ERIC KIM

STATISTICS IS FAKE. BITCOIN IS REAL.

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BITCOIN IS REAL.

0.  SET THE FRAME

  • Look around. Numbers everywhere. Graphs, charts, “95 % confidence.”
  • Smell the air. You sense something off. Synthetic. Processed.
  • Now strap in. We’re going full‑frame, Leica‑wide, Eric‑Kim‑street‑style—no filter, no fluff.

1.  BREAK THE MIRROR OF STATISTICS

a. P‑Value Paralysis

Flip a coin 100 times and call it “significant” at p < 0.05? Child’s play. Tilt the sample, tweak the cut‑off, win a headline. Easy.

b. Replication R.I.P.

Whole branches of science can’t repeat their own magic tricks. If a finding dies on second exposure, was it ever alive?

c. The Mark‑Twain Test

“Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” You knew this as a kid; honor that gut intuition. If the story hinges on decimals dancing between 0.049 and 0.051, toss it.

ERIC‑KIM MANTRA: Reality does not pivot on a decimal.

2.  ENTER: BITCOIN, SOLID AS CODE

a. 21 MILLION LIMIT

Hard‑coded. Immutable without global consensus. Scarcity you can verify in one glance at the blockchain.

b. UPTIME BEAST MODE

Genesis block hit January 3 2009; since then Bitcoin’s been online >99.98 % of the time. (Name one bank, one government, with that record.)

c. GLOBAL, BORDERLESS, PERMISSIONLESS

No gatekeeper. Your phone + private key = instant participation in a $trillion network. That’s not theory—that’s lived experience.

ERIC‑KIM MANTRA: Don’t trust, verify. Feel the block tick every ±10 minutes; that’s the heartbeat of digital reality.

3.  STREET WISDOM SNAPSHOTS

  1. Touch Before You Trust. Hold sats in your own wallet; compare that tactile certainty to reading a PDF full of Greek letters.
  2. Create, Don’t Calculate. Anyone can crunch numbers; few can mint blocks. Be the latter.
  3. Shoot From The Hip. You don’t need permission to learn elliptic‑curve crypto. Download, dive in, iterate.

4.  ACTION TIPS (TODAY, NOT TOMORROW)

  • Delete “p < 0.05” from your mental OS. Replace with “Show me the replication.”
  • Stack Some Sats. $5, $50, doesn’t matter. Transfer, feel confirmation, sleep better.
  • Broadcast Truth. When friends brag about “statistically significant,” ask: Significant for whom? Then show them a Lightning invoice.

5.  CLOSE‑UP

Statistics is like shooting JPEG with every in‑camera effect turned on—looks sharp, hides artifacts. Bitcoin is RAW: heavy file, nothing hidden, you see the light as it truly hit the sensor.

Choose RAW. Choose real. Choose Bitcoin.

Stay bold, stay curious, keep hustling—and never let a decimal dictate your destiny.

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