This is Buster Cherry coming to you from New York with a breaking story.
The White House has confirmed that Dennis Porter is indeed missing,
and that he was captured by the North Koreans in a daring plot.
A State Department spokesman told me that the North Korean president, Kim Jong-un,
was growing increasingly concerned at the rate that American politicians were becoming orange-pilled
and that one of America's greatest assets needed to be taken off the table.
There are reports that Dennis is in Pyongyang being forced to read state-scripted announcements to the North Korean people,
and that erectile dysfunction has been cured across the country.
President Trump had some comments on the matter.
This is not the announcement I wanted to make.
Dennis Porter, one of our country's greatest assets, a tremendous mind, beautiful enthusiasm for Bitcoin,
has been kidnapped by North Korea.
Terrible situation. Disgraceful.
And let me tell you, Melania, she's very upset, very disappointed.
She said, Donald, who's going to tweet all those brilliant things now?
Because she loves the tweets, maybe more than mine.
We're going to work very hard, very fast to bring Dennis home.
America needs him tweeting announcements again.
We just subsidized Ozempic, and we can't subsidize Viagra as well.
Many are speculating that Dennis' absence from Twitter ensures that a bear market has begun.
Paper Bitcoin winter is looking like it's going to be a cold one, folks.
Please pray for the safe return of Dennis.
We desperately need an announcement.
This is Buster Cherry signing off.
Welcome, folks, to this edition of the Bugle Weekly.
this is a special one.
Unfortunately, Rod is not here today,
but I have found somebody to join us.
You know, we've been having a lot of shit coiners on this show,
and I feel like it's time to bring it back to somebody who believes in,
you know, monetary transactions only,
has been the at the forefront of fighting the spam today joining me is bitcoin muck
anik how's it going muck i'm doing well mate how are you oh you know we're getting into the
holiday season it's getting cold outside uh seems like people are tired and you know grumpy
uh but you know i'm having a good time i'm having a good time you know it's it's as if people have
Maybe they've lost interest in saving Bitcoin, but I intend to capitalize on that grumpiness and get people back on track.
Absolutely.
Well, it's been an interesting week this week.
We at The Bugle, we've unfortunately had a lot of conflict with, you know, one of your biggest advocates, Matthew Cratter.
and uh you know ron palmer was doing some digging this week and he uh he found evidence that uh of
nepotism of matthew cratter engaging in nepotism and sleeping his way to the top of uh peter
thiel's hedge fund clarium i know you two are appear to be you know fairly close or at least
you know on the same page about a lot of things that you're advocating for uh do you have any
you know thoughts on that i can't speak to whether or not he actually slept the top but
i look at his stature and his his place in bitcoin university and while he has been an ally of mine
i i shudder to think of what he did to get there and maybe he did you know matt's an attractive man
very suave. The ladies loved him. He's a chick magnet, and it's not nice to think that maybe
him and Peter, maybe other rich and powerful men have gotten into things together in order for him
to get to that accredited level with his Bitcoin University. But hopefully the rumors are not true.
but you say you've discovered evidence so i just i just seek the truth you know do you think that um
you know if this is true we're we have we're waiting for cratters uh comment on the story
and i'm not sure if he will but if it's true do you think the pleb should still be giving him
$790 in tuition to attend Bitcoin University,
or do you think that they should get their education elsewhere?
I think they should still attend.
Now, that tuition is quite affordable in today's mostly Bitcoinized,
hyper-Bitcoinized world.
I imagine they have the funds to pay for such an esteemed education.
and I'd say continue to subscribe and pay that tuition
because education, it's...
Ben Franklin said something about it,
like the more you have, the better you are.
I think that's what he said.
So yeah, pay Crater.
You know, he's doing good work over there.
I've learned everything I know about the technicalities
of the Bitcoin network from Bitcoin University,
every last bit of it.
I'm like a sponge
I figured it was more you advising him
because the way it appears to be
is that you get your information from Luke
and then you kind of go and disperse the information
online on your podcast
and you know in other areas on Twitter spaces or whatever
and then Matthew Cratter
you know gets this information from you
but you you learn from Matthew is what you're saying well it's kind of a given a take and it
may appear like we do coordinated sort of blitzes as far as what information he puts out or I put
out but it's it's all actually decentralized you know it's we're just truth seekers trying to do
what's right and what you know so I think it's it's a little bit of both you know we do talk
privately. The group chat with Matt is quite explosive. There's always something fascinating
going on, recent developments in Bitcoin. It's hard to say exactly who gets the credit,
but who puts out what first. But it does generally go from Luke. He calls me and
he sends me voice notes.
Sometimes he's screaming.
He screams a lot.
He's quite mean to me, to be honest, in private.
He accused me of stealing one of his books,
a Bitcoin book.
I denied it.
It seemed like Matt was taking his side,
and it was quite the issue internally for us,
what people are calling Nazis.
That's also hurtful.
but it's hard to say exactly who's in charge i don't know do you find it hurtful to to be called
a nazi i feel like in today's climate being called a nazi is a compliment it just means that you're
handsome i have heard that they've said don't let it get to you you're handsome your beard you've got
the mountain man aesthetic just so they bounce off reject you know the historical connotations
to fascism, authoritarianism, and just let that go.
Maybe they're right, but secretly, I think, deep down, I do like it.
It feels powerful being called Nazi with a T They have a T Yeah I mean it does seem negative but ultimately I was just speaking with Guy Swan
and I was saying that I'd spoken to Dathan about this
and he said that Bitcoin is the purest expression
of distributed authoritarianism.
And I felt that that was quite poignant.
So maybe it is a good thing,
this whole nazism well it's definitely interesting it's got the plebs all uh
tied up in knots they are very uh wound up and upset right now to say the least uh yes it does
seem like we've created some confusion i mean ultimately it's worth it if we can get the fees
higher for the pool i think it was all worth it yeah i don't know i mean it'll be interesting to
See, I'm hoping that Matthew Crowder will give a response.
Maybe there'll be some pressure from his students to get some answers there.
Because he's very critical of others engaging in nepotism like Gloria.
So tell me a little bit about your frustration with Gloria.
Because, you know, she's pretty hot.
I think a lot of it isn't warranted.
I think that
Cordev should be able to have sex
I'm not sure if they should
I've heard that concept
that they should be permitted to have sex
and whether or not they consent
whether or not Luke consents
it is quite the quagmire of sex
but really
with Gloria I think for me
it boils down to a sort of vague
jealousy
she works on Bitcoin
does all sorts of
commits
and that to me I find it quite threatening say who is this woman she's attractive I'm I'm attracted
to her but it's sort of like a love hate kind of thing and it's confusing because you know we've
raised her up to be this sort of villain but secretly I mean deep down I actually I like her
quite a lot so it's it's a struggle for me personally it's probably less of a struggle
for Matthew Cratter no see Matt I think he really doesn't like her he he talks about her all the
time he has it's like that episode of Always Sunny with Charlie and the board there's just
lots of lots of articles that mention there he's got it all printed out you see it's it's like a
investigatory wall of paranoia.
And it's actually in one of the back rooms
of Bitcoin University itself.
It's an amazing campus,
but I really do think he needs to chill
on the whole Gloria thing
because it makes me think
that he also has a crush on her secretly,
but it seems genuine,
like he's truly angry with her.
and her contributions to bitcoin many of them but i don't know it's hard to tell where matt's
coming from he's a very secretive man i i just kind of assumed with him that he he actually was
not he doesn't find her attractive because peter thiel types are more his type that he's attracted
too but yes he he does seem to be more into into peter field types and i it's hard to tell i i
think that he may have some antipathy towards gloria but i i mean maybe you know this could
turn around i'm not sure if gloria is is single or not and maybe her and matt there's a future there
I don't think so I think she's kind of out of his league
but
anyway so
there's been a lot of discussion around the price drop
recently and what's caused it I you know I have my theory
on it that there's something going
on with Dennis Porter we're scrambling to try and figure out where he is
and locate it and currently he has not
recording on a Friday.
He has not
tweeted
in nine
days, coming up on ten days.
The end of today will be ten days
and I think I'm pretty confident
he's not going to tweet today.
It is quite unusual.
He's normally quite the tweeter.
So it's
definitely concerning. I mean,
there's no breaking news. Maybe that's why.
It is.
like it Dennis's absence impacts us all in various ways like for you he's been a staunch
supporter of uh knots and what ocean's doing uh for us you know other individuals he he's worked
tirelessly to protect our rights to use bitcoin I'm fearful that our rights aren't going to be
protected in his absence.
I think you're right.
I think Dennis has been a stalwart supporter of our right to use Bitcoin and he single-handedly
protects it.
And I feel that when he supports us in our mission and without him, we'd be lost.
You know, Dennis is truly the champion of our whole thing when it comes down to it.
I shudder to think what it would be like without Dennis's staunch support.
The breaking news, the alarm emojis, all caps,
random potential Congress people in California.
I mean, that was a big one.
I was quite excited about that announcement.
Changed the whole game, really.
Yeah, a lot of people were giving him a hard time about it,
but I think Dennis is...
a kingmaker when it comes to politics and uh think he's on the trajectory of becoming the king
himself i mean i'm hopeful that he's going to run for president in uh 2028 and i think he'll win
it's probable if dennis becomes president porter in 2028 or maybe 2032 if i'm being honest but
That's in the pipeline.
I think there's a chance that we could actually reverse the changes
that have come about with Core V30.
I think as president, he can probably initiate,
maybe make not the official U.S. Bitcoin implementation.
I mean, I might be dreaming, but it's possible.
So do you think that Bitcoin implementations,
the government's stance on it should be determined through legislation or through executive order
what do you think that that process should look like going forward in the future well executive
orders legislation that those things can work but i think it really needs to be based on the
will of the plebs and you can find that on twitter you just scroll around and you'll see that people
you know, American citizens are clearly in support of our mission.
And while lols might be the way to go,
I think it's more the rough consensus of what people on Twitter think
and also how loudly they clap at Bitcoin events,
such as Logano in Switzerland.
I mean, my ego was just out of control after that.
did you hear how loudly they were clapping for me i did i it but they they put a laugh track or
sorry a clap track and instructed the audience to clap for you so i don know if that really a way to determine consensus enhancement but the actual clapping was quite profound well they didn have instructions to
clap when peter todd was talking which i think is kind of unfair well he already got credit with the
hbo documentary so i think in the minds of the plebs you know he's already gotten plenty of
attention and it was really my star was rising at that point and i think that translated to more
applause for me yeah peter peter todd's a very uh you know satoshi is a very controversial figure
in bitcoin he's an enemy of bitcoin i'll just come out and say it i mean why do you why do you
think that is why why do you think he's had this arc where he went from the creator of bitcoin
to an enemy of Bitcoin?
It's quite simple.
I mean, Peter is concerned with the technology
and how it works and the realities of it
from an objective sort of viewpoint.
But, I mean, you and I both know
that it's actually about the community.
It's not so much technology.
Bitcoin is all of us.
And I think that's what Peter misses
and that's what has made him into a super villain of Bitcoin.
And it's quite sad to see him go down this road
when I thought maybe he would run knots and line to Ocean.
He's been very critical of Ocean as far as the time value of money
and the payout system of it.
It's just, it makes me sad, you know?
I don't want to hear criticism, I just want support.
So how do you suggest that people gauge what the plebs, what the users of Bitcoin want?
What's the best way to do that?
Well, I mean, Elon Musk has said that Twitter is the town square.
So I think we need to put aside, you know, economic incentives and how it all really plays out in the real world.
put all that aside and just go off the longest,
most well put Twitter posts.
And that it really,
also how many likes they have,
how many followers they have,
those sort of things.
It tends to clear it all up pretty quickly for me anyway.
I mean,
Bitcoin is money.
If people are doing things with it that we,
the community don't like,
I mean,
that's against Bitcoin.
so it's it's quite simple interesting yeah i mean it's hard to say what people really want i think
i think you just have to go with whatever their virtue signaling about whatever they say
that's probably what they actually mean so that's that's what i do so yeah i mean how much do you
think this core v30 update has impacted the price? Has this been the biggest driver of?
Actually, it's the number one driver of global liquidity, the macroeconomic outlook as far as
recession odds. I mean, every analyst that I know, you ask them about, is Bitcoin a risk on,
or risk-off asset as far as its price
and relative to other commodities or precious metals.
And immediately, each of them, they bring up, well, V30.
And it's quite concerning.
I mean, I think it's the number one driver
of the future bear market in Bitcoin.
That's why I've sold all of mine.
I don't hold Bitcoin anymore.
I don't think it's what it used to be.
I think these massive changes to the protocol itself
through cause software, as I understand it,
is what's causing this dip.
So if you sold Bitcoin, what else is there to own
other than Bitcoin?
I'm thinking RTX, maybe Lockheed, potentially Netflix.
I like Netflix.
So it's defense companies and entertainment for me
are the two sectors I think.
really have a great future.
Maybe healthcare, UnitedHealth, maybe.
Or I'm thinking private prison stocks.
There's something about incarceration
that I think has a bright future as far as investment.
Since Bitcoin, it's been tough.
I have to consider earnings and support and resistance
and all these metrics that I didn't quite understand before Call v30.
If the state starts prosecuting people for having CSAM on their nodes,
I think owning private prison stock is probably a safe investment.
It's foolish.
Exactly.
That's my thoughts exactly, that, you know,
if we're putting node runners in prison for what they've done
and what they've allowed onto their machines.
So I think it's only fair that we buy our private prison ETFs.
So, you know, I've heard contradicting legal theories
on the government prosecuting node runners.
Sasha Hodder came out.
She's a lawyer.
She's a listener to the show.
She's pretty hot.
Enemy of Bitcoin.
Why do you say that?
um well first of all she's a woman and that makes me skeptical it's that might sound unfair but
also her name is Sasha which makes me think maybe she works for the Russians
and I'm quite paranoid about that um and the video she made it got quite a bit of traction and
I think she's got something to hide maybe on her node interesting so you just like do you not like
women interacting with Bitcoin in general, or is it only hot women?
It's not all women.
It's just that they make me afraid.
I feel inadequate when they talk about Bitcoin.
Because to me, it's not about the technology.
All the women they did, they just want to talk about the technology.
I'm just interested in the community.
So it's a conflict for me.
So what are your thoughts on Natalie Brunel?
Natalie Brunel, she is not an enemy of Bitcoin.
She's actually, she runs Nots.
She points her compass mining machines to Ocean.
She's a big supporter, believe it or not.
I haven't seen her.
I didn't notice that she runs Nots, so she's an advocate for Nots.
She's in the closet.
She doesn't want to come out openly about it.
She's a secret Nots person, which might be surprising.
but we convinced her in Logano.
We said, look, you either run knots
or you see what happened with Gloria, right?
So I think she made the right choice.
But wouldn't you kind of classify that
as tacitly supporting attacks on Bitcoin
if she's silent about it,
if she's not a vocal promoter or supporter?
Yes, we're working on that.
We wanted to have a full podcast with me
and Luke, Jason Hughes and Bob Burnett,
all of us there to just celebrate
knots and notion and datum.
And I think it could happen.
Maybe within the next couple of weeks,
we'll do a round table.
It's how we save Bitcoin, I think, in the long run.
Well, I know that the plebs have wanted you and Luke
to go on CoinStories for a while.
There was that one pleb that wrote that open letter to Natalie pleading with her to have you on Yes that was so exciting to read that people are so passionate and and wanting us to to be there to spread the good news and i in full support of comments
like that no matter how desperate they might sound sort of deranged i think those sort of
comments go a long way so i don't know i mean what do you what do you see for the the price
happening is is it all downwards up until uh fork activation sometime maybe in q1 of next year
well doesn't the fork i think september is the deadline now it's been pushed back
from february so i expect the bottom to be somewhere around uh august to september and
then we go up from there as we fix bitcoin and save it so does that mean that there's not going
be a paper bitcoin summer it'll be a muted paper bitcoin so it'll be you know the treasury companies
will be quite beleaguered some of them will run knots and they'll survive but i think it will be
quite a different summer it will be an exit of a bear market summer where everyone realizes that
The mission is to save Bitcoin and that means higher prices.
So it's not all bleak and terrible and I will be buying back, I think, once we fix it.
And by fix it, I mean like once we get what we want and we can impose that on others, then I will buy back it.
Well, I think if that's the case, we don't really have any choice but to filter.
I think everybody's in agreement that NGU is important.
It's the most important metric.
So ultimately, everyone will filter.
I think it's inevitable.
How do you convince people that
the reason we're not experiencing
NGU is spam and not other
factors like Dennis Porter
being missing or
just the general macro environment
interest rates
you know other things
Well what you do is you start
with an emotional trigger
something upsetting
you tell them that
People doing things that you may not like on Bitcoin is what's causing the price to go down.
And then you offer them, you know, at the end of the tunnel, say, here's a solution to make the price go back up.
And it generally works, you know, appeal to emotion and then solution.
And it tends to work.
I mean, people eat it up.
there's lots of people that aren't convinced and they make fun of us and they they say all sorts of
mean things and they're just enemies of bitcoin when it really comes down to it you you name
peter todd who are some of the biggest enemies of bitcoin do you think shinobi is number one uh he
by what I've seen on Twitter,
he appears to be the number one enemy of Bitcoin.
I've actually heard a rumor that it's just a rumor,
but apparently he wants to convince
the Bitcoin bar in New York City, PubKey,
he's going to convince them to accept Ethereum
in order to support Bitcoin Core.
And I just, I'm disgusted by it personally.
I think accepting Ethereum to support Bitcoin Core, it doesn't make sense.
But, you know, you can't stop what others are going to do ultimately.
When I think of enemies of Bitcoin, he's up there.
He called me retarded.
I just, I don't know what to do about it.
Another one would be, let's see, Stefan Levera.
He's definitely an enemy of Bitcoin.
You know, that panel in Logano, he was quite testy with me.
He didn't necessarily believe everything I was saying,
and it was quite difficult to deal with that contention.
I don't think the plebs were clapping for him, huh?
No, just for me. It was all for me.
You were able to get Shinobi to resign as a core maintainer.
It was up to you, yeah.
But seeing him step down as a maintainer of core was,
people were very pleased about that.
And I think it's just one small victory in the spam war.
We'll have many more victories, but him stepping down,
it was a day I'll never forget.
How did that play out?
How did you convince Shinobi to step down?
Just pure brute force pressure on Twitter.
You know, he said he couldn't take it anymore.
We were just being mean to him, saying we're not retarded, you're retarded.
And that seemed to do the trick after enough attrition, enough posts.
He finally capitulated and saw reason.
You know, maybe he's not an enemy of Bitcoin.
That's what I'm coming around to, but I'm just not sure.
We're just glad that he has stepped down.
That's my statement on the matter.
so essentially you got them to step down by just saying no you it worked yeah and believe it or not
it's that simple in bitcoin just social pressure and it tends to do the trick
you think social pressure is an effective way to
is that the future of bitcoin development is that what it takes the only it's all about the
community and if we can make someone feel as if they're not, you know, they're not cool
with the community, then yeah, I mean, economic incentives be damned.
They'll do what we want.
And I think that's how Bitcoin is supposed to work.
It's a beautiful system, social pressure.
Do you see any downsides of that?
No.
I mean, what do you, maybe.
I think certain people might see that
and go, you're being a bit rash
you're being a bit harsh to people
but I mean, the mission is clear
we've got to save Bitcoin
so any means to do that
I think are justified
Well, when you spin up a mob of angry plebs
they might eventually come back after you
we've seen this happen over and over again
with other groups
like uh cory and the swans for example the plebs were real hot on him for a while
and then they turned on him yeah they drank the swan pond so to speak
i mean yeah that's that's a valid point you know i don't really think that far ahead
to me i'm just in service of our mission and if it backfires at some point
people stop making fun of us relentlessly and we can't get our fork through because we can't
convince miners that they're policemen that must do as we want.
I think it could present a future problem,
but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
It's all about saving Bitcoin today.
So one of the biggest issues that I've had with the spam topic in general
and with the discussion of the state coming in and regulating nodes
is I think many members of the state are actually users and fans of CSAM.
So, you know, recently there's been some discussion,
some attempts to release the Epstein files.
We're letting it.
many powerful people are CCAM producers or supporters in various ways.
You know, that's a good point.
I think it's probably true that the government is quite in favor of these type of things.
And that's why with Dennis and his work, I think we can convince them to switch to nots.
These things will no longer be permitted.
And you've got to fight evil where it's at.
I think that might be the way to do it.
Well, I think I've heard Luke say this, that his stance is he believes that a nation state is going to be the one uploading the CSAM to the blockchain as an attack on Bitcoin.
They're going to be the perpetrators of the attack.
And so this attempt with the filters is kind of a preemptive effort to prevent the state from doing that, from preventing the Epstein list from turning Bitcoin into decentralized file storage for their CSAM.
I think so.
That's what we don't want to happen.
I mean, ultimately,
just not only that content itself being bad,
I think if Bitcoin is rebranded,
you poison the brand with calling it file storage.
It conjures images of filing cabinets
and stacks of paper.
It's just not cool.
It's much better to be
permissionless money that no one can talk with i think making it file storage especially for bad
things is is a mistake and whether or not the state is the perpetrator behind this in the future
it's just not a good look overall so run knots i i had a you know conversation with paul stork
or paul sports the other day and there may have been but yes sorry go ahead well one of the
One of the things he pointed out was this reality that transaction data are files stored on the Bitcoin blockchain.
So Bitcoin is file storage by default, even when people are using it as money.
So don't you think it's a misnomer to or just it's incorrect terminology to say that Bitcoin is not file storage?
I think that's technically correct, but ultimately I'm just concerned with the community beliefs.
So these, you know, technical realities, I don't pay any attention to.
I think the blocks that are filled with data, I just, I put that out of my mind and I think that's money.
You know, and it's much easier.
It's soothing to me on some level.
And Paul, with his BIP-300, what he proved was that he can't be trusted.
You know, he crossed the line.
And if he believes it's data, you know, maybe it is.
But I won't have any part of whatever Mr. Stork is saying.
And also just the name Stork, I think about the classic films
with the stocks delivering babies and it's just not a good look for bitcoin i think well um
yeah i think uh you got a good perspective on the on the fork talk and you know filters as a whole
i'm curious on your thoughts so i was listening to uh some james corbett this week and uh he
mentioned that in a recent book that came out about prince andrew the author in the initial
running of the book had a tidbit where he had uncovered information that uh melania trump had a
intimate relationship with jeffrey epstein before meeting uh donald trump
in that the Trump family got upset
and the publisher pulled that from the book.
Do you have any thoughts on that?
You know, it's all coming together now.
Maybe with Epstein's funding of Bitcoin Core,
the potential is all there.
Maybe that's what got Melania to launch her coin.
She learned it from him,
and it's just one horrible nexus of shitcoiners, really,
when you get down to it.
I think it's very possible that that's true.
So, you know, with Epstein's funding of Bitcoin Core,
I think he funded a lot of things.
I don't think it's really anything too damning.
But do you think he was a friend or enemy of Bitcoin, ultimately?
Enemy of Bitcoin, but convinced lots of people
that he was a friend of Bitcoin.
So it's like a mask on, mask off sort of thing.
You know, it's hard to say exactly where he was coming from.
You know, the transhumanism and the creating clones of himself.
I mean, that's well known.
And I think he was a big fan of Bitcoin, but probably an enemy of it, ultimately.
Yeah, he didn't like Bitcoin being seen as money.
He had very similar perspectives as Michael Saylor.
He thought Bitcoin was more a store of value.
I'm curious, just your general thoughts on Saylor.
Saylor's great in my book.
He did a little video and said we need to stop the corrupt devs from destroying it.
And it was like the Super Bowl for me.
I watched that and I was like, Michael, he's on the team.
It was just, he was so great to know that, you know,
a company that has more than half a million Bitcoins within U.S. jurisdiction
and is just doing so much for Bitcoin.
And I think it's just a great thing to know that Michael's on the team.
Yeah, but he doesn't believe that Bitcoin's money,
which is kind of contradictory to your point and perspective, right?
oh yes it's quite an issue we're trying to bring him on board we said michael you've got to start
calling it money you know enough with this thousand years of a crystal ship in space all that stuff is
great but just simplify it for the plebs you've got you've got to go down to their level you know
and he gets it you know he has a very cynical condescending sort of view of not only his
shareholders but of bitcoiners in general so i think i think he'll come around what do you mean
you'll see it weeks from now he'll be posting bitcoin is money it's not file storage he'll
crash out a little bit but it'll be good ultimately what do you mean by his cynical
view of bitcoin users um i think i think that michael sadly you know he not married he a single man He older He a billionaire And I think as far as the mission of Bitcoin you know perfect beautiful money
I think he doesn't like it.
I think he just sees digital capital.
You know, he sees soothing tie, orange tie, golf course.
he's not thinking i mean he's put it into words too he said like if you're some sort of
anarcho-capitalist and thinking this system was a way to separate yourself from it i mean
he's put it out there so well i guess we are opposed in that respect but i think eventually
he will realize that he's wrong and he'll come around to how Luke, mechanic, and I think
it could work out.
You know, we're doing what we can to get him on our side.
So he's kind of like a neutral character.
He's not necessarily an enemy of Bitcoin despite.
Right.
Not an enemy yet.
But I think he's doing great.
I think he's a supporter of Bitcoin.
You know, he's contributed so much to the Peer-to-Peer Rights Foundation and other groups that support developers.
I think he's a good guy.
Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, are there any news stories that you think are kind of important to cover for this week?
I know I heard you talking about on Guy Swan's podcast that there's going to be some big announcements, some big developments next week that you're excited about.
yes yes it will be a big deal it's it's going to be breaking i'm excited to share it with the
community i think it will turn heads people will be like he said what it will just it will get so
many likes i probably will have to block a couple people in the comment section now sadly after that
announcement but you know par for the course it is a big deal though just you wait you'll see it's
It's the biggest news in Bitcoin since, I'm going to say it, since the launch of Ocean and the ETF with the SEC.
I think it's a big deal.
Does it have what it takes to replace the absence of a Dennis Porter announcement?
I think so.
I think this is why Dennis has been building this suspense.
he knows about the announcement and he thinks if I make an announcement and they're going to make
an announcement and we have this crossing of the streams of potential announcements you know that
it confuses the plebs you want to build suspense for one announcement at a time
focus their energy onto one announcement and I think I think we agree on this
is Dennis going to come back to make this announcement?
Oh, he'll be back.
He'll be back.
All right.
After our announcement,
what he'll do is he'll take that announcement and piggyback his next
announcement to kind of keep the momentum going.
I think that's the plan.
It'll be, it'll be a lesser announcement.
You know, there'll be our big gargantuan,
beautiful announcement.
And then his announcement will be like kind of a letdown,
but also quite exciting.
And, you know, he's a master of that.
That's a pretty bold statement.
I can't imagine that you could have a bigger announcement than Dennis.
I'm skeptical.
You better believe it.
I mean, I didn't believe it either when behind the scenes,
some of the things I've been told about this announcement,
I mean, it will make every single one of Dennis's announcements look small
in comparison to the,
you could take all of his announcements
and bundle them into one super announcement
and this one will be a hundred times more effective
at getting Bitcoin adopted by the world, I think.
I know it's a large claim, it's a lot,
but I think it will be the biggest announcement ever.
Well, I'm going to be waiting by
with the anticipation for that well one of the things that we do at the end of the show
is uh we go through we read the fountain booze for the week prior uh last week we discussed uh
thanksgiving i know you're up in canada you don't celebrate american thanksgiving you
celebrate canadian thanksgiving which is a different date uh but with with all the political
division i know you've you've taken a very strong political stance uh you have any family members
that are core supporters or enemies of bitcoin that makes the holidays contentious oh yes at
the dinner table i'll be pointing at my cousin i'll say you are an enemy of bitcoin and he's he's so
difficult with me he's like i'm not an enemy of bitcoin and i'm like yes you are and it's
it's been a problem now for two years i think it will probably be a problem next year
but you know that's the mission we're on it's tearing families apart so it is quite a problem
it wasn't even a discussion around thanksgiving for my family nobody even knew what was going on
Now, they didn't know about this whole issue.
Yeah, if you don't know about the issue, if you're not engaged in the conversation, does that make you an enemy of Bitcoin?
I think so, just by default.
But that's like if a tree falls in the woods, does anyone hear it?
I mean, if you don't even know you're an enemy of Bitcoin, can you actually be one?
And I tend to think yes, I err on the side of caution there.
You know, I do have a level of self-awareness and I consider maybe I am an enemy of Bitcoin.
Maybe you are an enemy of Bitcoin.
It's an ever-evolving sort of litmus you must do in order to deduce if you're an enemy or not.
And I struggle with that.
You know, all my family members, the one thing they did agree upon is they're tired of me every turn.
You know, they're talking about their job and their life and what they'd like to accomplish.
And I just can't stop talking about the spam on Bitcoin.
And it's something I've got to work on, you know, I'm trying.
Yeah, it's hard when you're excited about something.
But it is.
anyways uh so our first boost from fundamentals for 10 101 sats he says thankful for the bugle
so i'm just i i appreciate you doing this interview i feel like we've been
you you actually blocked me on twitter for calling you pleb slop so i'm just curious are
you thankful for the bugle or do you see us as uh enemies of bitcoin i'll put it this way
I am thankful for certain enemies of Bitcoin and that includes the people because I think journalists they have a place Even if they are enemies of Bitcoin and they spread misinformation or disinformation
I think ultimately the plebs decide and they run the show.
So it all works out in the end eventually.
I think now that you've brought it up that I've blocked you,
it makes me want to say that I'll unblock you,
but I'm going to have to think about it
because when it comes to potential enemies of Bitcoin,
I'm kind of like McCarthy about it.
You know, I make lists.
I check them twice.
So I'll think about that.
If you're like McCarthy, does that mean you're a closet gay?
No.
No, and I do not have a crush on Gloria.
And it's not that.
I'm not gay.
Neither is Matt Cratter.
I know you were potentially suggesting that with his moving up Bitcoin University in Clarion,
but he's not gay either.
None of us are gay.
It's only gay if you enjoy it, right?
Like he may have slipped his way to the top with Peter Thiel, but maybe he didn't enjoy the process.
He just enjoyed the benefits of doing it.
yeah it's very possible it's not gay then um all right well thank you for the boost fundamentals
next boost from late stage huddle six thousand and six sats which spells boob says uh i can't
believe i forgot to boost again hope you all had a great thanksgiving dick greaser is married anyway
i've been listening to link park lately i guess mariah carey is coming up soon
keep up the good work boys you know i i posted my spotify rap
and uh i had a lincoln park song is the number two most listened song this year
lincoln park i think lincoln park is great i think every core developer needs to listen to
that lincoln park song what i've done and they just need to play it on repeat and then maybe in
In the end, they listened to that one.
Yeah, I figured Bitcoin plebs would like Linkin Park a bit
because recently there's been a lot of support
of high-profile Scientologists by Bitcoiners.
You got the Cardone brothers running around.
They're great.
They know so much about the community in Bitcoin.
They're incredible educators.
Yeah, I think the lead singer of Linkin Park now, she's a Scientologist, if I remember correctly.
Emily Armstrong.
You know, I'm a big fan of Scientology.
I think it's a wonderful community.
Lots of great work there.
And the fact that they were able to gain tax-exempt status, that means they're not enemies of Bitcoin.
You know, it's their real deal church now.
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see if the plebs listen to more Linkin Park this year.
there's a lot of people that hate on linkin park uh there's that one twitter user linkin park rules
big fan of him but uh yeah it's interesting uh
keep on listening to linkin park late stage
i used to talk about my wife a lot more on this show in the earlier days i haven't talked about
as much recently but yeah uh next boost from bulba 1001 sat says i need therapy i absolutely
understand nothing wait that's a breakthrough fuck the therapy i'm cured thanks but i ain't
sure for what just the same um
yeah i mean with these guys that are enemies of bitcoin do you think they need therapy or
how can they be helped is there any helping them potentially i think that they can be helped they
can come to realize that they're enemies of bitcoin and turn it around therapy might help
i've talked to matt about this he's going to open up a branch of bitcoin university
for people who need mental health days.
And basically students or non-students can go and seek treatment
for their current status as enemies of Bitcoin.
So the model is you pay $790 to get taught how not to be an enemy of Bitcoin?
Well, that'd be part of it.
That'd be like an extension of the regular education.
you'd also be able to go to therapy to sort of no longer be an enemy of Bitcoin.
You have to come to understand what made you an enemy of Bitcoin,
and then from there, you know, get in understanding.
Well, I don't think Bob is an enemy of Bitcoin.
I don't think he needs therapy.
Appreciate the boost.
then here here's someone you labeled in this episode an enemy of bitcoin boost from sasha
hotter 500 sets is great show right you've got to consolidate those sats into an address that is
is separate i just i think that would be a good idea because i mean clear enemy of bitcoin so do
Do you think a podcaster should find a way to filter Fountain boosts from individuals that are enemies of Bitcoin?
Potentially.
I wouldn't rule it out.
You know, Datham has suggested that to me.
Ways to fix and save Fountain.
So we're working on it.
What are Datham's thoughts on that?
Does Fountain need more vibe coding?
Yeah.
I think so.
More vibes, better vibes.
Money, Bitcoin is money vibes.
I think that would turn things around.
You know, Dathan, people don't know it, but he was a NASCAR driver.
And after being struck by lightning during a race, he picked up coding.
And that's how we ended up here.
I think he could not only save Bitcoin, but also save Fountain.
And it's an exciting time.
Interesting.
well thanks for the boost sasha pies 121 sats salute emoji magnifying glass steak mushroom
and uh flex the nostrigang 102 sats says did did stranger things manifest these broccoli haircuts
broccoli uh and i think it's kissing emoji what what are your thoughts on broccoli haircuts you
You know, I don't see a problem with the broccoli haircut.
You know, I tend to groom myself in such a way
to go for like the mountain man aesthetic.
You know, I'm out there, I'm on the mountain.
But the broccoli haircut is more of a,
I hate to say metrosexual type thing And I think it could work as far as why people do these haircuts
I don't see a problem with it.
I'm too focused on saving Bitcoin to worry about that.
But there could be an impetus.
Something could happen where it all changes
and the broccoli haircuts become a clear sign
that someone is an enemy of Bitcoin.
And then the last boost, BTC on board, who you'd probably label as an enemy of Bitcoin because he's got hashtag L-Enhance or CTV in his handle.
100 sats, thumbs up, salute emoji, thumbs up.
Yes, when I see those tags, L-Enhanced, CTV, I'm immediately threatened.
I see someone with some proficiency as far as scaling Bitcoin,
and it makes me upset.
It's almost as bad as when I see a clip of Gloria,
and my whole body tightens up.
I almost go into sort of convulsions,
and those tags, I find them quite triggering.
Well, I think Luke is a supporter of CTV
or at least he's open-minded to it.
Do you differ from Luke in that regard?
If he's open to CTV, I think there's a chance.
I hate to say it, but maybe he's an enemy of Bitcoin.
Very, very interesting.
Yeah, I take that back.
Could you leave that part out, please?
Please don't let him hear that.
Well, it's done.
So I don't think that he's an enemy of Bitcoin.
He's also my boss.
And what he's doing is great.
Well, he has saved Bitcoin at least three times.
He's working on his fourth right now.
It's amazing, isn't it?
I mean, one man saves a distributed system like Bitcoin.
I mean, who would have thunk it?
You know, it's incredible.
Absolutely.
Well, wrapping up the episode, do you have any closing thoughts for our listeners?
I guess my closing thoughts, I would put it as, you know, I wanted to say this earlier,
and I just didn't know how to broach the topic, but, you know, we talk about
club slop a lot, and it's my bread and butter when it comes down to it, I'll be honest.
but I think that Jeffrey Epstein created plebslop
and basically convinced the Mossad and the National Security Council and AI
to pump the American citizens with as much plebslop as possible
to distract them from the spam on Bitcoin.
And that's where I'll leave the listeners to ponder why have they done this.
That's a very interesting theory. You're not going to give any conclusions as to why?
I just think the growing surveillance state and, you know, facial recognition, all these things are happening.
You know, this growing sort of security state, it's really just to distract people from the spam transactions on Bitcoin.
I mean, if you don't want people to care about the spam on Bitcoin, you distract them with a, you know, police state.
I think that's what's happening.
when I look out into the world today.
So that's the purpose of the flock cameras,
distract people from spam.
I mean, it seems obvious, doesn't it, when you think about it?
I don't know if I see that, but that is an interesting theory.
So that means you think Lola Leitz's coverage of this failing state
and the work at the Rage, that's a distraction?
That's exactly what it is.
She's an enemy of Bitcoin.
if you didn't know.
And yeah, all that coverage is just to scare people
and get them worked up about their rights and liberties
in the Republic of the US.
And those being, you know,
it's just to get people not to worry about the spam, really.
I mean, that's the most pressing issue facing Bitcoin.
And you tell people they're scanning your face at Walmart
when you used cash.
it just it mucks all that up and i think that's the goal of uh the deep state very interesting
uh this was definitely a uh different type of episode of the bugle weekly uh but i thank you
for filling in on uh short notice for rob absolutely richard i appreciate the time
Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell slop
Content farm Christmas that just won't stop
Scrolling through cheer like a dopamine drop
Yeah, Santa's optimized for clicks on top
Snowflakes fall like algorithm tricks
Influencer elves doing brand new kicks
Buy more joy is the corporate fix
A mistletoe kiss with a paywall twist
Oh, what fun it is to see
The pleb slops surf so merrily
Wrapped in bows of irony
A hallmark heart with no battery
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Bobbles of nonsense you can't unstop
We deck these halls till we all just drop
A Christmas made from recycled pop
Jingle bell slop in a sleigh ride haze
Masked on weed with a candy cane glaze
We're singing old songs and new cliché
Tintle on truth, but the shine decays
Grandma says honey, enjoy the night
But I'm doom scrolling by LED lights
It's chestnuts roasting in corporate rites
A festive fight for the cheapest flights
Oh, what fun it is to see
The pleb fog surf so merrily
Shane and perfect 1080
Sponsored joy from A to Z
Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell
Slop, buy one spirit, get one free hop
We toast a hope at the Photoshop shop
Marry memes that never quite pop
Ring-a-ling, hear them sing
Tastic angels on a plastic string
If Christmas is a mood, I'm buffering
But the slop still hits like everything
Deck the beat, repeat, repeat
Holiday highs from a peppermint tweet
We chase that cheer like a limited seat
Even our longing sounds
Offbeat
Oh, what fun it is to be
A sloth-fed choir of irony
Laughing through obscurity
Cause Christmas sold the warranty
Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell flop
A merry mess we can't photoshop
But raise your glass till the algorithms stop
Here's to Christmas in all our sloth
Kiss the cross