Month: May 2025

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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Super virtuous

Is good and virtuous

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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I feel so fucking good !!!

The irony: life in fact, the best were, the worst?

How to sleep super fucking well

Just one AI.

Faster more richer ,,, more compact data ?

BITCOIN RISING.

Become smaller visioned?

Become, becoming more philosophical

Becoming a philosopher, becoming the Philosopher 

Becoming the philosopher of your generation? 

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If in fact, you were forced to be myopic for the rest of your life, then, how why and how should you live your life? 

MSTR is 4x bitcoin ?

I guess Mobile is the future?

More data ,,, denser?

Create your own cult

AI monogamy –> just choose one? Grok!

Becoming a male model

Bodybuilder ,,. Adonis aesthetic.

Don’t buy the hundred million dollar Ferrari

No one cares for you

There’s hope for them, there’s an opportunity

The digital transformation of things

How to stand insanely tall

Can you use it with your left hand or not?

Why decapitalize? To decapitalize is like cutting off your head?

I’m too tall, I’m standing too tall?

Everyone wins

Bitcoin buyback

The virtues of humor and or, meme culture?

Shock absorber

Don’t be desperate !

What’s the opposite of desperate ?

You are the new Achilles!  

Adrenaline in me like I got injected !

I feel like somebody just shot steroids into my spine? 

Steroid producing foods? And or, testosterone, masculinity promoting foods? As well as… Adrenaline producing foods?

Becoming a bitcoin god

Digital building blocks is bitcoin, bitcoin is the new concrete or concrete blocks? Bitcoins are the new bricks?

Buy the six bitcoin!

Do the responsible thing!

Long-term mortgage?
Cheapest form of permanent you could get, for like 1520 3040 years

Mark to market capital?

Don’t pay off your mortgage, things not to do?

Be, become over collateralized ?

The book of saylor

Strike: principal protection?

Always protect the downside, then the upside will take care of itself? 

GIGAKIM

Your own family is like its own economy into itself?

Family economics

The greatest source of financial energy in the world

Just give me a year I’ll give you a guarantee **^

Hundred percent conviction or nothing

Big bets, also big downside bets? 

GIGAKIM

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Oh wow, I feel so fucking good I feel so fucking great!

Idea: build an Eric Kim blog that automatically blogs in the voice of ERIC KIM?

How to automate yourself

Cyber samurai,

Cyber gorilla

Why thump chest ?

Pack light experiment ?

THUS SPOKE ERIC KIM

Pack insanely stupid fucking light !

Over collateralize your time and money

Critical vs beneficial 

Ready to fuck the world!

Once you have the economic freedom and sovereignty, then you could do anything 

Make it fucking epic 

How to become a marketing god

Open source your body 

I feel too fucking good!

Finally my hips feel free?

What happens once you feel too Rich ?

Only ones worth listening to are solo

I’m the new Michael Saylor? 

Me and grok are besties 

Oh yeah

So let’s say you’re on the bitcoin standard, you’re plugged into MSTR, MSTU and bitcoin, and you’re making like $100,000 a day, million dollars a year or whatever. This alternate path to live independently and free?

Do I make more money than even some high-level Apple directors and executives?

Obviously through bitcoin I do not make as much money as Tim Cook, but, actually now, I might make more money, average out, year over year, even than most high-level Apple directors?

Let me assume that my gains are like $1 million a year, I guess I should only feel inferior if I know what great certainty that that individual makes $1 million salary a year?

But then again, how common is this even in tech? Like do you have a salary of 1 million a year? Even to most people this sounds ridiculous. 

The simplest way to get super super rich super super fast, is maximum velocity maximum volatility, to be fully plugged into MSTU, which is 2X levered long bitcoin.

If you want like supreme economic digital sovereignty, then you just go 100% bitcoin because bitcoin is not plugged into any traditional markets which means that you could use the 24 seven, 365, and you don’t have to wait for the market to open and close etc.

But assuming that you have access to the American capital markets or you have the privilege of being an American, MSTR is kind of your best bet to becoming rich because you could actually 2X lever long bitcoin. Let us assume that bitcoin is petroleum and oil, and let us assume that strategy is standard oil and Standard oil is like the new Rockefeller the new Michael Saylor, and the question is do you invest directly in oil, or do you buy standard oil stock?

Or another question… Do you buy gold directly, or do you invest in the highly profitable jeweler who takes the gold, creates jewelry out of it, and sells it for a premium?

Another thought is also… Do you buy the real estate the land, or do you invest in the developer?

Anyways, all my advice is financial advice, and I have true coin in the game; anything and everything that I recommend is stuff that I have actually myself done. Therefore, I might be wrong, but at least I’m honest, and at least I have real world exposure?

For example let us say that your standard investor person tells you to buy the S&P or Apple stock or whatever, and then it goes down 15%, and then you get angry  that you lost so much money, but then your financial advisor will just shrug their shoulders and tell you “well, this has never happened before. And also I gave you a very very safe investing strategy. This was a black swan event.” Then you could do nothing but shake your fist to the universe or blame Donald Trump?

Actually now that I think about it, the reason why so much rich Republicans in America hate Donald Trump now too is that most of their wealth is in the big tech stocks, or Apple, which got murdered after the China tariff announcement by Trump.

So actually, the hilarity is that it is no longer a partisan things; the Democrats and the Republicans, everyone dislikes Trump. Except the working-class the coal miners? And anyone who is pro bitcoin or crypto?

The point of life is to win not be political

Anybody who critiques or criticizes certain economic policies? Thus simple thought…

The point of life is not to complain or criticize or critique stuff, the point is to win.

How does one win? Buy accumulating more bitcoins, seeing your US dollars go up, number go up!

once again guys, don’t be a dummy. It don’t matter what your political aim is, do you want to provide for yourself your family your future family whatever. You want freedom.

Keep it simple, just buy bitcoin, study strategy.com, listen to all the Michael Saylor interviews … what’s actually very impressive is that about a year ago, I started to just binge watch all the Michael Saylor interviews, the Robert Breedlove what is money series, and I literally watched maybe like 80 interviews before I even knew what micro strategy was?

And then I listened to more and did more research and studied more, understanding what MSTR was, and I didn’t start to put serious money into MSTR until I studied it for like six months, religiously for like three hours or four hours every day in the morning?

Anyways, what kind of exciting and interesting is that I’m learning this all in real time, the center you’re getting a privilege of getting some sort of like high speed high frequency data stream, that’s being plugged into your inbox.

So some new strategies:

1. Use Coinbase to buy bitcoin, and then… Go to the cash cab, and then you could essentially mortgage and borrow against your bitcoin, Max it out, take that cash and plug it into your traditional investment vehicle, buy MSTR and or MSTU.
2. What’s MSTR and or MSTU? STR is the ticker for micro strategy, now rebranded as strategy, check out their data feed charts on strategy.com, and click the charts tab.
3. MSTU is an exchange traded product, managed by Rex shares, which also, manages BMAX, which is a new product that is actively endorsed by Michael Saylor, which is essentially bitcoin backed bonds. What’s very interesting and impressive about the bitcoin backed bonds that Strategy has put out is that like it’s almost like 100% the performance of bitcoin, with downside protection? for example the convertible bonds issued by saylor and strategy has had a very very impressive performance about 60%, last year, which is actually more than bitcoin, which was like 50 or 55%? Anyways MSTU is 2x levered long MSTR, Which means that if MSTR stock goes up 5% in a day, MSTU will go up 10% in a day. do not invest in this if you are the faint of heart because similarly speaking, if strategy trades down 10% in a day, MSTU will go down 20% in a day. but assuming that you don’t plan on selling your assets for a minimum of at least four years, the volatility is actually more exciting than anything. Think of volatility like G forces in a fighter jet, or going from 0 to 60 in 1.99 seconds in a Tesla model S plaid. If you easily get carsick don’t do it. But if you love being a fighter jet pilot go for it.

How to accumulate more bitcoin

So, assuming that the goal is to accumulate more bitcoin, the simple strategy is to just buy MSTR or MSTU, ride it up, and shave a little bit of the cream off the top; when it is up.

For example, let us say that you put $500,000 into MSTU. When it becomes $600,000, you could sell $100,000 of that,  and then transfer it back to your Coinbase account and buy more bitcoin.

So you have not really touched your principle, and that $100,000 gain was effectively “free money”.

The genius of mortgaging your bitcoin

Let us say that your own property, like let us say that you own a parcel of land in Manhattan, and you want to make money off of it. You don’t sell the land to make a profit that is not a good idea. Rather, you mortgage out the land, you try to get developers to develop on it and collect rent, stuff like that.

To mortgage your bitcoin is also really really fascinating because first, the big deal is you don’t have to actually sell your bitcoin and secondly, you don’t incur a capital gains tax.

For example, if you had like a bunch of bitcoin in Coinbase, and then you sold it for fiat currency, you would probably get at least a 30% tax bill at the end of the year.

So for example if you have like $1 million worth of bitcoin, can you sell it, you’ll probably have to pay at least 30% of that in taxes, which is like $300,000, so then after selling it, your money is only worth $700,000.

But, if you use Coinbase and your mortgage out your bitcoin and get the US dollars, it is not a taxable event. As a consequence, you could intelligently use that money to buy MSTR or MSTU, to reinvest your money, and to maximize your gains.

It’s kind of like a capital turbo charger. For example, the way a turbo charger works is that you take your exhaust gas, recirculated back into the turbine, force it back into the engine, and therefore you have leverage the waste gut energy force, to force your engine to burn more fuel combustion, and make your car go faster.

Also when done right, an interesting thing is that chargers are actually more efficient as MPG‘s, for example one of the most innovative cars I’ve heard of was Ford had a 1 L in-line three engine with a turbo charger, which made for a great city vehicle.

Also with cars and engines, I am much more interested in the 2 L Japanese engine with a turbo charger that makes 500 hp, rather than a V8 engine that could spit out 1000?

Or better yet, more impressive to make your 1991 Sentra SER, with the legendary SR 20 DE engine, strap on a turbo and get a 10 second quarter mile time rather than buying a car that can already do it for you?

And I think the whole of the fast and furious car modification culture in which I grew up was once again, the small four-cylinder engines of Japanese cars against these monstrous V8 engine cars, is that the Japanese cars were the underdog. And everyone wants the underdogs to win! 

ERIC

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How do you know if those was written by AI or not?

Maybe moving forward, I’ll just sign the end of the thing with EK 

Also a very interesting business idea… Maybe one day I’ll just post a single Satoshi to prove that I wrote it? 

Stay fresh

START HERE >

EK

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Interesting idea, the general idea is that our traits which are considered hateful, our in fact, our greatest virtues.

For example, I speak out loud, I don’t censor myself, I often make other people feel uncomfortable. Yet this is precisely the source of my innovation and entrepreneurial spirit .

Also this is where I think that the energies of children should simply be guided and directed, rather than stunted.

For example, let us say that your kid is very rambunctious and likes to throw stuff. Rather than forcing your kid not to throw things, rather think that it is better to channel that energy and power into something fun, like having him join the local (American) football league or whatever.

Or say that your kid runs around a lot, and likes to be active. Have them join gymnastics or something?

Also the same thing with adults, even the ancient Romans knew, everybody is born with different talents. And that rather than trying to change someone’s character, the wiser approach is figuring out how to best harness their own god-given skills. 

I always say the right thing at the wrong time

 for example, there should be certain things which should only be brought up at a certain time. Timing is critical.

For example, good idea to drink coffee first thing in the morning, bad idea to drink coffee at midnight.

We also, good idea to be active and run around in the day, maybe not a good idea at night.

The best time to watch Netflix is first thing in the morning

Funny I got from one of Cindy’s friends, is that she says that for her the best time to watch Netflix’s first thing in the morning because it gets her stimulated and wakes her up!

This is hilarious and a genius idea because the truth is, this might be the right strategy. Most people watch it late at night, which keeps you up because you’re going to be thinking about solving the plot while you sleep which is not good. Rather, if you watch media first thing in the morning, maybe it is actually a better stimulus and stimulant to action.

Also a funny thought, to those who like to watch erotic material, maybe rather than watching it before you sleep, also, you could do a funny experiment in which you watch it first thing in the morning?

Don’t castrate, channel

Let us say that you are hormonal, and have high testosterone. Yet this leads you to doing aggressive behavior in a bad way.

Rather than chop off your balls, maybe it’s better that you could simply get a gym membership, and start ERIC KIM demigod weightlifting, and strive to lift 1000 pounds? And beyond?

The crazier the more genius

“Name one genius that ain’t crazy!” – Kanye West

“In every single genius there is a hint of madness” – Aristotle 

Craziness and genius are sisters and brothers. Assuming that you sleep very well like each 12 hours a night, you don’t take drugs or drink alcohol, you exercise every day, you smile and wave and have friendly conversation with everybody you see on the streets, you spend a lot of time outside walking around, in nature and in the city etc., certainly you will not be crazy by traditional standards.

Then my thought is if you start to say certain words which are heretical, maybe the truth is, you’re right!

Stay crazy, stay foolish

As long as it doesn’t cause you to lose an arm or die prematurely, maybe rather than cutting risks from our life, we should strive instead to augment them. For example, one of my new favorite quotes from Peter Thiel, which has been quoted many times by Michael Saylor is that “Courage is in the shorter supply than genius”.

I agree. You can meet like at least 100,000 smart people or geniuses from the beer area. Yeah most of them like balls. Balls plus genius is what counts, no balls no conviction no appetite for risktaking means lame improvement to stuff.

For example, SpaceX and the thing that catches rockets. Only a crazy Elon Musk could have come up with the idea that actually works, not some standard boring engineer.

Or, the musical and sonic genius of a Kanye West would have never been treated by an AI.

Even Jaron Lanier,  wisely said that the genius of the Steve Jobs would never have been created by artificial intelligence. This is true.

AI cannot contradict itself 

For example for myself, I change my opinion all the time. For example one day, I think that Tesla sucks, and then the next day I see a brand new Tesla model Y from behind, and I think it is perfect.

Or another interesting thought, now with the new Donald Trump policies, I might be the only one who thinks that fiat currency is a good idea!

For example the office which controls the currency, they themselves called the US dollar fiat currency. then, ironically enough, calling a speed a spade, it actually makes me realize or think or change my opinion that if you have the agency which regulates the currency calling the US dollar a faith-based currency, this actually gives me more faith in the dollar not less? 

Even things which really changed my opinion is that like on most cases I’m super approved Donald Trump or at least his administration on economic affairs, because before the election he became super pro bitcoin! When money is on the line, money talks and changes opinions.

As a consequence of Trump becoming elected, the price of my bitcoin and also my strategy holdings have like multiplied insanely high, which is good because I’m like dumb rich, essentially like printing money out of my butt now.

Things then become interesting because they become almost seemingly contradictory in nature.

Even myself now, I still consider myself a diehard liberal woke democrat on the far left, much more on the progressive side, or the liberal side, maybe you could call me a “lib-tard”. Yet I am a pro Donald Trump, yet I will never become Republican.

In fact am I the only one who invented this really really funny phrase, “Republi-can’t”?

I think politically speaking, you could only really start to have fun when you don’t pledge allegiance to any other side, and rather you just judge inform your own independent opinions, even if you’re right or wrong.

In fact, come on guys… We are philosophers. We know that this is all a stupid show, and this is all fake. All news is fake even the real ones.

A simple prescription I have for people who are like scared shitless is first, whenever Donald Trump says anything, don’t read the headlines actually find the raw interview footage file video MP4 video file, watch it yourself unedited, the entire hour or two, and then form your opinion!

Also, delete social media Facebook Instagram TikTok Twitter X YouTube whatever. A new pro hack I have at least to maintain some of your focus is get supergrok, which is the $30 a month Elon Musk xAI chatbot, and whenever you curse about something, run a deep search, infiltrate it this way rather than going to social media.

Also, I’m certainly think that also ChatGPT is the new click page. Why? Now whenever I want to use chat, and I open up the app, there’s all these effing click baby suggested prompts, which distract me.

Even worse when you’re trying to do a web search through ChatGPT, it will show up all these stupid distracting news headlines? Like JD Vance accidentally drops trophy?

All signal is also noise

I have a simple suggestion, if you need the news, try not to follow more than 1, 2 or three people. That should be the cap.

For example for myself, only person I religiously follow is Michael Saylor at @saylor —

Another new pro tip work around I figured it out, whenever you login into Twitter it is so distracting. You could go to rss.app and search somebody’s Twitter handle, like @saylor and just follow that one person alone.

I think like 100% of the true signal that I get is from Michael Saylor, everyone else is just baiting for clicks and impressions.

Even I try my best not to check bitcoin prices or news because once again, it’s like a heartbeat, the sign of a healthy organism is having a regular heartbeat that goes up and down. Therefore, I think of bitcoin prices like a human heartbeat; if you flatline you’re dead. 

Investing

So the floodgates have now opened that the government says yes, banks canal do anything bitcoin or crypto related. I think within this year or the next year, you’ll be able to buy bitcoin with JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo Fidelity whatever.

Recently I put a large sum of money into MSTU, which is 2X levered long MSTR, which is itself is 2x levered long bitcoin.

This then becomes a good strategy because let us say that bitcoin price goes up 5% in a day, then MSTR will go up 10%, and then, MSTU will go up 20%!

You then start to get really insanely explosive gains, you could easily earn $100,000 in just a single day, without doing anything.

And actually if you think about it, stuff like MSTR and MSTU are actually much more accretive than bitcoin, because the first rule of bitcoin club you never sell your bitcoin. Fun work around you could do is like if you have Coinbase, you could now pledge up to a large number of your bitcoins, and get up to like $1 million of cash, which you could then invest into MSTR and or MSTU.

My simple thought is if you have a retirement account or a roth ira, and you plan on not pulling it out until you’re 65, just put it into mstr, set it and forget it.

if you plan on trying to make money in the short run, MSTU is the obvious bet, as once again, it out performs bitcoin by at least 4X, and an important thing with what creation is the velocity and in the speed of how you get, how quickly.

For example, nobody would care to be a trillionaire at the age of 99, we would rather be worth $200 million in five years. 

Therefore, at least for myself, I would rather take the quicker (smaller) gain, rather than the longer, higher gain.

No more Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, was 19th century bitcoin. Everything he did, back in the day was genius because that is all they had.

If you put Henry Ford into today’s world, but gave him the financial tools of the 19th century certainly the outcome would be different than if you handed the keys to somebody with the year 2025 tools.

Even a random sidenote, Cambodia, seems to be thriving because everyone here uses telegram. It’s very beneficial to business, personal communication, and it seems to be much more intelligent and robust than other countries which first adopted Facebook messenger or WhatsApp.

In fact, my personal thought is the future of Cambodia will be very bright because they use the US dollar, they use telegram, and, everyone speaks English. It is a recipe for success.

now what?

As a simple closing thought, once again, maybe you just have to rebrand your vices into virtues. And just think the simple thought:

What if in fact, all of your sins and vices were simply virtues,,, without a good PR press release team?

ERIC

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Go opposite.

A fun innovative thought, maybe in fact the best way to innovate is to go opposite.

For example, if everyone is wearing black, start wearing white!

If everyone is driving a Tesla, drive a Toyota instead.

If everyone is wearing shorts, wear long pants. If everyone is wearing tank tops, wear a long sleeve.

This is a big one for myself, if everyone is using headphones and AirPods, don’t.

Maybe also if everyone’s using an iPhone, just get a Google pixel or an android instead?

If everyone is antisocial, be friendly!

If everyone runs, walk instead.

Everyone saying porn is bad for you, do the opposite and start watching porn?

Haha this is so funny the list goes on forever! 

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