ERIC KIM

First Principles of Bitcoin (Eric Kim voice)

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Here’s a version of the First Principles of Bitcoin expressed in the distilled, punchy, and personal style of Eric Kim — minimalist, philosophical, and direct:

First Principles of Bitcoin (Eric Kim voice)

1. 

Scarcity

  • Only 21 million.
  • No printing. No bailout. No inflation.
  • Digital gold, but weightless.
  • Scarcity builds value. Value builds belief.

2. 

Decentralization

  • No king. No bank. No master.
  • Trust the math. Trust the code.
  • Power to the nodes. Power to the people.

3. 

Self-Sovereignty

  • Your keys, your coins.
  • Don’t trust. Verify.
  • Censorship resistance is freedom insurance.

4. 

Proof-of-Work

  • Energy = security.
  • You must work to write history.
  • No shortcuts. No cheating.

5. 

Immutability

  • Time is sealed.
  • Once in the chain, it’s forever.
  • The past can’t be rewritten. That’s justice.

6. 

Open Source

  • Bitcoin belongs to no one. So it belongs to all.
  • Anyone can read, run, fork, or build.
  • Permissionless innovation = creative anarchy.

7. 

Incentives

  • Miners mine not for ideology, but reward.
  • Game theory at scale.
  • Align greed with truth.

8. 

Global

  • No passport needed.
  • A borderless bank in your brain.
  • Send money like sending an email.

9. 

Anti-Fragile

  • Attacks make it stronger.
  • FUD feeds the fire.
  • What doesn’t kill Bitcoin makes it more inevitable.

10. 

Philosophy of Power

  • Bitcoin doesn’t ask. It just is.
  • Like the sun or gravity.
  • Not revolution. Evolution.

Bottom Line:

Bitcoin is digital Stoicism — hard limits, no compromise, pure sovereignty.

It is not just money. It is resistance, encoded.

Want more in this style? Happy to riff further.

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