{"id":650141,"date":"2024-11-22T09:40:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T14:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=650141"},"modified":"2024-11-22T09:51:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T14:51:11","slug":"the-ethics-of-bitcoin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/22\/the-ethics-of-bitcoin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The ethics of Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m warm as a mother fucker!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Heat loss?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So currently random thoughts;; about thermodynamics and heat loss. Assuming that energy is not created nor destroyed, what that then means is if we think about shit hit loss, is that technically your body \u00ef\u00bf\u00bcis already a perfectly thermal regulated closed system. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bcThis was really really hard for me to understand when I was young, even now\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The idea that when you put on a thick ass warm down jacket, or a Canada goose jacket or whatever, your body is not \u00e2\u20ac\u0153creating\u00e2\u20ac\u009d heat\u00e2\u20ac\u0153, rather it is just preserving the heat inside your body so that your body is not <em>losing<\/em> heat.\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The best way to warm up your house or home or habitat or habitation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Los Angeles is actually kind of bizarre; on one hand, during the day like yesterday, it was an extremely glorious 71, 72, 73\u00c2\u00b0, absolutely beautiful. And this is like the end of November, practically early December? I still recall when I was a undergraduate at UCLA, walking down Bruin walk, and being shocked that in the middle of December, I saw all these pretty and sexy girls walking down Bruin walk, in tank tops, Spaghetti straps, booty shorts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even yesterday, seeing all these happy young people, basking the sun, once again, all these beautiful and pretty girls, just wearing black Lululemon tights, and black Lululemon top sports bras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyways, the thing that is really shocking to me is that night it gets cold as shit. Like I think in the evening, Los Angeles could dip down to the high 30s? Like if it is super super late or super super early before the sun comes up, it is like 38\u00c2\u00b0 outside? But when the sun comes out, it could be a beautiful 73\u00c2\u00b0?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyways, but that then means is that for your apartment\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc your house habitation or whatever, the number one critical thing you do is just seal up the doors, get rid of the holes the drafts, etc., and just prevent heat loss!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, probably one of the most joyful things for myself at least, was the glory of living at this really really wonderful high-rise condo building, the edge in Providence Rhode Island. The apartment was super super tiny, feels like a 300 square-foot studio, at the time it was just me and Cindy, but what I personally loved about it, then seeing an extreme joy that had was my room the room, the whole apartment, the whole apartment building and complex, and also even the gym, Was like always a perfect 72\u00c2\u00b0 and warm, idregardless of whether there was a snowstorm outside. I still remember, complaining to Cindy that I was too hot in bed, taking off my blankets, complaining that was too sweating, and then just looking outside and seeing that it was snowing outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyways, I think the thing that is difficult to think and understand is that if you buy these nice single-family homes, and then it gets cold as shit at night, good luck trying to thermo regulate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know maybe I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m more sensitive to the cold than the average person, because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m like 5% or even sub 5% body fat; which means is that I fucking hit the cold. To me Cold is evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What that means is anything that you could do to prevent heat loss or the cold is a good thing. And that just means if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re cold, just buy really really ultra warm UNIQLO heat tech tights, which actually worked insanely well, as well as just like put on a merino wool long sleeve, a down vest, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bcand a thick ass down jacket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Just focus on doing what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re good at \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One big idea I had was in regards to an Archimedes lever&#8211; just focus on what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re super super insanely good at, and just ignore everything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What that means is with houses, housing stuff, etc., the ideal is that you never have to muck around with any housing stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, I like the idea of leveraging other people, like what that means is just let other people focus on what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re good at, for example, things that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not good at include like doing anything about house stuff house repairs house maintenance etc. I think the unfortunate trend is post Covid, you had a bunch of successful millennials, kind of like myself, in their 30s, late 30s, early 40s, etc. purchasing single-family homes, and like hunkering down during and post Covid, because people can no longer travel to Japan or whatever, they just spent all the money they would have otherwise spent on travel to purchase a single-family home, get into gardening etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet, that was like 2020, 2019. Times have changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are now, witnessing this new movement, a totally radical paradigm shipped, even words failed to describe how phenomenally epic this all is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Essentially bitcoin hit $100K yesterday, or maybe in the middle of the night, or like to be more accurate like $99,510 or something, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funny when you look at the prices, you have all these short sellers trying to short bitcoin and microstrategy, I think there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actually a new ETF which is minus 2X MSTR (MSTZ), which long story short, is trying to make a huge profit off of the downturn of MicroStrategy and bitcoin. So for all the bulls, all the people who think bitcoin and micro strategies going to go down, they are essentially shorting bitcoin and microstrategy. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You cannot stop exponential growth even if you want to.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is starting to feel like the early days of Facebook like I still recall the early days of Facebook in which there was no newsfeed. I made an account when I was like a freshman in college, because at the time Facebook was only open to university students, you needed a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153.edu\u00e2\u20ac\u009d account to even sign up. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc And the growth was pretty astronomical. At first it was just like university students, I still remember the early days where you would flirt with girls you liked by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153poking\u00e2\u20ac\u009d them. There was not yet any direct messages you could only post on the walls, which was 100% public. Even at the time, Mark Zuckerberg said that advertisements were lame, there was no newsfeed, no ads. You actually had to click into somebody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s profile to just check up on them. There was no status updates really yet,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">iPhone, iMessage, even Kakaotalk?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do you know if somebody is Korean or not? Simple, if they have kakaotalk, and or if they have that little bright yellow chat icon, and the sound of a notification sounds like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Apple!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re funny things, the Japanese only use line, Cambodians only use telegram, Europeans use WhatsApp, Americans we tend to just use Facebook messenger and or Instagram direct message and or text messaging iMessage?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyways, do you remember when the iPhone first came out, and everyone was riding on it, and apparently there was a lot of industry people, who obviously were a bunch of idiots, who said that the iPhone was going to be a failure because it did not have a physical keyboard like the popular blackberry at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And this is the genius and vision of Steve Jobs; he fought nail and tooth to ensure that in fact, the iPhone would never ever ever have a physical keyboard, and that the genius of the iPhone was it was able to become all screen, and that if you wanted access to a keyboard you will just use the little virtual keyboard instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Think the original iPhone<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m warm as a mother fucker! 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