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Charlie Shrem
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diff --git a/wiki/characters/charlie-shrem.md b/wiki/characters/charlie-shrem.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..df469959 @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +title: Charlie Shrem +type: character +portrait: /portraits/x-charlie-shrem.jpg +aliases: + - Charlie Schrem +status: seeded +sources: + - raw/episodes/abc-always-be-complying-bugle-weekly-episode-2/bundle.json +--- +Charlie Shrem is a Bitcoin figure known to the Bugleverse for exactly one +event: his appointment as a compliance officer. + +Reporting on the compliance-industrial hiring wave in *ABC: Always Be +Complying*, [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] placed him at the lightning +infrastructure company Voltage — "as I reported Voltage, the lightning +infrastructure company, just hired Charlie Schrem, to be their chief +compliance officer."[^voltage-cco] The hire arrives inside Rod's larger +account of DEI and ESG departments consolidating into compliance departments, +with chief compliance officer named as Bitcoin's next growth job — making +Shrem less a subject of the segment than an exhibit in it.[^voltage-cco] + +The wiki has nothing else on him. He is named once, in the third person, by +someone else; he does not speak, and does not appear again in the beat index. +See [[storylines/church-of-compliance]] and +[[storylines/woke-dei-satire]] for the arcs the mention belongs to. + +[^voltage-cco]: [[transcripts/abc-always-be-complying-bugle-weekly-episode-2#t-1577|Bugle Weekly 2 @ 26:17]]. The ASR renders the name "Charlie Schrem"; the quote is left as spoken. Voltage has no page of its own.