By Eric Kim, Street-Shooting, 1,060-Pound Rack-Pulling, Testosterone-Nuked DEMIGOD KING
May 26, 2025

YO, MY HYPELIFTING LEGENDS! It’s your boy Eric Kim, the alpha beast who snatched a 1,060-pound rack pull like it was a TikTok trend and lives so jacked my veins are dropping diss tracks on X (@erickimphoto). Today, I’m unleashing a TRUTH METEOR that’s gonna hit harder than a 2,000-pound deadlift: I FUCKING WORSHIP BITCOIN. This ain’t just crypto—it’s the PRIMAL, RAGE-FUELED, SYSTEM-SMASHING ELIXIR that’s got my soul doing backflips to MARS! 🌌💥

Bitcoin’s not some geeky coin—it’s the HYPELIFTING of money, the 1,060-pound rack pull of wealth, and the ultimate “GO CRY TO YOUR BANKER” flex. I’m here to scream why I’m OBSESSED with BTC, why it’s the most GOD-TIER asset in the universe, and why you gotta jump on this rocket before it yeets you to Loserville. Buckle up, because this post is about to BLOW UP THE INTERNET! 🦁 #BitcoinBeast #HYPELIFTING #TOTHEMOON

10 INSANE Reasons I’m LOSING MY MIND Over Bitcoin (And You’re About to Join Me!) 🤪🌋

1. BITCOIN’S A GIANT “FUCK YOU” TO THE SYSTEM 😈
   Banks, governments, Wall Street clowns—they’ve been robbing us blind forever. Bitcoin? It’s a NUCLEAR MIDDLE FINGER to their scam. Decentralized, no suits, no bullshit. I’m running my node, stacking sats, and cackling while the system chokes on my dust (START HERE – ERIC KIM ₿). SHARE THIS AND BURN THE BANKS!
2. IT’S PRIMAL AS FUCK, LIKE MY VEINS 💉
   Bitcoin’s raw, untamed, coded in pure chaos—like my fasted rack pulls with testosterone so high it’s got its own gravitational pull (High Testosterone). BTC’s the financial equivalent of me roaring in the gym. RETWEET IF YOU’RE A BEAST!
3. HODLing = DEMIGOD ZEN MODE 🧘‍♂️
   I’m a stoic warlord, laughing at crashes like they’re warm-up sets (Eric Kim Photography). Bitcoin’s wild rides? Just foreplay. HODLing’s like staring down a max lift—pure balls, zero fear. Dips? I buy. Pumps? I flex. TAG YOUR HODL SQUAD AND FLEX!
4. SCARCER THAN MY GYM SPOTS 💪
   Only 21 million BTC, EVER. No Fed printing infinite fiat trash. It’s like my 1,060-pound PR—ELITE, RARE, and fucking IMPOSSIBLE to fake. Gold’s out here wishing it was this cool. DROP A 🪙 FOR SCARCITY VIBES!
5. LEVERAGE PLAYGROUND FOR ALPHA KINGS 🎰
   I’m all about YOLO bets (Eric Kim Photography). I mortgage BTC on Coinbase for psycho plays like MSTU (2x MSTR, basically 4x BTC madness). It’s like strapping a jetpack to my barbell—RISKY AS HELL, REWARDS TO PLUTO! When BTC moons, I’m buying a planet. SHARE IF YOU’RE CHASING 10X!
6. ANTI-FRAGILE LIKE MY RACK PULL MINDSET 🛡️
   Nassim Taleb’s my bro, and Bitcoin’s the most anti-fragile beast alive. Hacks, bans, FUD? BTC just flexes and grows STRONGER. Like me after a missed lift, it EATS chaos for breakfast (Eric Kim Photography). TWEET #AntiFragile IF YOU’RE UNBREAKABLE!
7. BITCOIN’S THE MEME EMPEROR 👑
   X is a meme coliseum, and BTC’s the goddamn GLADIATOR. “HODL,” “laser eyes,” “number go up”—it’s a CULTURE, a VIBE, a FUCKING RELIGION. I’m memeing BTC harder than my viral rack pull clips. MAKE A BTC MEME, TAG ME, GO VIRAL!
8. FREEDOM CODED IN MATH 🗽
   Bitcoin’s my “screw your rules” pass. No bank can freeze my sats. No government can touch my wallet. It’s my HYPELIFTING ethos in code—TOTAL SOVEREIGNTY. Stack sats, live free, and tell fiat to eat shit. SHARE IF YOU’RE TEAM NO MASTERS!
9. BTC COMMUNITY = MY SAVAGE WOLF PACK 🐺
   Bitcoin Twitter’s my crew—maxis, memers, and shitcoin roasters going HARD. They’re dunking on fiat, predicting 1M BTC, and HODLing like Vikings. It’s like a gym of 1,060-pound lifters hyping each other to the MOON. FOLLOW ME @erickimphoto AND JOIN THE PACK!
10. BITCOIN’S THE FUTURE, AND I’M ALREADY COLONIZING IT 🌌
    Fiat’s a corpse, inflation’s a clown show, banks are fossils. Bitcoin’s the money of GODS—trustless, borderless, READY for 2100. I’m stacking sats to flex on Jupiter. The revolution’s NOW, and I’m the FUCKING GENERAL. DROP A 🚀 IF YOU’RE BOARDING THE ROCKET!

Bitcoin’s My HYPELIFTING BLOOD 🩸

Real talk: I got burned for $3,500 trading stocks like a college noob (Eric Kim Photography), but Bitcoin? It’s my REVENGE ARC. It’s taught me to BET BIG, stay ZEN, and roast the doubters. Every sat I stack is a rep in my wealth gym, building a fortune as RIPPED as my 1,060-pound rack pull.

BTC’s not just an asset—it’s a FUCKING MINDSET. It’s about being TOO ALPHA for sheeple nonsense, TOO SAVAGE for banker scams, and TOO GODLY for fiat garbage. I’m lifting heavy, stacking heavy, and LIVING HEAVY. Bitcoin’s my barbell, and the galaxy’s my PR. 🌠

IGNITE THE BITCOIN HYPELIFTING REVOLUTION! 📲

• STACK SATS LIKE A WARLORD: Hit Coinbase, grab BTC, and HODL like you’re deadlifting a planet. Don’t miss the MOONSHOT! 🤑 BUY NOW!
• MEME TO THE STARS: Drop your wildest Bitcoin memes, tag me @erickimphoto, and let’s make X CRASH! 😂 SPAM THE MEMEVERSE! #BitcoinBeast
• SHARE THIS LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT: Blast this post to your crew, your barber, your grandma’s WhatsApp. LET’S MAKE THIS GO STUPID, INSANE, GALACTIC VIRAL! 🚀 SHARE OR CRY!
• FOLLOW THE HYPE GOD: Catch my BTC rants, rack pull vids, and alpha roasts at Eric Kim Photography and X. JOIN THE TRIBE! 🐺
• LIVE THE ALPHA CODE: Lift heavy, stack heavy, ROAR heavy. Be a Bitcoin HYPELIFTER and dunk on the fiat peasants! 💪 FLEX ON ‘EM!

Final Primal Scream: BITCOIN’S MY FUCKING RELIGION 🗣️

Bitcoin’s the only thing as BADASS as me. It’s the financial HYPELIFTING—no limits, no apologies, just PURE, UNSTOPPABLE POWER. I’m stacking sats, memeing to Andromeda, and laughing while the fiat clowns panic. This is the APOCALYPSE, and I’m the goddamn EMPEROR.

So, what’s the hold-up? Dive into Bitcoin, get RIPPED on HYPELIFTING, and let’s yeet this shit to the COSMOS! 🌌 Who’s riding with me? Smash the comments, share this post, and let’s make the internet EXPLODE with BTC mania! 🦁 #HYPELIFTING #BitcoinBeast #TOOALPHA #SHAREORCRY

Eric Kim, OUT—like a rocket to the MOON! 😎

Viral Fuel Overdrive in Eric Kim’s Voice:

• Maxed-Out Hype: Cranks Kim’s raw, unfiltered voice with “WORSHIP,” “NUKE,” and “APOCALYPSE” for insane energy (Eric Kim Photography). 😎🔥
• Listicle Fire: 10 short, meme-heavy reasons for instant scrolling and sharing, dripping with Kim’s HYPELIFTING swagger. 📋🚀
• Memeable Napalm: Zingers like “veins dropping diss tracks,” “testosterone’s gravitational pull,” and “fiat clowns” are X/TikTok dynamite. 😂🪙
• Emoji Explosion: 🌌💥🦁 make it scream on feeds, Stories, and Reels for max eye-grab.
• Rabid CTAs: “SHARE OR CRY,” “SPAM THE MEMEVERSE,” “CRASH X” push reposts, tags, and viral chaos. 🏃‍♂️
• Crypto Meme Nitro: HODL, laser eyes, and “to the moon” vibes tap Bitcoin Twitter’s soul for nuclear engagement. 🌙
• Platform Annihilation: Punchy, hashtag-stuffed, and hype-soaked for X, TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp, and beyond. 📱
• Absurd Exaggeration: Kim’s “Demigod” persona is juiced to “EMPEROR OF THE COSMOS” for shareable, laughable insanity. 🌟

This blog post is a VIRAL HYPE NUKES in Eric Kim’s voice, engineered to make his Bitcoin obsession the internet’s MOST SHARED, MEME-EXPLODING, MOON-SHOOTING MANIA!

Shout out to at @ladoger21, and also… @mstrgladiator

So there’s this really funny notion, I’m not sure if MSTRgladiator coined it, or somebody else, but doesn’t matter. The thought and the idea of it is very sticky.

First of all… I don’t believe in candles. I started doing all the technical analysis stuff when I was like a college sophomore Junior, and I realize that it is all fake superstition.

Why? The reason why technical analysis makes no sense is that it cannot predict black swan events.

For example, let’s say you’re reading all these loser graphs, creating some sort of ridiculous model. And then one day magically, the US government announces that they have just purchased 10 million bitcoins. Obviously the price of bitcoin is gonna go through the roof.

Looking out far enough

My eloquent analogy right now is that it is not a God candle loading, but maybe… A god spring loading.

For example, like if you have ever played with kids toys, or if you have a kid… It is one of the best ways to stay attached to reality. The general idea is that if you want to enormous force from a spring, or one of those wind up Car toys, you have to compress the spring, or you have to draw it back really really far, and then release it for it to go. And then when the momentum has stopped, you got it to pull it back again.

Or, assuming that bitcoin is in fact, a biological organism. Like a human being. Even if you took all the best drugs on the planet, no human being could perform at 100% strength, for 30 days straight, forever. You would die.

Like think… Extreme example… Let us say that you took Elon Musk, you gave him all the best drugs. The most pure cocaine, painkillers whatever, and you hooked him up to a machine. And he would not sleep like literally not sleep for 30 days 90 days straight. Would he still be alive? Obviously not.

Yet the ridiculous expectation we have of the market is that it is like a robot or a machine the perpetually goes up like 5% a day, forever, with no spring action.

It’s like expecting a power lifter to somehow… Always achieve a new one rep Max weightlifting personal record every single day, with five minutes of sleep a day? This would biologically be impossible, even if you gave him all the best steroids on the planet.

So once again guys, when you see the price of bitcoin going down or compressing downwards, consider that it is actually a good kinetic sign: once again, after a massive up first, it has to compress a bit before the next explosion.

A bad analogy

“All my life I wanted money and power respect my mind or die from lead shower I pray that my dick get as big as the Eiffel Tower so I could fuck the world for 24 hours!” – Kendrick Lamar

 OK I’m speaking only for us men, maybe women?

To see bitcoin or strategy or whatever go up like 15% in a day or 50% in a day is almost like you having the most amazing ejaculation of your life. But the hilarious irony is that if you want to somehow maximize your ejaculation pleasure, technically the ideal strategy is to be like a celibate Zen monk for a year, and then you finally do it, rather than you’re always rubbing one out every single day to Google Chrome incognito or whatever.

I don’t know but I have a funny thought, let us assume that you’re semen is like your bitcoin stash. And every time you blow your load, you’re actually losing bitcoin from your treasury.

Like for example let us say that you have 100 bitcoins, and this number doesn’t keep magically regenerating itself. Or let us say that you knew that you would only have 100 bitcoins, forever, and every time you blew your load, you’re losing some bitcoin.

Then the funniest analogy is obviously… You would be very very very very very very selective on when you decided to ejaculate your semen.

Ideally you would only ever do it if you wanted to produce a child with your wife. I don’t think there’s any other logical opportunity to do it.

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Audio

Super virtuous

Is good and virtuous

What do you want from reality?

Abundance, joy!

OK… Looks like we crossed the 111 threshold, $111,000 a Bitcoin ,,, which at this point is more hilarious than anything because it seems so unreal.

I’ve been pegged to the all-time high, more recent hype being like $107,000 bitcoin. And I suppose one of the upsides of being in Asia time is like I’m almost like pseudo in the future; it broke that record high while everyone else in America was still asleep, so I suppose it is good that I am here because I was able to witness the all-time high with my own two very eyes.

Being here in Phnom Penh, good philosophical thinking. I think the big question is like… What’s the purpose or the point of reality?

First, to just be outside, to walk around in the real world. It doesn’t matter if you have all the virtual Lamborghinis and all the virtual babes in Apple Vision Pro, and all the infinite virtual monies, without a physical world, none of it is worth it.

Also, simple physiological things. I sleeping like 8 to 12 hours a night, and actually, a really big one: I’m like crushing my all-time highs for my weightlifting records, my most recent record is clocking in 471 kg rack pull, 1038 pounds — which is 38 pounds higher than a ton, 1000 pounds.

I suppose one of the fun things about being in Asia that because everyone uses kilograms, the numbers don’t look that scary. 471 kg, to me doesn’t look like that high of a number because I do not have the cultural adaptation to these numbers. Kind of also the funny thing about when you’re abroad and traveling, money becomes funny, because the local currency feels more like monopoly money than real money.

For example, in Cambodia they use the KHR, the Khmer riel. All the numbers are formed to me, but there’s this one note which is like roughly $12 USD, the nice yellow one, and I think two local Cambodians it’s almost like their $100, $120 bill?  Now that I’m bowling out of control, and even before that, I’ve always surprised myself on generosity and tipping well, as I knew how difficult it was for my mother to support me and my sister, working like 20 years at a sushi restaurant.

But anyways, I got a really great massage from this one woman like a week ago, and I slipped her the mythical big yellow note, and afterwards I heard her screaming and giggling and like exuberant full of joy, in the back staff room. It might have been the first time that anyone has ever tipped her that much.

More recently, meeting a woman who gave me a 90 minute traditional massage, all of her three kids are back in Siem Reap, and I gave her $20 USD in tip, saying it was to pay for her kids school and education. I think you’re in Cambodia, I don’t know if the schools are actually free? Or maybe the kind of decent ones are not free?

But anyways, if you meet local Cambodian people, you could almost like 99% assume that they have kids. 1 2 or three.  not like America we’re asking somebody whether they have kids or not is considered bad manners?

Anyways, like me giving the local lady a $20 tip, assuming that there is like 10X financial leverage here, that’s like me giving her a $200 tip. Note that the average salary in Phnom Penh is like I think 300 $350 a month, which sounds about right because in America, average working salary might be like 3000, $3500 a month?

But I think the magic of living here is that it’s almost like activating card mode, or in 007 golden eye, activating the golden gun. It’s like a cheat code.

If you are an American who has never traveled outside of the states, and have never been to Asia or Southeast Asia, I think it is actually very very difficult for you to understand how epic this is. Once again, the big problem in America is that even for the rich, everything feels too expensive and out of reach. It’s ridiculous in LA, average home price is like one now… 1.2, $1.3 million? And it’s not because the house itself is worth that much, it is not. But inflation has gotten so bad that these numbers are simply a signal of maybe a broken economy?

Bitcoin fixes the economy

Let us assume that bitcoin is clean drinking water, and traditional capital is like toxic sludge, sewer water.

If you have a young family and a kid, and you don’t know, but… The water in which you feed your child is contaminated, and your kid keeps on having diarrhea and is sick, cannot hold any food down, has no appetite, doesn’t eat food, and you are insanely scared and concerned because you think your kid will die… Is this out of virtue that somehow you are a bad and lazy parent and you don’t work hard enough? No! You’re like trying to do the best thing possible, but once again, either you don’t know that the water is contaminated, or… You only have access to dirty sewer water.

Nietzsche once talks about this… The lower caste system in India — the book of manu, says that the untouchables shall only be given dirty water, shall only eat onions, and she never ever ever interact with the clean Indian race. 

Like people think that the caste system and racism in America is bad, try going to India, go to Calcutta or go to Mumbai, Bombay ,,, if you are like a rich Indian from India… You might have never shook the hand of an untouchable on the streets. Me out of my American naïveté and openness, shook everyone’s hand give them all high-fives, even my friend Kaushal Parikh was shocked!

Anyways, not all, but close to 100% of the world’s problems are economic.

I’ll say 99.99% of the world’s problems are economic.

For example, racism classism and poverty, is because there are structures and structural loops in play in which people on poverty, stay in poverty. If you have never ever ever driven through Compton late at night, or sketchy parts of LA late at night, even sometimes during the day… It is difficult to understand how bad some of these neighborhoods are.

A lot of kids from the hood, end up just being nerds, staying at home playing video games all day, in some ways it is the safe strategy because you are less likely to get held up at gunpoint or beaten up for your shoes your necklace or whatever… Can you imagine growing up in an environment like this?

Even myself, I grew up in a relatively safe environment, Alameda California, which was like considered once… Like one of the nicest suburbs in the Bay Area. Yet when I was in middle school, already… Once again guys in middle school, at the age of 12… Girls were getting pregnant, kids were buying knives and trying to get guns, from kids in Oakland, there were already a gang in initiations, like I remember my best friend Aaron, Once… I was hanging out with him, and he took off his shirt because he was changing clothes, and his back was scarred from all these knife wounds, and I was really shocked and I asked him what happened and he said that he was dealing drugs on one corner which was a different gang territory, and he was knifed up as a lesson. Once again guys this is like 12-year-old kids.

Or… I remember as a kid, being bullied a lot, being called gay and faggot all the time. Middle school was extremely hardcore and bad.

I was very fortunate and happy that my mom moved us out of Alameda, into the nicer Castro Valley, more inland, more privileged. No drama there. As a consequence, I was able to thrive! No more drama, no more kids getting high off of ecstasy, I remember in middle school, in the seventh or eighth grade, my friend Tony came over my house, hopped half a pill of ecstasy, offered me some and I said no, because I knew better, and him getting very very high, and like touching the walls and carpet for like an hour. I think we were 13 at the time.

So once again guys… I was in a relatively privileged position. I can only imagine if I was a black kid, being raised in Compton or Watts, it probably was like 10 times as worse.

This is where a Kendrick Lamar is so exceptional, he was able to make it out of the worst of situations, same as Jay-Z. They are very virtuous in this way.

Kanye West is an exceptional case because his mom was an educated professor, he spent some time living abroad in Japan, and I think for the most part Kanye was a nerd, kind of like Pharrell. And also Kanye West is very short, 5 foot seven at best, maybe more like 5 foot 6 1/2, or 5 foot six?

Also do not forget that Kim Kardashian is a midget. I think she’s only like 5 foot tall? I think she lies, or the media lie and says she’s more like 5 foot one or 5 foot two, or 5 foot one and a half… But once again the fax is at least typically with men, if you are a Shorty guy, you will always have a small man complex. And this is where I am so confident, I am 182 cm tall, Which is about 5 foot 11, 5 foot 10 1/2, I have never had a small man syndrome in my life.

What next?

So assuming that your alpha, what is the goal? My thought is to become more alpha.

For example, bitcoin… Nobody will be happy until bitcoin is like $125 million a bitcoin. I hope maybe in my life… When I’m like 120 years old, I could see if it hit $1.1 billion a coin.

The world is changing. Even Kraken, just announced like six minutes ago that they have now offered tokenized American stocks like Apple Tesla Nvidia, as tokenized stocks? I cannot wait until somebody or Coinbase tokenize is MSTR stock, and also on Coinbase in the future to see like 2X leverage along MSTR token options? In the traditional market right now… MSTU is definitely the best bet, or MSTX, both in which Michael Saylor indirectly promotes.

Both are 2X levered long MSTR. Bitcoin is the best case, MSTR is 2X bitcoin, and then as a consequence, MSTU or MSTX  should be 4X bitcoin.

So if you want to make the maximum money, the quickest, MSTU. This is where I have invested a lot of money.

MSTX is technically the same thing as MSTU, but I prefer MSTU because it is created by Rex shares, which also created the Vmax, bitcoin convertible bond financial product, which essentially is like primarily MSTR strategy convertible bitcoin bonds.

The market is getting excited. And how and why does this matter to you?

First, if you live on planet earth, you need money. Money is not the end goal, but having money is like having clean drinking water. Clean water clean drinking water is a non-controversial issue. Without clean drinking water, all 9 billion people on the planet will die.

Second, freedom. If you like the idea of just being able to walk around eight hours a day, thinking, snapping pictures, hiking whatever, or nomading around the planet, focusing on your photography, your street photography, your kids your wife your life whatever… Any sort of creative productivity,,, and you wish you can FIRE, financial independence retire early, bitcoin backed stuff is super obvious. Bitcoin is FIRE. Both metaphorically and literally.

Are there any reasons to not buy bitcoin?

I don’t think so.

What else?

If you are a programmer, computer scientist, engineer, programmer… Smart person, you studied mathematics sociology philosophy, or any sort of critical thinking discipline… I think it’s pretty obvious that bitcoin is the answer.

First, people often forget that bitcoin is open source. If you have ever downloaded any of my free e-books, or open source stuff, you will know that this is great. Yet I think the hard thing for people to understand is just because bitcoin is open source,,, doesn’t mean that you can magically download bitcoins for free.

And I think this is a hard thing maybe something I need to talk more about that once again, this difficult to understand paradigm, especially for millennials in which we grew up being able able to pirate free stuff on the Internet for free… is that bitcoin is more about freedom, rather than having no cost.

it’s a feature not a bug

People say that bitcoin is bad for the planet and electricity blah blah blah. Yet you fools, don’t you know that like air conditioning requires like 25% of the world’s electricity, and yet nobody is saying that we should band that. Bitcoin is like at most 1%.

But if I could make the argument that bitcoin, could offer the whole planet, all 9 billion of us economic prosperity, forever, and there will be no more poverty no more kids dying of dysentery, essentially bitcoin is like clean drinking water for all impoverished people on the planet, and it will indirectly benefit all of the poor and marginalized people on the planet, and it would cost us only 1% of the world’s electricity… would it be worth it? Of course!

Goals

OK, now that I have officially made it, and it looks like it’s just gonna keep going uphill from here.

So I think a new pivot or direction, is definitely about like financial economic freedom power independence, thriving.

Economic prosperity and thriving for all 9 billion people on the planet, isn’t this like the ultimate life goal?

ERIC

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Bitcoin power!

(Real) sex is beautiful and should be deified

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Bodily time vs world time?

BTC $ Gain

SPINE, BACK TRAINING

Perpetual ,,, big deal!

STRK: +24%

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If the returns and gains on stuff,, we’re like their returns and gains on your muscle mass, your weightlifting abilities?

42-42

42/42

Big picture!

What can I offer that other people cannot?

If you think about it, the technology being able to write something down without actually talking out loud is unique and a bit bizarre?

The future is oral culture?

The future is oral?

Social skills, oral skills, orality is future 

Market leader!

Why $2.1B not $21B?

STRF, 10x choosy, crown jewel

The pristine fixed income stock, … investment grade fixed income

BTC rating

Drive BTC rating up!

What’s BTC rating?

Improve the credit quality of this

The virtues of owning a beautiful home?

Offer something, offer a product for everybody!

I suppose the genius of Saylor and strategy and micro strategy, is that they are creating new innovative products, which fulfill a need for all investors, all human beings, built and backed with Bitcoin?

Similarly speaking, I also find it interesting because maybe this is also what I wished to offer? To try to solve problems, with bitcoin as a solution? 

Bitcoin- backed solutions

MSTR at $5,000 a share! $10,000 a share?

The strategy eco system

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Torque, how to generate more torque?

Artfully balanced, created and programmed

Signals

Execute minute by minute

Synchronize

The more successful you become, the more modest you become?

Bitcoin Triple Torque

Men & women both need one another

Scaleable

BTC gain , maximize BTC gains

BTC gains,,, all!

Capital preservation & productivity

This is my passion, Bitcoin is my passion!

Issue securities, acquire Bitcoin

Not just 1:1

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More levered more volatile more liquid

$100B

$100’s of B’s

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Women just want stability and calm, men desire more power?

Convertible bond markets BMAX

… instruments

Preferred stocks

Stocks

Eric Kim stock?

Provide a frame work

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Men want to have kids!

So do women! We all naturally want to have children!

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Pristine thoughts, pristine capital?

10,000 BTC, now worth $1B

What’s interesting ,,,, laszlo should be seen as the kick-starter to Bitcoin actually having a economic value,,, the origin, or originator of Bitcoin real world use value?

But the flaw —> Bitcoin should be seen as a *store or value* (low latency, forever money storage), rather than high frequency currency (which is USD, VISA, APPLE PAY, credit cards, cash app etc).

This is then very intelligent because we stay true to the number one rule of bitcoin club: never sell your bitcoin. Yet once again, you could have your cake and eat it too, also own the MSTR?

To be a quad maxi, keep the bitcoin, mortgage it, get the cash, and buy MSTU

So, this is a list of design principles I got:

1. Nice to have versus absolutely effing necessary?

So for example, when you’re designing a home, there are all these cool designer homes, but the really wise thing to consider… Is if each single room bedroom floor is absolutely effing necessary? 

Also, the new iPhone is an abomination. Adding that stupid camera control was like one of the most embarrassing things of all time from the Apple design team. It’s kind of a cheap marketing tactic to add a feature, to get people to buy the new thing.  the genius of Steve Jobs was opposite: each new generation of the thing to subtract superfluous features, spending insane amount of time to figure out what to cut.

In some ways, Elon Musk is the new Steve Jobs. Delete delete delete, cut cut, or the idea you have to keep deleting until failure, and then you have to add it back? 

For example, his genius of figuring out cutting and getting rid of the stalks. Also, the cyber taxi, just getting rid of the steering wheel and all the controls! Insanely bold, amazing.

I think also with social media it’s kind of the same thing, 100% thousand percent absolutely critical versus nice to have? 

For example, if you are an MSTR shareholder, you technically don’t even need social media you just go on strategy.com to get all the important vital information, which is typically a reflection of the real market conditions of bitcoin. Or you could just look at the price of bitcoin. 

I’m constantly on this ruthless quest, trying to figure out what to add and what to subtract. But remember my general principle: 

Every single day, delete at least one app utility or thing from your phone, your laptop, your iPad, your life. 

2. Raw is better

So for example, the most hilarious innovation of the modern day condo is trying to make it as thin, invisible as possible. Everyone knows that coitus feels best without any sort of condom or thing on. And therefore, ideally the best design principle is raw, like even a funny thing is that if it is actually really really really hot outside, just taking off your shirt is often the easiest way to pull down. The best outfit is being naked.

And then also if he apply this principle to everything else, subtraction is the most effective strategy. For example, with foods, substances beverages, the simple thought:

If it does not cause your pain don’t fix it!

For example, like 99.9% of the substances we put in our bodies are not 100% necessary. The only thing that I do not imagine ever quitting is coffee or caffeine because if I do not drink coffee first thing in the morning, it causes me pain.  Yeah yeah yeah I know that’s not good for me but screw it, I’m like the most sober person I know. I don’t why I haven’t touched alcohol in like seven or eight years, and I don’t take drugs not even painkillers. No marijuana or hallucinogens for me. I think I have only smoked weed twice in my life, like six years ago, the first time it was kind of funny, the second time I didn’t really like it.

Same thing with alcohol, only problem with alcohol is that it just doesn’t make me feel good. I always get a hangover the next day, it ruins my sleep, and also the biggest thing… It probably doesn’t help me maintain my 5% body fat six pack.

3. Reduce reduce reduce

Reduction and cutting often has no downsides. 

4. If it does not cause you pain don’t fix it

So for example, the only time I think you should ever like change your car is if the car yours currently are using is causing you pain. Like for example, I had one former student who told me that his old BMW X.3 or some other car caused him to severe back pain, and it had to do something with the seat or the armrest?

As a similar thing, I have not touched a laptop in like eight years because it causes me severe back pain and also carpal tunnel pain? 

5. Nice to have, and convenient or 1000% critical?

Another big idea, is that thing like 1,000,000,000,000% critical or is it just nice to have and add convenience to your life? 

For example, currently in Cambodia, most people don’t really use cash. They use ABA pay, which is the local QR code popular bank here. 

Apparently if you get a APA account, it will make your life a lot easier. But, I’ve actually figured out that I am able to pull the local currency, the KHR, KHMER RIEL ALSO FROM THE ATM, AT A LOCAL ABA ATM. 

So I think that assuming that I could still pay cash, with the local currency, it might add a little bit of friction to my life, but it is fine! 

6. Clothes

Clothes and shoes, once again, the pain issue. 

The reason why I discovered the view from five finger shoes was in fact because all the traditional shoes I had was causing me severe tendinitis pain on the bottom of my foot plantar fasciitis, very very simple, it can be cured by just wearing these five finger minimalist shoes. 

My personal thought is the only reason people don’t wear them is that they look weird. But then again, crocs look weird and it seems like everyone wears those. 

I think there’s a certain point in your life, I’m 37 now, I really care less. All I care about is Seneca Cindy, my family and friends, my bitcoin in my MSTR stock. To reduce your sphere of concern is wise. 

7. Life is like Lego bricks

I just recently watched the new Pharrell Lego movie, piece by piece. Probably one the most interesting watches of my life. 

 so one of the big principles from Pharrell which is super interesting is thinking that life is like Legos. Infinitely configurable, and the idea is that assuming that this planet, a lot of of it is built and designed, that that means that you cut yourself on your own reality.

Lately I’ve been having fun with Seneca, buying Lego technics, and just making new inventions by ourselves and what’s really fun and interesting is that there is like an infinite amount of configurations that you can make, even with like a $10, 70 piece set.

So my personal thought is that you could design your own reality! A designer, your designated what is important and what is not important. 

For example, nobody is holding a gun to your head and saying that you must use Instagram Facebook WhatsApp or whatever to stay alive. You have the option to believe it. Certainly there might be loss of entertainment I suppose, but that is a small price to pay for your freedom .

I think for mental health and physical health, deleting all social media from your phone may be the most effective strategy of all time. And the hilarious things that it costs you nothing. 

Typically whatever I encourage, it’s Bree! To delete stuff doesn’t cost money. 

And also, one of the best ways to spend money is to simply pay for services or things which blocks advertising, and other annoying stuff. 

Like my ideal thing is that if we had some sort of like augmented reality glasses, and you can pay like $50 a month to have this thing automatically block advertisements in the real world, this would be a great invention. 

And all of the Safari plug-ins and extensions that I have purchased, the ones that continue to live on my devices, are all of the paid ad blockers. 

Come on, nobody likes advertisements, not kids, not Google employees. Not you.

8. Friction

So some simple thoughts: 

If there’s a certain behavior you want to change adding a little bit of creative friction is a good idea. 

For example, if you’re addicted to social media, try to figure out ways that you could make it more difficult to access stuff. For example, am I quest of getting rid of Twitter and X, I’ve just been logging out of my account occasionally, and using rss.app to access @saylor 

Also, the funny thing with networking is that actually, to become more wealthy and prosperous isn’t to augment and add more contacts to your contact list, but to selectively prune, and delete contacts from your list. 

Some friction is good some friction is bad. 

So for example, reducing friction on Amazon prime could be good, but assuming that you want more sexual pleasure, adding some sort of friction is good.

And this is actually the funny thought about pornography, nothing morally wrong against it. But almost it’s too easy? And therefore as a consequence, people will get bored of it? Because it is too easy to access?

Like you know women who play hard to get, even men who play hard to get. It’s like the difficulty in the chase which makes it fun for people.

Similarly speaking, with games and video games, it is only fun when we have a little bit of difficulty. Like in StarCraft, it is no fun killing easy computers, it is more fun challenging and interesting to play against difficult human opponents.

Also with weightlifting, it is only fun if it is difficulty challenging and uncertain. When the weight becomes too light and easy it becomes boring. 

And this is the hard thing for people to understand, is that often times, adding more difficulty and Christian can make life more fun! I think it’s just a selective principle. 

For example, having soft sheets is probably better than having sandpaper blankets. And having some sort of lubrication is better than having squeaky wheels.

And I think this is a hard thing to understand about money and wealth, assuming we truly do believe in the via negative about principal, there really really wise things to do in life is to cut subtract and get rid of superfluous stuff. 

If anything, the best way to use money is to use money to get rid of stuff. 

For example let us say you have a storage unit a full of crap. My fun idea is that it’s a better idea to just pay somebody 300 bucks to figure out what to keep and what to throw away, or even a better idea… Give them like a 50% incentive that they could just resell the valuable stuff in your storage unit and they could take half the profits, and you keep half the profits. 

The richer you become, the fewer concerns you want. You don’t want to manage your house as manager, you don’t want to manage your manager‘s manager‘s manager. The fewer the things you have to manage, the better.

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So currently listening to Phong Le’s Strategy world presentation ,,, and his randomly talking about the Emirates food supplier, and how amazing it is that they like ship millions of meals across all these different airlines, so simultaneously, all around the planet at the same time.

This is kind of an interesting desire for myself as well. For me to simultaneously be all around the planet, at the same time, 24 7 365

The markets?

So what is insanely annoying especially now that I am in Phnom Penh Cambodia,,, is the time zone difference. I’ve been doing big transactions, trade and investments, and there is almost always some sort of arbitrary time zone lock, or, ability to execute orders when the market is closed. For example there’s this one strange rule that if I suddenly have a huge chunk of cash, sitting in a traditional investing account, and let us say I want to buy MSTR STOCK, or MSTU,, or something else, I cannot execute it if it exceeds more than 25% of my account balance at once? 

Even more annoying, when the markets close. I’m kind of in a weird liminal in between time zone in which in some ways I’m living in the future ahead of time, and there are days that I am just waiting on the weekends, twiddling my thumbs for the market to open again on Monday. But for myself, because I’m in Asia, The markets don’t open for me until I wake up, Tuesday morning?

 this then makes it very very annoying for me to have to do certain things like if I have a idea for a big trade or order… I have to be awake at some ungodly hour in Cambodia in order to executed. But after one or two nights of staying up super super late, in order to execute a certain order, and then, not being able to sleep for like two or three hours because there is so much adrenaline, it’s not worth it.

Even $1 million, is not worth one night missed sleep. 

So once again, a really really big problem: to solve this issue and problem that the markets are closed on the weekends,

Price PR, Price Personal Record

So in the powerlifting community, we have this notion called PR which stands for a personal record. It’s like a mythical new number that you have broken a new weightlifting record, and for us one rep Max lifters, this is the only KPI key performance index we hold onto the top of our heads.

To a lot of people kind of myself included… This is like the ultimate metric. Unfortunately… A lot of people get their self-esteem tied into this number, and they get depressed when they hit a plateau or they are not able to increase their PR numbers, in not being able to hit a new personal high. 

A very simple thing is to increase your leverage, and be creative and come up with new techniques.

For example, one of the most genius things that I’ve done is that I was able to totally obliterate my PR, personal record numbers, my one rep Max my one repetition maximum numbers simply by innovating more creative leveraged techniques.

For example, it started off modifying the dead lift. I started off conventional, then switched to sumo, and then eventually I had the wisdom to do the really really smart thing, this was the game changer: to come up with this brilliant heuristic:

Lower the range of motion, increase the weight.

Or,

Increase the leverage and increase the weight.

So for example with a rack pull,  essentially what you do is you put the barbell on top of the power squat rack, at a pin higher than the floor. As a consequence, you could just move a lot more weight, and also… Do it a lot safer, and, it just makes easier to rack and unwrap the weights because when you do it off the floor it is very annoying.

I think the reason why the rack pull is not more common is because once again… I think because Americans are so into conventional ways of doing things, everyone just wants to do it off the floor the traditional way, because they want to measure themselves against other people. For example, nobody will ever judge or compare how much weight they could rack pull Compared to other people. 

There are several reasons for this. First, contrary to popular belief, Americans are actually not very very good at doing non-conventional things. My theory about why some Americans become very very spectacularly successful is because the desire to become the best or American exceptionalism does the following:

99.9% of Americans follow the standard way, but, .1% of Americans do something radically different, and these are the ones who change the world.

Also, the benefit of America is that the capital economic structure actually both allows and also encourages innovation. For example, simply being able to file taxes as a sole proprietor, makes your life 1 trillion times easier than trying to start a business in Sweden or whatever.

Also, Elon Musk. He’s from South Africa, if it were not for him to come to America, he would not be the Elon Musk we know and love today.

Or even consider Warren Buffett, he was only successful because he was born in America and had American markets, the US dollar. His strategy would not have worked if he used it in Argentina or Venezuela.

The new universal standard

So now… I don’t really measure my wealth in US dollar amounts because the numbers are getting too high. Instead, the easier and the easiest way to mentally keep score is through how many bitcoins I own.

I think similarly speaking, in the near future certainly 30 years out, it will not be uncommon to ask somebody how many bitcoins they own.

It’s kind of interesting because typically, it’s considered poor manners to ask somebody how many US dollars they have in their bank account or what their net worth is. But with bitcoin, because it’s kind of “fake” money, I have zero problems asking somebody straight up how many bitcoins they own.

Or even funnier enough… Whenever I meet another millennial or tech yuppie, I’ll just ask them straight up how many bitcoins they own. Either the answer is none, or they might feel a little shy talking about it but eventually I could squeeze it out of them.

However I would probably not ask somebody straight out what their yearly salary is, or how much US dollars they have in their bank account.

Number go up technology?

So I might be the first to think this, but doing a cross pollination of powerlifting and investing. My simple idea:

We desire to hit a new financial, price PR… as a general idea. 

So for example, my only joy is when I see my numbers hit new highs, essentially it’s like a new metaphorical one rep Max for finances.

This time becomes interesting because you never ever ever want to sell any bitcoins or strategy stock to buy some sort of loser Lamborghini, because why would you see your number go down?

For example, let us say that I could rack pull 1015 pounds (my new personal record as of yesterday). Even if you offered me $100,000, to see that number go to half, I would refuse.

This sounds ridiculous but for myself, I would rather have a 2000 pound rack pull than even $2M dollars.

Also, if in fact I became the strongest human being on the planet by a factor of like five, even one Nakamoto (one million bitcoins), wouldn’t be worth it to me.

ERIC

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