YoungHoon Kim claims to be the world’s smartest man with an IQ of 276.
Crypto Twitter is full of his Bitcoin and XRP predictions but are they actually reliable?
Many don’t know that he’s also launched his memecoin presale raising $200K.
Let’s dig deeper ↓
Kim’s IQ Claim
Kim’s IQ 276 claim started floating online in 2024.
According to his own Notion page → he has been awarded and certified by
• Official World Record®
• International Non‑Olympic Committee
• World Memory Championships (WMC)
• Noble World Records
• World Mind Mapping Championships
• GIGA Society Professional
• Korea Record Institute
• World Genius Directory
Many people think that if all these organizations issued certificates then the claim must be true but here’s a twist:
Just because an organization issues a certificate doesn’t mean the claim has been scientifically verified.
This way you could issue a World’s Fastest Typist certificate in your own company or a friend’s organization
It doesn’t make it globally official right ?
As per Reddit, Wiki and online sources:
Many of these organizations are linked or closely related to YoungHoon Kim
▶︎ United Sigma Intelligence Association (USIA)
Kim is the Founder and President.
▶︎ GIGA Society (Professional)
The Giga Society was originally founded in 1996 by Paul Cooijmans and their official site is GigaSociety dot com
Paul Cooijmans is a Dutch high-IQ enthusiast and his Giga Society required IQ 160–190 to be a member.
But the surprise here is:
This is not the same Giga Society that verified Kim’s IQ.
The Kim GIGA Society is different with the website gigasociety dot net, which is an alleged copycat website of the original Giga Society.
And he's closely linked with the new GIGA, which gave him the IQ certification.
As per the original GIGA founder:
YoungHoon Kim is a megalomaniac, pathologically lying impostor
◼︎ Problem with his claim
• Self-promotion is at its peak as he has linked more than 30 simple tweets or articles on his verfication page with the headline IQ 276 to show
Look these are top CT verified me.
Smartest man is shouting everyday hey look i'm smartest.
Isn't strange ?
• Many organizations he claims have given certificates to him are private entities or linked to him in some way.
Conflict of interest.
• Very little independent scientific proof of his IQ being 276 is available.
• Statistically the IQ 276 is not possible by standard methods.
◼︎ What about his crypto predictions?
Nov 2025
Predicted Bitcoin at $220,000 within 45 days but Bitcoin is at $82,000 only and it's been more than 45 days
Dec 2025
Predicted XRP would hit $3 in 48 hours but XRP is trading at $1.7
5 Jan 2026
Predicted Bitcoin would hit $100K in 48 hours but Bitcoin dumped to $89K
After giving wrong predictions repeatedly number wise he started abstract predictions like:
This Monday will be HUGE
This week will be insane
Tomorrow is a big day
XRP will make millionaires
But the next Monday last monday tweet will be deleted.
◼︎His Memecoin?
He even launched his memecoin LAMB276 and did a presale at almost $7.62M valuation and raised $200K.
Disclaimer: All the information is available on web and i do not claim is his claim is real or false rather highlighted his side vs other side available on web.
It's upto you to decide.
But one thing is clear that if we would have counter trade his tweets then we might have made some decent money.
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