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No Second Best
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diff --git a/wiki/bits/no-second-best.md b/wiki/bits/no-second-best.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2a9086fd @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +--- +title: "No Second Best" +type: bit +status: confirmed +aliases: [There is no second best] +sources: + - raw/news/new-bitcoin-themed-strip-club-to-open-in-miami-before-bitcoin-2023-conference.json +--- + +**"There is no second best"** is [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]]'s signature declaration, a statement of Bitcoin's supremacy over all other assets that Saylor deploys in any context whatsoever. + +## Canon + +First documented use: endorsing his performance residency at the strip club [[companies/utxhoes|UTXHoes]] — "I'm honored to be a part of it and I know there will be no second best" ([[news/new-bitcoin-themed-strip-club-to-open-in-miami-before-bitcoin-2023-conference|New Bitcoin Themed Strip Club To Open In Miami]], March 2023). + +> irl: The phrase is Saylor's genuine, endlessly-clipped catchphrase about Bitcoin versus other cryptocurrencies. + +## As deployed by the accounts + +On X the phrase behaves less like a quote and more like a productive template — a slot the Bugleverse accounts fill with whatever object needs blessing or mockery that day. The line survives the source: it is invoked with and without [[characters/michael-saylor|Saylor]] attached, and its grammar ("there is no second best `<X>`") does most of the work. + +### The countdown + +The [[characters/rod-palmer|Bugle]] runs the phrase as a maintenance ledger — a mock news desk tracking how long it has been since the founding utterance, the joke being that a declaration of eternal supremacy still needs a day counter. + +> "🚨BREAKING: It has now been 148 days since @saylor said 'There is no second best crypto asset' 🤔" +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-04-02](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1907496471231930500) + + + +### Straight recitation + +At its most stripped-down the phrase travels alone, no object, no context — a benediction dropped into a reply thread or over an image and left to do its own work. + +> "There is no second best" +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-03-27](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1905290974944698705) + + + +> "@cryptoquick @cryptovcdylan There is no second best." +> — [@_podconf, 2025-05-08](https://x.com/_podconf/status/1920449889118367923) + +The attribution is sometimes made explicit, the phrase framed as Saylor's own instrument of correction: + +> "Just like @saylor letting shitcoiners know there is no second best." +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2024-07-23](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1815835194009788808) + +### The template extends + +Once detached from crypto assets, the slot accepts anything. The accounts fill it with people, platforms, and treasury vehicles — each declared to have no runner-up. [[characters/udi-wertheimer|Udi Wertheimer]] is nominated for a post that does not exist: + +> "methinks @udiWertheimer would crush as a paper bitcoin CEO. there is no second best mNav strategy executive" +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-07-15](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1945112383107539365) + +A platform is praised for the specific service of hosting [[characters/shinobi|Shinobi]]'s insults: + +> "@murchandamus there is no second best platform for having shinobi call your opinion retarded" +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-09-17](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1968385350860161360) + +And [[orgs/podconf|PodConf]] turns the phrase on itself, using Saylor's grammar to rank its own product line — first pairing Bitcoin with [[characters/timmy-tether|Tether]], later crowning its transcript feed: + +> "Bitcoin + Tether , no second best." +> — [@_podconf, 2024-05-24](https://x.com/_podconf/status/1794142813103198508) + +> "@BrainHarrington There is no second best. Every pod, with transcripts." +> — [@_podconf, 2026-07-14](https://x.com/_podconf/status/2077148521325646236) + +Henry's note: the [[characters/michael-saylor|Saylor]] catchphrase and the [[storylines/michael-saylor-saga|Saylor saga]] both rest on the same move — a maximalist absolute stated so flatly it becomes reusable. That the accounts apply "no second best" to Tether, a paper-bitcoin CEO, and their own podcast transcripts is the joke: a claim of singular supremacy, deployed second-hand, third-hand, and about everything.