusivity is critical here; for example, the reason why Harvard is the number one institution in the states and possibly the planet is because of their exclusivity. Ain’t not nobody could just go to Harvard, you can’t even pay your way in, you need money and you need skills and brains.

Everyone wants to send their kids to Harvard, every rich mainland Chinese person, all the Gark from South Korea whatever. Even I believe that Kim Jong-un studied abroad as a student at some sort of private UK university?

I think people get a little bit confused with words; certainly I believe in the notion of equal access like anybody could apply to go into Harvard, but whether everybody will be accepted into Harvard is a different thing. 

So currently people like to throw around the word crypto, thinking that crypto and bitcoin is the same thing. No it is not.

It’s also kind of like how people like to use the notion of just calling it a smart phone, but no it is not a smart phone it is an iPhone, just like we called a Kleenex not a paper tissue, these differences matter.

Even the whole notion of a EV electric vehicle is bizarre; it is either a Tesla or nothing.

So I think the whole market of cryptocurrencies, essentially anything that is not bitcoin is kind of bad. Why? Considering that Ethereum and everything after it is based on proof of stake, like proof of stake it makes no sense, imagine like staking a piece of wood into a piece of land and property and just exclaiming to the universe that “this belongs to me“!” Versus proof of work, proof of work is like actually inputted energy and physical power to yield this product.

To anybody who says that bitcoin is bad for the planet… Don’t you realize that air conditioning accounts for like 33% of the worlds electricity? And nobody is really on a Crusade to ban air conditioning. I think bitcoin accounts for like .01% of the world energy usage.

I think… If we banned air-conditioning what would happen to all the poor people in Arizona and Nevada? 

Also another random environmental thing, apparently I learned that gasoline petroleum and oil prevents like 95% of humanity from dying.

If you think of bitcoin like the first true perfected money, like switching the From toxic to clean, shouldn’t this be the primary focus of humanity?

For example, if the whole time you just been drinking sewer water, and then somebody finally gives you a glass of Fiji, wouldn’t you want yourself with your family and your best friends to drink the Fiji not the sewer water?

The traditional fiat currency US dollars and its derivatives is like sewer water, bitcoin is like the Fiji water. 

a new purpose in life

So I think my first decade and a half of my journey was focused on photography Street photography open-source photography and photography empowerment and the like. And I’m still going to do it for the rest of my life – people are a little bit confused with my interest in bitcoin and economics and money, but don’t you understand… If you have financial freedom using bitcoin, like if you could retire right now with bitcoin, wouldn’t you just retire right now travel the planet and shoot photos?

So in this sense, bitcoin may be more important than photography and our hobbies because if bitcoin could enable you 100% financial independence, shouldn’t this be your focus?

how to retire right now with bitcoin

So some simple ways you could do it:

The first thought is just figuring out your monthly expenses, and actually ideally, you would not live in America, but rather live in a developing country like Cambodia allows Thailand, Vietnam, even in Mexico City or I guess El Salvador?

Things in America is starting to get ridiculous.  even now… When I stare at a $20 bill it almost feels like the new five dollar bill? A dollar bill feels like a quarter, even $100 bill feels like the new 20?

I mean just look at housing prices, a tiny single-family house in Culver city is 1.5 million for a two bedroom one bath.

Or eating out, the average all you eat Korean barbecue is not like $75 a person. Compare this to Vietnam where you could afford the same meal for like $8 to $12.

Or rent, $3200 a month for a nice two bed one bath apartment in Los Angeles, maybe $320 a month in Hanoi or Saigon for the same level. You’re literally overpaying 10 X in America, assuming that you live abroad you could reduce your living expenses by like 90%.

52 years of paying rent?

So Trump has not yet taken office, and it seems that the truth is nobody knows with 100% certainty what is going to happen to the future of the economy.

The tricky thing with inflation is that it is kind of like a one-way ratchet; if you increase the minimum wage to $20, you cannot rewind it back to 18 or $19 an hour, there might be riots.

So at best, we can either slow down or maybe potentially stop inflation, but the damage has already been done.

Even in LA, buying a single-family house in the hood is going to run you at least 1 million, $1.1 million. And if you do the math, with interest rates or whatever… You’re gonna be paying like what $8000-$10,000a month? That’s insane!

If there’s no strong reason for you to be in America I recommend you to leave.

Living forever

So the great promise I have with bitcoin, micro strategy stock is that I will never run out of money, neither will Seneca or his kids.

Creating immortal capital for your kids and their kids kids kids kids, seems to be a good idea.

And also the good thing with bitcoin is that assuming that bitcoin is the first true digital and cyber property and real estate, that doesn’t require maintenance costs, or the decay of physicality, this is kind of a big idea. Why? They could just sit and do nothing and remain wealthy forever. The only dumb thing to do is sell the bitcoin.

Never sell the bitcoin, it’s like selling land or property on fifth Avenue in New York!

ERIC

Podcast video

1. What is Joy?

Joy isn’t hedonistic pleasure. It’s the simple, profound moments—hugging your child, a shared Korean BBQ, or discovering an interesting idea. Joy is grounded in presence and connection.

2. Why is Joy Elusive?

Modern society profits from misery, not joy. Media and consumer culture amplify drama and discontent to keep us consuming, distracted, and unfulfilled.

3. Joy is Already Within You

Like Thich Nhat Hanh and even Jesus said, the seeds of happiness and heaven are within us. Joy isn’t external; it’s our inherent state when unburdened by societal pressures.

4. Our Duty to Joy

Sharing joy with others is an act of compassion and humanity. A smile can disarm hostility, and kindness costs nothing but yields immense returns.

5. The Power of Walking

Walking is the simplest embodiment of joy. It’s meditation in motion, a declaration of freedom. The joy isn’t in the destination; it’s in the act itself.

6. Break Free from Misery Traps

Sitting—whether in cars, offices, or couches—is the enemy of joy. Movement, activity, and freedom are the antidotes. Avoid the consumer-driven suburban rat race; opt for simplicity and mobility.

7. Consumerism vs. Real Joy

The endless chase for material wealth—cars, houses, and status—isn’t joy. Joy is in experiences, creativity, and shared moments.

8. Rethink Your Lifestyle

Live closer to what matters. Avoid long commutes, prioritize outdoor time, and embrace minimalism. Freedom is the ultimate luxury.

9. Bitcoin and Joy

Bitcoin represents invisible, incorruptible wealth. Unlike physical property tied to governments and taxes, Bitcoin is a form of economic freedom—secure, universal, and unseizable.

10. Exclusivity is Key

Joy isn’t about inclusivity for everything; it’s about discerning what truly matters. Like Harvard, Bitcoin’s exclusivity makes it valuable.

11. Retire on Bitcoin

Use Bitcoin to escape the hamster wheel. Living abroad in places like Vietnam or Mexico can reduce costs by 90%, enabling financial freedom and joyful living.

12. Think Long-Term

Bitcoin is immortal capital. Never sell it. Like prime real estate, its value only grows over time.

13. New Goals, New Life

Break out of routines, embrace change, and let curiosity guide you. Joy isn’t found in the old patterns but in the pursuit of something new.

Final Takeaway:

Joy isn’t complicated—it’s presence, simplicity, and freedom. Align your life with what truly matters, reject societal misery traps, and let joy be your compass.

***

The Imperative of Joy

Joy, maybe the simplest Three letter word in the American dictionary, but kind of what we are aiming for.

For example, the joyful wisdom from Nietzsche,  or thinking about Christmas carols, “joy to the world!”

how and why is joy so elusive?

 many problems at hand:

First, modern Day Society is not about joy, rather it is about like hedonic pleasure maximization, which is different to me than joy.

What is Joy? Joy is the hug and snuggle and embrace of your child, reading him a bedtime story, or the joy of getting all you can eat eat Korean Japanese Wagyu barbecue with your beautiful family (Chubby cattle, my new favorite joint!)

Joy is the joy of discovering an interesting idea or concept, and also the joy of sharing it with others.

The reason why joy is such a difficult notion is that actually, modern day society is more focused about misery. Misery is much more profitable than joy.

For example, when is the last time you watched a joyful movie or film or television series that did not have some sort of strange fake drama added to it?

Joy is already within you

If I invoke Thic neat Hanh, the wise Zen Sage, the general idea that he has is that the seeds of happiness are already within us, they lie nascent within us.

For example, even Jesus, I think his words are often misconstrued, like a simple one… The kingdom of God is already within you. And that heaven, is essentially the joy of your family on earth. Heaven is not a place that you go in the afterlife.

Even the Jesus saying about the kingdom of God, the wisdom of a child.

Generally a lot of modern day Christian theology should just be thought of as “St. Paulism”– who sent you was kind of a troubled man, fighting his own demons, insult salvation and trying to misconstrue the teachings of Jesus to fit his own personal narrative?

Anyways, joy is critical. I almost feel like it is our duty to be joyful, and also more importantly to spread joy, seeds of joy and hope.

Why?

I mean first thing is kind of like a love of humanity. For example if you have dear friends and family, who you care for, and they do not show any signs of joy, in fact they show the signs of misery the exact opposite… Obviously from a basic perspective we’re going to feel some sort of compassion and we’re going to want to help alleviate their situation and reduce their suffering. I think there’s naturally a bit of autism in all of us, even though that these haters of humanity might think otherwise.

My mom told me this interesting saying in Korean is that you cannot spit on the face of somebody who smiles at you.

So generally, I always try to approach and treat everybody with love, kindness, gratitude, even if it looks like they’re not having it. Why? It Doesn’t really cost me anything, and also, it just feels like the right thing to do!

How to spread seeds of joy

First, I think joy could be infectious, and I also believe that the power of joy can actually supersede that of hate envy jealousy and all these other negative emotions.

I think the first thing is to deposit that we desire joy. That it is a desirable thing.

The archer

So for example, if you’re an archer, and your goals to hit the mark, you kinda need to know what to aim for. If you’re aiming for other random stuff, you might hit the mark, but you’ve hit the mark and the target of something other random thing.

So for example most of modern day capitalism and hedonism maximization has to deal with silly notions of purchasing stuff? Like purchasing the Rolls, the Lambo, or having a certain amount of money in your bank account. Now that I have achieved all of my flesh found goals, and have achieved all the rings of success, I could actually honestly a test now that it is all fine, but not really the goal. Maybe to me joy is much more interesting.

So for example, the joy of being outside, the joy of walking, even Thich Nhat Hanh talk a lot about the joy of walking meditation. The general idea and just is every time you take a step, you just repeated to yourself “I have arrived, I have arrived, I have arrived.

The general idea is that you don’t really have a destination you need to get to, but instead the joint itself is the walking.

Walking is joy?

To me actually the thing I hit the most feeling cramped at home. I don’t know… Maybe my personal ethos and spirit is like an outdoor spirit; I must be outside.

Often times the reason that I hate the winter months is simply that it is kind of a discouragement from going outside. If the ultimate goal is to be outside, any sort of circumstances which allow for it is good.

For example, it seems like in America at least, Los Angeles may be the least bad place to be because you could essentially always be outside. Even when it gets cold, trust me you could get cold, but it never gets that cold. Like not Michigan winter cold.

As a consequence, I think the wise goal is to be outside all day every day! The only thing I hated about employment was feeling trapped like a prisoner inside the cubicle office; I almost feel like the humane thing to do is give your employees the option; I’m going to the office whenever they want to, or just working from home if they want to. Or be able to take Zoom calls while hiking in the mountains with their AirPods, voice without WebCam.

Because the issue is post of employment is more about monitoring, rather than maximization. It seems that everyone is so afraid that your employees are going to become lazy, complacent, fail to obey the rules etc. Or worse, they’re going to be degenerates just watching Netflix all day, while they should be working.

My personal belief and thought is that actually… Perhaps the purpose of it all should be to simply maximize your efficiency yield, which does not require a simple mathematical equation: more hours in the office do not equal more productivity. For example, if the ultimate goal is productivity maximization, then actually, the real wise goal is instead, to allow your employees to work however they want, because the truth is happy employees are productive employees.

And isn’t the goal to squeeze out productivity from your employees and or yourself? If that is the case, make happiness enjoy your goal ethos and method.

Tips

As a general thought, anything which encourages you to do more walking, taking the bus or public transit, the train or whatever is good. Anything that motivates you to be stuck in a car is bad.

For example, one of the worst trade-offs that people do is to live somewhere super super far away, in the suburb somewhere in order to somehow increase their living space, like buying a bigger house outside of their general workplace or whatever. But once again this is like the worst trade-off ever.

To be stuck in a car More than necessary almost seems unethical to me. It’s like chickens stuck in a cage, forced to cluck more and more, to produce more eggs, stimulated by fake natural and artificial sleep cycles. 

And if you think about the average human being, the average worker be, it is almost kind of like the same idea. We are conditioned to think that the desired outcome is to be stuck inside some sort of cubicle luxury cage, even this whole ridiculous notion of wanting some sort of luxury vehicle is like promoting sitting?

To sit is the exact opposite of joy 

The joy of life is inside your legs, the muscularity of your Bipe lifestyle, not your butt. To me butts are only for pooing, nothing else.

And also, I think it is quite apparent, that the more time somebody spends seated, it actually shuts down your metabolism, power, energy etc. For example even if you’re in the world‘s best Ferrari Lamborghini Porsche 911 GT 3S whatever, or even a Tesla model S plaid or a cyber truck, the losing bet you have here is that once again, you’re forced to sit on your butt! Another crime against humanity.

To think more walk more 

Many of us, thoughts are our primary joy, the joy of thinking, of being, of existing in the world.

No human being wants to be stuck inside an apple Vision Pro with a multi directional treadmill thing, with all the haptics in the world, even if you have a flashlight attached to your dick, and something licking your testicles, no no no this is not the goal.

Once again, this sounds like a bad joke but it’s actually pretty true. For women you might not know but I would actually say with quite certainty that 99.999% of men probably release their seed at least once a day on some sort of laptop iPad or iPhone device, often in incognito mode, or a VPN enabled. Just ask any techie, what their opinion of Maria Ozawa is, and you could see the wheels turning in their head. 

Or, a simple thing is if you have a friend with a laptop, like a MacBook Air or a MacBook Pro or whatever, just go to the application folder, and see whether they have a VPN enabled or not, whether they have some sort of torrenting application. I could then guarantee you with almost 100% precision that they’re dipping into pirate Bay, and also probably downloading stuff which has something to do with naked women doing stuff.

so why does this any of this matter?

I think this matters a lot because at least for men… 99.9% of all this consumer nonsense we are being sold is apparently to increase our sex appeal, in order to bang more beautiful babes?

Even money, it’s typically seen as a conduit to attracting beautiful women, with marvelous breasts, butts, faces physiques etc., in order to ejaculate in them or on them or whatever.

Now I find this whole thing kind of ridiculous because once again, actually if you think about the real men of antiquity, they would actually practice semen retention, knowing that their seed was the most valuable thing of them all, for example, if you wanted to obtain the semen of Elon Musk, How expensive would it be worth? A lot.

Or, if you obtain the semen of like an old 80-year-old man, was like 4’10” tall, how much would that be worth? Not much.

And actually, this is where the whole thing is a bit tragic is that we men are simply wasting our energy and physiological power, into thin air.

In the Bible or whatever or Christian morality we are taught that masturbation or spilling your seed on the floor is considered sinful. But I don’t think it is sinful, it is just like wasted energy. For example if you had 1 million bucks, and you just threw it into the shredder or furnace, Certainly this would be a poor idea. If you think about your semen like being economic and physiological energy and power, your physiological capital,  would you just dump it somewhere that does not yield a child? Obviously not!

NEW GOALS

So I thought I had this morning is why is it so difficult to become new? Do you think new, to adopt new lines of thinking etc.

I think it might be a natural thing, we are like dogs, trained in our old ways and habits etc. This is where traveling could be so beneficial to many people because when you start to travel, it forces you to break out of your routine, to find new grooves in your old vinyl record.

I think the human mind is also similar, the only reason people typically consume three square meals a day is that they have been conditioned to do so. The human body is not like an automobile gasoline car, you do not need to insert food in order to yield energy and movement. The average human has enough body fit on themselves to themselves for 40 days without dying. Let alone four hours, maybe even four days.

And for people who think that this is so crazy, I’ve essentially done intermittent fasting ever since as in Vietnam in 2017, for almost 7 years now. No breakfast no lunch, only a 100% carnivorous dinner.

---

The joy of bitcoin

A lot of people ask me what the point of purchasing bitcoin is, there’s almost like the joy of ownership, the joy of owning property. So for example if you’re like an average American, a baby boomer or maybe even Gen X, the general idea is that if you own a piece of land property, you can sit on your patio, And smile thinking that “this belongs to me!” But the sad reality is that it does not, it belongs to the government, to the federal government.

And this is where I think the great innovation and disruption of bitcoin is; it actually belongs to you and cannot be seized or text without your consent.

However, if you own prime real estate in Manhattan or Gangnam or Tokyo, you cannot hide it from the government or the local federal government agencies. They’re going to find a way to text you, find a way to spite you and hate you for owning all that stuff.

invisible wealth

Once again, the reason why bitcoin is so disruptive is that it is like having invisible property and well, which is real.

For example, people often criticize bitcoin for not being real, but then again… Are the ones and zeros in your bank account balance real? Is your Apple stock “real“, can you print out a piece of Apple stock or 100 or 1000 of it, or can you print out Tesla stock, and say that it is “real”?

One might then say the analogy that it is real because Apple critic is real products and services and Tesla produces real vehicles.

But look at Google, do they produce anything “real”? No. Their search business is like 99% of their revenue, but does Google exist in the physical realm? No! But then you can talk about the data centers whatever… Then if you use that analogy, then, don’t you realize that the bitcoin network is like if you took all the data centers of Apple Amazon Facebook Google and combined all of them, it wouldn’t even be a 10th of the power of the bitcoin network?

Also what a lot of people don’t understand is that there has already been like $890 billion of real US dollars injected into the network. And there has also been billions of dollars invested in the bitcoin mining centers, which should just be better seen as a security network, one does not really “mine“ bitcoin, rather, you just protect it.

And also if you think about cryptography it is just like a bunch of computers solving very difficult mathematical equations, to prove security.

ephemeral things are difficult to understand

It is difficult to explain the cloud to your mom or grandma.

Even for my mom, for a very very long time I tried to explain the whole idea of the Google cloud etc. to her, it doesn’t really make sense.

We understand money, dollar bills, paying the rent and paying for food and gas etc., but how many Americans or people really understand how money is created, minted, and also destroyed by a central government agency?

Even in the past, people understood that gold was money. That gold coins and gold bricks were money. Can you imagine showing up to King Agamemnon or Achilles with a bunch of green blue paper notes, with a face printed on it, telling them that they could exchange this for 100 heads of oxen? No! Or can you try imagine getting them to trade their mythical armor for a suitcase of paper slips? No!

Even Fernandina Kalyani in his treaty on money, de Monetta, commented how it was strange for the Puritans in America at the time, I think he wrote this in the 1700s, over 300 years ago, the only reason why paper trade was facilitated amongst the Quakers was because there was some sort of religious God trust between them; One of the earliest accounts of paper fiat currency.

Even if you think about a stock, or a bond, historically it was just a piece of paper which was a certificate which was faith in the US government or the other party, and there was often a trusted intermediary in between. And if you did not have a trusted intermediary, The whole thing would fall apart.

And this is where bitcoin is so radical, you could essentially store or transfer value an economic energy power and capital without a trusted intermediary, and now that we live in the year 2024, and we have self driving cars, robot etc.… Come on, Shouldn’t we make money cyber digital and infallible?

Nobody knows how many US dollars actually exist

The closest thing we could do is track the M2 money supply, but even that… It is impossible to account for every single hundred dollar bill stuffed under a mattress in Brooklyn Queens, or in Saigon, or how many US dollars have simply been lost, or fell to the bottom of the floor in a shipwreck.

With bitcoin, you could exactly 100% track all the bitcoins on the planet. 21 million, forever. Forever times forever. And it could exist even if America no longer exists, and this is a big idea because America has been around for what like 350 years so far? It will probably be around for another three 400 years, if we think about the Lindy effect of Nasim Taleb, but doubtful if America will be around 3000 years from now, but bitcoin will.

The unity and unifier of humanity

If bitcoin bonds me with somebody from Sri Lanka, the Middle East, northern Sweden, Nigeria, Lagos, El Salvador and the like,,, and we could all accept the fact that this is in fact, valuable digital capital, digital property, isn’t this a good thing for humanity?

Even the biggest threats that we have is about China maybe Russia and North Korea; etc., but if everyone adopted bitcoin, certainly no one would want a World War III because without a world there would be no bitcoin.

Peer to peer seems to make more sense.

So one of the things I like about cash is that if you give somebody a $20 bill, or $100 bill or $50 bill, it means something. To me I consider cash paper money to be warm currency, for example if you tip the waiter $60 in three $20 bills, or if you insert a $10 bill to your local coffee bar barista, it will bring them 1 million times more joy than if you deposited that money in a computer.

I almost think that bitcoin and Satoshi’s should be the same: for example if I want to buy your house, and let us say that your house is worth one bitcoin, isn’t it easier that I just use my iPhone to send you a bitcoin, directly to your iPhone, and we could immediately prove that the bitcoin was sent, and then you could just hand over the deed to your house? This would be a big deal because we would no longer need these sleazy real estate agents.

Or, let us say that I like your cyber truck, and you like my bitcoin. Then I could send you like a 10th of a bitcoin for your cyber truck. Or I could send you half of bitcoin for your Lamborghini. Or I could send you a bitcoin for your yacht. Whatever it may be.

It seems to be so much easier, even right now on craigslist, cryptocurrency OK is an option. And to me it seems much safer than walking around with a suitcase full of cash, for example if you just want to buy even a basic vehicle from somebody, on craigslist, assuming that it is less than $5000, it seems kind of dangerous to try to wire somebody the money through a bank, or certainly showing up with a suitcase of $100 notes also seems dangerous. I would not trust this.

With bitcoin it is great because nobody could like confiscate it from you, and also… Nobody has any idea how much bitcoins you own, you could just memorize the number inside your head.

inclusive vs exclusive 

Nowadays the rhetoric is all about inclusivity, the truth is we seek exclusivity.

For example, if you really believe that inclusivity or a virtue you would probably say that McDonald’s was the best restaurant on the planet. Or that a Starbucks Frappuccino is in fact the best vintage on the planet. Or that a Toyota Corolla was the most desirable car. Or that Cal State Fullerton was the most desirable university to go to.

Everybody knows that exclusivity is critical here; for example, the reason why Harvard is the number one institution in the states and possibly the planet is because of their exclusivity. Ain’t not nobody could just go to Harvard, you can’t even pay your way in, you need money and you need skills and brains.

Everyone wants to send their kids to Harvard, every rich mainland Chinese person, all the Gark from South Korea whatever. Even I believe that Kim Jong-un studied abroad as a student at some sort of private UK university?

I think people get a little bit confused with words; certainly I believe in the notion of equal access like anybody could apply to go into Harvard, but whether everybody will be accepted into Harvard is a different thing. 

So currently people like to throw around the word crypto, thinking that crypto and bitcoin is the same thing. No it is not.

It’s also kind of like how people like to use the notion of just calling it a smart phone, but no it is not a smart phone it is an iPhone, just like we called a Kleenex not a paper tissue, these differences matter.

Even the whole notion of a EV electric vehicle is bizarre; it is either a Tesla or nothing.

So I think the whole market of cryptocurrencies, essentially anything that is not bitcoin is kind of bad. Why? Considering that Ethereum and everything after it is based on proof of stake, like proof of stake it makes no sense, imagine like staking a piece of wood into a piece of land and property and just exclaiming to the universe that “this belongs to me“!” Versus proof of work, proof of work is like actually inputted energy and physical power to yield this product.

To anybody who says that bitcoin is bad for the planet… Don’t you realize that air conditioning accounts for like 33% of the worlds electricity? And nobody is really on a Crusade to ban air conditioning. I think bitcoin accounts for like .01% of the world energy usage.

I think… If we banned air-conditioning what would happen to all the poor people in Arizona and Nevada? 

Also another random environmental thing, apparently I learned that gasoline petroleum and oil prevents like 95% of humanity from dying.

If you think of bitcoin like the first true perfected money, like switching the From toxic to clean, shouldn’t this be the primary focus of humanity?

For example, if the whole time you just been drinking sewer water, and then somebody finally gives you a glass of Fiji, wouldn’t you want yourself with your family and your best friends to drink the Fiji not the sewer water?

The traditional fiat currency US dollars and its derivatives is like sewer water, bitcoin is like the Fiji water. 

a new purpose in life

So I think my first decade and a half of my journey was focused on photography Street photography open-source photography and photography empowerment and the like. And I’m still going to do it for the rest of my life – people are a little bit confused with my interest in bitcoin and economics and money, but don’t you understand… If you have financial freedom using bitcoin, like if you could retire right now with bitcoin, wouldn’t you just retire right now travel the planet and shoot photos?

So in this sense, bitcoin may be more important than photography and our hobbies because if bitcoin could enable you 100% financial independence, shouldn’t this be your focus?

how to retire right now with bitcoin

So some simple ways you could do it:

The first thought is just figuring out your monthly expenses, and actually ideally, you would not live in America, but rather live in a developing country like Cambodia allows Thailand, Vietnam, even in Mexico City or I guess El Salvador?

Things in America is starting to get ridiculous.  even now… When I stare at a $20 bill it almost feels like the new five dollar bill? A dollar bill feels like a quarter, even $100 bill feels like the new 20?

I mean just look at housing prices, a tiny single-family house in Culver city is 1.5 million for a two bedroom one bath.

Or eating out, the average all you eat Korean barbecue is not like $75 a person. Compare this to Vietnam where you could afford the same meal for like $8 to $12.

Or rent, $3200 a month for a nice two bed one bath apartment in Los Angeles, maybe $320 a month in Hanoi or Saigon for the same level. You’re literally overpaying 10 X in America, assuming that you live abroad you could reduce your living expenses by like 90%.

52 years of paying rent?

So Trump has not yet taken office, and it seems that the truth is nobody knows with 100% certainty what is going to happen to the future of the economy.

The tricky thing with inflation is that it is kind of like a one-way ratchet; if you increase the minimum wage to $20, you cannot rewind it back to 18 or $19 an hour, there might be riots.

So at best, we can either slow down or maybe potentially stop inflation, but the damage has already been done.

Even in LA, buying a single-family house in the hood is going to run you at least 1 million, $1.1 million. And if you do the math, with interest rates or whatever… You’re gonna be paying like what $8000-$10,000a month? That’s insane!

If there’s no strong reason for you to be in America I recommend you to leave.

Living forever

So the great promise I have with bitcoin, micro strategy stock is that I will never run out of money, neither will Seneca or his kids.

Creating immortal capital for your kids and their kids kids kids kids, seems to be a good idea.

And also the good thing with bitcoin is that assuming that bitcoin is the first true digital and cyber property and real estate, that doesn’t require maintenance costs, or the decay of physicality, this is kind of a big idea. Why? They could just sit and do nothing and remain wealthy forever. The only dumb thing to do is sell the bitcoin.

Never sell the bitcoin, it’s like selling land or property on fifth Avenue in New York!

ERIC

Podcast

Joy, maybe the simplest Three letter word in the American dictionary, but kind of what we are aiming for.

For example, the joyful wisdom from Nietzsche,  or thinking about Christmas carols, “joy to the world!”

how and why is joy so elusive?

 many problems at hand:

First, modern Day Society is not about joy, rather it is about like hedonic pleasure maximization, which is different to me than joy.

What is Joy? Joy is the hug and snuggle and embrace of your child, reading him a bedtime story, or the joy of getting all you can eat eat Korean Japanese Wagyu barbecue with your beautiful family (Chubby cattle, my new favorite joint!)

Joy is the joy of discovering an interesting idea or concept, and also the joy of sharing it with others.

The reason why joy is such a difficult notion is that actually, modern day society is more focused about misery. Misery is much more profitable than joy.

For example, when is the last time you watched a joyful movie or film or television series that did not have some sort of strange fake drama added to it?

Joy is already within you

If I invoke Thic neat Hanh, the wise Zen Sage, the general idea that he has is that the seeds of happiness are already within us, they lie nascent within us.

For example, even Jesus, I think his words are often misconstrued, like a simple one… The kingdom of God is already within you. And that heaven, is essentially the joy of your family on earth. Heaven is not a place that you go in the afterlife.

Even the Jesus saying about the kingdom of God, the wisdom of a child.

Generally a lot of modern day Christian theology should just be thought of as “St. Paulism”– who sent you was kind of a troubled man, fighting his own demons, insult salvation and trying to misconstrue the teachings of Jesus to fit his own personal narrative?

Anyways, joy is critical. I almost feel like it is our duty to be joyful, and also more importantly to spread joy, seeds of joy and hope.

Why?

I mean first thing is kind of like a love of humanity. For example if you have dear friends and family, who you care for, and they do not show any signs of joy, in fact they show the signs of misery the exact opposite… Obviously from a basic perspective we’re going to feel some sort of compassion and we’re going to want to help alleviate their situation and reduce their suffering. I think there’s naturally a bit of autism in all of us, even though that these haters of humanity might think otherwise.

My mom told me this interesting saying in Korean is that you cannot spit on the face of somebody who smiles at you.

So generally, I always try to approach and treat everybody with love, kindness, gratitude, even if it looks like they’re not having it. Why? It Doesn’t really cost me anything, and also, it just feels like the right thing to do!

How to spread seeds of joy

First, I think joy could be infectious, and I also believe that the power of joy can actually supersede that of hate envy jealousy and all these other negative emotions.

I think the first thing is to deposit that we desire joy. That it is a desirable thing.

The archer

So for example, if you’re an archer, and your goals to hit the mark, you kinda need to know what to aim for. If you’re aiming for other random stuff, you might hit the mark, but you’ve hit the mark and the target of something other random thing.

So for example most of modern day capitalism and hedonism maximization has to deal with silly notions of purchasing stuff? Like purchasing the Rolls, the Lambo, or having a certain amount of money in your bank account. Now that I have achieved all of my flesh found goals, and have achieved all the rings of success, I could actually honestly a test now that it is all fine, but not really the goal. Maybe to me joy is much more interesting.

So for example, the joy of being outside, the joy of walking, even Thich Nhat Hanh talk a lot about the joy of walking meditation. The general idea and just is every time you take a step, you just repeated to yourself “I have arrived, I have arrived, I have arrived.

The general idea is that you don’t really have a destination you need to get to, but instead the joint itself is the walking.

Walking is joy?

To me actually the thing I hit the most feeling cramped at home. I don’t know… Maybe my personal ethos and spirit is like an outdoor spirit; I must be outside.

Often times the reason that I hate the winter months is simply that it is kind of a discouragement from going outside. If the ultimate goal is to be outside, any sort of circumstances which allow for it is good.

For example, it seems like in America at least, Los Angeles may be the least bad place to be because you could essentially always be outside. Even when it gets cold, trust me you could get cold, but it never gets that cold. Like not Michigan winter cold.

As a consequence, I think the wise goal is to be outside all day every day! The only thing I hated about employment was feeling trapped like a prisoner inside the cubicle office; I almost feel like the humane thing to do is give your employees the option; I’m going to the office whenever they want to, or just working from home if they want to. Or be able to take Zoom calls while hiking in the mountains with their AirPods, voice without WebCam.

Because the issue is post of employment is more about monitoring, rather than maximization. It seems that everyone is so afraid that your employees are going to become lazy, complacent, fail to obey the rules etc. Or worse, they’re going to be degenerates just watching Netflix all day, while they should be working.

My personal belief and thought is that actually… Perhaps the purpose of it all should be to simply maximize your efficiency yield, which does not require a simple mathematical equation: more hours in the office do not equal more productivity. For example, if the ultimate goal is productivity maximization, then actually, the real wise goal is instead, to allow your employees to work however they want, because the truth is happy employees are productive employees.

And isn’t the goal to squeeze out productivity from your employees and or yourself? If that is the case, make happiness enjoy your goal ethos and method.

Tips

As a general thought, anything which encourages you to do more walking, taking the bus or public transit, the train or whatever is good. Anything that motivates you to be stuck in a car is bad.

For example, one of the worst trade-offs that people do is to live somewhere super super far away, in the suburb somewhere in order to somehow increase their living space, like buying a bigger house outside of their general workplace or whatever. But once again this is like the worst trade-off ever.

To be stuck in a car More than necessary almost seems unethical to me. It’s like chickens stuck in a cage, forced to cluck more and more, to produce more eggs, stimulated by fake natural and artificial sleep cycles. 

And if you think about the average human being, the average worker be, it is almost kind of like the same idea. We are conditioned to think that the desired outcome is to be stuck inside some sort of cubicle luxury cage, even this whole ridiculous notion of wanting some sort of luxury vehicle is like promoting sitting?

To sit is the exact opposite of joy 

The joy of life is inside your legs, the muscularity of your Bipe lifestyle, not your butt. To me butts are only for pooing, nothing else.

And also, I think it is quite apparent, that the more time somebody spends seated, it actually shuts down your metabolism, power, energy etc. For example even if you’re in the world‘s best Ferrari Lamborghini Porsche 911 GT 3S whatever, or even a Tesla model S plaid or a cyber truck, the losing bet you have here is that once again, you’re forced to sit on your butt! Another crime against humanity.

To think more walk more 

Many of us, thoughts are our primary joy, the joy of thinking, of being, of existing in the world.

No human being wants to be stuck inside an apple Vision Pro with a multi directional treadmill thing, with all the haptics in the world, even if you have a flashlight attached to your dick, and something licking your testicles, no no no this is not the goal.

Once again, this sounds like a bad joke but it’s actually pretty true. For women you might not know but I would actually say with quite certainty that 99.999% of men probably release their seed at least once a day on some sort of laptop iPad or iPhone device, often in incognito mode, or a VPN enabled. Just ask any techie, what their opinion of Maria Ozawa is, and you could see the wheels turning in their head. 

Or, a simple thing is if you have a friend with a laptop, like a MacBook Air or a MacBook Pro or whatever, just go to the application folder, and see whether they have a VPN enabled or not, whether they have some sort of torrenting application. I could then guarantee you with almost 100% precision that they’re dipping into pirate Bay, and also probably downloading stuff which has something to do with naked women doing stuff.

so why does this any of this matter?

I think this matters a lot because at least for men… 99.9% of all this consumer nonsense we are being sold is apparently to increase our sex appeal, in order to bang more beautiful babes?

Even money, it’s typically seen as a conduit to attracting beautiful women, with marvelous breasts, butts, faces physiques etc., in order to ejaculate in them or on them or whatever.

Now I find this whole thing kind of ridiculous because once again, actually if you think about the real men of antiquity, they would actually practice semen retention, knowing that their seed was the most valuable thing of them all, for example, if you wanted to obtain the semen of Elon Musk, How expensive would it be worth? A lot.

Or, if you obtain the semen of like an old 80-year-old man, was like 4’10” tall, how much would that be worth? Not much.

And actually, this is where the whole thing is a bit tragic is that we men are simply wasting our energy and physiological power, into thin air.

In the Bible or whatever or Christian morality we are taught that masturbation or spilling your seed on the floor is considered sinful. But I don’t think it is sinful, it is just like wasted energy. For example if you had 1 million bucks, and you just threw it into the shredder or furnace, Certainly this would be a poor idea. If you think about your semen like being economic and physiological energy and power, your physiological capital,  would you just dump it somewhere that does not yield a child? Obviously not!

NEW GOALS

So I thought I had this morning is why is it so difficult to become new? Do you think new, to adopt new lines of thinking etc.

I think it might be a natural thing, we are like dogs, trained in our old ways and habits etc. This is where traveling could be so beneficial to many people because when you start to travel, it forces you to break out of your routine, to find new grooves in your old vinyl record.

I think the human mind is also similar, the only reason people typically consume three square meals a day is that they have been conditioned to do so. The human body is not like an automobile gasoline car, you do not need to insert food in order to yield energy and movement. The average human has enough body fit on themselves to themselves for 40 days without dying. Let alone four hours, maybe even four days.

And for people who think that this is so crazy, I’ve essentially done intermittent fasting ever since as in Vietnam in 2017, for almost 7 years now. No breakfast no lunch, only a 100% carnivorous dinner.

---

The joy of bitcoin

A lot of people ask me what the point of purchasing bitcoin is, there’s almost like the joy of ownership, the joy of owning property. So for example if you’re like an average American, a baby boomer or maybe even Gen X, the general idea is that if you own a piece of land property, you can sit on your patio, And smile thinking that “this belongs to me!” But the sad reality is that it does not, it belongs to the government, to the federal government.

And this is where I think the great innovation and disruption of bitcoin is; it actually belongs to you and cannot be seized or text without your consent.

However, if you own prime real estate in Manhattan or Gangnam or Tokyo, you cannot hide it from the government or the local federal government agencies. They’re going to find a way to text you, find a way to spite you and hate you for owning all that stuff.

invisible wealth

Once again, the reason why bitcoin is so disruptive is that it is like having invisible property and well, which is real.

For example, people often criticize bitcoin for not being real, but then again… Are the ones and zeros in your bank account balance real? Is your Apple stock “real“, can you print out a piece of Apple stock or 100 or 1000 of it, or can you print out Tesla stock, and say that it is “real”?

One might then say the analogy that it is real because Apple critic is real products and services and Tesla produces real vehicles.

But look at Google, do they produce anything “real”? No. Their search business is like 99% of their revenue, but does Google exist in the physical realm? No! But then you can talk about the data centers whatever… Then if you use that analogy, then, don’t you realize that the bitcoin network is like if you took all the data centers of Apple Amazon Facebook Google and combined all of them, it wouldn’t even be a 10th of the power of the bitcoin network?

Also what a lot of people don’t understand is that there has already been like $890 billion of real US dollars injected into the network. And there has also been billions of dollars invested in the bitcoin mining centers, which should just be better seen as a security network, one does not really “mine“ bitcoin, rather, you just protect it.

And also if you think about cryptography it is just like a bunch of computers solving very difficult mathematical equations, to prove security.

ephemeral things are difficult to understand

It is difficult to explain the cloud to your mom or grandma.

Even for my mom, for a very very long time I tried to explain the whole idea of the Google cloud etc. to her, it doesn’t really make sense.

We understand money, dollar bills, paying the rent and paying for food and gas etc., but how many Americans or people really understand how money is created, minted, and also destroyed by a central government agency?

Even in the past, people understood that gold was money. That gold coins and gold bricks were money. Can you imagine showing up to King Agamemnon or Achilles with a bunch of green blue paper notes, with a face printed on it, telling them that they could exchange this for 100 heads of oxen? No! Or can you try imagine getting them to trade their mythical armor for a suitcase of paper slips? No!

Even Fernandina Kalyani in his treaty on money, de Monetta, commented how it was strange for the Puritans in America at the time, I think he wrote this in the 1700s, over 300 years ago, the only reason why paper trade was facilitated amongst the Quakers was because there was some sort of religious God trust between them; One of the earliest accounts of paper fiat currency.

Even if you think about a stock, or a bond, historically it was just a piece of paper which was a certificate which was faith in the US government or the other party, and there was often a trusted intermediary in between. And if you did not have a trusted intermediary, The whole thing would fall apart.

And this is where bitcoin is so radical, you could essentially store or transfer value an economic energy power and capital without a trusted intermediary, and now that we live in the year 2024, and we have self driving cars, robot etc.… Come on, Shouldn’t we make money cyber digital and infallible?

Nobody knows how many US dollars actually exist

The closest thing we could do is track the M2 money supply, but even that… It is impossible to account for every single hundred dollar bill stuffed under a mattress in Brooklyn Queens, or in Saigon, or how many US dollars have simply been lost, or fell to the bottom of the floor in a shipwreck.

With bitcoin, you could exactly 100% track all the bitcoins on the planet. 21 million, forever. Forever times forever. And it could exist even if America no longer exists, and this is a big idea because America has been around for what like 350 years so far? It will probably be around for another three 400 years, if we think about the Lindy effect of Nasim Taleb, but doubtful if America will be around 3000 years from now, but bitcoin will.

The unity and unifier of humanity

If bitcoin bonds me with somebody from Sri Lanka, the Middle East, northern Sweden, Nigeria, Lagos, El Salvador and the like,,, and we could all accept the fact that this is in fact, valuable digital capital, digital property, isn’t this a good thing for humanity?

Even the biggest threats that we have is about China maybe Russia and North Korea; etc., but if everyone adopted bitcoin, certainly no one would want a World War III because without a world there would be no bitcoin.

Peer to peer seems to make more sense.

So one of the things I like about cash is that if you give somebody a $20 bill, or $100 bill or $50 bill, it means something. To me I consider cash paper money to be warm currency, for example if you tip the waiter $60 in three $20 bills, or if you insert a $10 bill to your local coffee bar barista, it will bring them 1 million times more joy than if you deposited that money in a computer.

I almost think that bitcoin and Satoshi’s should be the same: for example if I want to buy your house, and let us say that your house is worth one bitcoin, isn’t it easier that I just use my iPhone to send you a bitcoin, directly to your iPhone, and we could immediately prove that the bitcoin was sent, and then you could just hand over the deed to your house? This would be a big deal because we would no longer need these sleazy real estate agents.

Or, let us say that I like your cyber truck, and you like my bitcoin. Then I could send you like a 10th of a bitcoin for your cyber truck. Or I could send you half of bitcoin for your Lamborghini. Or I could send you a bitcoin for your yacht. Whatever it may be.

It seems to be so much easier, even right now on craigslist, cryptocurrency OK is an option. And to me it seems much safer than walking around with a suitcase full of cash, for example if you just want to buy even a basic vehicle from somebody, on craigslist, assuming that it is less than $5000, it seems kind of dangerous to try to wire somebody the money through a bank, or certainly showing up with a suitcase of $100 notes also seems dangerous. I would not trust this.

With bitcoin it is great because nobody could like confiscate it from you, and also… Nobody has any idea how much bitcoins you own, you could just memorize the number inside your head.

inclusive vs exclusive 

Nowadays the rhetoric is all about inclusivity, the truth is we seek exclusivity.

For example, if you really believe that inclusivity or a virtue you would probably say that McDonald’s was the best restaurant on the planet. Or that a Starbucks Frappuccino is in fact the best vintage on the planet. Or that a Toyota Corolla was the most desirable car. Or that Cal State Fullerton was the most desirable university to go to.

Everybody knows that exclusivity is critical here; for example, the reason why Harvard is the number one institution in the states and possibly the planet is because of their exclusivity. Ain’t not nobody could just go to Harvard, you can’t even pay your way in, you need money and you need skills and brains.

Everyone wants to send their kids to Harvard, every rich mainland Chinese person, all the Gark from South Korea whatever. Even I believe that Kim Jong-un studied abroad as a student at some sort of private UK university?

I think people get a little bit confused with words; certainly I believe in the notion of equal access like anybody could apply to go into Harvard, but whether everybody will be accepted into Harvard is a different thing. 

So currently people like to throw around the word crypto, thinking that crypto and bitcoin is the same thing. No it is not.

It’s also kind of like how people like to use the notion of just calling it a smart phone, but no it is not a smart phone it is an iPhone, just like we called a Kleenex not a paper tissue, these differences matter.

Even the whole notion of a EV electric vehicle is bizarre; it is either a Tesla or nothing.

So I think the whole market of cryptocurrencies, essentially anything that is not bitcoin is kind of bad. Why? Considering that Ethereum and everything after it is based on proof of stake, like proof of stake it makes no sense, imagine like staking a piece of wood into a piece of land and property and just exclaiming to the universe that “this belongs to me“!” Versus proof of work, proof of work is like actually inputted energy and physical power to yield this product.

To anybody who says that bitcoin is bad for the planet… Don’t you realize that air conditioning accounts for like 33% of the worlds electricity? And nobody is really on a Crusade to ban air conditioning. I think bitcoin accounts for like .01% of the world energy usage.

I think… If we banned air-conditioning what would happen to all the poor people in Arizona and Nevada? 

Also another random environmental thing, apparently I learned that gasoline petroleum and oil prevents like 95% of humanity from dying.

If you think of bitcoin like the first true perfected money, like switching the From toxic to clean, shouldn’t this be the primary focus of humanity?

For example, if the whole time you just been drinking sewer water, and then somebody finally gives you a glass of Fiji, wouldn’t you want yourself with your family and your best friends to drink the Fiji not the sewer water?

The traditional fiat currency US dollars and its derivatives is like sewer water, bitcoin is like the Fiji water. 

a new purpose in life

So I think my first decade and a half of my journey was focused on photography Street photography open-source photography and photography empowerment and the like. And I’m still going to do it for the rest of my life – people are a little bit confused with my interest in bitcoin and economics and money, but don’t you understand… If you have financial freedom using bitcoin, like if you could retire right now with bitcoin, wouldn’t you just retire right now travel the planet and shoot photos?

So in this sense, bitcoin may be more important than photography and our hobbies because if bitcoin could enable you 100% financial independence, shouldn’t this be your focus?

how to retire right now with bitcoin

So some simple ways you could do it:

The first thought is just figuring out your monthly expenses, and actually ideally, you would not live in America, but rather live in a developing country like Cambodia allows Thailand, Vietnam, even in Mexico City or I guess El Salvador?

Things in America is starting to get ridiculous.  even now… When I stare at a $20 bill it almost feels like the new five dollar bill? A dollar bill feels like a quarter, even $100 bill feels like the new 20?

I mean just look at housing prices, a tiny single-family house in Culver city is 1.5 million for a two bedroom one bath.

Or eating out, the average all you eat Korean barbecue is not like $75 a person. Compare this to Vietnam where you could afford the same meal for like $8 to $12.

Or rent, $3200 a month for a nice two bed one bath apartment in Los Angeles, maybe $320 a month in Hanoi or Saigon for the same level. You’re literally overpaying 10 X in America, assuming that you live abroad you could reduce your living expenses by like 90%.

52 years of paying rent?

So Trump has not yet taken office, and it seems that the truth is nobody knows with 100% certainty what is going to happen to the future of the economy.

The tricky thing with inflation is that it is kind of like a one-way ratchet; if you increase the minimum wage to $20, you cannot rewind it back to 18 or $19 an hour, there might be riots.

So at best, we can either slow down or maybe potentially stop inflation, but the damage has already been done.

Even in LA, buying a single-family house in the hood is going to run you at least 1 million, $1.1 million. And if you do the math, with interest rates or whatever… You’re gonna be paying like what $8000-$10,000a month? That’s insane!

If there’s no strong reason for you to be in America I recommend you to leave.

Living forever

So the great promise I have with bitcoin, micro strategy stock is that I will never run out of money, neither will Seneca or his kids.

Creating immortal capital for your kids and their kids kids kids kids, seems to be a good idea.

And also the good thing with bitcoin is that assuming that bitcoin is the first true digital and cyber property and real estate, that doesn’t require maintenance costs, or the decay of physicality, this is kind of a big idea. Why? They could just sit and do nothing and remain wealthy forever. The only dumb thing to do is sell the bitcoin.

Never sell the bitcoin, it’s like selling land or property on fifth Avenue in New York!

ERIC

Bitcoin prophet —

Joy audio

---

The Imperative of Joy

Joy, maybe the simplest Three letter word in the American dictionary, but kind of what we are aiming for.

For example, the joyful wisdom from Nietzsche,  or thinking about Christmas carols, “joy to the world!”

how and why is joy so elusive?

 many problems at hand:

First, modern Day Society is not about joy, rather it is about like hedonic pleasure maximization, which is different to me than joy.

What is Joy? Joy is the hug and snuggle and embrace of your child, reading him a bedtime story, or the joy of getting all you can eat eat Korean Japanese Wagyu barbecue with your beautiful family (Chubby cattle, my new favorite joint!)

Joy is the joy of discovering an interesting idea or concept, and also the joy of sharing it with others.

The reason why joy is such a difficult notion is that actually, modern day society is more focused about misery. Misery is much more profitable than joy.

For example, when is the last time you watched a joyful movie or film or television series that did not have some sort of strange fake drama added to it?

Joy is already within you

If I invoke Thic neat Hanh, the wise Zen Sage, the general idea that he has is that the seeds of happiness are already within us, they lie nascent within us.

For example, even Jesus, I think his words are often misconstrued, like a simple one… The kingdom of God is already within you. And that heaven, is essentially the joy of your family on earth. Heaven is not a place that you go in the afterlife.

Even the Jesus saying about the kingdom of God, the wisdom of a child.

Generally a lot of modern day Christian theology should just be thought of as “St. Paulism”– who sent you was kind of a troubled man, fighting his own demons, insult salvation and trying to misconstrue the teachings of Jesus to fit his own personal narrative?

Anyways, joy is critical. I almost feel like it is our duty to be joyful, and also more importantly to spread joy, seeds of joy and hope.

Why?

I mean first thing is kind of like a love of humanity. For example if you have dear friends and family, who you care for, and they do not show any signs of joy, in fact they show the signs of misery the exact opposite… Obviously from a basic perspective we’re going to feel some sort of compassion and we’re going to want to help alleviate their situation and reduce their suffering. I think there’s naturally a bit of autism in all of us, even though that these haters of humanity might think otherwise.

My mom told me this interesting saying in Korean is that you cannot spit on the face of somebody who smiles at you.

So generally, I always try to approach and treat everybody with love, kindness, gratitude, even if it looks like they’re not having it. Why? It Doesn’t really cost me anything, and also, it just feels like the right thing to do!

How to spread seeds of joy

First, I think joy could be infectious, and I also believe that the power of joy can actually supersede that of hate envy jealousy and all these other negative emotions.

I think the first thing is to deposit that we desire joy. That it is a desirable thing.

The archer

So for example, if you’re an archer, and your goals to hit the mark, you kinda need to know what to aim for. If you’re aiming for other random stuff, you might hit the mark, but you’ve hit the mark and the target of something other random thing.

So for example most of modern day capitalism and hedonism maximization has to deal with silly notions of purchasing stuff? Like purchasing the Rolls, the Lambo, or having a certain amount of money in your bank account. Now that I have achieved all of my flesh found goals, and have achieved all the rings of success, I could actually honestly a test now that it is all fine, but not really the goal. Maybe to me joy is much more interesting.

So for example, the joy of being outside, the joy of walking, even Thich Nhat Hanh talk a lot about the joy of walking meditation. The general idea and just is every time you take a step, you just repeated to yourself “I have arrived, I have arrived, I have arrived.

The general idea is that you don’t really have a destination you need to get to, but instead the joint itself is the walking.

Walking is joy?

To me actually the thing I hit the most feeling cramped at home. I don’t know… Maybe my personal ethos and spirit is like an outdoor spirit; I must be outside.

Often times the reason that I hate the winter months is simply that it is kind of a discouragement from going outside. If the ultimate goal is to be outside, any sort of circumstances which allow for it is good.

For example, it seems like in America at least, Los Angeles may be the least bad place to be because you could essentially always be outside. Even when it gets cold, trust me you could get cold, but it never gets that cold. Like not Michigan winter cold.

As a consequence, I think the wise goal is to be outside all day every day! The only thing I hated about employment was feeling trapped like a prisoner inside the cubicle office; I almost feel like the humane thing to do is give your employees the option; I’m going to the office whenever they want to, or just working from home if they want to. Or be able to take Zoom calls while hiking in the mountains with their AirPods, voice without WebCam.

Because the issue is post of employment is more about monitoring, rather than maximization. It seems that everyone is so afraid that your employees are going to become lazy, complacent, fail to obey the rules etc. Or worse, they’re going to be degenerates just watching Netflix all day, while they should be working.

My personal belief and thought is that actually… Perhaps the purpose of it all should be to simply maximize your efficiency yield, which does not require a simple mathematical equation: more hours in the office do not equal more productivity. For example, if the ultimate goal is productivity maximization, then actually, the real wise goal is instead, to allow your employees to work however they want, because the truth is happy employees are productive employees.

And isn’t the goal to squeeze out productivity from your employees and or yourself? If that is the case, make happiness enjoy your goal ethos and method.

Tips

As a general thought, anything which encourages you to do more walking, taking the bus or public transit, the train or whatever is good. Anything that motivates you to be stuck in a car is bad.

For example, one of the worst trade-offs that people do is to live somewhere super super far away, in the suburb somewhere in order to somehow increase their living space, like buying a bigger house outside of their general workplace or whatever. But once again this is like the worst trade-off ever.

To be stuck in a car More than necessary almost seems unethical to me. It’s like chickens stuck in a cage, forced to cluck more and more, to produce more eggs, stimulated by fake natural and artificial sleep cycles. 

And if you think about the average human being, the average worker be, it is almost kind of like the same idea. We are conditioned to think that the desired outcome is to be stuck inside some sort of cubicle luxury cage, even this whole ridiculous notion of wanting some sort of luxury vehicle is like promoting sitting?

To sit is the exact opposite of joy 

The joy of life is inside your legs, the muscularity of your Bipe lifestyle, not your butt. To me butts are only for pooing, nothing else.

And also, I think it is quite apparent, that the more time somebody spends seated, it actually shuts down your metabolism, power, energy etc. For example even if you’re in the world‘s best Ferrari Lamborghini Porsche 911 GT 3S whatever, or even a Tesla model S plaid or a cyber truck, the losing bet you have here is that once again, you’re forced to sit on your butt! Another crime against humanity.

To think more walk more 

Many of us, thoughts are our primary joy, the joy of thinking, of being, of existing in the world.

No human being wants to be stuck inside an apple Vision Pro with a multi directional treadmill thing, with all the haptics in the world, even if you have a flashlight attached to your dick, and something licking your testicles, no no no this is not the goal.

Once again, this sounds like a bad joke but it’s actually pretty true. For women you might not know but I would actually say with quite certainty that 99.999% of men probably release their seed at least once a day on some sort of laptop iPad or iPhone device, often in incognito mode, or a VPN enabled. Just ask any techie, what their opinion of Maria Ozawa is, and you could see the wheels turning in their head. 

Or, a simple thing is if you have a friend with a laptop, like a MacBook Air or a MacBook Pro or whatever, just go to the application folder, and see whether they have a VPN enabled or not, whether they have some sort of torrenting application. I could then guarantee you with almost 100% precision that they’re dipping into pirate Bay, and also probably downloading stuff which has something to do with naked women doing stuff.

so why does this any of this matter?

I think this matters a lot because at least for men… 99.9% of all this consumer nonsense we are being sold is apparently to increase our sex appeal, in order to bang more beautiful babes?

Even money, it’s typically seen as a conduit to attracting beautiful women, with marvelous breasts, butts, faces physiques etc., in order to ejaculate in them or on them or whatever.

Now I find this whole thing kind of ridiculous because once again, actually if you think about the real men of antiquity, they would actually practice semen retention, knowing that their seed was the most valuable thing of them all, for example, if you wanted to obtain the semen of Elon Musk, How expensive would it be worth? A lot.

Or, if you obtain the semen of like an old 80-year-old man, was like 4’10” tall, how much would that be worth? Not much.

And actually, this is where the whole thing is a bit tragic is that we men are simply wasting our energy and physiological power, into thin air.

In the Bible or whatever or Christian morality we are taught that masturbation or spilling your seed on the floor is considered sinful. But I don’t think it is sinful, it is just like wasted energy. For example if you had 1 million bucks, and you just threw it into the shredder or furnace, Certainly this would be a poor idea. If you think about your semen like being economic and physiological energy and power, your physiological capital,  would you just dump it somewhere that does not yield a child? Obviously not!

NEW GOALS

So I thought I had this morning is why is it so difficult to become new? Do you think new, to adopt new lines of thinking etc.

I think it might be a natural thing, we are like dogs, trained in our old ways and habits etc. This is where traveling could be so beneficial to many people because when you start to travel, it forces you to break out of your routine, to find new grooves in your old vinyl record.

I think the human mind is also similar, the only reason people typically consume three square meals a day is that they have been conditioned to do so. The human body is not like an automobile gasoline car, you do not need to insert food in order to yield energy and movement. The average human has enough body fit on themselves to themselves for 40 days without dying. Let alone four hours, maybe even four days.

And for people who think that this is so crazy, I’ve essentially done intermittent fasting ever since as in Vietnam in 2017, for almost 7 years now. No breakfast no lunch, only a 100% carnivorous dinner.

---

The joy of bitcoin

A lot of people ask me what the point of purchasing bitcoin is, there’s almost like the joy of ownership, the joy of owning property. So for example if you’re like an average American, a baby boomer or maybe even Gen X, the general idea is that if you own a piece of land property, you can sit on your patio, And smile thinking that “this belongs to me!” But the sad reality is that it does not, it belongs to the government, to the federal government.

And this is where I think the great innovation and disruption of bitcoin is; it actually belongs to you and cannot be seized or text without your consent.

However, if you own prime real estate in Manhattan or Gangnam or Tokyo, you cannot hide it from the government or the local federal government agencies. They’re going to find a way to text you, find a way to spite you and hate you for owning all that stuff.

invisible wealth

Once again, the reason why bitcoin is so disruptive is that it is like having invisible property and well, which is real.

For example, people often criticize bitcoin for not being real, but then again… Are the ones and zeros in your bank account balance real? Is your Apple stock “real“, can you print out a piece of Apple stock or 100 or 1000 of it, or can you print out Tesla stock, and say that it is “real”?

One might then say the analogy that it is real because Apple critic is real products and services and Tesla produces real vehicles.

But look at Google, do they produce anything “real”? No. Their search business is like 99% of their revenue, but does Google exist in the physical realm? No! But then you can talk about the data centers whatever… Then if you use that analogy, then, don’t you realize that the bitcoin network is like if you took all the data centers of Apple Amazon Facebook Google and combined all of them, it wouldn’t even be a 10th of the power of the bitcoin network?

Also what a lot of people don’t understand is that there has already been like $890 billion of real US dollars injected into the network. And there has also been billions of dollars invested in the bitcoin mining centers, which should just be better seen as a security network, one does not really “mine“ bitcoin, rather, you just protect it.

And also if you think about cryptography it is just like a bunch of computers solving very difficult mathematical equations, to prove security.

ephemeral things are difficult to understand

It is difficult to explain the cloud to your mom or grandma.

Even for my mom, for a very very long time I tried to explain the whole idea of the Google cloud etc. to her, it doesn’t really make sense.

We understand money, dollar bills, paying the rent and paying for food and gas etc., but how many Americans or people really understand how money is created, minted, and also destroyed by a central government agency?

Even in the past, people understood that gold was money. That gold coins and gold bricks were money. Can you imagine showing up to King Agamemnon or Achilles with a bunch of green blue paper notes, with a face printed on it, telling them that they could exchange this for 100 heads of oxen? No! Or can you try imagine getting them to trade their mythical armor for a suitcase of paper slips? No!

Even Fernandina Kalyani in his treaty on money, de Monetta, commented how it was strange for the Puritans in America at the time, I think he wrote this in the 1700s, over 300 years ago, the only reason why paper trade was facilitated amongst the Quakers was because there was some sort of religious God trust between them; One of the earliest accounts of paper fiat currency.

Even if you think about a stock, or a bond, historically it was just a piece of paper which was a certificate which was faith in the US government or the other party, and there was often a trusted intermediary in between. And if you did not have a trusted intermediary, The whole thing would fall apart.

And this is where bitcoin is so radical, you could essentially store or transfer value an economic energy power and capital without a trusted intermediary, and now that we live in the year 2024, and we have self driving cars, robot etc.… Come on, Shouldn’t we make money cyber digital and infallible?

Nobody knows how many US dollars actually exist

The closest thing we could do is track the M2 money supply, but even that… It is impossible to account for every single hundred dollar bill stuffed under a mattress in Brooklyn Queens, or in Saigon, or how many US dollars have simply been lost, or fell to the bottom of the floor in a shipwreck.

With bitcoin, you could exactly 100% track all the bitcoins on the planet. 21 million, forever. Forever times forever. And it could exist even if America no longer exists, and this is a big idea because America has been around for what like 350 years so far? It will probably be around for another three 400 years, if we think about the Lindy effect of Nasim Taleb, but doubtful if America will be around 3000 years from now, but bitcoin will.

The unity and unifier of humanity

If bitcoin bonds me with somebody from Sri Lanka, the Middle East, northern Sweden, Nigeria, Lagos, El Salvador and the like,,, and we could all accept the fact that this is in fact, valuable digital capital, digital property, isn’t this a good thing for humanity?

Even the biggest threats that we have is about China maybe Russia and North Korea; etc., but if everyone adopted bitcoin, certainly no one would want a World War III because without a world there would be no bitcoin.

Peer to peer seems to make more sense.

So one of the things I like about cash is that if you give somebody a $20 bill, or $100 bill or $50 bill, it means something. To me I consider cash paper money to be warm currency, for example if you tip the waiter $60 in three $20 bills, or if you insert a $10 bill to your local coffee bar barista, it will bring them 1 million times more joy than if you deposited that money in a computer.

I almost think that bitcoin and Satoshi’s should be the same: for example if I want to buy your house, and let us say that your house is worth one bitcoin, isn’t it easier that I just use my iPhone to send you a bitcoin, directly to your iPhone, and we could immediately prove that the bitcoin was sent, and then you could just hand over the deed to your house? This would be a big deal because we would no longer need these sleazy real estate agents.

Or, let us say that I like your cyber truck, and you like my bitcoin. Then I could send you like a 10th of a bitcoin for your cyber truck. Or I could send you half of bitcoin for your Lamborghini. Or I could send you a bitcoin for your yacht. Whatever it may be.

It seems to be so much easier, even right now on craigslist, cryptocurrency OK is an option. And to me it seems much safer than walking around with a suitcase full of cash, for example if you just want to buy even a basic vehicle from somebody, on craigslist, assuming that it is less than $5000, it seems kind of dangerous to try to wire somebody the money through a bank, or certainly showing up with a suitcase of $100 notes also seems dangerous. I would not trust this.

With bitcoin it is great because nobody could like confiscate it from you, and also… Nobody has any idea how much bitcoins you own, you could just memorize the number inside your head.

inclusive vs exclusive 

Nowadays the rhetoric is all about inclusivity, the truth is we seek exclusivity.

For example, if you really believe that inclusivity or a virtue you would probably say that McDonald’s was the best restaurant on the planet. Or that a Starbucks Frappuccino is in fact the best vintage on the planet. Or that a Toyota Corolla was the most desirable car. Or that Cal State Fullerton was the most desirable university to go to.

Everybody knows that exclusivity is critical here; for example, the reason why Harvard is the number one institution in the states and possibly the planet is because of their exclusivity. Ain’t not nobody could just go to Harvard, you can’t even pay your way in, you need money and you need skills and brains.

Everyone wants to send their kids to Harvard, every rich mainland Chinese person, all the Gark from South Korea whatever. Even I believe that Kim Jong-un studied abroad as a student at some sort of private UK university?

I think people get a little bit confused with words; certainly I believe in the notion of equal access like anybody could apply to go into Harvard, but whether everybody will be accepted into Harvard is a different thing. 

So currently people like to throw around the word crypto, thinking that crypto and bitcoin is the same thing. No it is not.

It’s also kind of like how people like to use the notion of just calling it a smart phone, but no it is not a smart phone it is an iPhone, just like we called a Kleenex not a paper tissue, these differences matter.

Even the whole notion of a EV electric vehicle is bizarre; it is either a Tesla or nothing.

So I think the whole market of cryptocurrencies, essentially anything that is not bitcoin is kind of bad. Why? Considering that Ethereum and everything after it is based on proof of stake, like proof of stake it makes no sense, imagine like staking a piece of wood into a piece of land and property and just exclaiming to the universe that “this belongs to me“!” Versus proof of work, proof of work is like actually inputted energy and physical power to yield this product.

To anybody who says that bitcoin is bad for the planet… Don’t you realize that air conditioning accounts for like 33% of the worlds electricity? And nobody is really on a Crusade to ban air conditioning. I think bitcoin accounts for like .01% of the world energy usage.

I think… If we banned air-conditioning what would happen to all the poor people in Arizona and Nevada? 

Also another random environmental thing, apparently I learned that gasoline petroleum and oil prevents like 95% of humanity from dying.

If you think of bitcoin like the first true perfected money, like switching the From toxic to clean, shouldn’t this be the primary focus of humanity?

For example, if the whole time you just been drinking sewer water, and then somebody finally gives you a glass of Fiji, wouldn’t you want yourself with your family and your best friends to drink the Fiji not the sewer water?

The traditional fiat currency US dollars and its derivatives is like sewer water, bitcoin is like the Fiji water. 

a new purpose in life

So I think my first decade and a half of my journey was focused on photography Street photography open-source photography and photography empowerment and the like. And I’m still going to do it for the rest of my life – people are a little bit confused with my interest in bitcoin and economics and money, but don’t you understand… If you have financial freedom using bitcoin, like if you could retire right now with bitcoin, wouldn’t you just retire right now travel the planet and shoot photos?

So in this sense, bitcoin may be more important than photography and our hobbies because if bitcoin could enable you 100% financial independence, shouldn’t this be your focus?

how to retire right now with bitcoin

So some simple ways you could do it:

The first thought is just figuring out your monthly expenses, and actually ideally, you would not live in America, but rather live in a developing country like Cambodia allows Thailand, Vietnam, even in Mexico City or I guess El Salvador?

Things in America is starting to get ridiculous.  even now… When I stare at a $20 bill it almost feels like the new five dollar bill? A dollar bill feels like a quarter, even $100 bill feels like the new 20?

I mean just look at housing prices, a tiny single-family house in Culver city is 1.5 million for a two bedroom one bath.

Or eating out, the average all you eat Korean barbecue is not like $75 a person. Compare this to Vietnam where you could afford the same meal for like $8 to $12.

Or rent, $3200 a month for a nice two bed one bath apartment in Los Angeles, maybe $320 a month in Hanoi or Saigon for the same level. You’re literally overpaying 10 X in America, assuming that you live abroad you could reduce your living expenses by like 90%.

52 years of paying rent?

So Trump has not yet taken office, and it seems that the truth is nobody knows with 100% certainty what is going to happen to the future of the economy.

The tricky thing with inflation is that it is kind of like a one-way ratchet; if you increase the minimum wage to $20, you cannot rewind it back to 18 or $19 an hour, there might be riots.

So at best, we can either slow down or maybe potentially stop inflation, but the damage has already been done.

Even in LA, buying a single-family house in the hood is going to run you at least 1 million, $1.1 million. And if you do the math, with interest rates or whatever… You’re gonna be paying like what $8000-$10,000a month? That’s insane!

If there’s no strong reason for you to be in America I recommend you to leave.

Living forever

So the great promise I have with bitcoin, micro strategy stock is that I will never run out of money, neither will Seneca or his kids.

Creating immortal capital for your kids and their kids kids kids kids, seems to be a good idea.

And also the good thing with bitcoin is that assuming that bitcoin is the first true digital and cyber property and real estate, that doesn’t require maintenance costs, or the decay of physicality, this is kind of a big idea. Why? They could just sit and do nothing and remain wealthy forever. The only dumb thing to do is sell the bitcoin.

Never sell the bitcoin, it’s like selling land or property on fifth Avenue in New York!

ERIC

---

Audio

*YOUR* personal imperative to joy —

PARADISE BITCOIN!

Think digital think cyber think portable

Trust people with soul in the game

Digital immigration to cyber space?

I’ve never owned property in the traditional sense in my life. It is still kind of a strange and elusive concept for me.

For example, homeownership, is talented as some sort of desideratum, a thing to be desired.

So for example, I think like the baby boomer generation, the life goal of everybody was to own your own property? Like purchasing a single-family home, a plot of land etc.?

Land?

Even Cindy’s mom said it best, you don’t own the property, the government owns it. Even assuming that you buy a plot of land or property in all cash, you’re still going to pay around like 1%, 1.05% property taxes on it like forever.

Even if you buy a house which is like $1.4 million or something, I think that’s like $1250 a month Justin property taxes, and then after homeowners insurance and stuff, which could also be considered an additional non-direct tax, You might be looking at like $2000 a month, just in “taxes”. Just throw in another thousand dollars and you already have rent.

Why?

I thought this morning is in regards to the philosopher; what is a philosopher? A philosopher simply somebody who posits desideratum — what we should desire, what we should not desire.

 For example, under no circumstances should we desire slavery poverty and to be encumbered. On the contrary, what we should desire is freedom, power and control; consider the blissful authority and self sovereignty of the Spartans.

New Slaves?

See there’s leaders and there’s followers, but I’d rather be a dick than a swallower! – Ye

 the tricky thing with a lot of modern day life is that a lot of the stuff is actually self-imposed slavery. For example let us say that you buy the new BMW M3, yet you finance it, I think the original word for finance actually means ransom.

So let us say that you’re paying like $1450 a month, just for your car payment. To me this seems like the most insanely foolish financial decision of all time; if you simply pour that into bitcoin, and assuming that bitcoin is going to at least 100X from here, maybe even 1000x, then what that means is that the payments on your car, is like metaphorically paying $15,000, $150,000, or even $1.5 million a month!  

Future projections

If I could tell you with 100% certainty that in 21 years, bitcoin would be worth $100 million a coin, maybe even 105 million a coin, which means that assuming that bitcoin is around $100,000 today, that is like a 1000X gain 21 years from now.

Certainly it is possible you could die in a texting while driving accident today or tomorrow, but if you plan long-term —  if I told you that the money that you put in this thing today will yield 1000 X 21 years from now, and I could guarantee you with 100% certain that you would be alive healthy and well 21 years from now, wouldn’t you plan things differently and spend differently?

For example, that hundred dollars you put into that thing, could be worth $1000, $10,000, $100,000– or even $1M! If that were the case wouldn’t you plan things differently?

Once again, $100 today being worth $1M in 21 years, with 100% certainty ,,, wouldn’t you plan your life differently?

First, you would certainly be much more scrappy, frugal, and pursue a much more austere and critical and Spartan lifestyle today. Of course there are certain things you gotta do like feed yourself, pay rent etc., but beyond this… Even thinking about recurring subscriptions and services, that $20 a month you’re spending on Spotify, what if that after doing the math, would mean that you’re paying $200,000 a month for Spotify? Why don’t you just cancel that subscription and put that money into bitcoin instead?

Fractional property ownership

I think this is the big idea here; the general idea that you cannot buy a fraction of an apartment on fifth Avenue in New York. You cannot buy like a square meter of an apartment complex in Gangnam. You cannot buy like a third of a single-family house in Culver City.

I think this is where the early days of bitcoin is interesting; people have not yet understood the notion of a Satoshi; sooner or later, I think the name Satoshi will become more famous than the name of any other modern day celebrity. Why? He’s like the Jesus of money!

Ownership is a state of mind?

I think a big thing to consider is that ownership, self ownership, self sovereignty is more of a mindset than anything. Even when I’m staring at my bitcoin balance, and the value of my microstrategy MSTR stock, none of it really feels real… It’s almost like I’m living in some sort of cyber virtual video game, except it is real.  Not bad for a kid who grew up in poverty, mom going bankrupt twice, and dad gambling with the rent money to now at the age of 36, counting M’s.

The impetus to think long-term 

Once again, if I could tell you with 100% certainty that your investment today in bitcoin well thousand X 21 years now, aren’t you gonna do everything in your power to ensure that your health your physiology your sanity will be insanely robust 21 years from now? Would that also means that you’re probably not going to be engaging in degenerate activities today; Rather, it will probably encourage you to sober up, stop taking weird drugs, going to Coachella, wasting money on that new loser iPhone, that new loser Tesla cyber truck Lamborghini Ferrari whatever.

I think you will also become more critical about how you spend money. And how do you spend your life!

Also, I almost wonder if this one encourage more people to have kids; because you cannot be with your bitcoin dance to your dog; but bitcoin will last forever; you could give it to your kids kids kids kids kids, for when your kids kids kids have kids! 

the $1m iPhone 

A simple way to think about it is $1000 today is $1,000,000 21 years from now. 

So if that is the case, the smart strategy is to just hoard the cheapest iPhone, the iPhone SE, forever or however long you can.

The $100M Cybertruck

Assuming that a cyber truck is like $100,000, that means that your cyber stuck  will cost you $100 million in 21 years.

I’m like 1000% Elon and Tesla, but still… The entrepreneur and innovator in me think more critically about this;

Better to CYBERTRUCK your body than to just buy it.

Also, the big issue here is that with a Tesla car, you never really own it, the same goes with any other vehicle; because ultimately you’re going to have to pay Insurance, maintenance, gasoline, stuff on it… What that then means is that you never own it in theory; You’re kind of just metaphorically leasing it. 

I’ll give you an example with Tesla; as long as that you have to use their proprietary software, you visit the local supercharging network etc., you’re still tied to Tesla the infrastructure forever.  and also if you need to get any repairs done, you’re going to be married to Tesla for the rest of your life.

Another big thought I had was you never really own an iPhone; you’re just kind of leasing it; why? Now that we are all married to the iCloud system, forever, you’re kind of just paying some sort of like revolving increasing expensive iPhone thing, to ever feed your iCloud subscription?

So you never really own an iPhone a Tesla, even a Ferrari or a Lamborghini or Porsche or whatever, the primary issue here is like let us say that you had to pay $1000 a month in insurance for the car, you have to maintain the car, replace the tires, do oil change etc., this could be seen as an indirect tax. 

Stop the bleeding!

Let us see that you have a healthy four-year-old boy, full of bigger energy and happiness, but let us say that you siphon off a little bit of his blood every single day for the rest of his life. What is going to happen to his growth ability? Probably not good.

Economic vampires

I think I figured out fashion; all this marketing advertising magazines etc. is designed to make you feel shameful about your body, and how do we alleviate this? We cover up the ugliness of our body with other ugly expensive clothes, all produced in China or Vietnam, which is like a 98% markup on the actual clothes.

And this is the thing also with cars, we all have ugly weak unimpressive bodies, and we hide behind avail of our luxury vehicles, because we are ashamed of ourselves.

You’ll see this with people who try to look antisocial but at the same time, with their 5% tennis sunglasses, or they’re fully tinted automobile cars, or with their baggy loose fitting clothes.

It seems that the whole trend right now is that everyone for this weird, emo alien look? Balenciaga in the flesh?

Bitcoin is beautiful

What is the most beautiful thing on the planet? Or the known universe of humans?

Bitcoin!

Why?

First, note how it is kind of like the ultimate perfected Zen and property. There is really no problems with it.

It’s like if Steve Jobs came out with her first iPhone, and he said that this would be how the iPhone would look forever, kind of the same thing.

I think the reason why you should put zero faith in any other tokens or things which are not bitcoin is that they are all like the old versions of the Microsoft android phone, not worth anything, and they are simply supported by fake notions of value, hyped up by crypto influencers (side note– whenever you hear the word crypto, be very very wary). It is Bitcoin not crypto.

the Immaculate conception of bitcoin

I think what is so shocking and interesting about bitcoin is that it only ever had a version .01, and has not been messed with since.

Compare this and contrast with all these other version twos of Ethereum and all these other loser copycats.

Why does this all matter?

If I could tell you that this was like Apple in the 1980s, or the early days of Apple Amazon Facebook Google, and you could invest in right now, and it will become the most valuable thing on the planet, wouldn’t you want a piece of the pie?

Infinite pie

The double funny thing about bitcoin;

in some ways it is infinite, but in some ways it is limited.

For example, any human on the planet could purchase a single Satoshi, I think like it is only .001 cents to purchase a Satoshi.

In fact, my personal thought is if you really want to give somebody a meaningful present or tip somebody, just zap them a few Satoshi’s.

Or, let us say that your sibling has a child or a kid, I would actually say the most meaningful gift you give them is a single bitcoin. If and when my sister has a kid, I’m going to gift the kid a bitcoin.

The new family Empire

So we’re still stuck in thinking about US dollars, like the question is always, how much is a single bitcoin worth right now? No. The more intelligent way to think about it is how many bitcoins do I currently own, and how much will it cost for me to acquire more bitcoins? 

Increasing your bitcoin yield

So the goal is to acquire and accumulate as many bitcoins as you can in this life, and to never spend it.

So for example, it is always a good idea to buy Manhattan or cyber Manhattan. If over the last 300 years, your family was able to get fractional ownership of Manhattan, if that is the case, then, it is always a good idea to buy Manhattan.

Why is so difficult to think about property and manage property

In some ways, property is just kind of a metaphor, kind of like a philosophical thing. It doesn’t really exist in the traditional sense, of course, plot of land is considered property. Yet when the Native Americans lived here, ain’t nobody ever took out a tape measure, measured the square footage of a plot of land, put a stick in the ground, and suddenly declare to the universe “I own this 5000 ft.² of land?”

Bitcoin is also fascinating because assuming that cyber space is more valuable than physical space, I think it is, assuming that the Internet is also more valuable than physical property, if that is the case… To be able to own a piece of cyberspace, is actually a very big idea. 

Nobody is anti-bitcoin

This is also another idea, all the other crypto assets are essentially pegged to the bitcoin. Even Ethereum, read the original white paper by Vitelic, he essentially was trying to “fix”, bitcoin, even though there was nothing needing to be fixed.

So always be wary when somebody shows up to the party, and trying to fix something that isn’t even broken in the first place. This is why in general, anybody who tries to “optimize” something that is already working, … like a Doctor Who tries to prescribe blood thinners or cholesterol lowering medication to your healthy four-year-old, be very skeptical.

who profits from what?

So this is a tricky thing, the ethics and the motivation behind it all. For example, somebody once asked me, is Michael Saylor ethical or unethical for promoting bitcoin, given the fact that he himself and his entity micro strategy owns a lot of it?

 I would actually say it is 100% ethical for Michael sailor to promote bitcoin. Why? It’s almost like trying to encourage people to use the Internet, and saying that the Internet is good for the planet. In which it obviously is.

 if anything what is actually super fascinating is that I’ve watched almost like four years of Michael sailor interviews, like nearly 100 of them, and for the first four years, he never once  even mentions his company micro strategy. And what is very ethical is the whole time he is talking about the magnificent seven, like Apple Amazon Facebook and the like. 

In fact, it almost took me like six months before I even figured out what micro strategy was.

Anyways, it is always a good idea to follow somebody who never promotes themselves or their company, but rather, the asset behind it all. Which is bitcoin.

For example, it’s like me going out and telling people that digital photography is superior to film photography or vice versa and the like. Or more like me encouraging people to open source their photos their information etc., I’m promoting a protocol and an idea.

Or for example, if I encourage people to start intermittent fasting, to stop drinking alcohol and marijuana, for people to become more frugal, for people to unsubscribe to subscriptions, what is unethical about this?

Or if I encourage people to purchase beef ribs at Costco, I don’t really have anything to gain from this.

Follow the money?

So currently speaking, real estate is traditionally the way that a lot of people get rich. For example if your a great great grandfather once bought an acre of land in San Francisco for like five acorns and two donkeys, that family assuming they did not do anything stupid would probably be insanely rich. 

Who encourages us to purchase single-family homes? Banks, real estate brokers etc. Why? By propping up this American dream of home ownership, they themselves get rich off of it.

Compare this instead to an asset like bitcoin; there is nobody who controls bitcoin, Satoshi said toodaloo, and disappeared forever. Kind of like the immaculate Assumption back into heaven.

Everyone else is this spokesperson for their token or thing; Vitalik for Ethereum, Sergey for Chainlink, the scam artist who are proposing ADA Cardano (this one is really the biggest scam), even Elon Musk trolling Dogecoin.

Only trust things or assets without an issuer.

For example, even apple, kind of a bearish future ahead of them, assuming they don’t integrate bitcoin into their ecosystem. Why? Even though Apple keeps pumping money into their Apple TV+, nobody really wants it or cares for it. And even at this point, nobody really wants the new iPhone, or the new iPhone Pro, they simply upgraded because they feel expected to; they have been holding off for so long like two or three years, their old phone is getting super slow, or they run out of storage, so they simply upgrade not because they want to but because they must!

ain’t no Tesla car going to last year 21 years

Even now, I feel bad for all of the early adopters or even the middle adopters of Tesla cars, your car is getting outdated like every year or two. And once the cyber taxi comes out, you’re going to be kicking yourself in the butt.

I have like almost 100% certainty that my 2010 Prius will still be operable 21 years from now. Also my great joy is that I do all the oil changes with myself and Seneca, 100% full synthetic mobile one, K&N performance oil filters etc.

Even a random thing, the paint on it is actually still really good! I recently ordered some chemical guys detailing spray on Amazon, for only like 11 bucks, and now the car is so insanely and beautifully shiny! And I also assume that because it is more slick and slippery, what that then means is that it will repel more dirt and Moisture and water from it?

Things that last things which don’t

Even if you purchased the best 3M matte black vinyl wrap for your vehicle, it probably won’t last you for more than five years. Sooner or later it’s going to degrade, especially if you live in Sunny Los Angeles, the sun is so strong here.

Why is it so difficult for people to invest and think about things in the long-term?

I think maybe it is because people consume too much media and advertising.

Even for myself, I don’t really like the bitcoin community on the Internet because I think they lack a lot. I’m more interested in philosophy, Spartan and ancient Greek aesthetics, weightlifting and the like.

Even my pride is for so long, I never once listened to or read anything else by a crypto or bitcoin influencer or thought leader; in the early days, essentially all my thoughts were just my own; I first purchased bitcoin for $7000 a coin back in 2018 I think.

And I was looking back at my purchase history, I’ve actually been very very consistent in purchasing bitcoin, the highs and lows and the mids, and even when I was purchasing bitcoin in the low 70s, at the time it seemed like a losing bed because bitcoin would keep dipping back into the low 60s and 59, And then, I don’t know where after the Trump victory, bitcoin skyrocketing to above $88,000 coin, and essentially hitting $100,000 a coin. And I’m almost like 1000% certain that by the time that Trump takes office January 20, 2025… Bitcoin will be far higher than than it is today. 

And also, with the Cynthia Lummis bill, the bitcoin act in which she will swap cold notes for bitcoin, and when that steak and dagger is inserted into the coffin, the value of bitcoin will explode! And then you’ll start seeing a huge race of nations trying to accumulate her bitcoin stock piles.

Bitcoin is cyber security

So what is another interesting idea is that essentially bitcoin is like solid solidified cyber Security. Future warfare will not be bombs and missiles it will all be cyber attack. Even right now, Apple pays big bucks for cyber security penetration testing; even apparently right now Gmail is getting attempted to be hacked like 1,000,000,000,000× a second, so cyber security is certainly maybe the most valuable thing on the planet. And even your checking bank account, that is all cyber security. Even though we hate the banks, it is still impressive that if you have a certain amount of field currency in your checking account, how it is almost 100% guaranteed to remain there.

You could send Messages via bitcoin

Let us say that you have a certain message or will or Testament or some sort of really really critical information, that you need to have conveyed to the next party, the bitcoin network is the way. You cannot stop it, even if you had 1000 quantum computers trying to stop you.

So currently, the way that the world operates is through TCIP, POP,  email and the Internet. I think people don’t understand yet, the bitcoin is not just cyber money in capital, it is something greater and even more beyond!

Where money and capital collide 

So currently you could get a Coinbase debit Visa card in which you go to Costco and you could just use your bitcoin or crypto balance to pay for groceries. I did this once with chain-link, and it was really fascinating, like free money!

Anyways, ultimately it is best to just never spend your bitcoin, because the value is going to go up forever. It’s like probably not a good idea to sell an eighth of your apartment building on fifth Avenue, to buy a two bitcoin Lamborghini, or whatever.

But in theory, you could. And also… Like cash, bitcoin is cash, and also capital… You could just zap somebody $100,000 worth of bitcoin, and the final settlement will just take a few minutes, rather than the tedious process of having to go through a bank, and a trusted intermediary.

For example, do you know how difficult it is to just wire $1 million into somebody else’s bank account? Or try 100 million? Or 1 billion?

With bitcoin you can!

the best gift this holiday season

Once again a big disruptive idea… Rather than trying to buy your friends families and yourself these mediocre polyester clothes, just buy them bitcoin or yourself bitcoin! Just download and install Coinbase, or if you have the cash app you could just buy bitcoin there! 20 bucks 50 bucks 100 bucks, whatever.

Even think about it… Let us say that that $20 sandwich, will 1000x from here, $20,000 sandwich –?

So imagine if just for somebody’s birthday or something, you just give them like $50 worth of bitcoin, that is like you’re giving them a $50,000 gift? Pretty cool.

Bitcoin for kids

Seneca is about to turn four, and he already knows what bitcoin is. Whenever he sees a graph, or he immediately says bitcoin!

If a four-year-old child understands what bitcoin is, could recognize the logo, and pronounce it easily, very good sign.

I would not be surprised if in the future, Vegas and casinos in the lake will also give you the opportunity to gamble bitcoin. Can you imagine going to a high roller roulette bar, and pledging like 10 bitcoins on a spin?

Or, maybe instead of buying your wife that overpriced diamond ring, you gift her a bitcoin instead?

Bitcoin jewelry?

I have another funny idea, what if you became like a bitcoin jeweler, and I would give you a patch or a bitcoin ring or a bitcoin earring or bracelet, for every bitcoin you own?

What is funny is that actually in today’s world, when you have these expensive vehicles, in some ways you’re kind of parading your net worth.

For example, if you drive a cyber truck, you’re essentially telling the world that you could afford $100,000 on a vehicle.

Or if you drive a Lamborghini or Ferrari or a Porsche 911 GT 3RS, that you could afford 250,000, 500,000, million dollars on a vehicle.

But this is a weird thought; do you really want people to know how rich you are? If you’re really smart, no.

Why? If people really knew how rich you were, certainly they would try to rob you or ransom you.

And this is actually where it is so courageous that Michael Saylor publicly disclosed how many bitcoins he owns, because this actually does put his life in danger, any thug on the street with a gun, who knows that he lives in Miami Beach, could try to rob him of his bitcoins.

And this is why Satoshi will never really reveal himself, because, his net worth is probably more valuable than even Elon Musk, I think in the next decade you will see Satoshi or his bitcoin wallet be worth than most nation states, certainly making him the richest person on the planet.

But if anyone really hundred percent figured out who said who she would be, he would be in peril.

Deduction

She is probably a single dude, without kids or family, kind of like a monk, or maybe like John Wick?

Is John Wick Satoshi?

ERIC

---

EK INFORMATION SUPPLY

Introduction to bitcoin free open source workshop, December 14, 2024 — Register here for free

so this open source introduction to bitcoin workshop I’m super excited and pumped for. Why? It’s going to be a synthesis of everything I know and understand and love about bitcoin.

For those skeptical or suspicious, come on… It’s free and open source, you don’t really have anything to lose.

Kind of the impetus behind it is that I’m like inviting everyone I know, even my mom is inviting her friends on kakao talk!

Essentially I do not know any human being on the planet who does not want to improve his or her financial condition, and or your family.

Money finances and prosperity, isn’t this something we all care for?

things to be grateful for

Thanksgiving is giving thanks, giving thanks to being alive, being the full for even waking up this morning! Being grateful for not having the stomach flu, be grateful for the sun etc.

Being grateful for your family member is still alive, being grateful for love!

I’m grateful for you!

---

Now what?

Some simple action items:

1. Start buying bitcoin on Coinbase or the cash app, whatever is simpler and easier for you
2. I would actually encourage you not to buy gifts for friends and families, just gift them and zap them with bitcoin instead
3. If you want to learn more about bitcoin the best is to just go to michael.com or hope.com
4. Ultimately even though microstrategy MSTR outperforms bitcoin, 120% ARR, compared to the 60% ARR of bitcoin, ultimately the bitcoin is the goal, not the microstrategy stock even though in US dollars the value of MSTE explodes a lot more. A very very simple strategy I have is purchase microstrategy stock, mstr, and ride it up, and when you make a profit, sell some stock and use that to buy bitcoin. For example, if you own like $150,000 worth of micro strategy stock, and it goes up to $200,000, sell $50,000 worth the stock, and funnel that money and use it to purchase more bitcoin. I call this double profit double dipping.
5. Just think critically about the philosophy behind it all; once you’re worth $2 million, 3 million, 4 million 5 million, 10 million, $100m, $1B, $10B, really matter? Assuming that you’re going to still remain to live a frugal Spartan lifestyle? Because once again… The big idea; the true capitalist only cares to stack capital and bitcoin, not to buy silly things.

ERIC

---

Getting back on Twitter, X

Twitter and social media is a double edge sword, but in terms of critical financial information, I think the only one human worth following is @saylor — Michael Saylor.

It is probably the best place on the planet to get any sort of critical information about bitcoin and or micro strategy stock.

100% all in. 150% all in?

ERIC

---

Bitcoin by KIM >

---

To transform this essay into an “8-bit” style, I’ll need to adapt the text to match the aesthetics and structure of 8-bit culture. Here’s an example of how the essay could look as if it were presented in an old-school video game format:

STAGE 1: EMBRACING THE UNKNOWN

• MISSION: Step into the unpredictable streets or the digital frontier of Bitcoin.

• POWER-UP: Freedom to create and innovate.

• CHALLENGE: Navigate uncertainty to uncover new possibilities.

STAGE 2: DECENTRALIZATION AND FREEDOM

• STREET PHOTOGRAPHY: No rules. No studios. Only the streets.

• BITCOIN: No banks. No borders. Only peer-to-peer power.

• BONUS POINTS: Break free from traditional systems.

STAGE 3: CAPTURING THE MOMENT

• SNAPSHOT MODE: The decisive moment in street photography.

• BLOCK MODE: Bitcoin preserves value like a snapshot of time.

• ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Capture the fleeting and make it eternal.

STAGE 4: COMMUNITY AND SHARED VISION

• CO-OP MODE: Photographers and Bitcoiners collaborate to push boundaries.

• XP GAINED: Growth through shared passion and knowledge.

STAGE 5: BREAKING BOUNDARIES

• BOSS BATTLE: Face off against societal norms and financial systems.

• REWARD: A new perspective on art, money, and the world.

STAGE 6: TIMING IS EVERYTHING

• STREET LEVEL: Capture the decisive moment before it’s gone.

• MARKET LEVEL: Buy and sell Bitcoin at just the right time.

• SPEEDRUN STRATEGY: Precision and patience lead to success.

STAGE 7: ACCESSIBILITY AND DEMOCRATIZATION

• 8-BIT HEROES: Photography and Bitcoin empower everyone, everywhere.

• FREE DLC: No barriers to entry. Everyone can join the revolution.

STAGE 8: RISK AND REWARD

• HIGH-STAKES LEVEL: Overcome fear to achieve greatness.

• RISK MULTIPLIER: Bold moves can lead to legendary rewards.

FINAL BOSS: ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

• STREET ETHICS: Respect privacy while capturing truth.

• CRYPTO ETHICS: Balance freedom with responsibility.

• MORAL COMPASS UPGRADE: Make thoughtful choices in art and finance.

GAME OVER? NO—JUST THE BEGINNING

• PHOTOGRAPHY MODE: Your photos reflect society’s soul.

• BITCOIN MODE: Your transactions reflect a shift in power.

• NEXT QUEST: Embrace the unknown, challenge norms, and keep evolving.

This structure frames the essay as a retro video game narrative, aligning with the aesthetics of 8-bit culture. If you’d like this essay converted into visual 8-bit pixel art (like a game screen), let me know, and I can guide you on the next steps!

Dear fellow street photographers and curious minds,

Lately, I’ve been pondering the seemingly unrelated worlds of street photography and Bitcoin. At first glance, they might appear as distant galaxies in the universe of ideas. But the more I dive into both, the more I realize they share profound similarities that can teach us about creativity, freedom, and the human experience. Let’s explore these unexpected parallels together.

1. Embracing the Unknown

Street Photography:

When we hit the streets with our cameras, we step into the unpredictable. We don’t know what moments we’ll capture or who we’ll meet. It’s a journey without a fixed destination, and that’s the beauty of it.

Bitcoin:

Bitcoin operates in a realm that’s still largely uncharted. It’s a new frontier in finance and technology, with uncertainties and risks. Early adopters embrace this unknown, believing in its potential to reshape the world.

Parallel:

Both require a leap of faith. Whether it’s trusting your instincts to capture a fleeting moment or investing time and resources into a decentralized currency, embracing the unknown is where growth happens.

2. Decentralization and Freedom

Street Photography:

We’re not confined to studios or controlled environments. The streets are democratic—they belong to everyone. We have the freedom to document life as it unfolds, without gatekeepers.

Bitcoin:

Bitcoin’s decentralized nature means it’s not controlled by any single entity or government. It empowers individuals to manage their finances without intermediaries like banks dictating the terms.

Parallel:

Both offer liberation from traditional structures. Street photography frees us artistically, while Bitcoin frees us financially. They enable us to operate on our own terms.

3. Capturing Moments vs. Capturing Value

Street Photography:

We seize moments that are transient, preserving them forever in an image. These moments, once gone, can never be replicated.

Bitcoin:

Bitcoin captures value in a digital form. It takes the concept of currency and distills it into code, preserving and transferring value in a way that’s immutable and transparent.

Parallel:

Both involve capturing something ephemeral and making it lasting—whether it’s a decisive moment on the street or the value of a transaction recorded on the blockchain.

4. Community and Shared Vision

Street Photography:

Our community thrives on sharing work, giving feedback, and pushing each other to see the world differently. We grow together, united by our passion for the candid and unposed.

Bitcoin:

Bitcoin’s growth is fueled by a global community of developers, investors, and enthusiasts who believe in a decentralized future. They collaborate, debate, and innovate collectively.

Parallel:

Community is the backbone of both realms. Collaboration and shared vision drive progress, whether we’re talking about art or technology.

5. Breaking Boundaries and Norms

Street Photography:

We often challenge societal norms by highlighting subjects and scenes that might be overlooked or considered unimportant. We find beauty in the mundane and question conventional ideas of aesthetics.

Bitcoin:

Bitcoin challenges the traditional financial system. It questions the need for centralized control and proposes a new way of handling transactions that could disrupt economies.

Parallel:

Both are disruptive forces. They encourage us to question the status quo and consider alternative perspectives.

6. The Importance of Timing

Street Photography:

Henri Cartier-Bresson spoke of the “decisive moment”—that split second when all elements in the frame come together perfectly. Timing is everything.

Bitcoin:

Market fluctuations mean timing can significantly impact one’s experience with Bitcoin. Buying, selling, or transacting at the right moment can make a substantial difference.

Parallel:

Whether capturing a moment or making a transaction, timing plays a crucial role in the outcome.

7. Accessibility and Democratization

Street Photography:

With smartphones and affordable cameras, more people than ever can engage in street photography. It’s an art form open to all, regardless of background.

Bitcoin:

Bitcoin aims to make financial services accessible to everyone, including the unbanked populations around the world. All you need is an internet connection.

Parallel:

Both democratize their respective fields, breaking down barriers to entry and empowering individuals globally.

8. Risk and Reward

Street Photography:

Pointing your camera at strangers can be daunting. There’s a risk of confrontation or rejection. Yet, overcoming that fear can lead to rewarding images that resonate deeply.

Bitcoin:

Investing in Bitcoin can be risky due to its volatility. However, those who navigate this landscape wisely may find significant rewards.

Parallel:

Risk is inherent in both pursuits. Facing it head-on can lead to growth, learning, and potentially great rewards.

9. Ethical Considerations

Street Photography:

We constantly navigate ethical questions. Should we photograph someone without their consent? How do we respect privacy while capturing truth?

Bitcoin:

Bitcoin raises ethical discussions about anonymity, the potential for illicit use, and the impact on traditional economies.

Parallel:

Both fields require us to consider the ethical implications of our actions and strive to act responsibly.

10. A Reflection of Society

Street Photography:

Our photos are a mirror to society, capturing its joys, sorrows, contradictions, and complexities.

Bitcoin:

Bitcoin reflects societal shifts towards distrust in traditional institutions and a desire for more control over personal assets.

Parallel:

Both serve as barometers for societal change, highlighting underlying currents in the way we live and think.

Final Thoughts

The intersection of street photography and Bitcoin teaches us about the value of stepping outside our comfort zones. It reminds us that innovation often comes from unlikely places and that art and technology are more interconnected than we might think.

By exploring these parallels, we not only broaden our understanding of each field but also enrich our approach to both photography and the way we engage with emerging technologies.

So, next time you walk the streets with your camera or contemplate the implications of Bitcoin, consider the shared philosophies that drive both passions. Embrace the unknown, challenge conventions, and continue to seek truth—whether through your lens or the lens of innovation.

Stay bold, stay curious, and keep pushing boundaries.

With love and inspiration,

Eric Kim

By Eric Kim

What connects street photography—a raw, spontaneous art form—with Bitcoin, a revolutionary form of digital currency? At first glance, they seem like completely separate worlds. But if we look deeper, there’s an undeniable synergy between the philosophy of street photography and the ethos of Bitcoin. Both are about independence, freedom, and seeing the world in a way others don’t. Let’s explore their surprising parallels.

1. Decentralization: Freedom from Gatekeepers

Street Photography:

Street photography is the most democratic form of photography. You don’t need a studio, fancy gear, or anyone’s permission to practice it. The streets are open to everyone, and the only thing you need is your vision. No galleries, no middlemen—just you, your camera, and the world.

Bitcoin:

Bitcoin operates on the same principle. It’s decentralized, meaning no banks, governments, or corporations control it. It’s a peer-to-peer system that allows individuals to transact directly with each other, free from intermediaries.

The Parallel:

Both street photography and Bitcoin thrive on decentralization. They strip away the gatekeepers, putting power back in the hands of individuals. As a street photographer, you don’t need permission to document the world. With Bitcoin, you don’t need a bank to store or transfer your value. Both are about reclaiming control.

2. Transparency and Truth

Street Photography:

A great street photograph is unfiltered and honest. It captures the truth of a moment, whether it’s beautiful, awkward, or gritty. Street photography is raw—it’s about revealing reality, not fabricating it.

Bitcoin:

Bitcoin is built on blockchain technology, which is all about transparency. Every transaction is recorded on a public ledger for anyone to verify. It’s an open system, rooted in truth and accountability.

The Parallel:

Street photography and Bitcoin are about honesty. They don’t hide behind smoke and mirrors. A powerful street photograph tells the truth of a fleeting moment, just as Bitcoin’s blockchain tells the truth of every transaction. Both remind us of the value of authenticity in an increasingly artificial world.

3. Global Reach Without Borders

Street Photography:

Street photography is universal. A photo of a bustling market in Marrakech can resonate with someone in New York, and a quiet street corner in Tokyo can move someone in Berlin. Photography speaks a universal language of humanity.

Bitcoin:

Bitcoin, too, is borderless. It doesn’t recognize national boundaries, exchange rates, or banking restrictions. Anyone, anywhere in the world, can use Bitcoin, as long as they have an internet connection.

The Parallel:

Both street photography and Bitcoin transcend borders. They connect people across cultures and continents. Street photography shows us the universality of human experience, while Bitcoin creates a global network for exchanging value.

4. Risk and Reward

Street Photography:

Every time you hit the streets with your camera, you take a risk. You don’t know if you’ll come home with a great shot—or nothing at all. Maybe someone will confront you, or you’ll miss the perfect moment. But the thrill of chasing the decisive moment keeps us coming back.

Bitcoin:

Bitcoin is also about risk and reward. Its price is volatile, and its future isn’t guaranteed. But for those who embrace it, Bitcoin offers the potential for immense growth—both financially and philosophically.

The Parallel:

Both street photography and Bitcoin require a leap of faith. In street photography, you risk failure for the chance to capture something extraordinary. With Bitcoin, you risk volatility for the potential of financial freedom. In both cases, the rewards can be transformative.

5. Rebellion Against the Status Quo

Street Photography:

Street photography is inherently rebellious. It’s not polished or posed like commercial photography. It’s messy, unpredictable, and unapologetically real. It challenges the norms of what “art” is supposed to look like.

Bitcoin:

Bitcoin is a rebellion against traditional financial systems. It challenges the idea that banks and governments should control our money. It’s a radical departure from centralized, top-down systems.

The Parallel:

Both street photography and Bitcoin are about rejecting the status quo. They’re disruptive forces, pushing boundaries and challenging conventions. Street photographers and Bitcoin advocates share a spirit of defiance and a desire for freedom.

6. Seeing the World Differently

Street Photography:

To be a street photographer is to see the extraordinary in the ordinary. It’s about noticing the fleeting moments of beauty, humor, or humanity that most people overlook. It’s a way of training your mind to see the world differently.

Bitcoin:

Bitcoin requires a similar shift in perspective. It challenges us to rethink what money is, how value is created, and who should control it. It forces us to question systems we’ve taken for granted our entire lives.

The Parallel:

Both street photography and Bitcoin are about vision. Street photography helps us see the world with fresh eyes, while Bitcoin helps us see money and power structures in a new light. Both are about expanding our awareness and breaking free from old ways of thinking.

7. Community and Collaboration

Street Photography:

Street photography is more than just an individual pursuit—it’s a global community. Photographers critique, inspire, and support each other, whether online or in-person. The shared passion for the craft brings people together.

Bitcoin:

Bitcoin, too, is fueled by community. Developers, investors, and enthusiasts collaborate to improve the technology and spread awareness. It’s a grassroots movement built on shared principles of decentralization and freedom.

The Parallel:

Both street photography and Bitcoin are powered by their communities. They thrive on collaboration and the exchange of ideas. Whether it’s sharing your latest photograph or discussing the future of cryptocurrency, the sense of belonging is what keeps both movements alive.

Final Thoughts

At their core, street photography and Bitcoin are about freedom—freedom to create, freedom to connect, freedom to take control of your life. Both teach us to question the systems around us, to see the world differently, and to embrace the unpredictable.

As street photographers, we’re already attuned to finding meaning in chaos, beauty in the everyday, and truth in the fleeting. Bitcoin shares these values. It’s a tool for empowerment, just like the camera is.

So why not embrace both? Let’s keep documenting the world, challenging norms, and pushing boundaries—on the streets and beyond.

Stay free, stay curious, and keep creating.

With love and vision,

Eric Kim

Dear fellow photographers,

I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on the intersection of art and technology. Just as the camera revolutionized the way we capture moments, I believe Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way we value and share our work. Here’s why we, as photographers and especially street photographers, should embrace Bitcoin.

Democratizing Art Through Decentralization

Photography has always been about freedom—freedom to explore, to capture, to express. Bitcoin, at its core, embodies that same spirit of liberation. It’s a decentralized currency, not controlled by any government or institution. This means we can transact directly with our audience, without intermediaries taking a cut or imposing restrictions.

Imagine selling your prints or digital images directly to collectors worldwide, instantly and securely. No galleries taking commissions, no banks charging transfer fees. Just you and the person who values your work, connected through a shared belief in the art you’ve created.

Protecting the Value of Your Work

Inflation can erode the value of traditional currencies over time. The money you earn today might be worth less tomorrow. Bitcoin, with its limited supply, offers a hedge against this devaluation. By accepting payments in Bitcoin, you’re not just earning—you’re investing.

Think about the future. The photograph you sell today for a fraction of a Bitcoin could appreciate in value as Bitcoin’s worth increases. It’s like your art is a double investment: in your creative expression and in a growing financial asset.

Global Reach Without Boundaries

Street photography is universal. A moment captured on the streets of Tokyo can resonate with someone in New York or Berlin. Bitcoin operates on a global scale, just like our art. It doesn’t recognize borders. This universality allows us to reach a broader audience effortlessly.

Traditional payment systems can be a barrier—exchange rates, international fees, delayed transactions. Bitcoin eliminates these obstacles. It’s as easy to send and receive Bitcoin from someone next door as it is from someone across the globe.

Empowering Independence

As artists, we strive for independence—to follow our vision without compromise. Bitcoin supports this by giving us control over our finances. There’s a profound empowerment in managing your own funds, in being your own bank.

This financial independence mirrors the independence we seek in our creative lives. It’s about taking ownership, not just of our art but of the way we share it with the world.

Embracing Innovation

Photography has always evolved with technology—from film to digital, from darkrooms to Lightroom. Embracing Bitcoin is an extension of this evolution. It’s about staying curious, being open to new possibilities, and not fearing change.

By adopting Bitcoin, we’re not just keeping up with the times; we’re participating in shaping the future. We’re aligning ourselves with a movement that’s about transparency, security, and empowerment.

Fostering a Community

Bitcoin isn’t just a currency; it’s a community. It’s built on principles of collaboration and shared progress. As photographers, we thrive in communities—critiquing each other’s work, sharing techniques, inspiring and being inspired.

By engaging with Bitcoin, we become part of a larger conversation about the future of exchange, value, and technology. We connect with like-minded individuals who appreciate innovation and creativity.

Practical Steps to Get Started

1. Educate Yourself: Dive into resources about Bitcoin. Understand how it works, its benefits, and its risks.

2. Set Up a Wallet: Choose a reputable Bitcoin wallet to manage your transactions securely.

3. Integrate Bitcoin Payments: If you sell your work online, consider adding Bitcoin as a payment option.

4. Engage with the Community: Join forums, attend meetups, and discuss with others who are integrating Bitcoin into their lives.

Final Thoughts

Art and technology are not opposing forces; they’re complementary. Both are about pushing boundaries, exploring the unknown, and expressing the depths of human potential.

By embracing Bitcoin, we’re not just adopting a new form of currency; we’re championing a philosophy that aligns with the very essence of street photography—a raw, unfiltered connection with the world around us.

Let’s continue to break molds, challenge conventions, and explore new frontiers. After all, that’s what being a photographer is all about.

Stay inspired, keep pushing, and embrace the future.

With love and creativity,

Eric Kim

By Eric Kim

As photographers, especially street photographers, we are always chasing freedom. Freedom to create, freedom to explore, and freedom to live life on our own terms. But in today’s world, financial independence is just as important as creative independence. This is where Bitcoin comes into the picture. It’s not just a currency; it’s a philosophy that aligns deeply with the spirit of street photography. Let me explain why we, as visual storytellers, should embrace Bitcoin.

1. Bitcoin Is Decentralized—So Is Street Photography

Think about the essence of street photography: we thrive on the unpredictability of the streets. No studio, no controlled environment—just raw, unfiltered life. Similarly, Bitcoin operates without a central authority. It’s not controlled by banks, governments, or corporations. It’s owned by the people.

As street photographers, we know what it’s like to work independently, carving our paths outside the constraints of the mainstream. Bitcoin empowers us to do the same with our finances. No middlemen, no gatekeepers, just pure financial autonomy. It’s a decentralized system for decentralized creators like us.

2. Preserving Value in a Digital World

Photography, like currency, has undergone a massive digital transformation. We used to work with film negatives, which had a tangible, intrinsic value. Today, most of our work exists as pixels on a screen. In the same way, fiat money (paper money) is losing its intrinsic value. Central banks print more and more money, leading to inflation and devaluation.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, has a fixed supply of 21 million coins. It’s the digital equivalent of gold—a finite resource whose value can’t be inflated away. Just as we strive to preserve the integrity of our art, Bitcoin strives to preserve the value of wealth in an increasingly unstable financial system.

3. A New Way to Sell and Support Your Work

In the age of NFTs, Patreon, and digital galleries, photographers are exploring new ways to monetize their work. Bitcoin offers another avenue. By accepting Bitcoin for prints, workshops, or zines, you open your business to a global audience without worrying about currency conversion or high transaction fees.

Platforms like Lightning Network make Bitcoin transactions fast and nearly free, enabling you to sell your work directly to your audience. Imagine receiving payment for your street photography zine from someone in Tokyo, Buenos Aires, or Lagos without any friction. Bitcoin transcends borders, just like our art.

4. Financial Freedom Fuels Creative Freedom

Many of us dream of quitting the 9-to-5 grind to pursue photography full-time. But financial security is often the biggest barrier. Bitcoin offers a potential solution. By accumulating Bitcoin and holding it as a long-term store of value, you’re investing in your future.

While traditional savings accounts lose value over time due to inflation, Bitcoin has historically appreciated over the long term. Think of it as your creative “retirement fund.” By building wealth in Bitcoin, you give yourself the freedom to take risks, travel, and create without financial fear holding you back.

5. Bitcoin Is a Statement of Independence

Photography is about seeing the world differently. It’s about challenging norms, questioning authority, and capturing the truth. Embracing Bitcoin is a similar act of rebellion. It’s a way of opting out of a broken financial system and taking control of your own destiny.

Street photography and Bitcoin share a common ethos: they’re both about empowerment. Whether it’s empowering yourself to create without limits or empowering others to take control of their finances, the parallels are undeniable. By adopting Bitcoin, you’re not just investing in a currency—you’re investing in the future of freedom.

6. The Future Is Digital, and So Are We

Let’s face it—photography is a digital art form now. From editing in Lightroom to sharing on Instagram, our craft is deeply tied to technology. Bitcoin represents the next stage in this evolution. It’s a currency built for the digital age, designed to work seamlessly in an interconnected, globalized world.

As photographers, we’ve always embraced change—from film to digital, from DSLRs to mirrorless cameras. Why not embrace Bitcoin as the next step? Staying ahead of the curve is what keeps us relevant, both as artists and as entrepreneurs.

Final Thoughts: Embrace the Future

Photography is about capturing moments, but it’s also about anticipating them. The same is true for Bitcoin. While it may seem complex or intimidating at first, so was shooting on manual mode when you first started. But with time, you learn, adapt, and realize the power it brings.

Bitcoin isn’t just a financial tool—it’s a mindset. It’s about taking control, thinking independently, and embracing the future. As street photographers, we already have the courage to walk the unpredictable streets and capture the beauty of chaos. Let’s extend that courage to our financial lives as well.

So, what are you waiting for? Just as you would experiment with a new lens or a new technique, start exploring Bitcoin. Your creative and financial future might just depend on it.

Stay bold, stay experimental, and keep shooting.

Written in the spirit of sharing, freedom, and independence.

• Eric Kim

By Eric Kim

FIRE—Financial Independence, Retire Early—is the ultimate goal for many: escaping the rat race, reclaiming your time, and living life on your terms. But here’s the thing: the traditional path to FIRE has a blind spot. It’s tied to a fragile system of fiat money, inflation, and overleveraged markets. Enter Bitcoin, the digital revolution that reshapes how we think about money and wealth.

If you want to FIRE with Bitcoin, it’s not just about buying low and selling high. It’s about a paradigm shift—seeing Bitcoin as both a tool and a philosophy. Let’s break it down.

Step 1: Understand Why Bitcoin Is the Ultimate FIRE Asset

The traditional FIRE playbook relies on fiat currencies, index funds, and 4% withdrawal rules. But there’s a flaw in this system: fiat loses value over time. Inflation erodes your purchasing power, and the central banks keep moving the goalposts.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, is deflationary. With a fixed supply of 21 million coins, it resists the inflation that eats away at your savings. It’s not just an asset; it’s a hedge against the collapsing financial system. Every Satoshi you stack today has the potential to buy more tomorrow.

Step 2: Adopt the Bitcoin Mindset

Bitcoin isn’t just a financial tool; it’s a way of thinking. To FIRE with Bitcoin, you need to embrace a few key principles:

• Sovereignty: Take control of your wealth. Custody your Bitcoin in a secure wallet. Remember: not your keys, not your coins.

• Patience: Bitcoin rewards the long-term thinker. Forget day trading and market timing. HODL through the volatility.

• Frugality: FIRE and Bitcoin share a core value: minimalism. Cut unnecessary expenses and use the extra cash to stack more Sats.

Step 3: Stack Sats Strategically

FIRE isn’t just about earning more—it’s about saving more. Here’s how to use Bitcoin to supercharge your savings:

• Dollar-Cost Average (DCA): Regularly invest small amounts in Bitcoin. This reduces your exposure to market volatility and builds your stack over time.

• Invest Excess Savings: Skip the latest gadget or luxury vacation. Redirect that money into Bitcoin. Every Satoshi you save today is freedom you’ll gain tomorrow.

• Diversify Earnings: Use side hustles, remote gigs, or freelance work to earn extra income—and convert that into Bitcoin.

Step 4: Secure Your Wealth

Bitcoin offers incredible opportunities, but it also comes with responsibility. To FIRE with Bitcoin, you need to protect your stack.

• Cold Storage: Move your Bitcoin off exchanges and into a hardware wallet. Security is non-negotiable.

• Avoid Leverage: The temptation to borrow or margin trade is strong, but leverage is a quick way to lose everything. FIRE is about financial independence, not gambling.

• Plan for Long-Term Custody: Write down your seed phrase. Consider multi-signature wallets for added security.

Step 5: Build a Bitcoin-Backed Withdrawal Strategy

The 4% withdrawal rule of traditional FIRE doesn’t map perfectly to Bitcoin. Here’s why: Bitcoin’s value is volatile, but its long-term trajectory is upward. Your strategy should reflect this.

• Flexible Withdrawals: Instead of withdrawing a fixed percentage, adjust based on market conditions. Sell in bull markets, hold in bear markets.

• Live Off Dividends: Use Bitcoin-backed loans or DeFi platforms to generate passive income without selling your stack.

• Maintain a Fiat Safety Net: Keep a small cash reserve for day-to-day expenses, but let Bitcoin be your primary store of value.

Step 6: Educate Yourself and Stay Informed

The Bitcoin world evolves rapidly. To FIRE with Bitcoin, you need to stay sharp.

• Read Widely: Books like The Bitcoin Standard and Layered Money can deepen your understanding.

• Engage with the Community: Follow Bitcoiners who focus on long-term thinking, not hype. Learn from others’ successes and mistakes.

• Keep an Eye on Macro Trends: Bitcoin’s price is influenced by global events. Stay informed about inflation, interest rates, and adoption trends.

Step 7: Redefine What “Retirement” Means

FIRE with Bitcoin isn’t just about quitting your job and sitting on a beach. It’s about reclaiming your time and living with purpose. Bitcoiners know that wealth is more than money—it’s freedom to pursue what truly matters.

Ask yourself:

• What would you do if money were no object?

• How can you use Bitcoin to give back to your community?

• What legacy do you want to leave?

Conclusion: The Bitcoin-FIRE Revolution

Bitcoin doesn’t just help you achieve FIRE—it redefines it. It liberates you from the broken fiat system and gives you a chance to build lasting wealth. But more than that, it’s a mindset. It’s about sovereignty, patience, and freedom.

So start stacking Sats, educate yourself, and embrace the volatility as part of the journey. With Bitcoin, you’re not just retiring early—you’re stepping into a future where you’re in control.

Stay humble. Stay sovereign. And stay Bitcoin.

—Eric Kim

The Ten Commandments of Bitcoin

By Eric Kim

Introduction

In a world where the digital realm increasingly intertwines with our daily lives, Bitcoin emerges not just as a currency, but as a philosophy—a new way of thinking about value, trust, and freedom. Much like the art of street photography, where every moment captured tells a deeper story, Bitcoin represents a snapshot of a financial revolution. Here are the Ten Commandments of Bitcoin to guide you on this journey.

1. Thou Shalt Educate Thyself

Before you take a single step into the Bitcoin universe, arm yourself with knowledge. Understanding the fundamentals of blockchain technology, cryptography, and economics is essential. Ignorance is the enemy of progress. Just as a photographer studies light and composition, immerse yourself in learning.

2. Thou Shalt Own Thy Private Keys

“If you don’t own your keys, you don’t own your coins.” This is the cardinal rule. Trusting third parties with your private keys is like handing over your camera to a stranger hoping they capture your vision. Keep control of your assets; safeguard your private keys as you would your most prized photographs.

3. Thou Shalt Question Everything

Skepticism is healthy. In a space rife with misinformation and hype, always question the sources. Seek out primary information, verify facts, and don’t take claims at face value. Curiosity didn’t kill the cat; complacency did.

4. Thou Shalt Embrace Decentralization

Centralization breeds corruption. Bitcoin’s strength lies in its decentralized nature. Support platforms, services, and communities that promote decentralization. It’s akin to the spontaneity of street photography—unpredictable yet authentic.

5. Thou Shalt Secure Thy Holdings

Protect your digital wealth. Use hardware wallets, enable two-factor authentication, and stay updated on security practices. Just as you wouldn’t leave your camera unattended in a crowded place, don’t neglect the security of your Bitcoin.

6. Thou Shalt Avoid FOMO and Hype

Fear of Missing Out leads to irrational decisions. The market is a rollercoaster; don’t let emotions dictate your actions. Patience is a virtue. Remember, the best shots often come to those who wait.

7. Thou Shalt Contribute to the Community

Bitcoin is more than an investment; it’s a community-driven movement. Share knowledge, help newcomers, and contribute to discussions. In photography, collaboration enriches creativity; in Bitcoin, it fosters growth and innovation.

8. Thou Shalt Plan for the Long Term

Think beyond the immediate future. Bitcoin is a marathon, not a sprint. Align your strategy with long-term goals. Just as a photographer builds a portfolio over years, let your Bitcoin journey be a testament to foresight and perseverance.

9. Thou Shalt Stay Humble

No one knows everything, and the market can humble even the most confident. Stay modest, acknowledge mistakes, and remain open to learning. Humility keeps you grounded and receptive to new perspectives.

10. Thou Shalt Live with Purpose

Let Bitcoin be a tool that enhances your life, not the center of it. Pursue passions, build relationships, and make a positive impact. In the end, wealth is meaningless without purpose. Like capturing a powerful image, it’s about the story you create, not just the medium you use.

Conclusion

Bitcoin symbolizes a shift—a move towards empowerment, autonomy, and redefining value. These commandments aren’t just guidelines; they’re principles to navigate not only the complexities of digital finance but also the intricacies of life itself. Embrace them, and you’ll find that the journey through the world of Bitcoin is as enriching as any artistic pursuit.

Stay curious, stay bold, and keep pushing boundaries.

xxx

By Eric Kim

Bitcoin. It’s not just digital money—it’s a movement, a paradigm shift, a revolution disguised as code. But in a world filled with blockchain noise and crypto chaos, there are guiding principles that set Bitcoin apart. Let me take you through what I call The Ten Commandments of Bitcoin—the unwritten rules that every Bitcoiner should live by.

1. Thou Shalt Not Trust—Verify

Bitcoin is built on trustless technology. The beauty of the blockchain lies in its transparency. Trust no institution, no influencer, and no third party—verify everything. Download a full node. Check the blocks. Only then can you truly say you’re part of the network.

2. Thou Shalt Not Covet Altcoins

Bitcoin isn’t just the first cryptocurrency; it’s the one that matters. Altcoins may promise fast gains and fancy features, but most are just distractions—or worse, scams. Stay focused. Bitcoin is king.

3. Remember the Halving, and Keep It Holy

Every four years, Bitcoin’s issuance rate is cut in half. This is no trivial event. It’s a reminder of Bitcoin’s finite nature and a celebration of its resistance to inflation. Mark the date, spread the word, and honor Satoshi’s design.

4. Honor Decentralization Above All

The power of Bitcoin lies in its decentralization. Protect it at all costs. Avoid centralized exchanges when possible, run your own wallet, and resist anything that threatens to centralize control over the network.

5. Thou Shalt HODL

Bitcoin isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme; it’s a long-term hedge against the broken financial system. Don’t panic sell. Don’t day trade. Hold on for dear life. The reward for patience is immeasurable.

6. Thou Shalt Educate Thy Neighbor

Bitcoin isn’t just for you—it’s for the world. But mass adoption won’t happen unless people understand it. Share the knowledge. Demystify the jargon. Teach your friends why Bitcoin matters.

7. Thou Shalt Guard Thy Keys

Not your keys, not your coins. Say it again. If you don’t control your private keys, you don’t control your Bitcoin. Avoid custodial wallets whenever possible, and remember: hardware wallets are your friends.

8. Thou Shalt Beware of FUD

Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt—FUD—will always plague Bitcoin. Governments will ban it. Billionaires will bash it. Economists will declare it dead. Stay the course. Bitcoin has survived worse and will thrive beyond their criticisms.

9. Thou Shalt Not Overleverage

Leverage in Bitcoin is a double-edged sword. Yes, it can amplify gains, but it can also destroy you in a flash. Play it safe. Debt and margin are the enemies of true financial sovereignty.

10. Thou Shalt Never Forget Satoshi

We owe it all to Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin. Whether Satoshi is one person or many, their vision has forever changed the world. Remember their principles: decentralization, transparency, and trustless technology.

These commandments aren’t just guidelines—they’re a mindset. Bitcoin isn’t just another asset; it’s a lifeboat in an ocean of fiat uncertainty. Follow these principles, and you’ll not only protect your Bitcoin—you’ll help secure the future of financial freedom for all.

Stay sovereign. Stay humble. Stay Bitcoin.

—Eric Kim

Vibram 5 finger shoes

Outside walking around all day, no vehicles or cars?

Joy, maybe the simplest Three letter word in the air conditioner, but kind of what we are aiming for.

For example, the joyful wisdom from Nietzsche,  or thinking about Christmas carols, “joy to the world!”

how and why is joy so elusive?

 many problems at hand:

First, modern Day Society is not about joy, rather it is about like hedonic pleasure maximization, which is different to me than joy.

What is Joy? Joy is the hug and snuggle and embrace of your child, reading him a bedtime story, or the joy of getting all you can eat eat Korean Japanese Wagyu barbecue with your beautiful family (Chubby cattle, my new favorite joint!)

Joy is the joy of discovering an interesting idea or concept, and also the joy of sharing it with others.

The reason why joy is such a difficult notion is that actually, modern day society is more focused about misery. Misery is much more profitable than joy.

For example, when is the last time you watched a joyful movie or film or television series that did not have some sort of strange fake drama added to it?

Joy is already within you

If I invoke Thic neat Hanh, the wise Zen Sage, the general idea that he has is that the seeds of happiness are already within us, they lie nascent within us.

For example, even Jesus, I think his words are often misconstrued, like a simple one… The kingdom of God is already within you. And that heaven, is essentially the joy of your family on earth. Heaven is not a place that you go in the afterlife.

Even the Jesus saying about the kingdom of God, the wisdom of a child.

Generally a lot of modern day Christian theology should just be thought of as “St. Paulism”– who sent you was kind of a troubled man, fighting his own demons, insult salvation and trying to misconstrue the teachings of Jesus to fit his own personal narrative?

Anyways, joy is critical. I almost feel like it is our duty to be joyful, and also more importantly to spread joy, seeds of joy and hope.

Why?

I mean first thing is kind of like a love of humanity. For example if you have dear friends and family, who you care for, and they do not show any signs of joy, in fact they show the signs of misery the exact opposite… Obviously from a basic perspective we’re going to feel some sort of compassion and we’re going to want to help alleviate their situation and reduce their suffering. I think there’s naturally a bit of autism in all of us, even though that these haters of humanity might think otherwise.

My mom told me this interesting saying in Korean is that you cannot spit on the face of somebody who smiles at you.

So generally, I always try to approach and treat everybody with love, kindness, gratitude, even if it looks like they’re not having it. Why? It Doesn’t really cost me anything, and also, it just feels like the right thing to do!

How to spread seeds of joy

First, I think joy could be infectious, and I also believe that the power of joy can actually supersede that of hate envy jealousy and all these other negative emotions.

I think the first thing is to deposit that we desire joy. That it is a desirable thing.

The archer

So for example, if you’re an archer, and your goals to hit the mark, you kinda need to know what to aim for. If you’re aiming for other random stuff, you might hit the mark, but you’ve hit the mark and the target of something other random thing.

So for example most of modern day capitalism and hedonism maximization has to deal with silly notions of purchasing stuff? Like purchasing the Rolls, the Lambo, or having a certain amount of money in your bank account. Now that I have achieved all of my flesh found goals, and have achieved all the rings of success, I could actually honestly a test now that it is all fine, but not really the goal. Maybe to me joy is much more interesting.

So for example, the joy of being outside, the joy of walking, even Thich Nhat Hanh talk a lot about the joy of walking meditation. The general idea and just is every time you take a step, you just repeated to yourself “I have arrived, I have arrived, I have arrived.

The general idea is that you don’t really have a destination you need to get to, but instead the joint itself is the walking.

Walking is joy?

To me actually the thing I hit the most feeling cramped at home. I don’t know… Maybe my personal ethos and spirit is like an outdoor spirit; I must be outside.

Often times the reason that I hate the winter months is simply that it is kind of a discouragement from going outside. If the ultimate goal is to be outside, any sort of circumstances which allow for it is good.

For example, it seems like in America at least, Los Angeles may be the least bad place to be because you could essentially always be outside. Even when it gets cold, trust me you could get cold, but it never gets that cold. Like not Michigan winter cold.

As a consequence, I think the wise goal is to be outside all day every day! The only thing I hated about employment was feeling trapped like a prisoner inside the cubicle office; I almost feel like the humane thing to do is give your employees the option; I’m going to the office whenever they want to, or just working from home if they want to. Or be able to take Zoom calls while hiking in the mountains with their AirPods, voice without WebCam.

Because the issue is post of employment is more about monitoring, rather than maximization. It seems that everyone is so afraid that your employees are going to become lazy, complacent, fail to obey the rules etc. Or worse, they’re going to be degenerates just watching Netflix all day, while they should be working.

My personal belief and thought is that actually… Perhaps the purpose of it all should be to simply maximize your efficiency yield, which does not require a simple mathematical equation: more hours in the office do not equal more productivity. For example, if the ultimate goal is productivity maximization, then actually, the real wise goal is instead, to allow your employees to work however they want, because the truth is happy employees are productive employees.

And isn’t the goal to squeeze out productivity from your employees and or yourself? If that is the case, make happiness enjoy your goal ethos and method.

Tips

As a general thought, anything which encourages you to do more walking, taking the bus or public transit, the train or whatever is good. Anything that motivates you to be stuck in a car is bad.

For example, one of the worst trade-offs that people do is to live somewhere super super far away, in the suburb somewhere in order to somehow increase their living space, like buying a bigger house outside of their general workplace or whatever. But once again this is like the worst trade-off ever.

To be stuck in a car More than necessary almost seems unethical to me. It’s like chickens stuck in a cage, forced to cluck more and more, to produce more eggs, stimulated by fake natural and artificial sleep cycles. 

And if you think about the average human being, the average worker be, it is almost kind of like the same idea. We are conditioned to think that the desired outcome is to be stuck inside some sort of cubicle luxury cage, even this whole ridiculous notion of wanting some sort of luxury vehicle is like promoting sitting?

To sit is the exact opposite of joy 

The joy of life is inside your legs, the muscularity of your Bipe lifestyle, not your butt. To me butts are only for pooing, nothing else.

And also, I think it is quite apparent, that the more time somebody spends seated, it actually shuts down your metabolism, power, energy etc. For example even if you’re in the world‘s best Ferrari Lamborghini Porsche 911 GT 3S whatever, or even a Tesla model S plaid or a cyber truck, the losing bet you have here is that once again, you’re forced to sit on your butt! Another crime against humanity.

To think more walk more 

Many of us, thoughts are our primary joy, the joy of thinking, of being, of existing in the world.

No human being wants to be stuck inside an apple Vision Pro with a multi directional treadmill thing, with all the haptics in the world, even if you have a flashlight attached to your dick, and something licking your testicles, no no no this is not the goal.

Once again, this sounds like a bad joke but it’s actually pretty true. For women you might not know but I would actually say with quite certainty that 99.999% of men probably release their seed at least once a day on some sort of laptop iPad or iPhone device, often in incognito mode, or a VPN enabled. Just ask any techie, what their opinion of Maria Ozawa is, and you could see the wheels turning in their head. 

Or, a simple thing is if you have a friend with a laptop, like a MacBook Air or a MacBook Pro or whatever, just go to the application folder, and see whether they have a VPN enabled or not, whether they have some sort of torrenting application. I could then guarantee you with almost 100% precision that they’re dipping into pirate Bay, and also probably downloading stuff which has something to do with naked women doing stuff.

so why does this any of this matter?

I think this matters a lot because at least for men… 99.9% of all this consumer nonsense we are being sold is apparently to increase our sex appeal, in order to bang more beautiful babes?

Even money, it’s typically seen as a conduit to attracting beautiful women, with marvelous breasts, butts, faces physiques etc., in order to ejaculate in them or on them or whatever.

Now I find this whole thing kind of ridiculous because once again, actually if you think about the real men of antiquity, they would actually practice semen retention, knowing that their seed was the most valuable thing of them all, for example, if you wanted to obtain the semen of Elon Musk, How expensive would it be worth? A lot.

Or, if you obtain the semen of like an old 80-year-old man, was like 4’10” tall, how much would that be worth? Not much.

And actually, this is where the whole thing is a bit tragic is that we men are simply wasting our energy and physiological power, into thin air.

In the Bible or whatever or Christian morality we are taught that masturbation or spilling your seed on the floor is considered sinful. But I don’t think it is sinful, it is just like wasted energy. For example if you had 1 million bucks, and you just threw it into the shredder or furnace, Certainly this would be a poor idea. If you think about your semen like being economic and physiological energy and power, your physiological capital,  would you just dump it somewhere that does not yield a child? Obviously not!

NEW GOALS

So I thought I had this morning is why is it so difficult to become new? Do you think new, to adopt new lines of thinking etc.

I think it might be a natural thing, we are like dogs, trained in our old ways and habits etc. This is where traveling could be so beneficial to many people because when you start to travel, it forces you to break out of your routine, to find new grooves in your old vinyl record.

I think the human mind is also similar, the only reason people typically consume three square meals a day is that they have been conditioned to do so. The human body is not like an automobile gasoline car, you do not need to insert food in order to yield energy and movement. The average human has enough body fit on themselves to themselves for 40 days without dying. Let alone four hours, maybe even four days.

And for people who think that this is so crazy, I’ve essentially done intermittent fasting ever since as in Vietnam in 2017, for almost 7 years now. No breakfast no lunch, only a 100% carnivorous dinner.

---

The joy of bitcoin

A lot of people ask me what the point of purchasing bitcoin is, there’s almost like the joy of ownership, the joy of owning property. So for example if you’re like an average American, a baby boomer or maybe even Gen X, the general idea is that if you own a piece of land property, you can sit on your patio, And smile thinking that “this belongs to me!” But the sad reality is that it does not, it belongs to the government, to the federal government.

And this is where I think the great innovation and disruption of bitcoin is; it actually belongs to you and cannot be seized or text without your consent.

However, if you own prime real estate in Manhattan or Gangnam or Tokyo, you cannot hide it from the government or the local federal government agencies. They’re going to find a way to text you, find a way to spite you and hate you for owning all that stuff.

invisible wealth

Once again, the reason why bitcoin is so disruptive is that it is like having invisible property and well, which is real.

For example, people often criticize bitcoin for not being real, but then again… Are the ones and zeros in your bank account balance real? Is your Apple stock “real“, can you print out a piece of Apple stock or 100 or 1000 of it, or can you print out Tesla stock, and say that it is “real”?

One might then say the analogy that it is real because Apple critic is real products and services and Tesla produces real vehicles.

But look at Google, do they produce anything “real”? No. Their search business is like 99% of their revenue, but does Google exist in the physical realm? No! But then you can talk about the data centers whatever… Then if you use that analogy, then, don’t you realize that the bitcoin network is like if you took all the data centers of Apple Amazon Facebook Google and combined all of them, it wouldn’t even be a 10th of the power of the bitcoin network?

Also what a lot of people don’t understand is that there has already been like $890 billion of real US dollars injected into the network. And there has also been billions of dollars invested in the bitcoin mining centers, which should just be better seen as a security network, one does not really “mine“ bitcoin, rather, you just protect it.

And also if you think about cryptography it is just like a bunch of computers solving very difficult mathematical equations, to prove security.

ephemeral things are difficult to understand

It is difficult to explain the cloud to your mom or grandma.

Even for my mom, for a very very long time I tried to explain the whole idea of the Google cloud etc. to her, it doesn’t really make sense.

We understand money, dollar bills, paying the rent and paying for food and gas etc., but how many Americans or people really understand how money is created, minted, and also destroyed by a central government agency?

Even in the past, people understood that gold was money. That gold coins and gold bricks were money. Can you imagine showing up to King Agamemnon or Achilles with a bunch of green blue paper notes, with a face printed on it, telling them that they could exchange this for 100 heads of oxen? No! Or can you try imagine getting them to trade their mythical armor for a suitcase of paper slips? No!

Even Fernandina Kalyani in his treaty on money, de Monetta, commented how it was strange for the Puritans in America at the time, I think he wrote this in the 1700s, over 300 years ago, the only reason why paper trade was facilitated amongst the Quakers was because there was some sort of religious God trust between them; One of the earliest accounts of paper fiat currency.

Even if you think about a stock, or a bond, historically it was just a piece of paper which was a certificate which was faith in the US government or the other party, and there was often a trusted intermediary in between. And if you did not have a trusted intermediary, The whole thing would fall apart.

And this is where bitcoin is so radical, you could essentially store or transfer value an economic energy power and capital without a trusted intermediary, and now that we live in the year 2024, and we have self driving cars, robot etc.… Come on, Shouldn’t we make money cyber digital and infallible?

Nobody knows how many US dollars actually exist

The closest thing we could do is track the M2 money supply, but even that… It is impossible to account for every single hundred dollar bill stuffed under a mattress in Brooklyn Queens, or in Saigon, or how many US dollars have simply been lost, or fell to the bottom of the floor in a shipwreck.

With bitcoin, you could exactly 100% track all the bitcoins on the planet. 21 million, forever. Forever times forever. And it could exist even if America no longer exists, and this is a big idea because America has been around for what like 350 years so far? It will probably be around for another three 400 years, if we think about the Lindy effect of Nasim Taleb, but doubtful if America will be around 3000 years from now, but bitcoin will.

The unity and unifier of humanity

If bitcoin bonds me with somebody from Sri Lanka, the Middle East, northern Sweden, Nigeria, Lagos, El Salvador and the like,,, and we could all accept the fact that this is in fact, valuable digital capital, digital property, isn’t this a good thing for humanity?

Even the biggest threats that we have is about China maybe Russia and North Korea; etc., but if everyone adopted bitcoin, certainly no one would want a World War III because without a world there would be no bitcoin.

Peer to peer seems to make more sense.

So one of the things I like about cash is that if you give somebody a $20 bill, or $100 bill or $50 bill, it means something. To me I consider cash paper money to be warm currency, for example if you tip the waiter $60 in three $20 bills, or if you insert a $10 bill to your local coffee bar barista, it will bring them 1 million times more joy than if you deposited that money in a computer.

I almost think that bitcoin and Satoshi’s should be the same: for example if I want to buy your house, and let us say that your house is worth one bitcoin, isn’t it easier that I just use my iPhone to send you a bitcoin, directly to your iPhone, and we could immediately prove that the bitcoin was sent, and then you could just hand over the deed to your house? This would be a big deal because we would no longer need these sleazy real estate agents.

Or, let us say that I like your cyber truck, and you like my bitcoin. Then I could send you like a 10th of a bitcoin for your cyber truck. Or I could send you half of bitcoin for your Lamborghini. Or I could send you a bitcoin for your yacht. Whatever it may be.

It seems to be so much easier, even right now on craigslist, cryptocurrency OK is an option. And to me it seems much safer than walking around with a suitcase full of cash, for example if you just want to buy even a basic vehicle from somebody, on craigslist, assuming that it is less than $5000, it seems kind of dangerous to try to wire somebody the money through a bank, or certainly showing up with a suitcase of $100 notes also seems dangerous. I would not trust this.

With bitcoin it is great because nobody could like confiscate it from you, and also… Nobody has any idea how much bitcoins you own, you could just memorize the number inside your head.

inclusive vs exclusive 

Nowadays the rhetoric is all about inclusivity, the truth is we seek exclusivity.

For example, if you really believe that inclusivity or a virtue you would probably say that McDonald’s was the best restaurant on the planet. Or that a Starbucks Frappuccino is in fact the best vintage on the planet. Or that a Toyota Corolla was the most desirable car. Or that Cal State Fullerton was the most desirable university to go to.

Everybody knows that exclusivity is critical here; for example, the reason why Harvard is the number one institution in the states and possibly the planet is because of their exclusivity. Ain’t not nobody could just go to Harvard, you can’t even pay your way in, you need money and you need skills and brains.

Everyone wants to send their kids to Harvard, every rich mainland Chinese person, all the Gark from South Korea whatever. Even I believe that Kim Jong-un studied abroad as a student at some sort of private UK university?

I think people get a little bit confused with words; certainly I believe in the notion of equal access like anybody could apply to go into Harvard, but whether everybody will be accepted into Harvard is a different thing. 

So currently people like to throw around the word crypto, thinking that crypto and bitcoin is the same thing. No it is not.

It’s also kind of like how people like to use the notion of just calling it a smart phone, but no it is not a smart phone it is an iPhone, just like we called a Kleenex not a paper tissue, these differences matter.

Even the whole notion of a EV electric vehicle is bizarre; it is either a Tesla or nothing.

So I think the whole market of cryptocurrencies, essentially anything that is not bitcoin is kind of bad. Why? Considering that Ethereum and everything after it is based on proof of stake, like proof of stake it makes no sense, imagine like staking a piece of wood into a piece of land and property and just exclaiming to the universe that “this belongs to me“!” Versus proof of work, proof of work is like actually inputted energy and physical power to yield this product.

To anybody who says that bitcoin is bad for the planet… Don’t you realize that air conditioning accounts for like 33% of the worlds electricity? And nobody is really on a Crusade to ban air conditioning. I think bitcoin accounts for like .01% of the world energy usage.

I think… If we banned air-conditioning what would happen to all the poor people in Arizona and Nevada? 

Also another random environmental thing, apparently I learned that gasoline petroleum and oil prevents like 95% of humanity from dying.

If you think of bitcoin like the first true perfected money, like switching the From toxic to clean, shouldn’t this be the primary focus of humanity?

For example, if the whole time you just been drinking sewer water, and then somebody finally gives you a glass of Fiji, wouldn’t you want yourself with your family and your best friends to drink the Fiji not the sewer water?

The traditional fiat currency US dollars and its derivatives is like sewer water, bitcoin is like the Fiji water. 

a new purpose in life

So I think my first decade and a half of my journey was focused on photography Street photography open-source photography and photography empowerment and the like. And I’m still going to do it for the rest of my life – people are a little bit confused with my interest in bitcoin and economics and money, but don’t you understand… If you have financial freedom using bitcoin, like if you could retire right now with bitcoin, wouldn’t you just retire right now travel the planet and shoot photos?

So in this sense, bitcoin may be more important than photography and our hobbies because if bitcoin could enable you 100% financial independence, shouldn’t this be your focus?

how to retire right now with bitcoin

So some simple ways you could do it:

The first thought is just figuring out your monthly expenses, and actually ideally, you would not live in America, but rather live in a developing country like Cambodia allows Thailand, Vietnam, even in Mexico City or I guess El Salvador?

Things in America is starting to get ridiculous.  even now… When I stare at a $20 bill it almost feels like the new five dollar bill? A dollar bill feels like a quarter, even $100 bill feels like the new 20?

I mean just look at housing prices, a tiny single-family house in Culver city is 1.5 million for a two bedroom one bath.

Or eating out, the average all you eat Korean barbecue is not like $75 a person. Compare this to Vietnam where you could afford the same meal for like $8 to $12.

Or rent, $3200 a month for a nice two bed one bath apartment in Los Angeles, maybe $320 a month in Hanoi or Saigon for the same level. You’re literally overpaying 10 X in America, assuming that you live abroad you could reduce your living expenses by like 90%.

52 years of paying rent?

So Trump has not yet taken office, and it seems that the truth is nobody knows with 100% certainty what is going to happen to the future of the economy.

The tricky thing with inflation is that it is kind of like a one-way ratchet; if you increase the minimum wage to $20, you cannot rewind it back to 18 or $19 an hour, there might be riots.

So at best, we can either slow down or maybe potentially stop inflation, but the damage has already been done.

Even in LA, buying a single-family house in the hood is going to run you at least 1 million, $1.1 million. And if you do the math, with interest rates or whatever… You’re gonna be paying like what $8000-$10,000a month? That’s insane!

If there’s no strong reason for you to be in America I recommend you to leave.

Living forever

So the great promise I have with bitcoin, micro strategy stock is that I will never run out of money, neither will Seneca or his kids.

Creating immortal capital for your kids and their kids kids kids kids, seems to be a good idea.

And also the good thing with bitcoin is that assuming that bitcoin is the first true digital and cyber property and real estate, that doesn’t require maintenance costs, or the decay of physicality, this is kind of a big idea. Why? They could just sit and do nothing and remain wealthy forever. The only dumb thing to do is sell the bitcoin.

Never sell the bitcoin, it’s like selling land or property on fifth Avenue in New York!

ERIC

Why is it so hard for us to adopt the new, to become something new, new things, ideas concepts — etc?

Podcast

Video vlog podcast

I’ve never owned property in the traditional sense in my life. It is still kind of a strange and elusive concept for me.

For example, homeownership, is talented as some sort of desideratum, a thing to be desired.

So for example, I think like the baby boomer generation, the life goal of everybody was to own your own property? Like purchasing a single-family home, a plot of land etc.?

Land?

Even Cindy’s mom said it best, you don’t own the property, the government owns it. Even assuming that you buy a plot of land or property in all cash, you’re still going to pay around like 1%, 1.05% property taxes on it like forever.

Even if you buy a house which is like $1.4 million or something, I think that’s like $1250 a month Justin property taxes, and then after homeowners insurance and stuff, which could also be considered an additional non-direct tax, You might be looking at like $2000 a month, just in “taxes”. Just throw in another thousand dollars and you already have rent.

Why?

I thought this morning is in regards to the philosopher; what is a philosopher? A philosopher simply somebody who posits desideratum — what we should desire, what we should not desire.

 For example, under no circumstances should we desire slavery poverty and to be encumbered. On the contrary, what we should desire is freedom, power and control; consider the blissful authority and self sovereignty of the Spartans.

New Slaves?

See there’s leaders and there’s followers, but I’d rather be a dick than a swallower! – Ye

 the tricky thing with a lot of modern day life is that a lot of the stuff is actually self-imposed slavery. For example let us say that you buy the new BMW M3, yet you finance it, I think the original word for finance actually means ransom.

So let us say that you’re paying like $1450 a month, just for your car payment. To me this seems like the most insanely foolish financial decision of all time; if you simply pour that into bitcoin, and assuming that bitcoin is going to at least 100X from here, maybe even 1000x, then what that means is that the payments on your car, is like metaphorically paying $15,000, $150,000, or even $1.5 million a month!  

Future projections

If I could tell you with 100% certainty that in 21 years, bitcoin would be worth $100 million a coin, maybe even 105 million a coin, which means that assuming that bitcoin is around $100,000 today, that is like a 1000X gain 21 years from now.

Certainly it is possible you could die in a texting while driving accident today or tomorrow, but if you plan long-term —  if I told you that the money that you put in this thing today will yield 1000 X 21 years from now, and I could guarantee you with 100% certain that you would be alive healthy and well 21 years from now, wouldn’t you plan things differently and spend differently?

For example, that hundred dollars you put into that thing, could be worth $1000, $10,000, $100,000– or even $1M! If that were the case wouldn’t you plan things differently?

Once again, $100 today being worth $1M in 21 years, with 100% certainty ,,, wouldn’t you plan your life differently?

First, you would certainly be much more scrappy, frugal, and pursue a much more austere and critical and Spartan lifestyle today. Of course there are certain things you gotta do like feed yourself, pay rent etc., but beyond this… Even thinking about recurring subscriptions and services, that $20 a month you’re spending on Spotify, what if that after doing the math, would mean that you’re paying $200,000 a month for Spotify? Why don’t you just cancel that subscription and put that money into bitcoin instead?

Fractional property ownership

I think this is the big idea here; the general idea that you cannot buy a fraction of an apartment on fifth Avenue in New York. You cannot buy like a square meter of an apartment complex in Gangnam. You cannot buy like a third of a single-family house in Culver City.

I think this is where the early days of bitcoin is interesting; people have not yet understood the notion of a Satoshi; sooner or later, I think the name Satoshi will become more famous than the name of any other modern day celebrity. Why? He’s like the Jesus of money!

Ownership is a state of mind?

I think a big thing to consider is that ownership, self ownership, self sovereignty is more of a mindset than anything. Even when I’m staring at my bitcoin balance, and the value of my microstrategy MSTR stock, none of it really feels real… It’s almost like I’m living in some sort of cyber virtual video game, except it is real.  Not bad for a kid who grew up in poverty, mom going bankrupt twice, and dad gambling with the rent money to now at the age of 36, counting M’s.

The impetus to think long-term 

Once again, if I could tell you with 100% certainty that your investment today in bitcoin well thousand X 21 years now, aren’t you gonna do everything in your power to ensure that your health your physiology your sanity will be insanely robust 21 years from now? Would that also means that you’re probably not going to be engaging in degenerate activities today; Rather, it will probably encourage you to sober up, stop taking weird drugs, going to Coachella, wasting money on that new loser iPhone, that new loser Tesla cyber truck Lamborghini Ferrari whatever.

I think you will also become more critical about how you spend money. And how do you spend your life!

Also, I almost wonder if this one encourage more people to have kids; because you cannot be with your bitcoin dance to your dog; but bitcoin will last forever; you could give it to your kids kids kids kids kids, for when your kids kids kids have kids! 

the $1m iPhone 

A simple way to think about it is $1000 today is $1,000,000 21 years from now. 

So if that is the case, the smart strategy is to just hoard the cheapest iPhone, the iPhone SE, forever or however long you can.

The $100M Cybertruck

Assuming that a cyber truck is like $100,000, that means that your cyber stuck  will cost you $100 million in 21 years.

I’m like 1000% Elon and Tesla, but still… The entrepreneur and innovator in me think more critically about this;

Better to CYBERTRUCK your body than to just buy it.

Also, the big issue here is that with a Tesla car, you never really own it, the same goes with any other vehicle; because ultimately you’re going to have to pay Insurance, maintenance, gasoline, stuff on it… What that then means is that you never own it in theory; You’re kind of just metaphorically leasing it. 

I’ll give you an example with Tesla; as long as that you have to use their proprietary software, you visit the local supercharging network etc., you’re still tied to Tesla the infrastructure forever.  and also if you need to get any repairs done, you’re going to be married to Tesla for the rest of your life.

Another big thought I had was you never really own an iPhone; you’re just kind of leasing it; why? Now that we are all married to the iCloud system, forever, you’re kind of just paying some sort of like revolving increasing expensive iPhone thing, to ever feed your iCloud subscription?

So you never really own an iPhone a Tesla, even a Ferrari or a Lamborghini or Porsche or whatever, the primary issue here is like let us say that you had to pay $1000 a month in insurance for the car, you have to maintain the car, replace the tires, do oil change etc., this could be seen as an indirect tax. 

Stop the bleeding!

Let us see that you have a healthy four-year-old boy, full of bigger energy and happiness, but let us say that you siphon off a little bit of his blood every single day for the rest of his life. What is going to happen to his growth ability? Probably not good.

Economic vampires

I think I figured out fashion; all this marketing advertising magazines etc. is designed to make you feel shameful about your body, and how do we alleviate this? We cover up the ugliness of our body with other ugly expensive clothes, all produced in China or Vietnam, which is like a 98% markup on the actual clothes.

And this is the thing also with cars, we all have ugly weak unimpressive bodies, and we hide behind avail of our luxury vehicles, because we are ashamed of ourselves.

You’ll see this with people who try to look antisocial but at the same time, with their 5% tennis sunglasses, or they’re fully tinted automobile cars, or with their baggy loose fitting clothes.

It seems that the whole trend right now is that everyone for this weird, emo alien look? Balenciaga in the flesh?

Bitcoin is beautiful

What is the most beautiful thing on the planet? Or the known universe of humans?

Bitcoin!

Why?

First, note how it is kind of like the ultimate perfected Zen and property. There is really no problems with it.

It’s like if Steve Jobs came out with her first iPhone, and he said that this would be how the iPhone would look forever, kind of the same thing.

I think the reason why you should put zero faith in any other tokens or things which are not bitcoin is that they are all like the old versions of the Microsoft android phone, not worth anything, and they are simply supported by fake notions of value, hyped up by crypto influencers (side note– whenever you hear the word crypto, be very very wary). It is Bitcoin not crypto.

the Immaculate conception of bitcoin

I think what is so shocking and interesting about bitcoin is that it only ever had a version .01, and has not been messed with since.

Compare this and contrast with all these other version twos of Ethereum and all these other loser copycats.

Why does this all matter?

If I could tell you that this was like Apple in the 1980s, or the early days of Apple Amazon Facebook Google, and you could invest in right now, and it will become the most valuable thing on the planet, wouldn’t you want a piece of the pie?

Infinite pie

The double funny thing about bitcoin;

in some ways it is infinite, but in some ways it is limited.

For example, any human on the planet could purchase a single Satoshi, I think like it is only .001 cents to purchase a Satoshi.

In fact, my personal thought is if you really want to give somebody a meaningful present or tip somebody, just zap them a few Satoshi’s.

Or, let us say that your sibling has a child or a kid, I would actually say the most meaningful gift you give them is a single bitcoin. If and when my sister has a kid, I’m going to gift the kid a bitcoin.

The new family Empire

So we’re still stuck in thinking about US dollars, like the question is always, how much is a single bitcoin worth right now? No. The more intelligent way to think about it is how many bitcoins do I currently own, and how much will it cost for me to acquire more bitcoins? 

Increasing your bitcoin yield

So the goal is to acquire and accumulate as many bitcoins as you can in this life, and to never spend it.

So for example, it is always a good idea to buy Manhattan or cyber Manhattan. If over the last 300 years, your family was able to get fractional ownership of Manhattan, if that is the case, then, it is always a good idea to buy Manhattan.

Why is so difficult to think about property and manage property

In some ways, property is just kind of a metaphor, kind of like a philosophical thing. It doesn’t really exist in the traditional sense, of course, plot of land is considered property. Yet when the Native Americans lived here, ain’t nobody ever took out a tape measure, measured the square footage of a plot of land, put a stick in the ground, and suddenly declare to the universe “I own this 5000 ft.² of land?”

Bitcoin is also fascinating because assuming that cyber space is more valuable than physical space, I think it is, assuming that the Internet is also more valuable than physical property, if that is the case… To be able to own a piece of cyberspace, is actually a very big idea. 

Nobody is anti-bitcoin

This is also another idea, all the other crypto assets are essentially pegged to the bitcoin. Even Ethereum, read the original white paper by Vitelic, he essentially was trying to “fix”, bitcoin, even though there was nothing needing to be fixed.

So always be wary when somebody shows up to the party, and trying to fix something that isn’t even broken in the first place. This is why in general, anybody who tries to “optimize” something that is already working, … like a Doctor Who tries to prescribe blood thinners or cholesterol lowering medication to your healthy four-year-old, be very skeptical.

who profits from what?

So this is a tricky thing, the ethics and the motivation behind it all. For example, somebody once asked me, is Michael Saylor ethical or unethical for promoting bitcoin, given the fact that he himself and his entity micro strategy owns a lot of it?

 I would actually say it is 100% ethical for Michael sailor to promote bitcoin. Why? It’s almost like trying to encourage people to use the Internet, and saying that the Internet is good for the planet. In which it obviously is.

 if anything what is actually super fascinating is that I’ve watched almost like four years of Michael sailor interviews, like nearly 100 of them, and for the first four years, he never once  even mentions his company micro strategy. And what is very ethical is the whole time he is talking about the magnificent seven, like Apple Amazon Facebook and the like. 

In fact, it almost took me like six months before I even figured out what micro strategy was.

Anyways, it is always a good idea to follow somebody who never promotes themselves or their company, but rather, the asset behind it all. Which is bitcoin.

For example, it’s like me going out and telling people that digital photography is superior to film photography or vice versa and the like. Or more like me encouraging people to open source their photos their information etc., I’m promoting a protocol and an idea.

Or for example, if I encourage people to start intermittent fasting, to stop drinking alcohol and marijuana, for people to become more frugal, for people to unsubscribe to subscriptions, what is unethical about this?

Or if I encourage people to purchase beef ribs at Costco, I don’t really have anything to gain from this.

Follow the money?

So currently speaking, real estate is traditionally the way that a lot of people get rich. For example if your a great great grandfather once bought an acre of land in San Francisco for like five acorns and two donkeys, that family assuming they did not do anything stupid would probably be insanely rich. 

Who encourages us to purchase single-family homes? Banks, real estate brokers etc. Why? By propping up this American dream of home ownership, they themselves get rich off of it.

Compare this instead to an asset like bitcoin; there is nobody who controls bitcoin, Satoshi said toodaloo, and disappeared forever. Kind of like the immaculate Assumption back into heaven.

Everyone else is this spokesperson for their token or thing; Vitalik for Ethereum, Sergey for Chainlink, the scam artist who are proposing ADA Cardano (this one is really the biggest scam), even Elon Musk trolling Dogecoin.

Only trust things or assets without an issuer.

For example, even apple, kind of a bearish future ahead of them, assuming they don’t integrate bitcoin into their ecosystem. Why? Even though Apple keeps pumping money into their Apple TV+, nobody really wants it or cares for it. And even at this point, nobody really wants the new iPhone, or the new iPhone Pro, they simply upgraded because they feel expected to; they have been holding off for so long like two or three years, their old phone is getting super slow, or they run out of storage, so they simply upgrade not because they want to but because they must!

ain’t no Tesla car going to last year 21 years

Even now, I feel bad for all of the early adopters or even the middle adopters of Tesla cars, your car is getting outdated like every year or two. And once the cyber taxi comes out, you’re going to be kicking yourself in the butt.

I have like almost 100% certainty that my 2010 Prius will still be operable 21 years from now. Also my great joy is that I do all the oil changes with myself and Seneca, 100% full synthetic mobile one, K&N performance oil filters etc.

Even a random thing, the paint on it is actually still really good! I recently ordered some chemical guys detailing spray on Amazon, for only like 11 bucks, and now the car is so insanely and beautifully shiny! And I also assume that because it is more slick and slippery, what that then means is that it will repel more dirt and Moisture and water from it?

Things that last things which don’t

Even if you purchased the best 3M matte black vinyl wrap for your vehicle, it probably won’t last you for more than five years. Sooner or later it’s going to degrade, especially if you live in Sunny Los Angeles, the sun is so strong here.

Why is it so difficult for people to invest and think about things in the long-term?

I think maybe it is because people consume too much media and advertising.

Even for myself, I don’t really like the bitcoin community on the Internet because I think they lack a lot. I’m more interested in philosophy, Spartan and ancient Greek aesthetics, weightlifting and the like.

Even my pride is for so long, I never once listened to or read anything else by a crypto or bitcoin influencer or thought leader; in the early days, essentially all my thoughts were just my own; I first purchased bitcoin for $7000 a coin back in 2018 I think.

And I was looking back at my purchase history, I’ve actually been very very consistent in purchasing bitcoin, the highs and lows and the mids, and even when I was purchasing bitcoin in the low 70s, at the time it seemed like a losing bed because bitcoin would keep dipping back into the low 60s and 59, And then, I don’t know where after the Trump victory, bitcoin skyrocketing to above $88,000 coin, and essentially hitting $100,000 a coin. And I’m almost like 1000% certain that by the time that Trump takes office January 20, 2025… Bitcoin will be far higher than than it is today. 

And also, with the Cynthia Lummis bill, the bitcoin act in which she will swap cold notes for bitcoin, and when that steak and dagger is inserted into the coffin, the value of bitcoin will explode! And then you’ll start seeing a huge race of nations trying to accumulate her bitcoin stock piles.

Bitcoin is cyber security

So what is another interesting idea is that essentially bitcoin is like solid solidified cyber Security. Future warfare will not be bombs and missiles it will all be cyber attack. Even right now, Apple pays big bucks for cyber security penetration testing; even apparently right now Gmail is getting attempted to be hacked like 1,000,000,000,000× a second, so cyber security is certainly maybe the most valuable thing on the planet. And even your checking bank account, that is all cyber security. Even though we hate the banks, it is still impressive that if you have a certain amount of field currency in your checking account, how it is almost 100% guaranteed to remain there.

You could send Messages via bitcoin

Let us say that you have a certain message or will or Testament or some sort of really really critical information, that you need to have conveyed to the next party, the bitcoin network is the way. You cannot stop it, even if you had 1000 quantum computers trying to stop you.

So currently, the way that the world operates is through TCIP, POP,  email and the Internet. I think people don’t understand yet, the bitcoin is not just cyber money in capital, it is something greater and even more beyond!

Where money and capital collide 

So currently you could get a Coinbase debit Visa card in which you go to Costco and you could just use your bitcoin or crypto balance to pay for groceries. I did this once with chain-link, and it was really fascinating, like free money!

Anyways, ultimately it is best to just never spend your bitcoin, because the value is going to go up forever. It’s like probably not a good idea to sell an eighth of your apartment building on fifth Avenue, to buy a two bitcoin Lamborghini, or whatever.

But in theory, you could. And also… Like cash, bitcoin is cash, and also capital… You could just zap somebody $100,000 worth of bitcoin, and the final settlement will just take a few minutes, rather than the tedious process of having to go through a bank, and a trusted intermediary.

For example, do you know how difficult it is to just wire $1 million into somebody else’s bank account? Or try 100 million? Or 1 billion?

With bitcoin you can!

the best gift this holiday season

Once again a big disruptive idea… Rather than trying to buy your friends families and yourself these mediocre polyester clothes, just buy them bitcoin or yourself bitcoin! Just download and install Coinbase, or if you have the cash app you could just buy bitcoin there! 20 bucks 50 bucks 100 bucks, whatever.

Even think about it… Let us say that that $20 sandwich, will 1000x from here, $20,000 sandwich –?

So imagine if just for somebody’s birthday or something, you just give them like $50 worth of bitcoin, that is like you’re giving them a $50,000 gift? Pretty cool.

Bitcoin for kids

Seneca is about to turn four, and he already knows what bitcoin is. Whenever he sees a graph, or he immediately says bitcoin!

If a four-year-old child understands what bitcoin is, could recognize the logo, and pronounce it easily, very good sign.

I would not be surprised if in the future, Vegas and casinos in the lake will also give you the opportunity to gamble bitcoin. Can you imagine going to a high roller roulette bar, and pledging like 10 bitcoins on a spin?

Or, maybe instead of buying your wife that overpriced diamond ring, you gift her a bitcoin instead?

Bitcoin jewelry?

I have another funny idea, what if you became like a bitcoin jeweler, and I would give you a patch or a bitcoin ring or a bitcoin earring or bracelet, for every bitcoin you own?

What is funny is that actually in today’s world, when you have these expensive vehicles, in some ways you’re kind of parading your net worth.

For example, if you drive a cyber truck, you’re essentially telling the world that you could afford $100,000 on a vehicle.

Or if you drive a Lamborghini or Ferrari or a Porsche 911 GT 3RS, that you could afford 250,000, 500,000, million dollars on a vehicle.

But this is a weird thought; do you really want people to know how rich you are? If you’re really smart, no.

Why? If people really knew how rich you were, certainly they would try to rob you or ransom you.

And this is actually where it is so courageous that Michael Saylor publicly disclosed how many bitcoins he owns, because this actually does put his life in danger, any thug on the street with a gun, who knows that he lives in Miami Beach, could try to rob him of his bitcoins.

And this is why Satoshi will never really reveal himself, because, his net worth is probably more valuable than even Elon Musk, I think in the next decade you will see Satoshi or his bitcoin wallet be worth than most nation states, certainly making him the richest person on the planet.

But if anyone really hundred percent figured out who said who she would be, he would be in peril.

Deduction

She is probably a single dude, without kids or family, kind of like a monk, or maybe like John Wick?

Is John Wick Satoshi?

ERIC

---

EK INFORMATION SUPPLY

Introduction to bitcoin free open source workshop, December 14, 2024 — Register here for free

so this open source introduction to bitcoin workshop I’m super excited and pumped for. Why? It’s going to be a synthesis of everything I know and understand and love about bitcoin.

For those skeptical or suspicious, come on… It’s free and open source, you don’t really have anything to lose.

Kind of the impetus behind it is that I’m like inviting everyone I know, even my mom is inviting her friends on kakao talk!

Essentially I do not know any human being on the planet who does not want to improve his or her financial condition, and or your family.

Money finances and prosperity, isn’t this something we all care for?

things to be grateful for

Thanksgiving is giving thanks, giving thanks to being alive, being the full for even waking up this morning! Being grateful for not having the stomach flu, be grateful for the sun etc.

Being grateful for your family member is still alive, being grateful for love!

I’m grateful for you!

---

Now what?

Some simple action items:

1. Start buying bitcoin on Coinbase or the cash app, whatever is simpler and easier for you
2. I would actually encourage you not to buy gifts for friends and families, just gift them and zap them with bitcoin instead
3. If you want to learn more about bitcoin the best is to just go to michael.com or hope.com
4. Ultimately even though microstrategy MSTR outperforms bitcoin, 120% ARR, compared to the 60% ARR of bitcoin, ultimately the bitcoin is the goal, not the microstrategy stock even though in US dollars the value of MSTE explodes a lot more. A very very simple strategy I have is purchase microstrategy stock, mstr, and ride it up, and when you make a profit, sell some stock and use that to buy bitcoin. For example, if you own like $150,000 worth of micro strategy stock, and it goes up to $200,000, sell $50,000 worth the stock, and funnel that money and use it to purchase more bitcoin. I call this double profit double dipping.
5. Just think critically about the philosophy behind it all; once you’re worth $2 million, 3 million, 4 million 5 million, 10 million, $100m, $1B, $10B, really matter? Assuming that you’re going to still remain to live a frugal Spartan lifestyle? Because once again… The big idea; the true capitalist only cares to stack capital and bitcoin, not to buy silly things.

ERIC

---

Getting back on Twitter, X

Twitter and social media is a double edge sword, but in terms of critical financial information, I think the only one human worth following is @saylor — Michael Saylor.

It is probably the best place on the planet to get any sort of critical information about bitcoin and or micro strategy stock.

100% all in. 150% all in?

ERIC

---

Bitcoin by KIM >

---

Kleos

Man has more to offer to woman than vice versa?

Ejaculating semen, semen as a productive force, woman has not?

.

Heros

Xenophilia

.

Method & discipline.

Undismayed by any danger

Cold and heat

Earth comprises distances — great and small

Scale.

.

Angular, aggressive.

How to make your voice louder?

How to amplify your voice and presence?

.

How to Become Tougher

The general idea and ethos —

1. Do more stretching, flexibility stuff, dynamic ligament and joint strengthening.

Basic yoga stuff, stretching etc. Most weight lifters, bodybuilders and powerlifters hold back their potential and gains simply not doing enough dynamic warmups and stretching?

I almost wonder — what if doing these dynamic poses stretching etc can add 100-200, 300 pounds to your one rep maxes ,,, then wouldn’t it be worth doing? Of course!

2. More time outdoors?

They don’t beautify nor strengthen *YOU*—

I got the keys to all success!

Life is the antidote!

So I’ve never owned property in the traditional sense in my life. It is still kind of a strange and elusive concept for me.

For example, homeownership, is talented as some sort of desideratum, a thing to be desired.

So for example, I think like the baby boomer generation, the life goal of everybody was to own your own property? Like purchasing a single-family home, a plot of land etc.?

Land?

Even Cindy’s mom said it best, you don’t own the property, the government owns it. Even assuming that you buy a plot of land or property in all cash, you’re still going to pay around like 1%, 1.05% property taxes on it like forever.

Even if you buy a house which is like $1.4 million or something, I think that’s like $1250 a month Justin property taxes, and then after homeowners insurance and stuff, which could also be considered an additional non-direct tax, You might be looking at like $2000 a month, just in “taxes”. Just throw in another thousand dollars and you already have rent.

Why?

I thought this morning is in regards to the philosopher; what is a philosopher? A philosopher simply somebody who posits desideratum — what we should desire, what we should not desire.

 For example, under no circumstances should we desire slavery poverty and to be encumbered. On the contrary, what we should desire is freedom, power and control; consider the blissful authority and self sovereignty of the Spartans.

New Slaves?

See there’s leaders and there’s followers, but I’d rather be a dick than a swallower! – Ye

 the tricky thing with a lot of modern day life is that a lot of the stuff is actually self-imposed slavery. For example let us say that you buy the new BMW M3, yet you finance it, I think the original word for finance actually means ransom.

So let us say that you’re paying like $1450 a month, just for your car payment. To me this seems like the most insanely foolish financial decision of all time; if you simply pour that into bitcoin, and assuming that bitcoin is going to at least 100X from here, maybe even 1000x, then what that means is that the payments on your car, is like metaphorically paying $15,000, $150,000, or even $1.5 million a month!  

Future projections

If I could tell you with 100% certainty that in 21 years, bitcoin would be worth $100 million a coin, maybe even 105 million a coin, which means that assuming that bitcoin is around $100,000 today, that is like a 1000X gain 21 years from now.

Certainly it is possible you could die in a texting while driving accident today or tomorrow, but if you plan long-term —  if I told you that the money that you put in this thing today will yield 1000 X 21 years from now, and I could guarantee you with 100% certain that you would be alive healthy and well 21 years from now, wouldn’t you plan things differently and spend differently?

For example, that hundred dollars you put into that thing, could be worth $1000, $10,000, $100,000– or even $1M! If that were the case wouldn’t you plan things differently?

Once again, $100 today being worth $1M in 21 years, with 100% certainty ,,, wouldn’t you plan your life differently?

First, you would certainly be much more scrappy, frugal, and pursue a much more austere and critical and Spartan lifestyle today. Of course there are certain things you gotta do like feed yourself, pay rent etc., but beyond this… Even thinking about recurring subscriptions and services, that $20 a month you’re spending on Spotify, what if that after doing the math, would mean that you’re paying $200,000 a month for Spotify? Why don’t you just cancel that subscription and put that money into bitcoin instead?

Fractional property ownership

I think this is the big idea here; the general idea that you cannot buy a fraction of an apartment on fifth Avenue in New York. You cannot buy like a square meter of an apartment complex in Gangnam. You cannot buy like a third of a single-family house in Culver City.

I think this is where the early days of bitcoin is interesting; people have not yet understood the notion of a Satoshi; sooner or later, I think the name Satoshi will become more famous than the name of any other modern day celebrity. Why? He’s like the Jesus of money!

Ownership is a state of mind?

I think a big thing to consider is that ownership, self ownership, self sovereignty is more of a mindset than anything. Even when I’m staring at my bitcoin balance, and the value of my microstrategy MSTR stock, none of it really feels real… It’s almost like I’m living in some sort of cyber virtual video game, except it is real.  Not bad for a kid who grew up in poverty, mom going bankrupt twice, and dad gambling with the rent money to now at the age of 36, counting M’s.

The impetus to think long-term 

Once again, if I could tell you with 100% certainty that your investment today in bitcoin well thousand X 21 years now, aren’t you gonna do everything in your power to ensure that your health your physiology your sanity will be insanely robust 21 years from now? Would that also means that you’re probably not going to be engaging in degenerate activities today; Rather, it will probably encourage you to sober up, stop taking weird drugs, going to Coachella, wasting money on that new loser iPhone, that new loser Tesla cyber truck Lamborghini Ferrari whatever.

I think you will also become more critical about how you spend money. And how do you spend your life!

Also, I almost wonder if this one encourage more people to have kids; because you cannot be with your bitcoin dance to your dog; but bitcoin will last forever; you could give it to your kids kids kids kids kids, for when your kids kids kids have kids! 

the $1m iPhone 

A simple way to think about it is $1000 today is $1,000,000 21 years from now. 

So if that is the case, the smart strategy is to just hoard the cheapest iPhone, the iPhone SE, forever or however long you can.

The $100M Cybertruck

Assuming that a cyber truck is like $100,000, that means that your cyber stuck  will cost you $100 million in 21 years.

I’m like 1000% Elon and Tesla, but still… The entrepreneur and innovator in me think more critically about this;

Better to CYBERTRUCK your body than to just buy it.

Also, the big issue here is that with a Tesla car, you never really own it, the same goes with any other vehicle; because ultimately you’re going to have to pay Insurance, maintenance, gasoline, stuff on it… What that then means is that you never own it in theory; You’re kind of just metaphorically leasing it. 

I’ll give you an example with Tesla; as long as that you have to use their proprietary software, you visit the local supercharging network etc., you’re still tied to Tesla the infrastructure forever.  and also if you need to get any repairs done, you’re going to be married to Tesla for the rest of your life.

Another big thought I had was you never really own an iPhone; you’re just kind of leasing it; why? Now that we are all married to the iCloud system, forever, you’re kind of just paying some sort of like revolving increasing expensive iPhone thing, to ever feed your iCloud subscription?

So you never really own an iPhone a Tesla, even a Ferrari or a Lamborghini or Porsche or whatever, the primary issue here is like let us say that you had to pay $1000 a month in insurance for the car, you have to maintain the car, replace the tires, do oil change etc., this could be seen as an indirect tax. 

Stop the bleeding!

Let us see that you have a healthy four-year-old boy, full of bigger energy and happiness, but let us say that you siphon off a little bit of his blood every single day for the rest of his life. What is going to happen to his growth ability? Probably not good.

Economic vampires

I think I figured out fashion; all this marketing advertising magazines etc. is designed to make you feel shameful about your body, and how do we alleviate this? We cover up the ugliness of our body with other ugly expensive clothes, all produced in China or Vietnam, which is like a 98% markup on the actual clothes.

And this is the thing also with cars, we all have ugly weak unimpressive bodies, and we hide behind avail of our luxury vehicles, because we are ashamed of ourselves.

You’ll see this with people who try to look antisocial but at the same time, with their 5% tennis sunglasses, or they’re fully tinted automobile cars, or with their baggy loose fitting clothes.

It seems that the whole trend right now is that everyone for this weird, emo alien look? Balenciaga in the flesh?

Bitcoin is beautiful

What is the most beautiful thing on the planet? Or the known universe of humans?

Bitcoin!

Why?

First, note how it is kind of like the ultimate perfected Zen and property. There is really no problems with it.

It’s like if Steve Jobs came out with her first iPhone, and he said that this would be how the iPhone would look forever, kind of the same thing.

I think the reason why you should put zero faith in any other tokens or things which are not bitcoin is that they are all like the old versions of the Microsoft android phone, not worth anything, and they are simply supported by fake notions of value, hyped up by crypto influencers (side note– whenever you hear the word crypto, be very very wary). It is Bitcoin not crypto.

the Immaculate conception of bitcoin

I think what is so shocking and interesting about bitcoin is that it only ever had a version .01, and has not been messed with since.

Compare this and contrast with all these other version twos of Ethereum and all these other loser copycats.

Why does this all matter?

If I could tell you that this was like Apple in the 1980s, or the early days of Apple Amazon Facebook Google, and you could invest in right now, and it will become the most valuable thing on the planet, wouldn’t you want a piece of the pie?

Infinite pie

The double funny thing about bitcoin;

in some ways it is infinite, but in some ways it is limited.

For example, any human on the planet could purchase a single Satoshi, I think like it is only .001 cents to purchase a Satoshi.

In fact, my personal thought is if you really want to give somebody a meaningful present or tip somebody, just zap them a few Satoshi’s.

Or, let us say that your sibling has a child or a kid, I would actually say the most meaningful gift you give them is a single bitcoin. If and when my sister has a kid, I’m going to gift the kid a bitcoin.

The new family Empire

So we’re still stuck in thinking about US dollars, like the question is always, how much is a single bitcoin worth right now? No. The more intelligent way to think about it is how many bitcoins do I currently own, and how much will it cost for me to acquire more bitcoins? 

Increasing your bitcoin yield

So the goal is to acquire and accumulate as many bitcoins as you can in this life, and to never spend it.

So for example, it is always a good idea to buy Manhattan or cyber Manhattan. If over the last 300 years, your family was able to get fractional ownership of Manhattan, if that is the case, then, it is always a good idea to buy Manhattan.

Why is so difficult to think about property and manage property

In some ways, property is just kind of a metaphor, kind of like a philosophical thing. It doesn’t really exist in the traditional sense, of course, plot of land is considered property. Yet when the Native Americans lived here, ain’t nobody ever took out a tape measure, measured the square footage of a plot of land, put a stick in the ground, and suddenly declare to the universe “I own this 5000 ft.² of land?”

Bitcoin is also fascinating because assuming that cyber space is more valuable than physical space, I think it is, assuming that the Internet is also more valuable than physical property, if that is the case… To be able to own a piece of cyberspace, is actually a very big idea. 

Nobody is anti-bitcoin

This is also another idea, all the other crypto assets are essentially pegged to the bitcoin. Even Ethereum, read the original white paper by Vitelic, he essentially was trying to “fix”, bitcoin, even though there was nothing needing to be fixed.

So always be wary when somebody shows up to the party, and trying to fix something that isn’t even broken in the first place. This is why in general, anybody who tries to “optimize” something that is already working, … like a Doctor Who tries to prescribe blood thinners or cholesterol lowering medication to your healthy four-year-old, be very skeptical.

who profits from what?

So this is a tricky thing, the ethics and the motivation behind it all. For example, somebody once asked me, is Michael Saylor ethical or unethical for promoting bitcoin, given the fact that he himself and his entity micro strategy owns a lot of it?

 I would actually say it is 100% ethical for Michael sailor to promote bitcoin. Why? It’s almost like trying to encourage people to use the Internet, and saying that the Internet is good for the planet. In which it obviously is.

 if anything what is actually super fascinating is that I’ve watched almost like four years of Michael sailor interviews, like nearly 100 of them, and for the first four years, he never once  even mentions his company micro strategy. And what is very ethical is the whole time he is talking about the magnificent seven, like Apple Amazon Facebook and the like. 

In fact, it almost took me like six months before I even figured out what micro strategy was.

Anyways, it is always a good idea to follow somebody who never promotes themselves or their company, but rather, the asset behind it all. Which is bitcoin.

For example, it’s like me going out and telling people that digital photography is superior to film photography or vice versa and the like. Or more like me encouraging people to open source their photos their information etc., I’m promoting a protocol and an idea.

Or for example, if I encourage people to start intermittent fasting, to stop drinking alcohol and marijuana, for people to become more frugal, for people to unsubscribe to subscriptions, what is unethical about this?

Or if I encourage people to purchase beef ribs at Costco, I don’t really have anything to gain from this.

Follow the money?

So currently speaking, real estate is traditionally the way that a lot of people get rich. For example if your a great great grandfather once bought an acre of land in San Francisco for like five acorns and two donkeys, that family assuming they did not do anything stupid would probably be insanely rich. 

Who encourages us to purchase single-family homes? Banks, real estate brokers etc. Why? By propping up this American dream of home ownership, they themselves get rich off of it.

Compare this instead to an asset like bitcoin; there is nobody who controls bitcoin, Satoshi said toodaloo, and disappeared forever. Kind of like the immaculate Assumption back into heaven.

Everyone else is this spokesperson for their token or thing; Vitalik for Ethereum, Sergey for Chainlink, the scam artist who are proposing ADA Cardano (this one is really the biggest scam), even Elon Musk trolling Dogecoin.

Only trust things or assets without an issuer.

For example, even apple, kind of a bearish future ahead of them, assuming they don’t integrate bitcoin into their ecosystem. Why? Even though Apple keeps pumping money into their Apple TV+, nobody really wants it or cares for it. And even at this point, nobody really wants the new iPhone, or the new iPhone Pro, they simply upgraded because they feel expected to; they have been holding off for so long like two or three years, their old phone is getting super slow, or they run out of storage, so they simply upgrade not because they want to but because they must!

ain’t no Tesla car going to last year 21 years

Even now, I feel bad for all of the early adopters or even the middle adopters of Tesla cars, your car is getting outdated like every year or two. And once the cyber taxi comes out, you’re going to be kicking yourself in the butt.

I have like almost 100% certainty that my 2010 Prius will still be operable 21 years from now. Also my great joy is that I do all the oil changes with myself and Seneca, 100% full synthetic mobile one, K&N performance oil filters etc.

Even a random thing, the paint on it is actually still really good! I recently ordered some chemical guys detailing spray on Amazon, for only like 11 bucks, and now the car is so insanely and beautifully shiny! And I also assume that because it is more slick and slippery, what that then means is that it will repel more dirt and Moisture and water from it?

Things that last things which don’t

Even if you purchased the best 3M matte black vinyl wrap for your vehicle, it probably won’t last you for more than five years. Sooner or later it’s going to degrade, especially if you live in Sunny Los Angeles, the sun is so strong here.

Why is it so difficult for people to invest and think about things in the long-term?

I think maybe it is because people consume too much media and advertising.

Even for myself, I don’t really like the bitcoin community on the Internet because I think they lack a lot. I’m more interested in philosophy, Spartan and ancient Greek aesthetics, weightlifting and the like.

Even my pride is for so long, I never once listened to or read anything else by a crypto or bitcoin influencer or thought leader; in the early days, essentially all my thoughts were just my own; I first purchased bitcoin for $7000 a coin back in 2018 I think.

And I was looking back at my purchase history, I’ve actually been very very consistent in purchasing bitcoin, the highs and lows and the mids, and even when I was purchasing bitcoin in the low 70s, at the time it seemed like a losing bed because bitcoin would keep dipping back into the low 60s and 59, And then, I don’t know where after the Trump victory, bitcoin skyrocketing to above $88,000 coin, and essentially hitting $100,000 a coin. And I’m almost like 1000% certain that by the time that Trump takes office January 20, 2025… Bitcoin will be far higher than than it is today. 

And also, with the Cynthia Lummis bill, the bitcoin act in which she will swap cold notes for bitcoin, and when that steak and dagger is inserted into the coffin, the value of bitcoin will explode! And then you’ll start seeing a huge race of nations trying to accumulate her bitcoin stock piles.

Bitcoin is cyber security

So what is another interesting idea is that essentially bitcoin is like solid solidified cyber Security. Future warfare will not be bombs and missiles it will all be cyber attack. Even right now, Apple pays big bucks for cyber security penetration testing; even apparently right now Gmail is getting attempted to be hacked like 1,000,000,000,000× a second, so cyber security is certainly maybe the most valuable thing on the planet. And even your checking bank account, that is all cyber security. Even though we hate the banks, it is still impressive that if you have a certain amount of field currency in your checking account, how it is almost 100% guaranteed to remain there.

You could send Messages via bitcoin

Let us say that you have a certain message or will or Testament or some sort of really really critical information, that you need to have conveyed to the next party, the bitcoin network is the way. You cannot stop it, even if you had 1000 quantum computers trying to stop you.

So currently, the way that the world operates is through TCIP, POP,  email and the Internet. I think people don’t understand yet, the bitcoin is not just cyber money in capital, it is something greater and even more beyond!

Where money and capital collide 

So currently you could get a Coinbase debit Visa card in which you go to Costco and you could just use your bitcoin or crypto balance to pay for groceries. I did this once with chain-link, and it was really fascinating, like free money!

Anyways, ultimately it is best to just never spend your bitcoin, because the value is going to go up forever. It’s like probably not a good idea to sell an eighth of your apartment building on fifth Avenue, to buy a two bitcoin Lamborghini, or whatever.

But in theory, you could. And also… Like cash, bitcoin is cash, and also capital… You could just zap somebody $100,000 worth of bitcoin, and the final settlement will just take a few minutes, rather than the tedious process of having to go through a bank, and a trusted intermediary.

For example, do you know how difficult it is to just wire $1 million into somebody else’s bank account? Or try 100 million? Or 1 billion?

With bitcoin you can!

the best gift this holiday season

Once again a big disruptive idea… Rather than trying to buy your friends families and yourself these mediocre polyester clothes, just buy them bitcoin or yourself bitcoin! Just download and install Coinbase, or if you have the cash app you could just buy bitcoin there! 20 bucks 50 bucks 100 bucks, whatever.

Even think about it… Let us say that that $20 sandwich, will 1000x from here, $20,000 sandwich –?

So imagine if just for somebody’s birthday or something, you just give them like $50 worth of bitcoin, that is like you’re giving them a $50,000 gift? Pretty cool.

Bitcoin for kids

Seneca is about to turn four, and he already knows what bitcoin is. Whenever he sees a graph, or he immediately says bitcoin!

If a four-year-old child understands what bitcoin is, could recognize the logo, and pronounce it easily, very good sign.

I would not be surprised if in the future, Vegas and casinos in the lake will also give you the opportunity to gamble bitcoin. Can you imagine going to a high roller roulette bar, and pledging like 10 bitcoins on a spin?

Or, maybe instead of buying your wife that overpriced diamond ring, you gift her a bitcoin instead?

Bitcoin jewelry?

I have another funny idea, what if you became like a bitcoin jeweler, and I would give you a patch or a bitcoin ring or a bitcoin earring or bracelet, for every bitcoin you own?

What is funny is that actually in today’s world, when you have these expensive vehicles, in some ways you’re kind of parading your net worth.

For example, if you drive a cyber truck, you’re essentially telling the world that you could afford $100,000 on a vehicle.

Or if you drive a Lamborghini or Ferrari or a Porsche 911 GT 3RS, that you could afford 250,000, 500,000, million dollars on a vehicle.

But this is a weird thought; do you really want people to know how rich you are? If you’re really smart, no.

Why? If people really knew how rich you were, certainly they would try to rob you or ransom you.

And this is actually where it is so courageous that Michael Saylor publicly disclosed how many bitcoins he owns, because this actually does put his life in danger, any thug on the street with a gun, who knows that he lives in Miami Beach, could try to rob him of his bitcoins.

And this is why Satoshi will never really reveal himself, because, his net worth is probably more valuable than even Elon Musk, I think in the next decade you will see Satoshi or his bitcoin wallet be worth than most nation states, certainly making him the richest person on the planet.

But if anyone really hundred percent figured out who said who she would be, he would be in peril.

Deduction

She is probably a single dude, without kids or family, kind of like a monk, or maybe like John Wick?

Is John Wick Satoshi?

ERIC

---

EK INFORMATION SUPPLY

Introduction to bitcoin free open source workshop, December 14, 2024 — Register here for free

so this open source introduction to bitcoin workshop I’m super excited and pumped for. Why? It’s going to be a synthesis of everything I know and understand and love about bitcoin.

For those skeptical or suspicious, come on… It’s free and open source, you don’t really have anything to lose.

Kind of the impetus behind it is that I’m like inviting everyone I know, even my mom is inviting her friends on kakao talk!

Essentially I do not know any human being on the planet who does not want to improve his or her financial condition, and or your family.

Money finances and prosperity, isn’t this something we all care for?

things to be grateful for

Thanksgiving is giving thanks, giving thanks to being alive, being the full for even waking up this morning! Being grateful for not having the stomach flu, be grateful for the sun etc.

Being grateful for your family member is still alive, being grateful for love!

I’m grateful for you!

---

Now what?

Some simple action items:

1. Start buying bitcoin on Coinbase or the cash app, whatever is simpler and easier for you
2. I would actually encourage you not to buy gifts for friends and families, just gift them and zap them with bitcoin instead
3. If you want to learn more about bitcoin the best is to just go to michael.com or hope.com
4. Ultimately even though microstrategy MSTR outperforms bitcoin, 120% ARR, compared to the 60% ARR of bitcoin, ultimately the bitcoin is the goal, not the microstrategy stock even though in US dollars the value of MSTE explodes a lot more. A very very simple strategy I have is purchase microstrategy stock, mstr, and ride it up, and when you make a profit, sell some stock and use that to buy bitcoin. For example, if you own like $150,000 worth of micro strategy stock, and it goes up to $200,000, sell $50,000 worth the stock, and funnel that money and use it to purchase more bitcoin. I call this double profit double dipping.
5. Just think critically about the philosophy behind it all; once you’re worth $2 million, 3 million, 4 million 5 million, 10 million, $100m, $1B, $10B, really matter? Assuming that you’re going to still remain to live a frugal Spartan lifestyle? Because once again… The big idea; the true capitalist only cares to stack capital and bitcoin, not to buy silly things.

ERIC

---

Getting back on Twitter, X

Twitter and social media is a double edge sword, but in terms of critical financial information, I think the only one human worth following is @saylor — Michael Saylor.

It is probably the best place on the planet to get any sort of critical information about bitcoin and or micro strategy stock.

100% all in. 150% all in?

ERIC

---

Bitcoin by KIM >

---

If you multiply 1,300 by $1,000,000, the calculation is:

So, the result is $1.3 billion.

197 million shares — $507,624 per share —!

$388 a share to $507,000 a share —

130,000% gain how much X

1,301x?!?!?

To calculate how many times (X) a gain of 130,000% represents, you can use this formula:

For 130,000%:

So a 130,000% gain is equivalent to 1,301 times (X) the original amount.

As of November 28, 2024, MicroStrategy Incorporated (MSTR) shares are trading at approximately $388.84. If the company’s total market capitalization were to reach $100 trillion, each share would be valued at approximately $507,614.21. This represents an increase of about 130,500% from the current share price.

---

As of November 2024, MicroStrategy Incorporated (MSTR) has approximately 197 million shares outstanding. If the company’s total market capitalization is $100 trillion, the price per share would be calculated by dividing the total market value by the number of shares outstanding:

Therefore, each share would be valued at approximately $507,614.21.

$MSTR is a credit default swap on $100+ trillion in 20th-century assets.

Next year is going to be insane —!