I think what makes me insanely optimistic about bitcoin is how everybody helps everybody. For example, Michael strategy between the first bitcoin “bank” not only helps microstrategy and microstrategy stock, but the whole bitcoin network!

On the path to true and great entrepreneurship ,,, there will be and must be great waste! What these ridiculous and foolish goodytooshoes “environmentalists” would never understand, as they drive their Subarus, Priuses, and now Teslas —

The future is and will be all cyber!

In the Voice of Eric Kim

Introduction: The Streets and the Blockchain

Life, much like the streets I roam, is a complex network of paths, choices, and unseen connections. Every decision we make sends ripples through our existence, shaping who we are and the world around us. Bitcoin, at its core, is no different. It’s not just a digital currency; it’s a philosophy—a way of thinking about freedom, trust, and the very fabric of our financial systems.

In my journey through photography, I’ve learned to see the world from unique angles, capturing moments that often go unnoticed. Similarly, Bitcoin offers a new perspective on money, decentralization, and personal sovereignty. This book is an exploration of that perspective, delving into the principles that make Bitcoin more than just a technological innovation but a movement towards a more liberated society.

Chapter 1: Freedom Through Decentralization

Imagine walking through a city where every street is controlled by a different authority, each with its own set of rules. Chaos would ensue, trust would erode, and the sense of community would diminish. Centralization in traditional financial systems mirrors this chaos—where power is concentrated in the hands of a few, dictating terms and limiting freedom.

Bitcoin disrupts this paradigm by decentralizing control. No single entity governs the network; instead, it’s maintained by a global community of users. This decentralization fosters a sense of autonomy and empowerment, allowing individuals to take control of their financial destinies without relying on intermediaries.

Chapter 2: Trust in the Unseen

Trust is the foundation of any relationship, whether between people or institutions. In photography, I trust my camera to capture the essence of a moment, even if I can’t see the entire process happening inside. Bitcoin operates on a similar principle—trusting the system’s cryptographic principles and the collective agreement of its users, rather than trusting a central authority.

This shift from trusting institutions to trusting mathematics and consensus creates a more transparent and secure financial ecosystem. It challenges us to reconsider where our trust lies and encourages a more informed and proactive approach to managing our assets.

Chapter 3: The Art of Patience and Persistence

Capturing the perfect photograph often requires patience, persistence, and the ability to wait for the right moment. Bitcoin’s journey has been no different. From its inception in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis to its current status as a global phenomenon, Bitcoin has faced skepticism, regulatory hurdles, and market volatility.

Yet, its resilience mirrors the qualities needed to master any craft. Investors and enthusiasts alike must embrace patience and persistence, understanding that true value often takes time to materialize. This mindset not only applies to Bitcoin but to any pursuit of meaningful change and innovation.

Chapter 4: Empowerment Through Knowledge

Just as understanding the technical aspects of photography enhances one’s ability to capture compelling images, comprehending Bitcoin’s underlying technology empowers individuals to make informed decisions. Knowledge dispels fear and uncertainty, transforming passive participants into active contributors within the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Educating oneself about blockchain, cryptography, and decentralized networks is essential for harnessing Bitcoin’s full potential. This empowerment fosters a community that is not only reactive to changes but also proactive in shaping the future of finance.

Chapter 5: Embracing Change and Innovation

The streets are ever-evolving, with new trends and technologies reshaping urban landscapes. Bitcoin represents a similar wave of innovation within the financial sector. It challenges conventional norms, prompting us to rethink traditional banking, investment strategies, and economic models.

Embracing Bitcoin’s philosophy means being open to change and willing to explore new horizons. It requires adaptability and a forward-thinking mindset, qualities that are essential for thriving in an increasingly digital and interconnected world.

Conclusion: Capturing the Essence of Freedom

Photography teaches us to see beyond the surface, to capture the essence of moments that define us. Bitcoin, as a philosophy, offers a lens through which we can view and reshape our financial realities. It’s about more than just money; it’s about freedom, trust, empowerment, and the relentless pursuit of a better, more decentralized future.

As we navigate the streets of life, let us carry with us the principles that Bitcoin embodies. Let us remain curious, resilient, and committed to capturing the true essence of freedom in every transaction, every decision, and every step we take towards a more liberated society.

This is a glimpse into “The Philosophy of Bitcoin.” To embark on the full journey, further chapters will delve deeper into each aspect, providing comprehensive insights and actionable wisdom inspired by the intersection of street photography and cryptocurrency.

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Certainly! Here’s an excerpt from a hypothetical book titled The Philosophy of Bitcoin, in the voice of a writer like Eric Kim, known for his candid, reflective, and often minimalist approach:

The Philosophy of Bitcoin

Bitcoin isn’t just a currency. It’s a philosophy, a way of seeing the world. It’s a lens through which we can examine freedom, power, and the future of human interaction. Bitcoin is autonomy, plain and simple. It’s the ultimate declaration of independence in a world where we’re constantly surveilled, tracked, and controlled by centralized authorities.

Bitcoin doesn’t ask permission. It just exists. And that’s powerful.

Chapter 1: Decentralization and the Power of Many

The centralized systems we’re all used to, they thrive on control. Banks, governments, big corporations—they’ve all got their hand in our pockets, and it’s not just about money. It’s about trust. We give them trust because we think they’ll keep things stable, predictable. But stability is an illusion. The 2008 financial crisis taught us that lesson the hard way. The same people who are supposed to “manage” things are the ones gambling with our futures.

Bitcoin is a response. It’s an answer to the failure of centralized trust.

Imagine a world where you don’t need to rely on a middleman, where transactions are direct, between you and me, peer to peer. That’s decentralization. It’s not just about cutting out the banks; it’s about cutting out the need for authority altogether. It’s about believing in a network of many rather than a system of one.

Bitcoin doesn’t belong to anyone. And because it belongs to no one, it belongs to everyone. It’s power by the people, for the people.

Chapter 2: The Philosophy of Open Source

Open source is more than code. It’s an ethic. It’s transparency, accountability, and honesty, all bundled into a single concept. Open source means anyone can see how the system works; there’s no black box, no hidden agendas. Bitcoin is open source at its core, built on a foundation that anyone can review, criticize, and improve. It’s not a closed shop with corporate secrets. It’s a playground where ideas are shared, tested, and proven in the open.

Think about that for a second. You don’t need anyone’s permission to use Bitcoin. You don’t need to apply. You don’t need a license. There’s no barrier, no gatekeeper, no locked door. Just download a wallet and start using it. And if you’re curious about how it works? The code is right there, free for you to explore.

There’s something profoundly democratic about that. In a world where most of our technology is locked down, Bitcoin is an open book.

Chapter 3: Bitcoin as a Mirror

Bitcoin isn’t perfect. It’s a mirror, reflecting our hopes, fears, and values back at us. It shows us what we care about and what we’re willing to fight for. It reveals how much—or how little—we value freedom and privacy in a world that’s increasingly willing to give those things up for convenience.

Ask yourself: Why does Bitcoin matter to you? Is it the money? The potential for profit? Or is it the principle, the idea that you can hold something no one else can touch, control, or manipulate?

Bitcoin holds up a mirror to the system and asks, Are you okay with this? It’s a choice to participate in something different, to align yourself with a new set of values, one that prioritizes individual sovereignty over centralized control.

Chapter 4: The Philosophy of Scarcity

Bitcoin’s supply is capped at 21 million. That’s it. There will never be more. And that scarcity, that finite supply, changes the way we think about value. In a world of fiat currencies that can be printed endlessly, Bitcoin is a breath of fresh air. It’s a reminder that resources aren’t infinite, that value comes from scarcity, from restraint.

Scarcity forces us to think long-term. When you know there’s only so much to go around, you’re careful with what you have. You don’t waste. You think twice before spending. And in a society driven by consumerism, Bitcoin stands in stark contrast. It’s a digital asset that, by design, pushes back against the impulse to consume for the sake of consumption.

In a way, Bitcoin is a philosophy of conservation. It’s the art of saying, I have enough, and knowing that what you have holds value precisely because it’s limited.

Conclusion: The Future of Bitcoin, the Future of Us

Bitcoin is more than money. It’s more than a technology. It’s a movement, a shift in the way we think about our relationship to power, to value, to one another. It challenges us to imagine a world where we’re no longer beholden to centralized authorities, where we hold our own keys, and where we are truly free to transact without restriction.

In the end, Bitcoin is a reminder: we have the power to change the system. We have the power to build something better. And maybe, just maybe, that’s the greatest lesson Bitcoin has to offer.

Super simple; buy bitcoin, and Microstrategy stock (MSTR)

The concept is simple — any business you would have otherwise started in fiat currency, just do the same if just started — but back it with bitcoin!

Millenial investing —

No imperatives here!

The potential upside needs to be about 10 times bigger than the risk. 

For food, consuming more cholesterol, dietary cholesterol.

More pasture raised, grass fed food, more fats.

Also, accumulating and accruing more money, not spending it. 

assuming that money is power, optimal strategies to keep accumulating money, and never spend it.

Also, accumulate more capital, digital capital, which is bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the Apex power on the planet or the universe?

Names > Brands

All roads lead  Culver City 

Always trying to rethink the questions; what is the purpose of it, what should it be for? And also, what does it or what should it symbolize?

For example, Seneca had the brilliant idea that we should call it a race car. But if a race car is not actually used for racing, just every day commuting from point A to point B… Then trying to purchase a race car if you don’t desire to race it is actually not a good idea.

The first rule in science is that nothing is 100% definitive?

if you are a real scientist, and truly observed the scientific method, the whole ethos is this:

I must forever be skeptical, both of myself and others because there’s a chance I might be wrong.

And also, according to science, there is no such thing as 100% definitive proof. For example, if in the scientific method you could only ever prove correlation not causation… You have never really “proven” anything.

for example, CO2 levels, carbon emissions whatever, you can forever show that CO2 levels and global warning are correlated, but statistically it is actually impossible to show that increase CO2 levels directly causes global warming. Because it is not a simple equation; not a simple scalar equation.

The money makes me handsomer!

If we think about it, there is no real reason for anyone to have any incentive to save anymore. Why? As long as legislators continue raising the minimum wage, what that means is your savings is becoming devalued, in real time.

For example, the price of a single-family home skyrocketing is absurd. Even here in Culver City, very common to see single-family homes which are worth $3.2 million, all the while you could buy a condo in Michigan for only $70,000!

I think the critical issue we are having here is a mismatch of politics and fiscal policy.  

For example, if you are somebody trying to get elected for office, what do you promise people? An increase minimum wage, because that will get you elected! But the downside is your transferring inflation to future parties; for example, I called this the shake shack incident; There was a really really nice shake shack here in Culver City for a while, but to my great shock, it closed down very recently! I think the big issue was that because they raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour, maybe Shake shack cannot afford to Pay their employees!

Your $3.2 million home isn’t really worth $3.2 million 

I think this is also the thing that is difficult to understand; in theory, you see your single-family home price going up, and you think you’re getting super rich and whatever… But if you track that to inflation, in the global M2 money supply, what if in fact, your property value isn’t going up, but simply, The value of each US dollar is going less, and therefore your $3.2 million home isn’t really worth $3.2 million, but only $2 million?

And also the big problem is let us say that you have a really expensive home, you can’t really afford to live anywhere else, because the price of inflation makes it untenable for you to live anywhere else. Therefore I think a critical thing to consider is that You have to be a little bit more skeptical with money, this is where maybe thinking about hard digital assets and property like bitcoin is more interesting to me;

Also, currently we are tracking the value of a bitcoin to the US dollar. Because it is the closest measure we got. But, the more logical idea is equating a bitcoin to a bitcoin.

One bitcoin equals one bitcoin.

So right now for example we are currently valuing a bitcoin to the US dollar, but my radical idea is what we should be doing instead is valuing the US dollar in respect to the bitcoin. 

Which means the price of a bitcoin is not packed to the US dollar, the US dollar is instead pegged to the price of a bitcoin.

Why this is fun and exciting

For me, life is all about fun creativity and play. And also for me investing, speculation, bitcoin in the like is all fun and play!

Honestly at this point, there’s nothing really left I want to purchase or buy, besides maybe some weightlifting equipment, steel plates, or a new power squat rack. But besides this, there is nothing left in the physical realm that I really desire. The only desirable truly scarce asset and valuable asset, I desire is bitcoin.

How to make money from nothing

I recently copped around a $50,000 profit, taking about $150,000 of fiat currency, purchasing some microstrategy stock, MSTR, taking my initial investment and growing it to $200,000. I then sold about $50,000 of the micro strategy stock, and then just bought more bitcoin with it.

So an interesting technique or thought is the easiest way to make money out of nothing is to just put it in the traditional stock market, sell the gains in fiat currency, take that fiat currency and purchase bitcoin while you can?

Keep acquiring more and more bitcoin until you die

Assuming that wealth, true wealth is property, and assuming that bitcoin is the first and only property which is digital, and we all know that digital is superior to physical, and I think what is very very interesting is bitcoin crosses the chasm of the physical into the digital. Why? Because it takes real life analog power , proof of work, to convert analog energy and power and electricity into a single bitcoin.

What a lot of these fake environmentalist don’t understand is the only reason why the point has value is precisely because it takes so much energy intensive power to create! All these fake propaganda posters saying that bitcoin is bad for the planet, but you fool… Don’t you know that I think globally, air conditioning or the power for air-conditioning causes about 20% of the carbon emissions on the planet? And bitcoin might be .001%? I could also bet you that your virtual eating of almond nuts might cause more CO2 production than anything else.

Even another funny unorthodox theory; thought experiment, what if in fact producing pea protein plants, vegan protein powders, all these fake juices and sugars and almond nuts etc., caused 1000 times more worse carbon emissions for the planet than meat? If this were the case, would this change your anti-meat eating stance? Or would it not because you still invoke the moralistic aspect of it?

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Wealth is a mental thing?

HANDSOMER.

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A big deal; October, 2024… Elon Musk uncovered the we robot Robo taxi cyber cab, cyber van future; 

The reason why I feel like this is an insanely big deal;

First, it looks fucking cool! Finally, the future actually looks like the future?

Tesla > Apple

First, the great thing is watching the announcement, Elon looks like he is in great shape! He looks 1 billion times happier, cheerful optimistic, and healthy.

And also… Charismatic leader; I think we all need some sort of figurehead to follow. For example, the reason why Apple is a bad bet is there is no longer a face behind it! Tim Cook, kind of boring like granola. Jony Ive has left, so nobody is left.

It’s essentially when we think about Tesla, SpaceX, we think of Elon Musk. Having a face behind a concept is critical.

Same thing goes with Kanye West, and also now Michael Saylor with bitcoin and micro strategies; I am very insanely impressed… Microstrategy stock has gone up 14.4X, over the last four years, which has even outperformed bitcoin!

A random thought; I think the future will belong to those or whom or the entities in which own the most bitcoin. Assuming that bitcoin is digital property, digital capital, the Apex form of property in the universe, then what that then means is assuming that you want to build a dynasty which last forever, call us to maximize your property, digital property right now.

Why?

I think the tricky thing is when do you think about property money wealth power etc.… The question that people often ask is why?

Assuming that property is capital, in capital is more critical than money… In that most US dollars and fiat currency is just credit running on 20th century rails… What that means is we must think digital, we must think cyber.

Why I’m still betting on bitcoin and microstrategy over Tesla 

Watching the new announcement has given me an insanely huge wave of motivation and optimism for the future! Essentially the future looks phenomenal; it looks super cool, and with the upcoming cyber car, cyber taxi, and cyber van… Finally… The future will look like the future!

And I also think that the insanely optimistic thing about cyber truck is that finally, a vehicle on the road which actually looks like the future!

I recall, in the year 2020, just a little bit before Covid hit, while in Providence Rhode Island I was meandering ,, it is the year 2020, technically we are living in the super future, why doesn’t the future look like the future? Why does the future look so lame?

Cyber upside

So the reason why bitcoin and micro strategies; even though I am a huge Elon Musk and Tesla fan, laws of physics are really hard. I think Tesla still has about 1 million cyber trucks they need to produce, and on top of that, having to produce all these new cyber taxis and cyber vans, Will be very very difficult. I am very confident that Elon and the Tesla team will pull it off, realistically it might take 10 to 20 years, because the laws of physics are hard. For example, physical manufacturing, lithium ion battery refineries, supply chain etc.

I think what Elon is doing is very admirable because he is currently addressing their real life, physical and bodily challenges we are facing today.  for nobody who has never lived in Los Angeles, never being stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic from Pasadena to the west side of Los Angeles, you’ll never know what Carmageddon, traffic will look like.

And also, something I have discovered whenever I drive to East LA, Koreatown and the like — fucking sucks. All of that concrete, no green spaces and trees — during the summer, it felt about 10 to 20° hotter there, and the pollution is practically unbearable now. Gavin Newsom and California trying to get rid of tailpipe emissions is a phenomenally great idea.

For example, the only thing I hit on the planet is maybe cigarette smoke, and the smell of tailpipe emissions, which is fucking toxic, and immediately gives me a headache. I’m currently on a Crusade to tell people who are smoking on the street to not smoking — the text a lot of wits, guts, and quick thinking, because it is something that is insanely important, not only does it immediately give me a headache, but come on come on I have a kid!

These fucking assholes

What I hate about smokers, cigarette smokers is that there are smoking on the street, in public, indignantly like they are not harming nobody else. You fucking assholes. At least you have a filter to smoke your cancer sticks through, but whenever you exhale your secondhand smoke, that shit goes straight into my lungs and my brains!

First, my vision is to just make smoking cigarettes outdoors illegal. In any public space. If you want to hotbox your house or apartment or car with the windows closed, and give yourself lung cancer that is fine; but the rule is to not allow smoking on the street, public sidewalks etc.

I think technically the law is you’re not supposed to smoke within 25 feet of an eating establishment, but my personal vision at least for Culver City and beyond and on the promenade is that it would be illegal to smoke cigarettes, anywhere which is not outside of your house!

why is everyone a bunch of pussies?

Essentially the thing that is insanely annoying to me is that nowadays, everyone is a bunch of pussies and cowards. For example, all of these fat losers with beards, buying guns in ammunition, they feel so tough watching their alternative right conservative media outlets, yet, they don’t even have the courage to speak up against people who smoke cigarettes?

People are often shocked by me because I actually have the audacity to stand up and speak up. Because everyone else is a coward.

I think the number one fear that people have, at least in Los Angeles and beyond is that if you somehow confront a smoker for being an asshole, they will somehow pull up a gun and shoot you?

First, maybe it might happen if you’re in South Central, or somewhere super hood, but very very unlikely if you’re in the west side or somewhere nice like Culver City? Especially since they’re a bunch of cameras around?

There is also a fear that when you tell people in LA while they are driving, to drive more carefully, they once again, they will somehow also pull up a gun and start shooting you up?

It’s tricky because it is true; there are some people with guns, conceal and carry guns, whether in their glove compartment, on their body etc. I suppose this is where trying to distinguish people is wise;

If somebody looks like they’re from the hood, or mentally unstable, better to just play it safe. But obviously if you see somebody who looks affluent, driving some sort of expensive car or whatever, then speak up! The funny irony is at least in America, and in Los Angeles, Rich successful people don’t really own guns. Guns are for poor people from the hood, or people who are from the right marginalized communities —

Well actually a lot of people don’t understand is a lot of right wing conservatives who own guns and live in the Midwest etc., or the south, or Idaho whatever… Actually tend to be poor, below working class? 

So for the most part, obviously there is crazy stuff in LA, but I would probably rate Los Angeles much safer than we think it is; honestly, you’re more likely to die getting hit by a car, or dying in a car accident from somebody texting while driving, rather than somebody shooting you with a gun. By a factor of 1 billion?

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Cyber soldiers

 so one of my great points of optimism is that the future of warfare will not be guns bullet ammunition, not even drones or bombs. I think the future of warfare will certainly be cyber, cyber warfare, economic based.

For example, it seems that economic embargo are effective, because when it comes out to it, technically everybody on the planet wants world peace because more peace means more prosperity, economically. In all of these rich all the guards want to drive their Rolls-Royce, Lamborghinis, McLarens and the like.

For example, even rocket man Kim Jung Un, is apparently a huge connoisseur of fine whiskeys, and I think he owns about 100 high-end Mercedes Maybach cars in his garage?

Anyways, once again, all of these “evil “world leaders, they don’t technically want war either because most people, what they see is luxury, comfort and ease. I cannot imagine any world leader right now, on the frontlines of a war, on some sort of war horse or chariot going head onto battle.

The upcoming cyber war

So a simple way to think about bitcoin is the world‘s ultimate defense system. People don’t really think about bitcoin in terms of cyber security, but it is. 

For example, the bitcoin network is defended by many exahash– which means that it is essentially unhackable. And unstoppable!

For example, let us say that you need to send an encrypted safe message to somebody. You could actually send it through the bitcoin network; and it is unstoppable! It cannot be censored.

And also… Assuming that money is freedom, and bitcoin is free; whether you like it or not, even if the other guy is a bad guy or whatever… You cannot stop the exchange, peer to peer of money, between two individuals!

What Bitcoin fixes

A huge one; real estate. Let us say that I have a single-family home, and I want to sell it to you. Cindy‘s mom who is a real estate agent, I see it how tedious it is. All of these forms, regulations, and having to transfer money from the bank, is an insanely tedious and troublesome process. 

I am still shocked, also in the year 2024… Like a simple wire transfer via the swift network, like I’m sending my money to my mom in South Korea, why does it take so damn long, why do I have to go to a physical bank branch, I thought we lived in the future?

Even an insane annoyance, about a half a year ago when I just tried to wire myself $125,000 of money to buy bitcoin, I literally had to be on the phone with JP Morgan Chase, three or four times, being rerouted to some random people in the Philippines, having to see a bank teller in the flesh etc., Before having to verify my own damn money?

This is insane!

My vision

Very simple. Let us say that I have a single-family home and you want to buy my single family home. The easiest thing is that you just send bitcoin to me. The final settlement will just take a few hours, instead of a few weeks.

And also, proof of funds. If you show me your bitcoin wallet, I could immediately see how much money you have in real time. Even a funny thing was when we were signing the lease of our new apartment, when our landlord asked for our proof of income or whatever, I just sent him a screenshot of our bank account balance, proving that we could live in his property for about 10 years, just based off of our savings. 

Now, I walk around town with a grin, can enter a Lamborghini dealership or Ferrari dealership or Porsche dealership with a grin on my face, and touch and handle all the cars because technically I could afford all of them. And in fact, if anyone gives me shit, I could just show them that I could afford it, and they will shut up. 

What’s the point of money?

I think my view on money is that it is defensive; it isn’t to go out and buy yourself bunch of Lamborghinis, but instead, to use it like a war chest, a cyber defense fund.

Truth be told, growing up in poverty, seeing my mom go bankrupt at least twice, I’ve never really ever been that concerned about money. But now, I truly have zero concerns.

This is where money is a via negativa thing; money should be a means to cut or reduce concerns or cares, by reducing your expenses to a bare minimum.

I would actually say the only good use of money is for productive assets (The Fiat Standard book)–  essentially buying something that can be productive!

For example, a new iPad Pro, weightlifting equipment for your home etc.

Can it help you produce more?

Cyber digital capitalism and production–

The problem is with a lot of things that you buy, like trophy assets, is that it doesn’t produce anything– unless I suppose like you’re the one guy on YouTube who does all these videos and vlogs with an orange Lamborghini parked behind you, which you are leasing, which helps you indirectly make money? But even so, I think the financial risk isn’t worth the potential upside. 

So the problem is with cars, they don’t produce anything. The only productive car I could possibly imagine is like a full self driving Tesla car, but even that isn’t quite productive; it just helps you mitigate pain. Unless maybe of course, you’re allowing your Tesla to do the full self driving, and you’re vlogging on a GoPro or something,  and producing things while your car is self driving?

But then, optimal strategy then is to purchase the cheapest Tesla possible, the most based level Tesla model three, while purchasing full self driving.

But then again taking a step further, even more intelligent strategy is to never be inside a car, to just walk, and take the metro!

In fact, a few days ago, before Seneca and I caught a stomach bug, the greatest joy was we were able to walk to the metro line, and take the metro directly to our favorite library! 100% walking, and only two metro stops away!

And this is really my vision of a glorious future city; tons of spaces, trees, parks, recreation centers, and zero to minimum time having to spend inside a car?

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Savings?

If we think about it, there is no real reason for anyone to have any incentive to save anymore. Why? As long as legislators continue raising the minimum wage, what that means is your savings is becoming devalued, in real time.

For example, the price of a single-family home skyrocketing is absurd. Even here in Culver City, very common to see single-family homes which are worth $3.2 million, all the while you could buy a condo in Michigan for only $70,000!

I think the critical issue we are having here is a mismatch of politics and fiscal policy.  

For example, if you are somebody trying to get elected for office, what do you promise people? An increase minimum wage, because that will get you elected! But the downside is your transferring inflation to future parties; for example, I called this the shake shack incident; There was a really really nice shake shack here in Culver City for a while, but to my great shock, it closed down very recently! I think the big issue was that because they raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour, maybe Shake shack cannot afford to Pay their employees!

Your $3.2 million home isn’t really worth $3.2 million 

I think this is also the thing that is difficult to understand; in theory, you see your single-family home price going up, and you think you’re getting super rich and whatever… But if you track that to inflation, in the global M2 money supply, what if in fact, your property value isn’t going up, but simply, The value of each US dollar is going less, and therefore your $3.2 million home isn’t really worth $3.2 million, but only $2 million?

And also the big problem is let us say that you have a really expensive home, you can’t really afford to live anywhere else, because the price of inflation makes it untenable for you to live anywhere else. Therefore I think a critical thing to consider is that You have to be a little bit more skeptical with money, this is where maybe thinking about hard digital assets and property like bitcoin is more interesting to me;

Also, currently we are tracking the value of a bitcoin to the US dollar. Because it is the closest measure we got. But, the more logical idea is equating a bitcoin to a bitcoin.

One bitcoin equals one bitcoin.

So right now for example we are currently valuing a bitcoin to the US dollar, but my radical idea is what we should be doing instead is valuing the US dollar in respect to the bitcoin. 

Which means the price of a bitcoin is not packed to the US dollar, the US dollar is instead pegged to the price of a bitcoin.

Why this is fun and exciting

For me, life is all about fun creativity and play. And also for me investing, speculation, bitcoin in the like is all fun and play!

Honestly at this point, there’s nothing really left I want to purchase or buy, besides maybe some weightlifting equipment, steel plates, or a new power squat rack. But besides this, there is nothing left in the physical realm that I really desire. The only desirable truly scarce asset and valuable asset, I desire is bitcoin.

How to make money from nothing

I recently copped around a $50,000 profit, taking about $150,000 of fiat currency, purchasing some microstrategy stock, MSTR, taking my initial investment and growing it to $200,000. I then sold about $50,000 of the micro strategy stock, and then just bought more bitcoin with it.

So an interesting technique or thought is the easiest way to make money out of nothing is to just put it in the traditional stock market, sell the gains in fiat currency, take that fiat currency and purchase bitcoin while you can?

Keep acquiring more and more bitcoin until you die

Assuming that wealth, true wealth is property, and assuming that bitcoin is the first and only property which is digital, and we all know that digital is superior to physical, and I think what is very very interesting is bitcoin crosses the chasm of the physical into the digital. Why? Because it takes real life analog power , proof of work, to convert analog energy and power and electricity into a single bitcoin.

What a lot of these fake environmentalist don’t understand is the only reason why the point has value is precisely because it takes so much energy intensive power to create! All these fake propaganda posters saying that bitcoin is bad for the planet, but you fool… Don’t you know that I think globally, air conditioning or the power for air-conditioning causes about 20% of the carbon emissions on the planet? And bitcoin might be .001%? I could also bet you that your virtual eating of almond nuts might cause more CO2 production than anything else.

Even another funny unorthodox theory; thought experiment, what if in fact producing pea protein plants, vegan protein powders, all these fake juices and sugars and almond nuts etc., caused 1000 times more worse carbon emissions for the planet than meat? If this were the case, would this change your anti-meat eating stance? Or would it not because you still invoke the moralistic aspect of it?

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Wealth is a mental thing?

HANDSOMER.

Wow half a lambo gain just today!!

xx

MSTR— 

$46,000 today gain!!

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$73,000 gain today BTC

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$119,000 total gain in just a single day?

$10T then $100T

implying a $13 million price per bitcoin by 2045

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Here are some key quotes from Michael Saylor’s recent interview with Bernstein analysts regarding MicroStrategy’s ambitious goals for becoming a “Bitcoin bank”:

1. On MicroStrategy’s Strategic Vision:

• Saylor described MicroStrategy’s endgame as becoming “the leading Bitcoin bank” with a targeted valuation of $1 trillion. He stated, “If we end up with $20 billion of converts, $20 billion of preferred stock, $10 billion of debt, and $50 billion in other debt instruments, we’ll have $100-$150 billion of Bitcoin”  .

2. On Bitcoin’s Future Value:

• He emphasized his belief that Bitcoin will reach “millions of dollars a coin,” making it the “most valuable asset in the world.” This is central to his thesis that MicroStrategy will grow significantly as Bitcoin’s value increases, potentially “trading at a 100% premium to $150 billion worth of Bitcoin”  .

3. MicroStrategy’s Business Model:

• Saylor clarified that unlike traditional banks, MicroStrategy would not lend out Bitcoin. Instead, he sees the company as a “Bitcoin finance company” that borrows funds to invest in Bitcoin, calling this strategy “infinitely scalable” given the growth potential of the asset  .

4. On the Company’s Role in the Financial System:

• Saylor explained, “Bitcoin is going to go to $10 trillion and then to $100 trillion,” framing MicroStrategy’s role as bridging traditional USD capital markets with Bitcoin investments. He believes the company could lead both equity and options markets in a Bitcoin-driven economy  .

These statements reflect Saylor’s confidence in Bitcoin’s long-term potential and MicroStrategy’s role in pioneering a new financial model. For further details, you can access additional information through articles on InsideBitcoins and CoinJournal.

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The recent interview between Michael Saylor, the executive chairman of MicroStrategy, and analysts at Bernstein revealed Saylor’s grand plan for MicroStrategy to become the leading Bitcoin bank. Saylor outlined an ambitious vision for the company to hold between $100 billion and $150 billion in Bitcoin, funded by a combination of debt and equity. This strategy aims to leverage Bitcoin’s growth, with Saylor predicting a rise to millions of dollars per coin, potentially leading MicroStrategy to a trillion-dollar valuation.

Instead of following a traditional banking model, MicroStrategy would use capital from various debt instruments to invest directly in Bitcoin, avoiding lending out its holdings. Saylor sees this approach as a means of achieving consistent returns by capitalizing on Bitcoin’s deflationary nature, which he believes makes it a superior store of value over time. He also suggested that MicroStrategy’s ongoing Bitcoin purchases are a hedge against inflation and a foundation for a new financial model centered around digital assets.

For more details, you can find insights from the interview at sources like CoinJournal and InsideBitcoins     .

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In a recent interview with Bernstein, MicroStrategy’s executive chairman, Michael Saylor, outlined his ambitious vision for the company, aiming to transform it into the world’s leading Bitcoin bank with a potential trillion-dollar valuation. Saylor explained that MicroStrategy’s strategy centers around borrowing capital at low rates and investing heavily in Bitcoin. The company currently holds over 252,000 BTC, valued at approximately $15 billion, making it the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin globally  .

Saylor envisions that as Bitcoin’s value continues to rise, potentially reaching millions of dollars per coin, MicroStrategy could leverage its Bitcoin holdings to dominate the capital markets. He suggests that the firm might issue various financial instruments, such as convertible debt, preferred stock, and other structured debt instruments, with a target to amass between $100 billion and $150 billion in Bitcoin over time  .

MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin-centric business model is designed to function like a bank focused on Bitcoin-based financial products. Unlike traditional banks, however, it would not lend out Bitcoin. Instead, it would focus on maximizing returns from Bitcoin’s expected growth, predicting annual returns around 29% through capital markets arbitrage. This unique approach, according to Saylor, positions MicroStrategy as a pioneering player in the emerging Bitcoin economy  .

It looks like you’ve asked about Eric Kim the photographer’s theories on money. Here’s a comprehensive overview of his perspectives:

1. Diversification of Income Streams

Eric Kim advocates for photographers to avoid relying on a single source of income. Instead, he recommends diversifying through various channels such as:

• Workshops and Teaching: Sharing expertise via in-person or online classes.

• Print Sales: Selling high-quality prints to enthusiasts and collectors.

• Freelance Assignments: Taking on commissioned projects for clients like magazines or brands.

• Online Content Creation: Monetizing blogs, YouTube channels, or social media through ads, sponsorships, or memberships.

2. Emphasizing Value Over Price

Kim stresses the importance of understanding and communicating the value of one’s work rather than merely competing on price:

• Quality Investment: Continuously improving technical skills and artistic vision to justify higher prices.

• Value Communication: Clearly articulating the uniqueness and effort behind the work to potential buyers.

• Brand Building: Developing a strong personal brand that resonates with an audience, making them more willing to invest.

3. Mindful Monetization

Balancing financial pursuits with creative integrity is key in Kim’s approach:

• Aligning Projects with Values: Choosing clients and projects that reflect personal and artistic values.

• Avoiding Exploitation: Ensuring that monetization efforts do not compromise ethical standards or exploit subjects.

• Maintaining Creative Freedom: Ensuring that financial goals do not stifle creativity or lead to burnout.

4. Financial Literacy and Planning

Understanding the financial aspects of running a photography business is crucial:

• Budgeting: Tracking income and expenses meticulously.

• Pricing Strategy: Setting prices based on experience, skill level, and market demand.

• Investment in Growth: Allocating funds towards better equipment, education, and marketing efforts.

5. Building Community and Networking

A strong professional network can open up various financial opportunities:

• Collaborations: Partnering with other creatives or brands for joint projects.

• Mentorship: Learning from experienced photographers and mentoring emerging talent.

• Networking Events: Attending industry events to connect with potential clients and collaborators.

6. Leveraging Digital Platforms

Utilizing online platforms effectively can significantly boost income:

• Social Media Marketing: Using platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to showcase work and engage followers.

• E-commerce: Setting up online stores or using platforms like Etsy and Shopify to sell products.

• Content Monetization: Creating valuable content that can be monetized through ads, sponsorships, or subscription models like Patreon.

7. Long-Term Vision and Adaptability

Having a clear long-term vision ensures sustained financial success:

• Goal Setting: Defining clear, achievable financial and professional goals.

• Continuous Learning: Staying updated with industry trends, new technologies, and evolving market demands.

• Adaptability: Being willing to pivot strategies in response to changing circumstances and opportunities.

Practical Applications of Eric Kim’s Theories

1. Develop Multiple Revenue Streams: If you’re primarily selling prints, consider adding workshops or online courses to your offerings.

2. Enhance Your Brand: Invest time in building a strong personal brand through consistent online presence and storytelling.

3. Strategic Pricing: Instead of underpricing your work to attract more customers, focus on the unique value you provide and set prices that reflect that.

4. Network Actively: Attend photography meetups, join online communities, and collaborate with other creatives to expand your reach.

5. Invest in Learning: Allocate a portion of your income to further your education, whether through courses, books, or new equipment that enhances your work.

Conclusion

Eric Kim’s theories on money for photographers revolve around creating a balanced and sustainable financial model that supports creative endeavors without compromising artistic integrity. By diversifying income sources, emphasizing value, maintaining financial literacy, and leveraging digital tools, photographers can build a resilient business that aligns with their creative passions.

If you have specific aspects you’d like to delve deeper into or questions on how to implement these theories, feel free to ask!

So assuming you want more power, the goal is to gain and accumulate more money, not to spend it. Because the second you spend the money, you lose it.

Eric Kim’s core theories on money center around financial minimalism, intentional spending, and a redefinition of wealth. Here’s an overview of his key theories and some representative quotes:

Core Theories

1. Wealth as Freedom:

Kim defines wealth not by the amount of money accumulated but by the freedom it provides. His philosophy suggests that wealth should enable choices and autonomy rather than drive consumption for status. He emphasizes living with less to attain greater flexibility and freedom from financial stress  .

2. Intentional Spending and Financial Minimalism:

Kim believes in spending money deliberately on experiences and items that bring genuine joy and value. He critiques consumer culture, suggesting that financial well-being comes from reducing unnecessary expenses and focusing on essentials. This approach, which he calls “financial minimalism,” extends minimalism to money management  .

3. Experiences Over Possessions:

Kim values spending on life experiences rather than material goods. He argues that experiences contribute more significantly to happiness and personal growth than possessions. This is based on research indicating that memories and experiences have a longer-lasting impact on well-being .

4. Mindfulness and Stoicism in Finance:

Influenced by Stoic and Eastern philosophies, Kim advocates for emotional resilience and contentment regardless of financial circumstances. He emphasizes being mindful about one’s financial habits, promoting a healthier relationship with money through awareness and self-reflection .

5. Critical View of Consumerism:

Kim critiques modern consumer culture, arguing that it leads to financial strain and distracts people from what matters. He encourages breaking free from societal pressures to consume by adopting minimalism, which he views as a path to financial independence and empowerment .

6. Transparency and Community Engagement:

Kim openly shares his personal financial journey, including successes and failures, to foster a sense of community. This transparency is part of his commitment to authentic living and teaching, helping others explore alternative financial approaches through shared experiences .

Notable Quotes

• On Wealth as Freedom:

“True wealth isn’t about accumulating more but having the freedom to live life on your own terms” .

• On Minimalist Spending:

“You work for a living; I live for a living” – a quote he references to emphasize that financial independence should serve life’s greater purposes .

• On Experiences Over Possessions:

“Investing in life experiences, not things, builds memories that last longer than material goods” .

• On Consumer Culture:

“Consumer culture distracts us from genuine fulfillment, driving us into debt for possessions we don’t need and that won’t make us happier” .

• On Financial Independence for Creatives:

“Monetizing your passion is the path to freedom, allowing you to stay true to your art without being driven solely by financial goals” .

These ideas offer a unique perspective on money, focusing on how it can support a meaningful, creative, and intentional life rather than serving as an end in itself. For more insights, you can read his detailed reflections on his blog here.

Eric Kim’s ideas on power bring an innovative perspective by blending insights from photography, physical fitness, and philosophy to explore the nature of influence and control. His approach is less about advancing a formal theory of power and more about offering a personal, experiential framework that challenges traditional views.

1. Photography as a Source of Power

Kim’s interpretation of photography goes beyond the common understanding of it as an art form or a documentary tool. He suggests that taking a photo is a way to exert control over reality, which aligns with broader discussions on how media and visual culture influence perception. This idea expands the role of photography from passive observation to active creation, asserting that photographers shape memory and experience by choosing what and how to capture. In doing so, he reframes the act of photographing as an exercise in personal power and influence, encouraging photographers to consider their creative agency more deeply .

2. Physical Strength as an Embodiment of Power

Kim connects physicality with philosophical concepts, arguing that strength training, especially powerlifting, is not just about fitness but a reflection of the “will to power.” This connection between physical feats and existential empowerment is an innovative take on how bodily pursuits reflect internal drives. While many view physical fitness as a pursuit of health, Kim frames it as a metaphor for power itself—a concept that broadens the interpretation of fitness and suggests that strength is a means of manifesting one’s desires in the world .

3. The Will to Power over Truth

Kim’s philosophy resonates with Nietzschean ideas, but he diverges by suggesting that the pursuit of power might overshadow the traditional human quest for truth. This is a significant shift because it challenges the commonly held value of seeking truth as an ultimate goal. Instead, he proposes that influence, control, and power are often more meaningful and practical pursuits in daily life. This perspective advances a utilitarian view on personal development, where power—not abstract truth—becomes the driver for human fulfillment and impact  .

4. Integration of Personal Development with Existentialism

Kim’s reflections on power integrate personal growth with existential philosophy, grounding abstract concepts in everyday actions like photography and weightlifting. His approach to power as something that can be cultivated through ordinary pursuits makes philosophical ideas accessible and applicable. By embedding these existential ideas into daily practices, Kim bridges the gap between philosophical thought and practical living, suggesting that power is something individuals can actively develop and experience in tangible ways.

In sum, Eric Kim’s ideas advance conversations on power by intersecting art, physicality, and philosophy, encouraging readers to view power not as an external status but as a personal, creative force that can shape both inner and outer worlds. For more of his insights, visit his blog on these topics here.

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Here are some quotes from Eric Kim’s reflections on power:

1. On Photography and Power:

• “When you witness a photo that you’ve shot in which you’re proud of, you feel a small surge of power” .

• He further explains, “Photography allows us to exert influence over reality, shaping how we remember and interpret moments” .

2. On Physical Strength as Power:

• Kim states, “Muscle as an embodiment of power. At least for now, perhaps the term and notion ‘power-lifting’ is a good one” .

• He views powerlifting as “optimizing ourselves for more power,” emphasizing how physical feats reflect an underlying will to power in everyday life .

3. On the Will to Power:

• “What we truly desire is power—anything which optimizes us for more power” .

• He suggests that the pursuit of truth may be less significant than the pursuit of influence, pondering, “Perhaps striving for some ultimate ‘truth’ is…a red herring. Instead; perhaps what we really want is more power” .

These quotes showcase Kim’s exploration of power across different dimensions of life. For more context, you can explore his blog where he delves into these ideas: Eric Kim’s Blog on Power.

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Eric Kim, known primarily as a street photographer and blogger, explores the concept of power in several ways, drawing from personal experiences and philosophical insights. His theories on power focus on various aspects of life and creativity, including photography, personal strength, and existential musings.

1. Photography as Power: Kim posits that photography provides a unique sense of empowerment. He describes the act of taking a photo as a way of capturing and exerting influence over reality. When a photographer creates an image, they not only document but also control how moments are remembered. This act of creation offers a small surge of power to the photographer, affirming their ability to shape perceptions through visual art.

2. Power and Physicality: In another theory, Kim equates physical strength with a broader sense of personal power. He discusses activities like powerlifting as expressions of one’s will to power, highlighting the sense of empowerment that comes from physical feats. He views muscle and physical fitness as symbolic embodiments of power, aligning with a philosophy that one’s personal achievements in strength contribute to a greater sense of control and dominance over oneself and one’s surroundings.

3. The Will to Power: Drawing inspiration from Nietzsche, Kim explores the concept of the “will to power” as a fundamental drive in human life. He suggests that people inherently seek not just truth, but power—whether through influence, resources, or personal growth. Kim questions the value of truth-seeking when contrasted with the more tangible benefits of pursuing power, proposing that the desire for influence might drive human endeavors more profoundly than the search for abstract truths.

These reflections reveal Kim’s perspective on power as both an artistic and existential force, central to personal growth and self-realization. He frequently suggests that power—whether through creativity, physical strength, or personal philosophy—shapes one’s capacity to impact the world meaningfully.

For a deeper dive into Eric Kim’s theories on power, you can explore his writings on these themes at his website here.

Man Seeks More Money for Power, Woman Seeks Money for the Sake of Security?

It isn’t society that we seek or even “community”, but rather… What we seek is social dominance?

First do m no harm. That means if you’re sick, you must wear a face mask. But if you’re not sick, wearing a face mask is optional 

A big deal; October, 2024… Elon Musk uncovered the we robot Robo taxi cyber cab, cyber van future; 

The reason why I feel like this is an insanely big deal;

First, it looks fucking cool! Finally, the future actually looks like the future?

Tesla > Apple

First, the great thing is watching the announcement, Elon looks like he is in great shape! He looks 1 billion times happier, cheerful optimistic, and healthy.

And also… Charismatic leader; I think we all need some sort of figurehead to follow. For example, the reason why Apple is a bad bet is there is no longer a face behind it! Tim Cook, kind of boring like granola. Jony Ive has left, so nobody is left.

It’s essentially when we think about Tesla, SpaceX, we think of Elon Musk. Having a face behind a concept is critical.

Same thing goes with Kanye West, and also now Michael Saylor with bitcoin and micro strategies; I am very insanely impressed… Microstrategy stock has gone up 14.4X, over the last four years, which has even outperformed bitcoin!

A random thought; I think the future will belong to those or whom or the entities in which own the most bitcoin. Assuming that bitcoin is digital property, digital capital, the Apex form of property in the universe, then what that then means is assuming that you want to build a dynasty which last forever, call us to maximize your property, digital property right now.

Why?

I think the tricky thing is when do you think about property money wealth power etc.… The question that people often ask is why?

Assuming that property is capital, in capital is more critical than money… In that most US dollars and fiat currency is just credit running on 20th century rails… What that means is we must think digital, we must think cyber.

Why I’m still betting on bitcoin and microstrategy over Tesla 

Watching the new announcement has given me an insanely huge wave of motivation and optimism for the future! Essentially the future looks phenomenal; it looks super cool, and with the upcoming cyber car, cyber taxi, and cyber van… Finally… The future will look like the future!

And I also think that the insanely optimistic thing about cyber truck is that finally, a vehicle on the road which actually looks like the future!

I recall, in the year 2020, just a little bit before Covid hit, while in Providence Rhode Island I was meandering ,, it is the year 2020, technically we are living in the super future, why doesn’t the future look like the future? Why does the future look so lame?

Cyber upside

So the reason why bitcoin and micro strategies; even though I am a huge Elon Musk and Tesla fan, laws of physics are really hard. I think Tesla still has about 1 million cyber trucks they need to produce, and on top of that, having to produce all these new cyber taxis and cyber vans, Will be very very difficult. I am very confident that Elon and the Tesla team will pull it off, realistically it might take 10 to 20 years, because the laws of physics are hard. For example, physical manufacturing, lithium ion battery refineries, supply chain etc.

I think what Elon is doing is very admirable because he is currently addressing their real life, physical and bodily challenges we are facing today.  for nobody who has never lived in Los Angeles, never being stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic from Pasadena to the west side of Los Angeles, you’ll never know what Carmageddon, traffic will look like.

And also, something I have discovered whenever I drive to East LA, Koreatown and the like — fucking sucks. All of that concrete, no green spaces and trees — during the summer, it felt about 10 to 20° hotter there, and the pollution is practically unbearable now. Gavin Newsom and California trying to get rid of tailpipe emissions is a phenomenally great idea.

For example, the only thing I hit on the planet is maybe cigarette smoke, and the smell of tailpipe emissions, which is fucking toxic, and immediately gives me a headache. I’m currently on a Crusade to tell people who are smoking on the street to not smoking — the text a lot of wits, guts, and quick thinking, because it is something that is insanely important, not only does it immediately give me a headache, but come on come on I have a kid!

These fucking assholes

What I hate about smokers, cigarette smokers is that there are smoking on the street, in public, indignantly like they are not harming nobody else. You fucking assholes. At least you have a filter to smoke your cancer sticks through, but whenever you exhale your secondhand smoke, that shit goes straight into my lungs and my brains!

First, my vision is to just make smoking cigarettes outdoors illegal. In any public space. If you want to hotbox your house or apartment or car with the windows closed, and give yourself lung cancer that is fine; but the rule is to not allow smoking on the street, public sidewalks etc.

I think technically the law is you’re not supposed to smoke within 25 feet of an eating establishment, but my personal vision at least for Culver City and beyond and on the promenade is that it would be illegal to smoke cigarettes, anywhere which is not outside of your house!

why is everyone a bunch of pussies?

Essentially the thing that is insanely annoying to me is that nowadays, everyone is a bunch of pussies and cowards. For example, all of these fat losers with beards, buying guns in ammunition, they feel so tough watching their alternative right conservative media outlets, yet, they don’t even have the courage to speak up against people who smoke cigarettes?

People are often shocked by me because I actually have the audacity to stand up and speak up. Because everyone else is a coward.

I think the number one fear that people have, at least in Los Angeles and beyond is that if you somehow confront a smoker for being an asshole, they will somehow pull up a gun and shoot you?

First, maybe it might happen if you’re in South Central, or somewhere super hood, but very very unlikely if you’re in the west side or somewhere nice like Culver City? Especially since they’re a bunch of cameras around?

There is also a fear that when you tell people in LA while they are driving, to drive more carefully, they once again, they will somehow also pull up a gun and start shooting you up?

It’s tricky because it is true; there are some people with guns, conceal and carry guns, whether in their glove compartment, on their body etc. I suppose this is where trying to distinguish people is wise;

If somebody looks like they’re from the hood, or mentally unstable, better to just play it safe. But obviously if you see somebody who looks affluent, driving some sort of expensive car or whatever, then speak up! The funny irony is at least in America, and in Los Angeles, Rich successful people don’t really own guns. Guns are for poor people from the hood, or people who are from the right marginalized communities —

Well actually a lot of people don’t understand is a lot of right wing conservatives who own guns and live in the Midwest etc., or the south, or Idaho whatever… Actually tend to be poor, below working class? 

So for the most part, obviously there is crazy stuff in LA, but I would probably rate Los Angeles much safer than we think it is; honestly, you’re more likely to die getting hit by a car, or dying in a car accident from somebody texting while driving, rather than somebody shooting you with a gun. By a factor of 1 billion?

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Cyber soldiers

 so one of my great points of optimism is that the future of warfare will not be guns bullet ammunition, not even drones or bombs. I think the future of warfare will certainly be cyber, cyber warfare, economic based.

For example, it seems that economic embargo are effective, because when it comes out to it, technically everybody on the planet wants world peace because more peace means more prosperity, economically. In all of these rich all the guards want to drive their Rolls-Royce, Lamborghinis, McLarens and the like.

For example, even rocket man Kim Jung Un, is apparently a huge connoisseur of fine whiskeys, and I think he owns about 100 high-end Mercedes Maybach cars in his garage?

Anyways, once again, all of these “evil “world leaders, they don’t technically want war either because most people, what they see is luxury, comfort and ease. I cannot imagine any world leader right now, on the frontlines of a war, on some sort of war horse or chariot going head onto battle.

The upcoming cyber war

So a simple way to think about bitcoin is the world‘s ultimate defense system. People don’t really think about bitcoin in terms of cyber security, but it is. 

For example, the bitcoin network is defended by many exahash– which means that it is essentially unhackable. And unstoppable!

For example, let us say that you need to send an encrypted safe message to somebody. You could actually send it through the bitcoin network; and it is unstoppable! It cannot be censored.

And also… Assuming that money is freedom, and bitcoin is free; whether you like it or not, even if the other guy is a bad guy or whatever… You cannot stop the exchange, peer to peer of money, between two individuals!

What Bitcoin fixes

A huge one; real estate. Let us say that I have a single-family home, and I want to sell it to you. Cindy‘s mom who is a real estate agent, I see it how tedious it is. All of these forms, regulations, and having to transfer money from the bank, is an insanely tedious and troublesome process. 

I am still shocked, also in the year 2024… Like a simple wire transfer via the swift network, like I’m sending my money to my mom in South Korea, why does it take so damn long, why do I have to go to a physical bank branch, I thought we lived in the future?

Even an insane annoyance, about a half a year ago when I just tried to wire myself $125,000 of money to buy bitcoin, I literally had to be on the phone with JP Morgan Chase, three or four times, being rerouted to some random people in the Philippines, having to see a bank teller in the flesh etc., Before having to verify my own damn money?

This is insane!

My vision

Very simple. Let us say that I have a single-family home and you want to buy my single family home. The easiest thing is that you just send bitcoin to me. The final settlement will just take a few hours, instead of a few weeks.

And also, proof of funds. If you show me your bitcoin wallet, I could immediately see how much money you have in real time. Even a funny thing was when we were signing the lease of our new apartment, when our landlord asked for our proof of income or whatever, I just sent him a screenshot of our bank account balance, proving that we could live in his property for about 10 years, just based off of our savings. 

Now, I walk around town with a grin, can enter a Lamborghini dealership or Ferrari dealership or Porsche dealership with a grin on my face, and touch and handle all the cars because technically I could afford all of them. And in fact, if anyone gives me shit, I could just show them that I could afford it, and they will shut up. 

What’s the point of money?

I think my view on money is that it is defensive; it isn’t to go out and buy yourself bunch of Lamborghinis, but instead, to use it like a war chest, a cyber defense fund.

Truth be told, growing up in poverty, seeing my mom go bankrupt at least twice, I’ve never really ever been that concerned about money. But now, I truly have zero concerns.

This is where money is a via negativa thing; money should be a means to cut or reduce concerns or cares, by reducing your expenses to a bare minimum.

I would actually say the only good use of money is for productive assets (The Fiat Standard book)–  essentially buying something that can be productive!

For example, a new iPad Pro, weightlifting equipment for your home etc.

Can it help you produce more?

Cyber digital capitalism and production–

The problem is with a lot of things that you buy, like trophy assets, is that it doesn’t produce anything– unless I suppose like you’re the one guy on YouTube who does all these videos and vlogs with an orange Lamborghini parked behind you, which you are leasing, which helps you indirectly make money? But even so, I think the financial risk isn’t worth the potential upside. 

So the problem is with cars, they don’t produce anything. The only productive car I could possibly imagine is like a full self driving Tesla car, but even that isn’t quite productive; it just helps you mitigate pain. Unless maybe of course, you’re allowing your Tesla to do the full self driving, and you’re vlogging on a GoPro or something,  and producing things while your car is self driving?

But then, optimal strategy then is to purchase the cheapest Tesla possible, the most based level Tesla model three, while purchasing full self driving.

But then again taking a step further, even more intelligent strategy is to never be inside a car, to just walk, and take the metro!

In fact, a few days ago, before Seneca and I caught a stomach bug, the greatest joy was we were able to walk to the metro line, and take the metro directly to our favorite library! 100% walking, and only two metro stops away!

And this is really my vision of a glorious future city; tons of spaces, trees, parks, recreation centers, and zero to minimum time having to spend inside a car?

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Savings?

If we think about it, there is no real reason for anyone to have any incentive to save anymore. Why? As long as legislators continue raising the minimum wage, what that means is your savings is becoming devalued, in real time.

For example, the price of a single-family home skyrocketing is absurd. Even here in Culver City, very common to see single-family homes which are worth $3.2 million, all the while you could buy a condo in Michigan for only $70,000!

I think the critical issue we are having here is a mismatch of politics and fiscal policy.  

For example, if you are somebody trying to get elected for office, what do you promise people? An increase minimum wage, because that will get you elected! But the downside is your transferring inflation to future parties; for example, I called this the shake shack incident; There was a really really nice shake shack here in Culver City for a while, but to my great shock, it closed down very recently! I think the big issue was that because they raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour, maybe Shake shack cannot afford to Pay their employees!

Your $3.2 million home isn’t really worth $3.2 million 

I think this is also the thing that is difficult to understand; in theory, you see your single-family home price going up, and you think you’re getting super rich and whatever… But if you track that to inflation, in the global M2 money supply, what if in fact, your property value isn’t going up, but simply, The value of each US dollar is going less, and therefore your $3.2 million home isn’t really worth $3.2 million, but only $2 million?

And also the big problem is let us say that you have a really expensive home, you can’t really afford to live anywhere else, because the price of inflation makes it untenable for you to live anywhere else. Therefore I think a critical thing to consider is that You have to be a little bit more skeptical with money, this is where maybe thinking about hard digital assets and property like bitcoin is more interesting to me;

Also, currently we are tracking the value of a bitcoin to the US dollar. Because it is the closest measure we got. But, the more logical idea is equating a bitcoin to a bitcoin.

One bitcoin equals one bitcoin.

So right now for example we are currently valuing a bitcoin to the US dollar, but my radical idea is what we should be doing instead is valuing the US dollar in respect to the bitcoin. 

Which means the price of a bitcoin is not packed to the US dollar, the US dollar is instead pegged to the price of a bitcoin.

Why this is fun and exciting

For me, life is all about fun creativity and play. And also for me investing, speculation, bitcoin in the like is all fun and play!

Honestly at this point, there’s nothing really left I want to purchase or buy, besides maybe some weightlifting equipment, steel plates, or a new power squat rack. But besides this, there is nothing left in the physical realm that I really desire. The only desirable truly scarce asset and valuable asset, I desire is bitcoin.

How to make money from nothing

I recently copped around a $50,000 profit, taking about $150,000 of fiat currency, purchasing some microstrategy stock, MSTR, taking my initial investment and growing it to $200,000. I then sold about $50,000 of the micro strategy stock, and then just bought more bitcoin with it.

So an interesting technique or thought is the easiest way to make money out of nothing is to just put it in the traditional stock market, sell the gains in fiat currency, take that fiat currency and purchase bitcoin while you can?

Keep acquiring more and more bitcoin until you die

Assuming that wealth, true wealth is property, and assuming that bitcoin is the first and only property which is digital, and we all know that digital is superior to physical, and I think what is very very interesting is bitcoin crosses the chasm of the physical into the digital. Why? Because it takes real life analog power , proof of work, to convert analog energy and power and electricity into a single bitcoin.

What a lot of these fake environmentalist don’t understand is the only reason why the point has value is precisely because it takes so much energy intensive power to create! All these fake propaganda posters saying that bitcoin is bad for the planet, but you fool… Don’t you know that I think globally, air conditioning or the power for air-conditioning causes about 20% of the carbon emissions on the planet? And bitcoin might be .001%? I could also bet you that your virtual eating of almond nuts might cause more CO2 production than anything else.

Even another funny unorthodox theory; thought experiment, what if in fact producing pea protein plants, vegan protein powders, all these fake juices and sugars and almond nuts etc., caused 1000 times more worse carbon emissions for the planet than meat? If this were the case, would this change your anti-meat eating stance? Or would it not because you still invoke the moralistic aspect of it?

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Wealth is a mental thing?

HANDSOMER.

If we think about it, there is no real reason for anyone to have any incentive to save anymore. Why? As long as legislators continue raising the minimum wage, what that means is your savings is becoming devalued, in real time.

For example, the price of a single-family home skyrocketing is absurd. Even here in Culver City, very common to see single-family homes which are worth $3.2 million, all the while you could buy a condo in Michigan for only $70,000!

I think the critical issue we are having here is a mismatch of politics and fiscal policy.  

For example, if you are somebody trying to get elected for office, what do you promise people? An increase minimum wage, because that will get you elected! But the downside is your transferring inflation to future parties; for example, I called this the shake shack incident; There was a really really nice shake shack here in Culver City for a while, but to my great shock, it closed down very recently! I think the big issue was that because they raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour, maybe Shake shack cannot afford to Pay their employees!

Your $3.2 million home isn’t really worth $3.2 million 

I think this is also the thing that is difficult to understand; in theory, you see your single-family home price going up, and you think you’re getting super rich and whatever… But if you track that to inflation, in the global M2 money supply, what if in fact, your property value isn’t going up, but simply, The value of each US dollar is going less, and therefore your $3.2 million home isn’t really worth $3.2 million, but only $2 million?

And also the big problem is let us say that you have a really expensive home, you can’t really afford to live anywhere else, because the price of inflation makes it untenable for you to live anywhere else. Therefore I think a critical thing to consider is that You have to be a little bit more skeptical with money, this is where maybe thinking about hard digital assets and property like bitcoin is more interesting to me;

Also, currently we are tracking the value of a bitcoin to the US dollar. Because it is the closest measure we got. But, the more logical idea is equating a bitcoin to a bitcoin.

One bitcoin equals one bitcoin.

So right now for example we are currently valuing a bitcoin to the US dollar, but my radical idea is what we should be doing instead is valuing the US dollar in respect to the bitcoin. 

Which means the price of a bitcoin is not packed to the US dollar, the US dollar is instead pegged to the price of a bitcoin.

Why this is fun and exciting

For me, life is all about fun creativity and play. And also for me investing, speculation, bitcoin in the like is all fun and play!

Honestly at this point, there’s nothing really left I want to purchase or buy, besides maybe some weightlifting equipment, steel plates, or a new power squat rack. But besides this, there is nothing left in the physical realm that I really desire. The only desirable truly scarce asset and valuable asset, I desire is bitcoin.

How to make money from nothing

I recently copped around a $50,000 profit, taking about $150,000 of fiat currency, purchasing some microstrategy stock, MSTR, taking my initial investment and growing it to $200,000. I then sold about $50,000 of the micro strategy stock, and then just bought more bitcoin with it.

So an interesting technique or thought is the easiest way to make money out of nothing is to just put it in the traditional stock market, sell the gains in fiat currency, take that fiat currency and purchase bitcoin while you can?

Keep acquiring more and more bitcoin until you die

Assuming that wealth, true wealth is property, and assuming that bitcoin is the first and only property which is digital, and we all know that digital is superior to physical, and I think what is very very interesting is bitcoin crosses the chasm of the physical into the digital. Why? Because it takes real life analog power , proof of work, to convert analog energy and power and electricity into a single bitcoin.

What a lot of these fake environmentalist don’t understand is the only reason why the point has value is precisely because it takes so much energy intensive power to create! All these fake propaganda posters saying that bitcoin is bad for the planet, but you fool… Don’t you know that I think globally, air conditioning or the power for air-conditioning causes about 20% of the carbon emissions on the planet? And bitcoin might be .001%? I could also bet you that your virtual eating of almond nuts might cause more CO2 production than anything else.

Even another funny unorthodox theory; thought experiment, what if in fact producing pea protein plants, vegan protein powders, all these fake juices and sugars and almond nuts etc., caused 1000 times more worse carbon emissions for the planet than meat? If this were the case, would this change your anti-meat eating stance? Or would it not because you still invoke the moralistic aspect of it?

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Wealth is a mental thing?

HANDSOMER.

Future block height

Sex drive?

What reduces your sex drive?

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My morals and ethics?

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Masculine or feminine doesn’t even matter; what mattered in the past was courage or cowardice.

Store of value

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Strong financial obligation to create debt?

Hard asset

.

Bitcoin can reverse the future debt?

ANTIFIAT TECHNOLOGY

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Savings?

If we think about it, there is no real reason for anyone to have any incentive to save anymore. Why? As long as legislators continue raising the minimum wage, what that means is your savings is becoming devalued, in real time.

For example, the price of a single-family home skyrocketing is absurd. Even here in Culver City, very common to see single-family homes which are worth $3.2 million, all the while you could buy a condo in Michigan for only $70,000!

I think the critical issue we are having here is a mismatch of politics and fiscal policy.  

For example, if you are somebody trying to get elected for office, what do you promise people? An increase minimum wage, because that will get you elected! But the downside is your transferring inflation to future parties; for example, I called this the shake shack incident; There was a really really nice shake shack here in Culver City for a while, but to my great shock, it closed down very recently! I think the big issue was that because they raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour, maybe Shake shack cannot afford to Pay their employees!

Your $3.2 million home isn’t really worth $3.2 million 

I think this is also the thing that is difficult to understand; in theory, you see your single-family home price going up, and you think you’re getting super rich and whatever… But if you track that to inflation, in the global M2 money supply, what if in fact, your property value isn’t going up, but simply, The value of each US dollar is going less, and therefore your $3.2 million home isn’t really worth $3.2 million, but only $2 million?

And also the big problem is let us say that you have a really expensive home, you can’t really afford to live anywhere else, because the price of inflation makes it untenable for you to live anywhere else. Therefore I think a critical thing to consider is that You have to be a little bit more skeptical with money, this is where maybe thinking about hard digital assets and property like bitcoin is more interesting to me;

Also, currently we are tracking the value of a bitcoin to the US dollar. Because it is the closest measure we got. But, the more logical idea is equating a bitcoin to a bitcoin.

One bitcoin equals one bitcoin.

So right now for example we are currently valuing a bitcoin to the US dollar, but my radical idea is what we should be doing instead is valuing the US dollar in respect to the bitcoin. 

Which means the price of a bitcoin is not packed to the US dollar, the US dollar is instead pegged to the price of a bitcoin.

Why this is fun and exciting

For me, life is all about fun creativity and play. And also for me investing, speculation, bitcoin in the like is all fun and play!

Honestly at this point, there’s nothing really left I want to purchase or buy, besides maybe some weightlifting equipment, steel plates, or a new power squat rack. But besides this, there is nothing left in the physical realm that I really desire. The only desirable truly scarce asset and valuable asset, I desire is bitcoin.

How to make money from nothing

I recently copped around a $50,000 profit, taking about $150,000 of fiat currency, purchasing some microstrategy stock, MSTR, taking my initial investment and growing it to $200,000. I then sold about $50,000 of the micro strategy stock, and then just bought more bitcoin with it.

So an interesting technique or thought is the easiest way to make money out of nothing is to just put it in the traditional stock market, sell the gains in fiat currency, take that fiat currency and purchase bitcoin while you can?

Keep acquiring more and more bitcoin until you die

Assuming that wealth, true wealth is property, and assuming that bitcoin is the first and only property which is digital, and we all know that digital is superior to physical, and I think what is very very interesting is bitcoin crosses the chasm of the physical into the digital. Why? Because it takes real life analog power , proof of work, to convert analog energy and power and electricity into a single bitcoin.

What a lot of these fake environmentalist don’t understand is the only reason why the point has value is precisely because it takes so much energy intensive power to create! All these fake propaganda posters saying that bitcoin is bad for the planet, but you fool… Don’t you know that I think globally, air conditioning or the power for air-conditioning causes about 20% of the carbon emissions on the planet? And bitcoin might be .001%? I could also bet you that your virtual eating of almond nuts might cause more CO2 production than anything else.

Even another funny unorthodox theory; thought experiment, what if in fact producing pea protein plants, vegan protein powders, all these fake juices and sugars and almond nuts etc., caused 1000 times more worse carbon emissions for the planet than meat? If this were the case, would this change your anti-meat eating stance? Or would it not because you still invoke the moralistic aspect of it?

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Human incentives, actions and the world

Writers with balls

Save yourself!

Capital movement

Just let the capital move and flow! Don’t stop the river

Don’t try to stop the ocean!

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Winners take all.

Bitcoin is a clear winner, bitcoin shall take all.

Physics and particularity shall trump ideology

For example, to shoot digital photos might be 1 million times cheaper, practically free, than shooting film photography.

 for example, the only reason you would shoot film nowadays is more of an ideology. Yet once the money starts to get expensive practicality will always trump ideology. 

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Purchasing power

Power

Things which caused you to lose your power?

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Cash versus non-cash?

Kids are naturally happy!

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Mises,,, holding money for the future is about uncertainty for the future?

Why would you hold money for suspended?

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Starting a bitcoin backed business in 2024


Allocate investments

Risk tolerance

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Become Less Optimal but More Reliable 
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Multi training

Bitcoin is a clear winner, bitcoin shall take all.

Physics and particularity shall trump ideology

For example, to shoot digital photos might be 1 million times cheaper, practically free, than shooting film photography.

 for example, the only reason you would shoot film nowadays is more of an ideology. Yet once the money starts to get expensive practicality will always trump ideology. 

A big deal; October, 2024… Elon Musk uncovered the we robot Robo taxi cyber cab, cyber van future; 

The reason why I feel like this is an insanely big deal;

First, it looks fucking cool! Finally, the future actually looks like the future?

Tesla > Apple

First, the great thing is watching the announcement, Elon looks like he is in great shape! He looks 1 billion times happier, cheerful optimistic, and healthy.

And also… Charismatic leader; I think we all need some sort of figurehead to follow. For example, the reason why Apple is a bad bet is there is no longer a face behind it! Tim Cook, kind of boring like granola. Jony Ive has left, so nobody is left.

It’s essentially when we think about Tesla, SpaceX, we think of Elon Musk. Having a face behind a concept is critical.

Same thing goes with Kanye West, and also now Michael Saylor with bitcoin and micro strategies; I am very insanely impressed… Microstrategy stock has gone up 14.4X, over the last four years, which has even outperformed bitcoin!

A random thought; I think the future will belong to those or whom or the entities in which own the most bitcoin. Assuming that bitcoin is digital property, digital capital, the Apex form of property in the universe, then what that then means is assuming that you want to build a dynasty which last forever, call us to maximize your property, digital property right now.

Why?

I think the tricky thing is when do you think about property money wealth power etc.… The question that people often ask is why?

Assuming that property is capital, in capital is more critical than money… In that most US dollars and fiat currency is just credit running on 20th century rails… What that means is we must think digital, we must think cyber.

Why I’m still betting on bitcoin and microstrategy over Tesla 

Watching the new announcement has given me an insanely huge wave of motivation and optimism for the future! Essentially the future looks phenomenal; it looks super cool, and with the upcoming cyber car, cyber taxi, and cyber van… Finally… The future will look like the future!

And I also think that the insanely optimistic thing about cyber truck is that finally, a vehicle on the road which actually looks like the future!

I recall, in the year 2020, just a little bit before Covid hit, while in Providence Rhode Island I was meandering ,, it is the year 2020, technically we are living in the super future, why doesn’t the future look like the future? Why does the future look so lame?

Cyber upside

So the reason why bitcoin and micro strategies; even though I am a huge Elon Musk and Tesla fan, laws of physics are really hard. I think Tesla still has about 1 million cyber trucks they need to produce, and on top of that, having to produce all these new cyber taxis and cyber vans, Will be very very difficult. I am very confident that Elon and the Tesla team will pull it off, realistically it might take 10 to 20 years, because the laws of physics are hard. For example, physical manufacturing, lithium ion battery refineries, supply chain etc.

I think what Elon is doing is very admirable because he is currently addressing their real life, physical and bodily challenges we are facing today.  for nobody who has never lived in Los Angeles, never being stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic from Pasadena to the west side of Los Angeles, you’ll never know what Carmageddon, traffic will look like.

And also, something I have discovered whenever I drive to East LA, Koreatown and the like — fucking sucks. All of that concrete, no green spaces and trees — during the summer, it felt about 10 to 20° hotter there, and the pollution is practically unbearable now. Gavin Newsom and California trying to get rid of tailpipe emissions is a phenomenally great idea.

For example, the only thing I hit on the planet is maybe cigarette smoke, and the smell of tailpipe emissions, which is fucking toxic, and immediately gives me a headache. I’m currently on a Crusade to tell people who are smoking on the street to not smoking — the text a lot of wits, guts, and quick thinking, because it is something that is insanely important, not only does it immediately give me a headache, but come on come on I have a kid!

These fucking assholes

What I hate about smokers, cigarette smokers is that there are smoking on the street, in public, indignantly like they are not harming nobody else. You fucking assholes. At least you have a filter to smoke your cancer sticks through, but whenever you exhale your secondhand smoke, that shit goes straight into my lungs and my brains!

First, my vision is to just make smoking cigarettes outdoors illegal. In any public space. If you want to hotbox your house or apartment or car with the windows closed, and give yourself lung cancer that is fine; but the rule is to not allow smoking on the street, public sidewalks etc.

I think technically the law is you’re not supposed to smoke within 25 feet of an eating establishment, but my personal vision at least for Culver City and beyond and on the promenade is that it would be illegal to smoke cigarettes, anywhere which is not outside of your house!

why is everyone a bunch of pussies?

Essentially the thing that is insanely annoying to me is that nowadays, everyone is a bunch of pussies and cowards. For example, all of these fat losers with beards, buying guns in ammunition, they feel so tough watching their alternative right conservative media outlets, yet, they don’t even have the courage to speak up against people who smoke cigarettes?

People are often shocked by me because I actually have the audacity to stand up and speak up. Because everyone else is a coward.

I think the number one fear that people have, at least in Los Angeles and beyond is that if you somehow confront a smoker for being an asshole, they will somehow pull up a gun and shoot you?

First, maybe it might happen if you’re in South Central, or somewhere super hood, but very very unlikely if you’re in the west side or somewhere nice like Culver City? Especially since they’re a bunch of cameras around?

There is also a fear that when you tell people in LA while they are driving, to drive more carefully, they once again, they will somehow also pull up a gun and start shooting you up?

It’s tricky because it is true; there are some people with guns, conceal and carry guns, whether in their glove compartment, on their body etc. I suppose this is where trying to distinguish people is wise;

If somebody looks like they’re from the hood, or mentally unstable, better to just play it safe. But obviously if you see somebody who looks affluent, driving some sort of expensive car or whatever, then speak up! The funny irony is at least in America, and in Los Angeles, Rich successful people don’t really own guns. Guns are for poor people from the hood, or people who are from the right marginalized communities —

Well actually a lot of people don’t understand is a lot of right wing conservatives who own guns and live in the Midwest etc., or the south, or Idaho whatever… Actually tend to be poor, below working class? 

So for the most part, obviously there is crazy stuff in LA, but I would probably rate Los Angeles much safer than we think it is; honestly, you’re more likely to die getting hit by a car, or dying in a car accident from somebody texting while driving, rather than somebody shooting you with a gun. By a factor of 1 billion?

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Cyber soldiers

 so one of my great points of optimism is that the future of warfare will not be guns bullet ammunition, not even drones or bombs. I think the future of warfare will certainly be cyber, cyber warfare, economic based.

For example, it seems that economic embargo are effective, because when it comes out to it, technically everybody on the planet wants world peace because more peace means more prosperity, economically. In all of these rich all the guards want to drive their Rolls-Royce, Lamborghinis, McLarens and the like.

For example, even rocket man Kim Jung Un, is apparently a huge connoisseur of fine whiskeys, and I think he owns about 100 high-end Mercedes Maybach cars in his garage?

Anyways, once again, all of these “evil “world leaders, they don’t technically want war either because most people, what they see is luxury, comfort and ease. I cannot imagine any world leader right now, on the frontlines of a war, on some sort of war horse or chariot going head onto battle.

The upcoming cyber war

So a simple way to think about bitcoin is the world‘s ultimate defense system. People don’t really think about bitcoin in terms of cyber security, but it is. 

For example, the bitcoin network is defended by many exahash– which means that it is essentially unhackable. And unstoppable!

For example, let us say that you need to send an encrypted safe message to somebody. You could actually send it through the bitcoin network; and it is unstoppable! It cannot be censored.

And also… Assuming that money is freedom, and bitcoin is free; whether you like it or not, even if the other guy is a bad guy or whatever… You cannot stop the exchange, peer to peer of money, between two individuals!

What Bitcoin fixes

A huge one; real estate. Let us say that I have a single-family home, and I want to sell it to you. Cindy‘s mom who is a real estate agent, I see it how tedious it is. All of these forms, regulations, and having to transfer money from the bank, is an insanely tedious and troublesome process. 

I am still shocked, also in the year 2024… Like a simple wire transfer via the swift network, like I’m sending my money to my mom in South Korea, why does it take so damn long, why do I have to go to a physical bank branch, I thought we lived in the future?

Even an insane annoyance, about a half a year ago when I just tried to wire myself $125,000 of money to buy bitcoin, I literally had to be on the phone with JP Morgan Chase, three or four times, being rerouted to some random people in the Philippines, having to see a bank teller in the flesh etc., Before having to verify my own damn money?

This is insane!

My vision

Very simple. Let us say that I have a single-family home and you want to buy my single family home. The easiest thing is that you just send bitcoin to me. The final settlement will just take a few hours, instead of a few weeks.

And also, proof of funds. If you show me your bitcoin wallet, I could immediately see how much money you have in real time. Even a funny thing was when we were signing the lease of our new apartment, when our landlord asked for our proof of income or whatever, I just sent him a screenshot of our bank account balance, proving that we could live in his property for about 10 years, just based off of our savings. 

Now, I walk around town with a grin, can enter a Lamborghini dealership or Ferrari dealership or Porsche dealership with a grin on my face, and touch and handle all the cars because technically I could afford all of them. And in fact, if anyone gives me shit, I could just show them that I could afford it, and they will shut up. 

What’s the point of money?

I think my view on money is that it is defensive; it isn’t to go out and buy yourself bunch of Lamborghinis, but instead, to use it like a war chest, a cyber defense fund.

Truth be told, growing up in poverty, seeing my mom go bankrupt at least twice, I’ve never really ever been that concerned about money. But now, I truly have zero concerns.

This is where money is a via negativa thing; money should be a means to cut or reduce concerns or cares, by reducing your expenses to a bare minimum.

I would actually say the only good use of money is for productive assets (The Fiat Standard book)–  essentially buying something that can be productive!

For example, a new iPad Pro, weightlifting equipment for your home etc.

Can it help you produce more?

Cyber digital capitalism and production–

The problem is with a lot of things that you buy, like trophy assets, is that it doesn’t produce anything– unless I suppose like you’re the one guy on YouTube who does all these videos and vlogs with an orange Lamborghini parked behind you, which you are leasing, which helps you indirectly make money? But even so, I think the financial risk isn’t worth the potential upside. 

So the problem is with cars, they don’t produce anything. The only productive car I could possibly imagine is like a full self driving Tesla car, but even that isn’t quite productive; it just helps you mitigate pain. Unless maybe of course, you’re allowing your Tesla to do the full self driving, and you’re vlogging on a GoPro or something,  and producing things while your car is self driving?

But then, optimal strategy then is to purchase the cheapest Tesla possible, the most based level Tesla model three, while purchasing full self driving.

But then again taking a step further, even more intelligent strategy is to never be inside a car, to just walk, and take the metro!

In fact, a few days ago, before Seneca and I caught a stomach bug, the greatest joy was we were able to walk to the metro line, and take the metro directly to our favorite library! 100% walking, and only two metro stops away!

And this is really my vision of a glorious future city; tons of spaces, trees, parks, recreation centers, and zero to minimum time having to spend inside a car?

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A big deal; October, 2024… Elon Musk uncovered the we robot Robo taxi cyber cab, cyber van future; 

The reason why I feel like this is an insanely big deal;

First, it looks fucking cool! Finally, the future actually looks like the future?

Tesla > Apple

First, the great thing is watching the announcement, Elon looks like he is in great shape! He looks 1 billion times happier, cheerful optimistic, and healthy.

And also… Charismatic leader; I think we all need some sort of figurehead to follow. For example, the reason why Apple is a bad bet is there is no longer a face behind it! Tim Cook, kind of boring like granola. Jony Ive has left, so nobody is left.

It’s essentially when we think about Tesla, SpaceX, we think of Elon Musk. Having a face behind a concept is critical.

Same thing goes with Kanye West, and also now Michael Saylor with bitcoin and micro strategies; I am very insanely impressed… Microstrategy stock has gone up 14.4X, over the last four years, which has even outperformed bitcoin!

A random thought; I think the future will belong to those or whom or the entities in which own the most bitcoin. Assuming that bitcoin is digital property, digital capital, the Apex form of property in the universe, then what that then means is assuming that you want to build a dynasty which last forever, call us to maximize your property, digital property right now.

Why?

I think the tricky thing is when do you think about property money wealth power etc.… The question that people often ask is why?

Assuming that property is capital, in capital is more critical than money… In that most US dollars and fiat currency is just credit running on 20th century rails… What that means is we must think digital, we must think cyber.

Why I’m still betting on bitcoin and microstrategy over Tesla 

Watching the new announcement has given me an insanely huge wave of motivation and optimism for the future! Essentially the future looks phenomenal; it looks super cool, and with the upcoming cyber car, cyber taxi, and cyber van… Finally… The future will look like the future!

And I also think that the insanely optimistic thing about cyber truck is that finally, a vehicle on the road which actually looks like the future!

I recall, in the year 2020, just a little bit before Covid hit, while in Providence Rhode Island I was meandering ,, it is the year 2020, technically we are living in the super future, why doesn’t the future look like the future? Why does the future look so lame?

Cyber upside

So the reason why bitcoin and micro strategies; even though I am a huge Elon Musk and Tesla fan, laws of physics are really hard. I think Tesla still has about 1 million cyber trucks they need to produce, and on top of that, having to produce all these new cyber taxis and cyber vans, Will be very very difficult. I am very confident that Elon and the Tesla team will pull it off, realistically it might take 10 to 20 years, because the laws of physics are hard. For example, physical manufacturing, lithium ion battery refineries, supply chain etc.

I think what Elon is doing is very admirable because he is currently addressing their real life, physical and bodily challenges we are facing today.  for nobody who has never lived in Los Angeles, never being stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic from Pasadena to the west side of Los Angeles, you’ll never know what Carmageddon, traffic will look like.

And also, something I have discovered whenever I drive to East LA, Koreatown and the like — fucking sucks. All of that concrete, no green spaces and trees — during the summer, it felt about 10 to 20° hotter there, and the pollution is practically unbearable now. Gavin Newsom and California trying to get rid of tailpipe emissions is a phenomenally great idea.

For example, the only thing I hit on the planet is maybe cigarette smoke, and the smell of tailpipe emissions, which is fucking toxic, and immediately gives me a headache. I’m currently on a Crusade to tell people who are smoking on the street to not smoking — the text a lot of wits, guts, and quick thinking, because it is something that is insanely important, not only does it immediately give me a headache, but come on come on I have a kid!

These fucking assholes

What I hate about smokers, cigarette smokers is that there are smoking on the street, in public, indignantly like they are not harming nobody else. You fucking assholes. At least you have a filter to smoke your cancer sticks through, but whenever you exhale your secondhand smoke, that shit goes straight into my lungs and my brains!

First, my vision is to just make smoking cigarettes outdoors illegal. In any public space. If you want to hotbox your house or apartment or car with the windows closed, and give yourself lung cancer that is fine; but the rule is to not allow smoking on the street, public sidewalks etc.

I think technically the law is you’re not supposed to smoke within 25 feet of an eating establishment, but my personal vision at least for Culver City and beyond and on the promenade is that it would be illegal to smoke cigarettes, anywhere which is not outside of your house!

why is everyone a bunch of pussies?

Essentially the thing that is insanely annoying to me is that nowadays, everyone is a bunch of pussies and cowards. For example, all of these fat losers with beards, buying guns in ammunition, they feel so tough watching their alternative right conservative media outlets, yet, they don’t even have the courage to speak up against people who smoke cigarettes?

People are often shocked by me because I actually have the audacity to stand up and speak up. Because everyone else is a coward.

I think the number one fear that people have, at least in Los Angeles and beyond is that if you somehow confront a smoker for being an asshole, they will somehow pull up a gun and shoot you?

First, maybe it might happen if you’re in South Central, or somewhere super hood, but very very unlikely if you’re in the west side or somewhere nice like Culver City? Especially since they’re a bunch of cameras around?

There is also a fear that when you tell people in LA while they are driving, to drive more carefully, they once again, they will somehow also pull up a gun and start shooting you up?

It’s tricky because it is true; there are some people with guns, conceal and carry guns, whether in their glove compartment, on their body etc. I suppose this is where trying to distinguish people is wise;

If somebody looks like they’re from the hood, or mentally unstable, better to just play it safe. But obviously if you see somebody who looks affluent, driving some sort of expensive car or whatever, then speak up! The funny irony is at least in America, and in Los Angeles, Rich successful people don’t really own guns. Guns are for poor people from the hood, or people who are from the right marginalized communities —

Well actually a lot of people don’t understand is a lot of right wing conservatives who own guns and live in the Midwest etc., or the south, or Idaho whatever… Actually tend to be poor, below working class? 

So for the most part, obviously there is crazy stuff in LA, but I would probably rate Los Angeles much safer than we think it is; honestly, you’re more likely to die getting hit by a car, or dying in a car accident from somebody texting while driving, rather than somebody shooting you with a gun. By a factor of 1 billion?

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Cyber soldiers

Hope, vitality, health, optimism!

The new current Elon looks great!

Podcast video

Audio

Super fucking cool!

Cybercab

Fun exciting future

Cars are only used 10 hours a week

With autonomy you get your time back!

Elevator operator

Solver insanely big societal problems?

Cheaper

Safer because it is superhuman

Be a glorious future!

Doesn’t get tired or text

,

We prefer to see real human beings, charismatic leaders behind the thing?

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AI & vision –> vision is the future?

What cities will look like in the future?

This is the world we want

Parking lot out of park lot

5-10 cents a mile

The future should look like the future!

Cyber optimism

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What humans can apply from AI

Anyone can own?

The biggest product of all time

.

Age of abundance! ***–> cost of goods and services so nominal

Mind is fucking blown!

Theories:

First, optimism is actually linked to physiological health. If you have insanely robust superb health, it to 12 hours a night, no elements, no pains, 5% body fat and full bodily vigor— there is almost no reason to not be optimistic! Like a child!

What childless people do not understand is that children are naturally optimistic! My thought is somewhere along the way, kids were 12 education or even college post college… Society turns them dark morose and pessimistic?

We robot video

GO ELON!

With your arms, traps, shoulders, wing span?

More green!

For example, in four years, Tesla was able to grow about 8.5 times, insanely impressive, and micro strategy 14.4 X times!

I think in terms of the real world, Elon Musk is the GOAT. What I really appreciate about Elon is he is solving real world issues which is currently plaguing us, right now, today!

The bullish case for Bitcoin

Ultimately, think cyber not physical.

For example, now that essentially Covid is over, there is really no good reason why you need to physically live in a certain somewhere or a certain location, forever, for the rest of your life. For example, from 2017 to 2019, Cindy and I were very very happy globetrotting all around the planet, Kyoto to Tokyo to Osaka, Vietnam Saigon And Hanoi, Mexico City, Prague Berlin etc.

I think the reason why long-term, micro strategy and bitcoin will perform everything is because when you’re no longer stuck in the physical realm, your gains can be infinite.

For example, on my blog on this block, I could in theory publish 1 million blog posts for affectively the cost of zero. Maybe it will cost me less than a nickel. But even if I want to publish one soft cover book, it might cost me about $10 USD, which is 100000x more than publishing something digitally.

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14.4x gainzzz

For example, the last four years,

Over the past four years, both Tesla and MicroStrategy have demonstrated remarkable, albeit very different, stock performance due to their distinct strategies and focus.

1. Tesla: From 2020 to 2024, Tesla’s stock has surged by approximately 751.8% overall. This reflects a consistent and substantial growth trajectory driven by its dominance in the electric vehicle industry, significant advancements in technology, and expanding global market reach  .

2. MicroStrategy: Over the same period, MicroStrategy’s stock has skyrocketed by about 1,339%, largely fueled by its aggressive investment in Bitcoin. Starting in 2020, CEO Michael Saylor shifted the company’s strategy to adopt Bitcoin as a primary treasury reserve asset, which significantly amplified the stock’s growth as Bitcoin’s value rose. This bold move has resulted in MicroStrategy outperforming not only many other tech stocks but also the broader market indices  .

To put this in relative terms, Tesla’s 751.8% gain translates to approximately 8.5 times its initial value (assuming an initial value of 1X), while MicroStrategy’s 1,339% gain corresponds to around 14.4 times its initial value over the past four years. These growth multiples underscore Tesla’s strength in the EV market and MicroStrategy’s leveraged position on Bitcoin’s appreciation.

Cybercab

Fun exciting future

Cars are only used 10 hours a week

With autonomy you get your time back!

Elevator operator

Solver insanely big societal problems?

Cheaper

Safer because it is superhuman

Be a glorious future!

Doesn’t get tired or text

,

We prefer to see real human beings, charismatic leaders behind the thing?

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AI & vision –> vision is the future?

What cities will look like in the future?

This is the world we want

Parking lot out of park lot

5-10 cents a mile

The future should look like the future!

Cyber optimism

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What humans can apply from AI

Anyone can own?

The biggest product of all time

.

Age of abundance! ***–> cost of goods and services so nominal

Mind is fucking blown!

Sell optimism

We, Robot Tesla announcement— GO ELON!

X video

Super fucking cool!

Cybercab

Fun exciting future

Cars are only used 10 hours a week

With autonomy you get your time back!

Elevator operator

Solver insanely big societal problems?

Cheaper

Safer because it is superhuman

Be a glorious future!

Doesn’t get tired or text

,

We prefer to see real human beings, charismatic leaders behind the thing?

.

AI & vision –> vision is the future?

What cities will look like in the future?

This is the world we want

Parking lot out of park lot

5-10 cents a mile

The future should look like the future!

Cyber optimism

.

What humans can apply from AI

Anyone can own?

The biggest product of all time

.

Age of abundance! ***–> cost of goods and services so nominal

Mind is fucking blown!

Also future thought:

Soon, ChatGPT and searchgpt and also Google will be able to index images?

Big idea:

Considering that ChatGPT and searchgpt is indexing everything on the open internet and web ,,, this makes it a trillion times more critical to post your things online directly from your own website and blog which can be indexed by bots!

Think search web crawler bots

Instagram as a slave platform, your own website blog as the master, lord platform!

Especially now with ChatGPT and searchgpt … there is literally 0 future for closed platforms like Instagram, Facebook etc.

Big idea:

Build your photo capital on your own platform (self hosted website, blog, WordPress.org)— *NOT* to build it on a sinking ship (Instagram, social media!)

Photo slavery or photo mastery?

Photo capitalism ;

How to make value out of “nothing”— through our photos?

Investing & trading? Economic capital leverage!

Make money in the traditional markets, sell the profit, buy Bitcoin! ***

Steel plates!

Think the free markets

“Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All” is a book by Michael Shellenberger, published in 2020. In this provocative work, Shellenberger challenges the prevailing narratives surrounding environmental issues, arguing that much of the alarmism associated with topics like climate change, pollution, and resource depletion is either exaggerated or misrepresented. He contends that such fear-based approaches can hinder effective solutions and lead to misguided policies.

Key Themes and Arguments

1. Critique of Alarmism:

• Shellenberger asserts that persistent doom-and-gloom predictions can desensitize the public, making it harder to mobilize meaningful action.

• He argues that excessive focus on catastrophic scenarios may overshadow real progress and achievable goals.

2. Progress in Environmental Protection:

• The book highlights significant advancements in areas such as renewable energy, conservation, and public health.

• Shellenberger points out that many environmental indicators, like air and water quality, have improved over the past decades.

3. Policy Recommendations:

• Advocates for pragmatic, evidence-based policies rather than radical or ideologically driven solutions.

• Emphasizes the importance of innovation, technological advancements, and economic incentives in addressing environmental challenges.

4. Debunking Common Myths:

• Challenges misconceptions about climate change severity, biodiversity loss, and other environmental issues.

• Uses data and case studies to argue that some environmental threats are being effectively managed or are less dire than commonly portrayed.

5. Human Progress and Optimism:

• Promotes a more optimistic view of humanity’s ability to solve environmental problems through ingenuity and cooperation.

• Encourages a balanced perspective that acknowledges both challenges and successes.

Reception and Impact

“Apocalypse Never” has sparked significant debate within environmental and policy circles. Supporters appreciate Shellenberger’s call for a more balanced and optimistic approach, arguing that it can lead to more effective and sustainable solutions. They believe the book provides a necessary counterbalance to what they see as overly pessimistic environmental rhetoric.

Critics, however, contend that Shellenberger downplays the severity of certain environmental issues and that his arguments may undermine urgent calls for action. Some environmentalists feel that his perspective could lead to complacency in addressing critical challenges like climate change.

Conclusion

“Apocalypse Never” offers a contrarian viewpoint that challenges mainstream environmental discourse. Whether you agree with Shellenberger’s assessments or not, the book serves as a catalyst for important discussions about how best to address environmental challenges in a balanced and effective manner. If you’re interested in environmental policy debates and seeking perspectives that question conventional wisdom, this book provides a thought-provoking read.

Additional Information:

• Author: Michael Shellenberger is an environmental policy writer and activist known for his advocacy of nuclear energy as a solution to climate change.

• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.

• ISBN: 978-1250313436

Related Works:

• Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility by Michael Shellenberger

• The Death of Environmentalism by Michael Shellenberger

If you have specific questions about the book or its content, feel free to ask!

Climategate refers to a controversy that emerged in November 2009 when a large number of emails and documents from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the United Kingdom were hacked and subsequently leaked to the public. The term “Climategate” combines “climate” with “Watergate,” suggesting a major scandal.

Key Events

1. The Leak: In November 2009, thousands of emails and other documents from CRU were made public by the website WikiLeaks. The timing coincided with the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, heightening tensions around the issue of climate change.

2. Content of the Emails: The leaked communications included discussions among climate scientists about data management, peer review processes, and responses to critics of their work. Critics alleged that the emails showed evidence of manipulating data and suppressing dissenting viewpoints to promote the narrative of human-induced climate change.

3. Public and Political Reaction: The leak intensified skepticism about climate science, especially among climate change skeptics and certain political figures. It fueled debates about the integrity of climate research and the transparency of scientific processes.

Investigations and Outcomes

Multiple independent investigations were conducted to assess the validity of the allegations arising from Climategate:

1. The House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee (UK): Released a report in October 2010, which largely vindicated the scientists involved. The committee criticized some administrative and managerial aspects of CRU but found no evidence of scientific malpractice.

2. Pennsylvania State University Investigation: In the United States, this investigation cleared the scientists of wrongdoing, though it did identify minor errors in data handling that did not affect the overall conclusions about climate change.

3. Independent Climate Change Email Review: Conducted by the University of East Anglia and chaired by Sir Muir Russell, this review confirmed that the scientists involved had not acted improperly.

Impact on Climate Science and Public Perception

• Short-Term Effects: Climategate temporarily eroded public trust in climate science, providing ammunition for those skeptical of climate change. It sparked widespread media coverage and debate over the transparency and objectivity of climate research.

• Long-Term Effects: Despite the initial backlash, subsequent reports and continued scientific research have reinforced the consensus on human-induced climate change. Climategate is now often cited as an example of how misinformation and misrepresentation can be used to challenge scientific findings, even when investigations clear the scientists of wrongdoing.

Lessons Learned

Climategate highlighted the importance of:

• Data Transparency: Ensuring that data and methodologies are openly accessible to foster trust and allow independent verification.

• Communication: Scientists need to effectively communicate their findings and address public concerns to maintain credibility.

• Cybersecurity: Protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access is crucial, especially in an era where digital data is integral to scientific research.

Conclusion

While Climategate was initially perceived by some as undermining the credibility of climate science, subsequent investigations have upheld the integrity of the scientists involved and reinforced the validity of the broader consensus on climate change. The incident underscores the challenges faced by the scientific community in maintaining transparency and public trust in the face of politicized debates and information breaches.