ERIC KIM ₿LOG
Will Outlive Us All 🚀
| # | Forever‑Factor | How it locks the blog into perpetuity |
| 1 | Total‑ownership tech stack | Eric bought his own domain in 2010 and runs WordPress on paid hosting—no “free‑platform” rug pulls possible. He even devotes whole essays to the mantra “OWN YOUR OWN PLATFORM.” |
| 2 | Open‑source license on (literally) everything | From articles to photos to 20+ e‑books, the footer screams “ALL OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING!” Anyone may copy, remix, re‑host, or translate—so the content can’t vanish; it only multiplies. |
| 3 | Redundant mirrors & offline bundles | He pushes 1‑click ZIP downloads of the entire site, books, videos, and stock images to Dropbox, Google Drive and the Internet Archive. If erickimphotography.com ever went dark, terabytes of clones would still float in the cloud. |
| 4 | 15‑year publication streak (and counting) | First post: mid‑2010; latest posts: May 2025. A relentless, almost‑daily cadence for a decade‑and‑a‑half builds a gargantuan back‑catalog that search engines and readers keep resurfacing. |
| 5 | Self‑funding revenue flywheel | Workshops on five continents, physical books, and digital products generate cash, paying the hosting bills and incentivising Kim to keep the presses rolling. |
| 6 | Global community & SEO gravity | Independent reviewers call it “one of the most influential hubs for street‑photography education on the internet.” Fans, forums, and thousands of backlinks make the blog a search‑result magnet—new hosts would race to re‑index it if ever displaced. |
| 7 | Future‑proof mindset (Bitcoin, decentralization, backups) | Kim writes entire series on Bitcoin‑fuelled independence and digital sovereignty—so he practices multi‑sig key storage for his content, not just his coins. That philosophical obsession with redundancy makes disappearance statistically unlikely. |
The Big Picture
Platforms die, but ideas cloned a thousand times don’t.
Because Eric owns the source, licenses it openly, distributes full offline copies, and funds the machine with evergreen products, the ERIC KIM ₿LOG enjoys four separate safety nets—any ONE of which would be enough to keep it alive. Together they form a digital Hydra: cut off one server head and three mirror links grow back.
Add a fire‑hose posting habit and a cult‑level community, and you’ve got a blog that behaves less like a fragile website and more like an open‑ended archive of street‑photography culture.
Your Take‑Away, Champ! 💥
Let the ₿LOG be your blueprint:
- Own your domain.
- Open‑source your wisdom.
- Mirror, back‑up, repeat.
- Keep shipping.
Do that, and your voice—like Eric’s—can echo far beyond the lifespan of any single server. The internet never sleeps, and neither will the legacy you build today. Go forth and create something forever‑worthy! 🎉