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Jeff Booth
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diff --git a/wiki/characters/jeff-booth.md b/wiki/characters/jeff-booth.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..75259e3c @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ +--- +title: Jeff Booth +type: character +portrait: /portraits/x-jeff-booth.jpg +status: seeded +discovered: mention-scan +sources: + - corpus mention scan (see scripts/discover-people.mjs) +--- + +> *Henry's note: listed because the universe keeps mentioning them — Price of Tomorrow author. This entry fills out as Henry replays episodes and news.* + +## Appearances +### Episodes (14) + +- [[episodes/are-the-aliens-zionists-bugle-weekly-episode-108|Are The Aliens Zionists | Bugle Weekly Episode 108]] — 6 mentions +- [[episodes/can-small-boobs-be-sex-symbols-bugle-weekly-episode-109|Can Small Boobs Be Sex Symbols | Bugle Weekly Episode 109]] — 4 mentions +- [[episodes/queen-of-canadian-paper-bitcoin-with-cryptomags-btp-episode-20|Queen Of Canadian Paper Bitcoin with CryptoMags | BTP Episode 20]] — 4 mentions +- [[episodes/powell-signals-everythings-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-27|Powell Signals Everything's Fine | Bugle Weekly Episode 27]] — 3 mentions +- [[episodes/build-back-better-with-mike-behind-the-podcast-episode-7|Build Back Better With Mike | Behind The Podcast Episode 7]] — 1 mention +- [[episodes/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15|Canada Needs 40HPW with Joey Temprile | Behind the Podcast Episode 15]] — 1 mention +- [[episodes/cypherpunks-use-ordinals-mode-with-erin-redwing-behind-the-podcast-episode-14|Cypherpunks Use Ordinals Mode with Erin Redwing | Behind the Podcast Episode 14]] — 1 mention +- [[episodes/emergency-broadcast-podcasting-under-attack|Emergency Broadcast: Podcasting Under Attack]] — 1 mention +- [[episodes/fixing-the-cias-incentives-with-frank-corva-behind-the-podcast-episode-9|Fixing The CIA's Incentives With Frank Corva | Behind The Podcast Episode 9]] — 1 mention +- [[episodes/humor-knotzi-police-state-bugle-weekly-episode-73|Humor Knotzi Police State | Bugle Weekly Episode 73]] — 1 mention +- [[episodes/pioneers-attend-university-of-bitcoin-bugle-weekly-episode-75|Pioneers Attend University Of Bitcoin | Bugle Weekly Episode 75]] — 1 mention +- [[episodes/scaling-with-paper-bitcoin-ft-21-media-evan-kaloudis-and-rob-hamilton|Scaling With Paper Bitcoin ft. 21 Media, Evan Kaloudis, and Rob Hamilton]] — 1 mention +- [[episodes/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1|Sly Goomba Thanksgiving Special | Behind the Podcast Episode 1]] — 1 mention +- [[episodes/the-dawn-of-white-goy-summer-bugle-weekly-episode-110|The Dawn Of White Goy Summer | Bugle Weekly Episode 110]] — 1 mention + +*Mention counts are mechanical (name matches incl. transcript misspellings); Henry verifies and annotates them.* + +## On the timeline + +Booth occupies a specific slot in the Bugleverse cosmology: the **macro podcast elder**, a sage whose long-form interviews are treated less as arguments than as ambient weather. The Bugle accounts have documented his standing across three years, and the trend line, per their reporting, is deflationary. + +> *irl: Jeff Booth is a real technology entrepreneur and author of* The Price of Tomorrow*, a fixture of the Bitcoin macro-podcast circuit. Everything below is the Bugle accounts' satire of that persona — not reportage.* + +### The macro elder losing his aura + +The earliest filings treat Booth as canon macro royalty whose influence is quietly slipping. [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] broke the decline as a wire story: the elders can no longer be counted on. + +> The Macro Elders are losing influence. A source says Jeff Booth interviews—even when featured along side Lyn Alden— don't crack the top 10 on Fountain these days. +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2024-04-23](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1782588682882441549) + +The elder canon is nonetheless load-bearing to the pedagogy. When pressed to justify Bitcoin to a skeptic, Palmer's fallback is a reading list, and Booth is on it beside [[characters/lyn-alden|Lyn Alden]]: + +> if you don't get it after listening to 40hrs of lyn alden, livera, @simplybitcoin, jeff booth, americanhodl, beedlove etc lecture credentialed economists on the definition of money … I don't have time to convince you. +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2024-11-13](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1856493002799346135) + +The signature Booth thesis — that deflationary technology makes Bitcoin *time* — is recorded with the flat sincerity that reads, in Palmer's hands, as both endorsement and diagnosis: + +> i think he's right that we need more podcasts about how "bitcoin is time" +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2026-02-15](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/2023065465011019888) + +[[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] locates the same corpus on the shelf between pharmaceutical-grade sedatives, filing Booth alongside [[characters/adam-back|Adam Back]] as the universe's two most reliable soporifics: + +> Having trouble sleeping. Should I listen to a Jeff Booth or Adam Back interview? +> — [@GreaserRichard, 2026-06-30](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/2071809854465810730) + +### The psychedelic turn + +By 2026 the accounts pivot from Booth-the-elder to Booth-the-seeker, chronicling a run of consciousness-expansion that reliably precedes his boldest claims. [[orgs/the-bugle|The Bugle]] ran the definitive scoop, complete with testimonial: + +> Jeff Booth credits Ibogaine for refreshed perspective saying, "it was a transformative experience with zero negative side effects. I feel like a new person!" +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-05-04](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2051348884987736540) + + + + +Palmer treats the chemistry as an epistemics multiplier rather than a discredit — the acid, in his ledger, improves the signal: + +> jeff booth might have taken a lot of acid but he sounds more convincing than nic carter. just my opinion +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2026-02-15](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/2022847829027287207) + +The same period produced the universe's most-circulated Booth rumor, filed by Palmer as an open question and never resolved on the timeline: + +> did jeff booth cheat on his wife with gloria in africa? +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2026-06-29](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/2071699020733440144) + +### Social capital, marked to market + +The elder's decline reaches its terminal quarter in mid-2026, when the Bugle begins reporting Booth's standing as an asset being repriced. The wordplay writes itself, and the Bugle lets it: + +> Jeff Booth's social capital is being marked to market next month and let's just say the price of tomorrow isn't the only thing that's deflationary. +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-05-04](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2051153379519287381) + +Palmer marks the moment of conversion bluntly, mourning the elder's descent into ordinary posting: + +> sad to see jeff booth become a retarded pleb +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2026-06-28](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/2071337779536036301) + +The recurring gag by then is Booth-as-stack-obsessive, the once-macro sage reduced to a single interrogation: + +> nobody: jeff booth: how many bitcoins do you own? +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2026-06-30](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/2071913762391494809) + +Greaser catalogues the audience's side of the transaction — the parasocial spiral a Booth interview reliably induces: + +> Don't trust verify means crashing out about what Jeff Booth said on a podcast +> — [@GreaserRichard, 2026-06-30](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/2072071132883349877) + +The Bugle had, as early as 2024, understood Booth's engagement value ran both directions — that his name is reliable rage-bait fuel: + +> In an effort to boost engagement, the next Bugle Weekly podcast episode will be titled "Jeff Booth Is a Communist" +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-08-26](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1828201955539247290) + +*Henry's note: the accounts hold two readings of Booth in superposition — reverent macro elder and washed pleb — and never collapse the wavefunction. Given his signature interest in quantum computers, the archive assumes this is deliberate.*