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diff --git a/wiki/characters/cory-klippsten.md b/wiki/characters/cory-klippsten.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0e878386 @@ -0,0 +1,452 @@ +--- +title: Cory Klippsten +type: character +portrait: /portraits/x-cory-klippsten.jpg +factions: + - Bitcoin Twitter + - PODCONF +status: confirmed +aliases: + - Cory Klipsten + - Corey Clipston + - Corey Clipson + - Cory Klipsch + - Corey Klipsch + - Corey Clipsch + - Cory Klipsen + - Corey Klitzden + - Corey Clipsta + - Corey Clifton + - Corey Klipsten + - Kokori +sources: + - raw/news/members-of-bitcoin-twitter-urge-antony-pompliano-to-resume-sponsorships-of-podcast.json + - raw/news/bitcoiner-who-stacks-25.json + - raw/episodes/abc-always-be-complying-bugle-weekly-episode-2/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/odell-and-iran-attack-ngu-bugle-weekly-episode-4/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-compliant-people-are-getting-involved-bugle-weekly-episode-6/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/powell-signals-everythings-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-27/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/bugle-weekly-episode-28-tldr-by-hr-specialists/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/orange-berets-march-in-bugle-weekly-episode-28/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/selection-autopsy-bugle-weekly-episode-34/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-first-responders-and-compliance-salesmen-bugle-weekly-episode-38/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/satoshi-is-jewish-behind-the-podcast-episode-3/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/female-influencers-the-apex-predator-with-mars-behind-the-podcast-episode-6/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/fixing-the-cias-incentives-with-frank-corva-behind-the-podcast-episode-9/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/dennis-porter-faces-headwinds-bugle-weekly-episode-47/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/kim-jong-uns-strategic-reserve-bugle-weekly-episode-48/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/is-this-the-god-candle-bugle-weekly-episode-49/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/1-year-anniversary-bugle-weekly-episode-52/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/apologizing-to-absolutely-no-one-bugle-weekly-episode-53/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/cypherpunks-use-ordinals-mode-with-erin-redwing-behind-the-podcast-episode-14/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/truckin-down-the-rabbit-hole-bugle-weekly-episode-57/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/broccolispace-media-with-charlie-spears-btp-episode-19/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/queen-of-canadian-paper-bitcoin-with-cryptomags-btp-episode-20/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-2/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/rising-above-slop-bugle-weekly-episode-84/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-quantum-quarrel-has-commenced-bugle-weekly-episode-90/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/musings-of-a-thinkboi-with-rob-warren-btp-episode-29/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/straight-out-of-distractions-bugle-weekly-episode-96/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/pleb-is-the-new-n-word-bugle-weekly-episode-98/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/hard-lessons-for-plebs-bugle-weekly-episode-103/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/are-the-aliens-zionists-bugle-weekly-episode-108/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/can-small-boobs-be-sex-symbols-bugle-weekly-episode-109/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-dawn-of-white-goy-summer-bugle-weekly-episode-110/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/happy-pleb-pride-month-bugle-weekly-episode-111/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/fabian-slop-summer-bugle-weekly-episode-114/bundle.json +--- + +> *Henry's note: rebuilt from the beat index — 57 beats across 37 episodes, plus the two 2023 news items, coverage COMPLETE. The previous body was a two-item mention list.* + +**Cory Klippsten** is the CEO of [[sponsors/swan-bitcoin|Swan Bitcoin]] and the +Bugleverse's most durable antagonist: the self-appointed shitcoin policeman the +show calls "the alpha Karen, of Bitcoin Twitter,"[^karen] whose in-universe +trading card brands him **slayer of shitcoins** and whose actual career the show +narrates as one long sequence of getting rugged, out-maxi'd, demoted and caught. +He is one of the four canonical **agents of number go up** — the men an enemy of +NGU identifies himself by attacking, "Corey Clipston… Dennis Porter… David +Bailey" and Michael Saylor.[^ngu] + +He is never a guest; he is a subject. Across three years the show tries every +frame on him — compliance salesman, Karen, sociopath, paper Bitcoiner, thinkboy, +Elmo — and the one it keeps returning to is the failed founder whose every pitch +is exit liquidity in a lab coat. + +**In it with:** [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · +[[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/guy-swann|Guy Swann]] · +[[characters/timmy-tether|Tether]] · [[characters/david-bailey|David Bailey]] · +[[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]] · +[[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]] · +[[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] · +[[characters/teddy-bitcoins|Teddy Bitcoins]] · +[[characters/erin-redwing|Erin Redwing]] · +[[characters/udi-wertheimer|Udi Wertheimer]] · +[[characters/brady-swenson|Brady Swenson]] · [[sponsors/swan-bitcoin|Swan +Bitcoin]] · [[orgs/podconf|PODCONF]] + +**Arc:** [[storylines/swan-bitcoin-scandals]] · +[[storylines/church-of-compliance]] · +[[storylines/podconf-industrial-complex]] · [[storylines/paper-bitcoin-menace]] +· [[storylines/maxi-madness]] · [[storylines/xrp-ripple-mockery]] · +[[memes/antiswantism]] + +## The compliance salesman (2023–2024) + +He enters the record from [[orgs/bitcoin-twitter|Bitcoin Twitter]] before he +enters an episode. In January 2023, bugle.news has him leading the community's +reappraisal of [[characters/anthony-pompliano|Anthony Pompliano]] — praising Pomp +for "a very good track record of supporting products that guarantee you to lose +money"[^pomp] — and hosts his timeline as the gathering point for followers who +decry "shitcoin scammers," part of the sentiment machine that sells +[[sponsors/swan-bitcoin|Swan]] to small stackers like +[[characters/btchodlvirginia|@BTCHODLVirginia]].[^shitcoiners] + +The show's read on Swan is fixed from the start: KYC is not surveillance, it is +customer intimacy. Stacking "$25 a week on Swan… pretty much secures you a tweet +reply from him,"[^tweetreply] whereas [[characters/brian-armstrong|Brian +Armstrong]] only collects the data. When [[characters/richard-greaser|Greaser]] +demands reciprocal KYC — he will verify himself only if the exchange's staff send +him *their* IDs — Swan is the first named refusenik, "I don't think Swan will do +that."[^reciprocal] The origin story is uglier still: the show's first Swan bit +is a spaces-sourced rumor that "Corey made [[characters/guy-swann|Guy Swann]] and +his brother CoinJoin their last names" — sued the family in 2019 into adding the +extra *n* to protect the brand.[^guyswann] + +His reputation rests on a piece of card canon. His Bitcoin trading card, dated to +the end of 2022 — two days after he took public credit for the collapse of SBF +and FTX — reads "slayer of shit coins,"[^card] and +[[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] likens the credit-taking habit to +[[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]] claiming strategic Bitcoin reserves. +The rest of the arc is the distance between that card and the man. + +## The Tether rug (2024–2025) + +The [[storylines/swan-bitcoin-scandals|Swan]]/Tether lawsuit — floated as "the +Swan song"[^swansong] — is the show's foundational Klippsten scandal. In its +telling, [[characters/timmy-tether|Tether]] "stole the secrets by listening to +all these podcasts,"[^podcasts] running the *We Study Billionaires* playbook on +Klippsten's own appearances, while "Swan's HR was recording job interviews to +steal ideas."[^hr] The verdict is that his error was timing, not principle: he +"did… in working with Tether"[^timing] partner with the company before it was on +Lightning, "a very big tactical mistake." He got rugged; he did not learn. + +His answer to being rugged is retreat and expansion. He "step[s] back and just +dominate[s] YouTube,"[^youtube] and Swan's ambitions metastasize — a Swanfluencer +corps ([[orgs/orange-berets|Orange Berets]] are measured as "a 100 x's what Corey +attempted to do with the Swanfluencers"[^swanfluencers]) and a plan to install +[[characters/ross-ulbricht|Ross Ulbricht]] as the face of its flagship podcast to +"heal their reputation" for being too compliant.[^ross] When a +[[sponsors/blockspace-media|BlockSpace]] story ties Ripple money to Swan, the joke +is Ripple's retraction — it would never invest in a company like Swan.[^blockspace] +By 2025 the treasury play he "attempted" is the model +[[characters/jack-mallers|Jack Mallers]] clones, "running a copycat company of +MicroStrategy, with Tether… following Corey's failed attempt."[^copycat] + +## The alpha Karen (2025) + +The apex-predator episode crowns him: "Corey Clipston is the alpha Karen, of +Bitcoin Twitter,"[^karen] and diagnoses his absence as the reason scammers now run +free. On the son-in-law tier list he is disqualified as "a scammer,"[^tierlist] +[[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]] ruling the bar simply too high for him to +clear. [[characters/erin-redwing|Erin Redwing]] supplies the sharpest charge — the +"ordinals are spam" narrative was pushed through the Swan media conglomerate for +business reasons, because ordinals fees "was a direct threat to Swan's business +model,"[^ordinals] and calls Klippsten "one of those, like, genuine sociopath +types." Rod later alleges [[orgs/podconf|PodConf]]'s own anti-ordinals turn was +bought, "probably Corey."[^podconfbought] + +In the [[storylines/maxi-madness|Maxi Madness]] tournament he becomes the negative +pole. He refuses to compete, loses in the first round, and spends the week +crashing out in Greaser's DMs alongside [[characters/brady-swenson|Brady +Swenson]][^crashout] — conduct christened "Teddy Bitcoins derangement +syndrome"[^tbds] after the nemesis of the piece, +[[characters/teddy-bitcoins|Teddy Bitcoins]]. His plan for Bitcoin 2025 Vegas is to +stand "outside the slot machines"[^vegas] harassing gamblers into buying Bitcoin +on Swan. He is durable enough to be shorthand: on the roll call of self-appointed +maximalists the DPRK has out-maxi'd — "than Corey, than David, than Terrence +Yang, then Platter, then Dick Whitman"[^rollcall] — and, briefly, a face, when +[[characters/mike-brock|Mike Brock]] loses a debate on the grounds that Greaser +"can't look at him and not see Corey Clipston."[^brock] + +By mid-2025 he is being demoted out of his own institutions. Once a fixture of +the bull-market ceasefire — "even Corey and David Bailey are exchanging +pleasantries"[^ceasefire] — and once credited, with Swan and Bitcoin Magazine, for +putting Trump in office,[^trump] he is stripped of his seat among +[[orgs/podconf|PodConf]]'s Four Horsemen "for anti-swanitism," the two Jacks +promoted in his place.[^horsemen] His endorsement had by then decayed into vetting +theatre: a candidate was seated in the bracket solely because "he was at a swan +salon with Corey."[^salon] + +## Antiswantism (2025) + +Klippsten is the referent of the [[memes/antiswantism|Antiswantism]] meme — the +in-universe bigotry of hating Swan for the wrong reasons. The definitional passage +names its practitioners, [[characters/stoney|Stoney]] and +[[characters/udi-wertheimer|Udi]], "being mean to Corey, unnecessary. Like, +there's a lot of reasons to be mean to Corey, but they're just doing it for the +wrong reasons."[^antiswan] Greaser styles himself Klippsten's chief defender — +"one of Corey's biggest defenders against anti-swanitism," noting Swan never lost +customer funds[^defender] — and invokes his rule from the +[[storylines/prime-trust-fallout|Prime Trust]]-era dogpile, when +"[[characters/hodl-magoo|Hottle Magoo]]… and Udi" dunked "left and right, looking +like LeBron James": once a man is on the ground, you break up the fight.[^dogpile] + +The defense is always immediately withdrawn. In the same breath Greaser rules that +Klippsten "learned absolutely nothing from getting his ass kicked"[^learnednothing] +and is posting the same aged plebslop; that Swan's entire content model is "copying +[[characters/pledditor|Pledger]]'s tweets like Corey has for the last four +years,"[^tweettheft] four years behind the slop frontline of +[[characters/pete-rizzo|Rizzo]]; and, in the value-for-value songbook, that "Kokori +and the swans" are "acting all high and mighty."[^kokori] The kindest frame on +record is still a demotion: "Swan was like the Sesame Street of Bitcoin education. +Corey is Elmo,"[^elmo] a franchise Simply Bitcoin has since taken over. + +## The paper Bitcoiner and the thinkboy (2025–2026) + +His late arc files him under [[storylines/paper-bitcoin-menace|paper Bitcoin]]. He +finally gets his [[events/paper-bitcoin-summer|Paper Bitcoin Summer]] and "showed +up with the meme leveraged"[^paperbtc] equities, then fell flat on his face. He +becomes the show's named villain of AI think-boying: he "fed all of +[[characters/mark-goodwin|Mark Goodwin]]'s work into an LLM"[^thinkboy] and posted +the incoherent output — "never a think boy. He always wanted to be a think boy. He +threw a conference to hang out with all the think boys." Swan's budget, Greaser +reports, went to [[characters/tucker-carlson|Tucker Carlson]] and then to "clawed +tokens" — Claude tokens — to manufacture reasons Howard Lutnick will crash +Tether.[^tucker] The founding sin is retrofitted onto him too: pleb-glazing as +marketing began "by individuals like Corey Clipston,"[^glaze] whose motive was to +ride the plebs into a Swan ICO, and failed. Rod's diagnosis by 2026 is clinical — +"Corey might have AI psychosis"[^psychosis] — over a $200-a-month AI dashboard for +high-net-worth families whose only apparent function is translating his own tweets. +He launches a new podcast, filed as proof that Gen X came into the summer flat +footed.[^podcast] + +## The XRP reveal (2026) + +His largest scandal lands last. [[storylines/prime-trust-fallout|Prime Trust]] +alleges Klippsten "had a secret group chat"[^groupchat] and used the inside +information to "withdraw all of his XRP just in the nick of time." The show files it +in the genre of the getting-caught scandal, alongside +[[characters/terrence-yang|Terrence Yang]] "caught… trading ordinals in the men's +bathroom"[^yang] in Nashville. Greaser defuses the pile-on with his signature +theology — "we're all shitcoiners in the eyes of the Lord"[^lord] — but Rod's +actual verdict is that the crime is taste: Klippsten's "shit… of choice is x r +p,"[^xrp] the lamest coin available, which he calls the funniest possible outcome. +The thesis is that holding [[storylines/xrp-ripple-mockery|XRP]] was "hedging by +betting"[^hedge] that Operation Chokepoint 2.0 would succeed — a bet against +Bitcoin's own case. The whole segment resolves into the episode's refrain: "you're +saying Corey is a shit corner… we know."[^weknow] The final reversal is that +Klippsten and [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] spent years snitching to the SEC +that shitcoins are securities, the market agreed and tokenized real securities, and +"Corey" embraced it while Pledditor keeps crashing out at his own thesis +winning.[^sec] The last word on him is that a "gay subsidy" is Swan's last chance +"to… get the exit liquidity Corey's been promising investors for years."[^exitliq] + +## The Bugle desk on Klippsten + +The wiki above is drawn from the podcasts; the Bugle's own accounts — +[@bitcoin_bugle](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle), [@GreaserRichard](https://x.com/GreaserRichard) +and the [[orgs/podconf|@_podconf]] handle — run the same man as a rolling news beat. The +posts are notable mostly for how faithfully they track the arc: every scandal the show +narrates surfaces later as a fake headline, and the fake headlines are, if anything, crueler. + +### The trading card, marked to market + +The [[sponsors/swan-bitcoin|Swan]] card that anchors the "slayer of shitcoins" bit gets its +own market report. In the Bugle's telling the 2022 "Most Valuable Bitcoiner" slab — Klippsten +dunking through the shattered backboards of FTX, Celsius and Terra Luna — has followed its +subject's career trajectory exactly: + +> Once valued alongside a holographic Charizard, ultra-rare Cory Klippsten 2023 "Most Valuable +> Bitcoiner" @btc_cards now down 99%. +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-05-28](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2060093322933231750) + + + +The card is real card-canon; the Bugle's contribution is to price it. A 99% drawdown on the +one artifact that ever called him valuable is the whole arc compressed into a collectibles listing. + +### Antiswantism as breaking news + +The [[memes/antiswantism|Antiswantism]] meme is the Bugle's most durable Klippsten format, +run straight-faced as civil-rights reporting. Its arc even has a demographic curve. In February +the desk reports the bigotry receding for the saddest possible reason: + +> SPLC report finds sharp decline in Anti-Swanitism as Cory Klippsten fades from plebs' memory +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-02-27](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2027457443010064517) + + + +By June the story flips: Klippsten is once again the *victim*, this time filing against the +franchise that inherited his Elmo throne — + +> Cory Klippsten accuses Simply Bitcoin® of Anti-Swanitism. +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-06-03](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2062208421831578068) + + + +[[media/simply-bitcoin|Simply Bitcoin]]'s pictured reply — a "ZERO TOLERANCE ON ANTI-SWANITISM" +graphic — is the joke folding back on itself: the accusation is honored and dismissed in the +same breath, exactly as [[characters/richard-greaser|Greaser]] does it on the show. + +### The Claude-token thinkboy + +The "clawed tokens" bit — Swan's AI budget going to manufacture reasons to dunk on Tether — +gets a leaked-memo treatment that is, for once, unhedged about the mechanism: + +> Leaked Swan Memo Reveals Cory Klippsten Reprimanded By Accounting For Exceeding Monthly +> Allotment Of Claude Tokens For Tweeting Causing A Low Level Employee To Be Laid Off +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-02-17](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2023892588613271834) + + + +The corollary to Rod's "Corey might have AI psychosis" diagnosis: the psychosis has a line item, +and a person lost their job to it. + +### The Prime Trust / XRP judgment + +The [[storylines/prime-trust-fallout|Prime Trust]] scandal — the secret group chat, the XRP +withdrawn "in the nick of time" — lands on the desk as a bankruptcy-court ruling, with +[[characters/hodl-magoo|Hodl Magoo]] and [[characters/udi-wertheimer|Udi Wertheimer]] recast +from anti-swanist dogpilers into aggrieved parties owed restitution: + +> Swan CEO Cory Klippsten owes Hodl Magoo and Udi Wertheimer both an apology. +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-05-19](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2056848188120642013) + + + +The image runs a laurel-eyed Hodl Magoo in a Santa hat against the Prime Trust booth — the same +"break up the fight" ethic the show preaches, adjudicated by a judge. + +### The name that crashed + +Greaser's own account supplies the most committed bit: a chart deck arguing the man took the +name down with him. Per the graphic's "Great Cory Crash Out of 2020–2026," the given name tracks +Swan's fortunes off a cliff: + +> Cory Klippsten killed the name "Cory". When Prime Trust collapsed and Swan fired all their +> podcasters, the popularity of the name Cory itself crashed. +> — [@GreaserRichard, 2026-04-14](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/2044081158862872762) + + + +The receipt offered is SSA data: "Cory" allegedly falling "from the 588th most popular baby name +to dropping out of the top 1000." It is nominative determinism run in reverse — where Rod once +mused a name change to "Corey Bitcoins" might have won him a Maxi Madness round, Greaser has the +existing name being *retired by the market* for underperformance. + +### PODCONF stands by its horseman + +Before the demotion "for anti-swanitism," the [[orgs/podconf|@_podconf]] account was on record +as a loyalist. Klippsten sat inside the movement's own liturgy of acceptable casualties — + +> We stand by Cory Klippsten and Robert Breedlove. People will get hurt along the way towards +> hyperbitcoinization. Accounts will be locked. This is actually the way. NGU At All Costs®. +> — [@_podconf, 2024-05-23](https://x.com/_podconf/status/1793775935369379991) + +— pairing him with [[characters/robert-breedlove|Robert Breedlove]] as a cost worth bearing. The +same account priced him on its influencer-selfie bounty board, a middle-tier target between the +podcasters and the titans: + +> Dennis Porter - 21k sats … Cory Klippsten - 50k sats … Saylor - 100k sats … Trump - 500k sats +> — [@_podconf, 2024-05-12](https://x.com/_podconf/status/1789738073028223270) + +At 50k sats he is worth more than [[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]] and less than +[[characters/michael-saylor|Saylor]] — a bounty ranking that reads, in hindsight, as the last +time [[orgs/podconf|PODCONF]] valued him above the [[characters/david-bailey|two Jacks]] who +would replace him. + +### The physical horseman + +One 2023 item predates the whole media arc and belongs to no scandal — Klippsten filed simply +as a body, training for a fight that never came: + +> Cory Klippsten Seen Training With Zuckerberg For Upcoming Bitcoin Fight Club +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2023-08-17](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1692165691728867496) + +An artifact of the brief 2023 window when the joke was that Klippsten might be dangerous, rather +than that he keeps getting caught. + +## Disputed: who knocked him out of Maxi Madness 2025 + +The record does not agree on which nemesis eliminated Klippsten in the first round. +In [[episodes/apologizing-to-absolutely-no-one-bugle-weekly-episode-53|episode +53]], Rod's nominative-determinism theory has him losing to +[[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]]: "maybe if Corey changed his name to Corey +Bitcoins, maybe he would have beat Matt O'Dell on the first rap."[^odell] A year +later, in [[episodes/hard-lessons-for-plebs-bugle-weekly-episode-103|episode 103]], +Greaser's callback has him losing to [[characters/teddy-bitcoins|Teddy Bitcoins]] +instead — the nemesis he "refused to compete" against and then crashed out +over.[^crashout] The show never reconciles the two accounts. + +## Note on the name + +The ASR cannot spell him. He is rendered **Corey Clipston, Clipson, Klipsch, +Klipsen, Klitzden, Clipsta, Clifton, Klipsten** and — in the value-for-value song — +**Kokori**, almost always with the wrong first name "Corey." A raw name-match for +"Klippsten" finds a fraction of him; every beat above was resolved from Swan, the +XRP holdings and the compliance framing rather than the spelling. The one genuine +trap is [[episodes/broccolispace-media-with-charlie-spears-btp-episode-19|BTP 19]]'s +"Corey McCormack," which fuses Klippsten with +[[characters/peter-mccormack|Peter McCormack]] mid-roster-update — the surrounding +cues demote them as two separate men. + +> irl: Cory Klippsten is the real founder and CEO of Swan Bitcoin, known for early +> public warnings about FTX and Celsius — which the Bugle repurposes as +> connoisseurship of failure — and for a real, protracted legal fight with Tether. +> bugle.news spells his surname both "Klippsten" and "Klipsten." + +[^pomp]: [[news/members-of-bitcoin-twitter-urge-antony-pompliano-to-resume-sponsorships-of-podcast|Bugle News, 2023-01-11 — "Members Of Bitcoin Twitter Urge Pomp To Resume Sponsorships Of Podcast"]]. +[^shitcoiners]: [[news/bitcoiner-who-stacks-25|Bugle News, 2023-01-12 — "Bitcoiner Who Stacks $25 A Week On Swan Shares Opinion On Shitcoiners And Fiat Maximalists"]]. +[^tweetreply]: [[transcripts/the-compliant-people-are-getting-involved-bugle-weekly-episode-6#t-523|Bugle Weekly 6 @ 8:43]] — Klippsten is ASR'd "Corey Clipston" at t=515. +[^reciprocal]: [[transcripts/powell-signals-everythings-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-27#t-530|Bugle Weekly 27 @ 8:50]] — "I don't think Corey will send me his personal information" follows at t=537. +[^guyswann]: [[transcripts/abc-always-be-complying-bugle-weekly-episode-2#t-2603|Bugle Weekly 2 @ 43:23]] — "Corey" established as the Swan boss at t=2509, pressuring "Sam Dallian" (Sam Callahan) with "I introduced you to your wife." +[^ngu]: [[transcripts/odell-and-iran-attack-ngu-bugle-weekly-episode-4#t-1050|Bugle Weekly 4 @ 17:30]] — "And they don't like Michael Sailor" follows at t=1056. "Corey Clipston" is ASR for Cory Klippsten. +[^card]: [[transcripts/female-influencers-the-apex-predator-with-mars-behind-the-podcast-episode-6#t-2804|BTP 6 @ 46:44]] — "Slayer of shit coins? Yeah. This this that Bitcoin trading card came out." Richard's setup at 46:20: "Absolute shame that Corey is not living up to what was written on his, Bitcoin trading card." +[^swansong]: [[transcripts/bugle-weekly-episode-28-tldr-by-hr-specialists#t-173|Bugle Weekly 28 (TLDR recap) @ 2:53]] — "You mean what some are calling the Swan song?" The AI recap's "some are calling" is unsourced and may be its own coinage, hence hedged. +[^podcasts]: [[transcripts/orange-berets-march-in-bugle-weekly-episode-28#t-2091|Bugle Weekly 28 @ 34:51]] — "Heather" is the ASR's mangle of Tether; the referent is fixed at t=2068 ("Well, that's what Tether was doing"). +[^hr]: [[transcripts/bugle-weekly-episode-28-tldr-by-hr-specialists#t-188|Bugle Weekly 28 (TLDR recap) @ 3:08]]. +[^timing]: [[transcripts/fixing-the-cias-incentives-with-frank-corva-behind-the-podcast-episode-9#t-2433|BTP 9 @ 40:33]] — ASR "Corey Klipsch"; "he did not wait for Tether to be on Lightning… a very big tactical mistake" at t=2438–2451. +[^youtube]: [[transcripts/dennis-porter-faces-headwinds-bugle-weekly-episode-47#t-1771|Bugle Weekly 47 @ 29:31]] — Rod voices Klippsten here; identified as Swan's at t=1710 and as having "got rugged by Tether" at t=1718. +[^swanfluencers]: [[transcripts/orange-berets-march-in-bugle-weekly-episode-28#t-834|Bugle Weekly 28 @ 13:54]]. +[^ross]: [[transcripts/selection-autopsy-bugle-weekly-episode-34#t-2538|Bugle Weekly 34 @ 42:18]] — "Ross Alpert" at t=2547 is Ross Ulbricht. +[^blockspace]: [[transcripts/is-this-the-god-candle-bugle-weekly-episode-49#t-1981|Bugle Weekly 49 @ 33:01]] — Ripple's stated grievance at t=2055 is that it "values profitable companies with influencer CEOs that… actually work on the company." +[^copycat]: [[transcripts/truckin-down-the-rabbit-hole-bugle-weekly-episode-57#t-2741|Bugle Weekly 57 @ 45:41]] — "Corey's" at t=2746; "Corey Clipson" is spelled out at t=1365 in the same episode. +[^karen]: [[transcripts/female-influencers-the-apex-predator-with-mars-behind-the-podcast-episode-6#t-2648|BTP 6 @ 44:08]] — Rod escalates to "the alpha apex Karen" at 44:23. +[^tierlist]: [[transcripts/satoshi-is-jewish-behind-the-podcast-episode-3#t-4371|BTP 3 @ 1:12:51]] — ASR renders the name "Corey Clifton"; read as Klippsten from the scammer framing. Fundamentals' ruling at t=4393: "I don't think Cory is exceptional enough to meet that bar now." +[^ordinals]: [[transcripts/cypherpunks-use-ordinals-mode-with-erin-redwing-behind-the-podcast-episode-14#t-1478|BTP 14 @ 24:38]] — Redwing calls him "one of those, like, genuine sociopath types" at 24:15. +[^podconfbought]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-4592|BTP 15 @ 1:16:32]] — "Probably Corey, that's Swan." The alternative payer "Master Creator" is unresolved. Hedged as an allegation. +[^crashout]: [[transcripts/hard-lessons-for-plebs-bugle-weekly-episode-103#t-1605|Bugle Weekly 103 @ 26:45]] — "and Brady were crashing out constantly in my DMs, the whole Maxi Madness"; "Swan didn't matter anymore" at t=1600. +[^tbds]: [[transcripts/apologizing-to-absolutely-no-one-bugle-weekly-episode-53#t-896|Bugle Weekly 53 @ 14:56]] — the setup at t=860: "he was like the guy that shows up to PE class and doesn't wear your gym shorts." +[^vegas]: [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-3641|Bugle Weekly 55 @ 1:00:41]] — completes at t=3644, "harassing people for gambling instead of buying Bitcoin on Swan." +[^rollcall]: [[transcripts/kim-jong-uns-strategic-reserve-bugle-weekly-episode-48#t-752|Bugle Weekly 48 @ 12:32]] — "Platter" is ASR for Pledditor, listed as distinct from Dick Whitman. The Kim grievance itself is at t=318: Kim "has done more for Bitcoin maximalism… than Corey, David, and Samsung combined" ("Samsung" = Samson Mow). +[^brock]: [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-6347|Greaser vs. Brock Debate @ 1:45:47]] — offered as a visual jab, resting on Brock's professed love of Los Angeles; no shared history is claimed. +[^ceasefire]: [[transcripts/the-first-responders-and-compliance-salesmen-bugle-weekly-episode-38#t-1303|Bugle Weekly 38 @ 21:43]] — "But as soon as the price stops going up, everybody starts…" follows. +[^trump]: [[transcripts/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51#t-911|Bugle Weekly 51 @ 15:11]] — "Swan Bitcoin and Corey Clipsta and David Bailey and Bitcoin Magazine," closing a list that begins with AIPAC, the CIA and USAID. +[^horsemen]: [[transcripts/broccolispace-media-with-charlie-spears-btp-episode-19#t-2562|BTP 19 @ 42:42]] — the roster completes at t=2570 ("and David"). "Corey McCormack" at t=2555 conflates Klippsten and Peter McCormack as two separate demotions. +[^salon]: [[transcripts/1-year-anniversary-bugle-weekly-episode-52#t-1513|Bugle Weekly 52 @ 25:13]] — the candidate is "Fred Kruder" (Fred Krueger). +[^antiswan]: [[transcripts/queen-of-canadian-paper-bitcoin-with-cryptomags-btp-episode-20#t-3892|BTP 20 @ 1:04:52]] — "Stoney Bitzen" is ASR for Stoney (Bitson). +[^defender]: [[transcripts/rising-above-slop-bugle-weekly-episode-84#t-3297|Bugle Weekly 84 @ 54:57]] — prompted by a boost defending Swan; Greaser's stated reason for the week's shitting is that Klippsten "was crashing out on, like, five of my posts… like I was talking to Bitcoin Keith Oberman" (Keith Olbermann). +[^dogpile]: [[transcripts/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-2#t-1440|Bugle Weekly 83 Pt. 2 @ 24:00]] — "Hottle Magoo" is ASR for Hodl Magoo. Greaser's rule at t=1464: "when somebody's on the ground… you kinda have to break up the fight." +[^learnednothing]: [[transcripts/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-2#t-1458|Bugle Weekly 83 Pt. 2 @ 24:18]] — "it appears that Corey has learned absolutely nothing from getting his ass kicked" at t=1486. +[^tweettheft]: [[transcripts/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-2#t-1730|Bugle Weekly 83 Pt. 2 @ 28:50]] — "Pledger" is ASR for Pledditor, the X purity-tester, not Matt Odell (unmentioned this episode). +[^kokori]: [[transcripts/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-2#t-2551|Bugle Weekly 83 Pt. 2 @ 42:31]] — "Kokori" is ASR for Cory, read from the pairing with "the swans"; the recording cuts on "Heroes to the blabs" (plebs) at t=2557. +[^elmo]: [[transcripts/rising-above-slop-bugle-weekly-episode-84#t-3495|Bugle Weekly 84 @ 58:15]] — Rod counters "Corey's Big Bird" at t=3504; the franchise passes to Simply Bitcoin at t=3552. +[^paperbtc]: [[transcripts/the-quantum-quarrel-has-commenced-bugle-weekly-episode-90#t-2756|Bugle Weekly 90 @ 45:56]] — "pay for Bitcoin summer" is ASR for Paper Bitcoin Summer; completes at t=2764, "fell flat on his face." +[^thinkboy]: [[transcripts/musings-of-a-thinkboi-with-rob-warren-btp-episode-29#t-803|BTP 29 @ 13:23]] — ASR "Corey Klipsen"; verdict at t=831, "he was never a think boy… He threw a conference to hang out with all the think boys." +[^tucker]: [[transcripts/straight-out-of-distractions-bugle-weekly-episode-96#t-2026|Bugle Weekly 96 @ 33:46]] — "clawed tokens" (Claude tokens) at t=2030, to argue "Howard Lutnick is the reason why Tether is gonna crash." +[^glaze]: [[transcripts/pleb-is-the-new-n-word-bugle-weekly-episode-98#t-947|Bugle Weekly 98 @ 15:47]] — motive at t=961: "he wanted to ride the plabs into an ICO of swan Bitcoin… And that failed." +[^psychosis]: [[transcripts/are-the-aliens-zionists-bugle-weekly-episode-108#t-3620|Bugle Weekly 108 @ 1:00:20]] — over a Predyx market on "the likelihood of Swan winning their lawsuit against Tether"; the dashboard is "a translation function" for his own tweets (59:11). +[^podcast]: [[transcripts/can-small-boobs-be-sex-symbols-bugle-weekly-episode-109#t-352|Bugle Weekly 109 @ 5:52]] — "Another Gen x just like last year coming into summer flat footed" at 6:00. +[^groupchat]: [[transcripts/the-dawn-of-white-goy-summer-bugle-weekly-episode-110#t-2083|Bugle Weekly 110 @ 34:43]] — "He was able to withdraw all of his XRP just in the nick of time" at 34:50. +[^yang]: [[transcripts/the-dawn-of-white-goy-summer-bugle-weekly-episode-110#t-2135|Bugle Weekly 110 @ 35:35]] — continues "trading ordinals in the men's bathroom," invoked as settled lore "a couple of years ago in Nashville." +[^lord]: [[transcripts/the-dawn-of-white-goy-summer-bugle-weekly-episode-110#t-2201|Bugle Weekly 110 @ 36:41]] — "the puns" is ASR for "the plebs." +[^xrp]: [[transcripts/the-dawn-of-white-goy-summer-bugle-weekly-episode-110#t-2257|Bugle Weekly 110 @ 37:37]] — "shit queen of of choice is x r p," where "shit queen" is ASR for "shitcoin." +[^hedge]: [[transcripts/the-dawn-of-white-goy-summer-bugle-weekly-episode-110#t-2318|Bugle Weekly 110 @ 38:38]] — completes "on choke point two point o to work" at 38:41. +[^weknow]: [[transcripts/the-dawn-of-white-goy-summer-bugle-weekly-episode-110#t-2383|Bugle Weekly 110 @ 39:43]] — "shit corner" is ASR for "shitcoiner"; built from the Trump comparison at 39:28 ("it's like saying that Donald Trump is sexist… We know"). +[^sec]: [[transcripts/happy-pleb-pride-month-bugle-weekly-episode-111#t-2790|Bugle Weekly 111 @ 46:30]] — "Platterer/Platter" is ASR for Pledditor; "Corey Clipston" at 46:23. Payoff at 47:07: "Platter is still crashing out… what he was explaining has now been embraced by the market." +[^exitliq]: [[transcripts/fabian-slop-summer-bugle-weekly-episode-114#t-1317|Bugle Weekly 114 @ 21:57]] — Greaser's question at 21:22: "Does this mean there's hope for Swan and Cory?" +[^odell]: [[transcripts/apologizing-to-absolutely-no-one-bugle-weekly-episode-53#t-1474|Bugle Weekly 53 @ 24:34]] — "first rap" is ASR for "first round"; this is Matt Odell, not Pledditor — the passage is bracket bookkeeping. Michael Saylor "lost in the championship" to Teddy Bitcoins in the same recap (t=1453).