# Eric Yakes (@ericyakes) on x

- id: koinon:creator:x_ericyakes
- url: https://koinonlink.com/kol/x/ericyakes
- schema_version: 1.4

## Identity
- platform: x
- handle: ericyakes
- platform_url: https://twitter.com/ericyakes
- website: https://epochvc.io/
- country: United States
- entity_type: creator
- person_id: Cross-platform identity not resolved for this creator.

## Reach
- followers: 22328
- following: 1438
- posts_total: 16743
- posts_observed: 5
- posts_per_day: 5.013
- account_age_days: 3340
- verified: true
- size_tier: koc

## Engagement
- status: peak_post_only
- peak_post_engagement_rate: 0.00421
- best_post_interactions: 94
- measurement_source: x_post_interactions
- measurement_formula: interactions on one post — likes, or likes + reposts + replies depending on the discovery path (the two are not distinguishable in the stored data)
- comparable_pool: peak_interactions
- status_note: We have only the single best observed post, so no mean exists. peak_post_engagement_rate is an UPPER BOUND, systematically higher than an average — never compare it against an average rate.
- unit_note: engagement_rate and peak_post_engagement_rate are ratios (0-1); avg_interactions_per_post and best_post_interactions are absolute counts. Read status before reading any number: a null rate has several different causes and status says which one applies here.

## Content
- category: finance
- subcategory: crypto
- category_confidence: 0.95
- category_source: derived_from_recent_content
- topics: Coldcard incident analysis, Bitcoin hardware wallet comparisons (Coldcard vs Ledger), Risks of small companies in crypto ecosystem
- bio: Author: The 7th Property | Founder: Epoch Ventures @epochvc_

## Audience (inferred)
- status: present
- description: Bitcoin investors and self-custody enthusiasts focused on hardware wallet security and company risks
- roles: none
- seniority: consumer
- pain_points: Risk of small hobbyist companies in Bitcoin hardware, Lack of awareness about secure options like Coldcard versus mass-market wallets, Potential security or reliability issues in popular hardware wallets
- posts_analysed: 3
- confidence: 0.4

## Commercial (inferred)
- audience_buyer_fit: 0.9
- promotion_intent: 0.8
- open_to_collaboration: false
- contact: Koinon does not publish creator contact details.

## Quality signals
- authenticity_score: 90
- authenticity_basis: engagement_observed
- credibility_score: 90
- flagged_for_review: false
- koinon_bd_grade: A — measures Koinon partner-outreach fit, not creator quality
- interpretation: Signals for triage, not verdicts. A flag means the profile is worth a manual check.

## Evidence
- [x_ericyakes#0ea02e38] Coldcard incident won't be remembered as a significant moment in bitcoin history Bitcoin developers creating their own Project Glasswing but doing it in public, with open source models, and none of Anthropic's resources, funded publicly will be Donate to The Red Team via @OpenSat (https://twitter.com/ericyakes)
- [x_ericyakes#da28de29] Ledger has probably sold 100x what coldcard has and none of them know what a coldcard is
- [x_ericyakes#23674287] The key takeaways from the coldcard incident, IMO: Small hobbyist companies are a risk and this is a good filtering mechanism: I would say the primary reason I wasn't recommending coldcard was because of this. Look at the team at @Bitkey - large companies can afford top people. T

## Provenance
Every inferred field below carries how it was produced. Facts stay facts; inferences stay inferences.

- audience.description: source_type=ai_inferred, confidence=0.4, freshness_days=76, method=llm_persona_from_recent_content
- audience.roles: source_type=ai_inferred, confidence=0.4, freshness_days=76, method=llm_persona_from_recent_content
- audience.seniority: source_type=ai_inferred, confidence=0.4, freshness_days=76, method=llm_persona_from_recent_content
- commercial.audience_buyer_fit: source_type=ai_inferred, confidence=0.6, freshness_days=77, method=llm_scorer — Relative signal within Koinon indexing, not a market-wide score.
- commercial.promotion_intent: source_type=ai_inferred, confidence=0.6, freshness_days=77, method=llm_scorer
- quality.anomaly_flags: source_type=heuristic, confidence=0.5, freshness_days=110, method=profile_snapshot_and_engagement_ratio_heuristic — Means "worth a manual check", NOT confirmed fraud. Flags can be wrong and are not a verdict about the person.
- quality.authenticity_score: source_type=heuristic, confidence=0.5, freshness_days=77, method=Profile-shape heuristic from a single snapshot (follower count, following ratio, account age, posting volume, verification), reduced for engagement red flags where post engagement was collected. Where only a follower count is available the score saturates at 58. — The input set differs by platform; do not compare this score across platforms.
- quality.koinon_bd_grade: source_type=ai_inferred, confidence=0.5, freshness_days=110, method=llm_partner_fit_classifier + fit_score >= 0.6 AND authenticity >= 60 => A; fit_score >= 0.4 AND authenticity >= 45 => B; else C. authenticity < 30 or a promotional-pattern flag => quarantine. — Koinon partner-outreach fit, not creator quality.
- reach.followers: source_type=observed, confidence=0.95, freshness_days=110, method=platform_profile

## Freshness
- profile_checked_days_ago: 110
- content_analysed_days_ago: 77
- audience_updated_days_ago: 76

## AI retrieval
- indexing_requests: 8
- user_triggered_requests: 0
- note: Being indexed in bulk is not the same as being retrieved to answer a question.

## This profile
- Claim or correct: https://koinonlink.com/claim?k=x_ericyakes
- Request removal: https://koinonlink.com/claim?k=x_ericyakes
- Terms: https://koinonlink.com/for-ai