One interesting thing that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve learned about bitcoin just things and life in general is that you only really really discover something or take full heart to it when you actually really have a need for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, the story of Michael Saylor microstrategy and bitcoin; the only reason that Michael Saylor really took it was because he had a real need for it<\/strong>; 500 million in cash, in kind of stagnant company– he needed to add vitality back to life to his company and corporation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Necessity is the true mother of all innovation<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Similarly speaking, myself, moving here to LA, staring at this ridiculous high cost of living, and trying to find innovative ways to approach money, productivity time etc. I found bitcoin as almost a salvation for me, Cindy, my aging mom, Seneca, and my future family!<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I think traditionally, most of us are stuck into the work cycle. It is a simple mathematical equation: a simple vector equation; \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc in goes your effort, time, and labor, outcomes money and income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So for most people, there is directly proportional effect:<\/p>\n\n\n\n You labor harder, more, and you yield more US dollars, and you work hard, put out new innovative product services etc., a lot of hard work and time, heavily market the thing, through genuine and effort full channels, and then wait diligently for somebody to purchase your products services workshops etc., hope they pay, and then when that dust settles within a month two or three, then you could withdraw that money from your PayPal or digital broker, and then deposited into your checking account, finally logging in and securing your \u00e2\u20ac\u0153gain\u00e2\u20ac\u009d,<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n So this is where things become funny: the notion of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153income\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once again, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still relatively new to all of this, in the sense that the average time labor, we have a hard time thinking like an investor. For example, to think that you just have $2 million in capital, you have some deep insight and intuition about something, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc and then you invest that money into the thing, and then over the course of a few days weeks months, two months, three months, four months five months, a year, 4 to 5 years, the number magically goes up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n To me, this is still like wizardry, like pure magic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n And I still think this is where it is difficult to understand; to those who have access to capital, you essentially have an economic lever to lever up, and leverage that, which is just economic power and energy, to be even more more energy, more power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So we hear stories of Warren Buffett, living the same old house, driving the old same Honda Accord whatever, and then just spending all day reading the newspaper investing in the markets, and then becoming like the third world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s richest man, all at the age of 80 or 90 years old, But your old sick fat and tired, still eating McDonald\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and drinking Coca-Colas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Warren Buffett is not a good example. Even he was a skeptic and critic of bitcoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think the hard thing is everyone uses Warren Buffet as an example, but for my general sense, given the fact that he has invested heavily into Coca-Cola, he is no better than people who invest in fill up Morris evil cigarette and now vaping corporation, to spin a certain profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tell me that, everyone wants to be as rich as Warren Buffett but nobody actually wants to become Warren Buffett. Do you know anybody in the given universe who wants to be that old fat sick and unshapely? \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m much better idea is to be as jacked as King Leonidas, Gerald Butler in the movie 300, all while being a billionaire. My vision is essentially having the hard spartan body, naked and super fucking jacked, and also\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 This is the critical one; insanely Spartan and frugal, surprising everyone that you drive a Toyota Prius, even though you could afford like 20 cyber trucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think what I have discovered finally at the age of 36, is that with bitcoin, this changes everything. Why? Before bitcoin has finally hit mass adoption, and now that starting next year January 2025 will be a year one of bitcoin institutional adoption, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc what that means is having a bitcoin is like having a cyber truck or Lamborghini on steroids, but on a digital wheel. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is my visual: I was at the park yesterday with Seneca, playing with him at night, just having the house key in my front pocket, no phone no nothing not even my camera, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just playing around in the tot lot, kicking around some bark, and I had the funny thoughts; would I trade a bitcoin for a Tesla? Maybe a cyber truck? But actually the other day I jumped into a cyber truck and I was a little bit underwhelmed; the funny thing about the cyber truck is that it looks so flashy and awesome from the outside, put on the inside once you actually step into it, it is a bit underwhelming; it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really feel that different from sitting inside a Honda Accord or a Toyota Camry. Maybe it would be different if you were homeless and just owned a cyber truck and just slept in the trunk bed, but beyond this, I think cyber truck is one of those funny things that you could just admire it from the outside, without actually having to own it<\/strong>. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc and if anything, the real thing to just wait for or save up for is the cyber taxi, which could just shuttle your kid to baseball practice, or take your wife directly to campus or work through the grueling 405 morning commute traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyways, now, my calculus is simple; I think of everything in context to bitcoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, whenever I critically look and asses these things, I think to myself,<\/p>\n\n\n\n How many bitcoins could I buy with this thing? \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n For example I was just trolling around with the finance calculator for the Tesla website, and still the cheapest Tesla model three, base edition, after taxes and even after the federal rebate, will still run you around $40-$45,000 at the door. And no this is the cheapest version! This is like half a bitcoin or a third of a bitcoin. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d rather take the bitcoin which is going to $13 million, rather than the Tesla car which is going to zero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A new line of thinking I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also been thinking about is this general idea of accretive vs dilutive; \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc that means, is this thing that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m interested, will it increase value, a.k.a. go up in value, or go down in value?<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I think now that Trump is president, bitcoin at this point is in my mind, practically 100% cemented and certain to go up forever. However as I mentioned in my prior essay, the philosophy of volatility<\/em>, to reach higher highs you gotta reach lower lows? \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n So assuming that you just took snapshots every year, at random high points year over year, you will find that bitcoin is the insanely obvious choice. With enough hindsight, with enough 2020 you can see and determine and ascertain that in fact, bitcoin is by far the winning bet, nearly a trillion-fold obvious decision! \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc it has insane volatility which means it goes up and down a lot, constantly, but the cool thing is that it will essentially go up forever!<\/p>\n\n\n\n And this is like volatility, it is like having a hyper charger or a supercharger in your engine; more power or more velocity, more extremes to reach higher performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example if you think about the velocity of a roller coaster; what makes it fun is precisely the highs and lows. If you take one of those boring kid ones, which is pretty much steady, it is insanely boring. Why? The thrills of the roller coaster– once again we are the adrenaline junkies!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00ef\u00bf\u00bcOK\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 if you want the ultimate blend of safety with high-yield, my suggestion is 90% of your capital into bitcoin, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc and 10% into microstrategy stock (MSTR)<\/strong>. This is what I personally do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why? Essentially you could treat Marco strategy stock like your cash; it keeps going up in value, and actually in fact goes up quicker than bitcoin; although it is a Security, a stock that you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really own, like bitcoin which is digital property. I love Michael Saylor and microstrategy to death, I have like literally watched and listen to every single Michael Saylor podcast interview available out there, I also read his book the mobile wave, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve tried to consume every single piece of literature or thing that Michael Saylor has put out there. I also watched his recent earnings call, and watching it all in all, almost like watching a rockstar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However at the end of the day once again, the name of the game is to accumulate and acquire more bitcoins. He or she with the most bitcoins, or the entity with the most bitcoins shall win<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So a simple thought to the Trump bitcoin administration and beyond;<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, America must be the bitcoin leader. We must be the nation with the most bitcoin in our treasury reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sent you the basic ideas like we are creating the next bitcoin Fort Knox; we must dominate every other nation in terms of the number of our bitcoin holdings, kind of like imagine military power, but bitcoin as cyber power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example let us assume that the US Navy has strategic military dominance over the planet. And let us assume that our military power is at least 10,000 X to that mainland China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So in theory in terms of numbers, America must supersede mainland China in our bitcoin holdings. By at least a factor of 10,000X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think even Donald Trump joked that maybe we could even use some of our bitcoin to pay back our national debt?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think actually the more interesting strategy is we hoard our bitcoins forever, until the end of time, and instead, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Someone with some good economic wizardry could figure out how we could leverage our debt in intelligent ways so we could actually pay back our debt without having to sell bitcoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And once again\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I think this is the main idea on my mind right now — we can continue to accumulate bitcoin, stack bitcoin, etc., \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc and figure out how we leverage borrowing cheap money or debt from other banks entities, to make money?<\/p>\n\n\n\n My has enjoy an interest; give me all your capital, and I will invest it and grow it for you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eric@erickim.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n So the reason why I think this is such a big deal is that finally, with bitcoin, we have finally crossed the chasm. What this means is finally, in the year 2024 and beyond, capital is finally cyber. What this means is next frontier of capital is practically infinite. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let me explicate this a bit more on why this is such a big deal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n So it looks like traditionally, the last frontier of making money and wealth was companies. Why? With technology, finally you were able to break free a little bit of physical limitations. For example, with Google Amazon Facebook etc., you were able to finally cross the digital divide which means that you could actually Feel all things in assets digitally, like digital advertisements digital value etc. Yet the different nuance is still\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Capital was not yet in the digital realm. For example even though Amazon Facebook Google and the big tech companies could create value digitally through cyber space in cyber networks, there was no Internet native money or capital in which they could store their value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example all the big companies, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re still reliant on JP Morgan Chase to custody their US dollars and field currency the treasury reserve assets etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But starting January of next year 2025\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 This will all change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ERIC<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One interesting thing that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve learned about bitcoin just things and life in general is that you only really really discover something or take full heart to it when you actually really have a \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-646895","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/646895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/646895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646896,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/646895\/revisions\/646896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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