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Max Shaft
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diff --git a/wiki/characters/max-shaft.md b/wiki/characters/max-shaft.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..62c7e3af @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +--- +title: Max Shaft +type: character +factions: + - The Bugle +status: confirmed +card: + id: inf-44 + tier: 3 + class: Political + faction: The Bugle + role: Mid + hp: 84 + atk: 35 +portrait: /portraits/inf-44.webp +wpUrl: "https://bugleverse.com/all-bugleverse-content/people/max-shaft-2/" +sources: + - "raw/cards/roster.json#inf-44" + - raw/wp-pages/people/max-shaft-2.md + - raw/news/cryptocloaks-launches-new-sex-toy-called-hashlight.json + - raw/news/new-bitcoin-themed-strip-club-to-open-in-miami-before-bitcoin-2023-conference.json + - raw/news/luke-dash-jr-to-launch-bitcoin-storage-solution.json + - raw/news/bitcoiner-gets-girlfriend-doesnt-know-what-to-do-next.json + - raw/news/joe-biden-brings-peace-to-inner-city-mempool.json + - raw/news/state-department-announces-partnership-with-compass-mining-for-new-softwar-initiative.json + - raw/news/european-bankers-desperately-calling-america-for-assistance-americans-have-no-idea-what-th.json + - raw/news/ftx-spokeswoman-gisele-bundchen-spotted-with-vitalik-buterin.json +--- + +Reporter at [The Bugle](https://bugleverse.com/all-bugleverse-content/companies/the-bugle-2/ "The Bugle"). + +## Arc history + +Shaft's earliest documented bylines establish his beat as The Bugle's correspondent for the adult end of the Bitcoin economy — a specialization his byline arguably predicted. He debuted in February 2023 with launch coverage of [[companies/cryptocloaks|CryptoCloaks]]' [[bits/hashlight|Hashlight]], filed in prose indistinguishable from the press release ([[news/cryptocloaks-launches-new-sex-toy-called-hashlight|Crypto Cloaks Launches New Sex Toy Called Hashlight]]). A week into March he broke the opening of [[characters/lyn-alden|Lyn Alden]]'s Miami strip club [[companies/utxhoes|UTXHoes]], securing quotes from the owner, two featured dancers, and [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]] ([[news/new-bitcoin-themed-strip-club-to-open-in-miami-before-bitcoin-2023-conference|New Bitcoin Themed Strip Club To Open In Miami]]). + +The first week of March 2023 was the most productive of his early career and broadened the beat from merchandise to the people who buy it. In a single three-day span he filed the [[companies/fyre-wallet|Fyre Wallet]] launch — [[characters/luke-dashjr|Luke Dash-JR]]'s "hot-ish-cold" storage venture with Billy McFarland, complete with the beta tester who had "only lost 11%" ([[news/luke-dash-jr-to-launch-bitcoin-storage-solution|Luke Dash-JR to Launch Bitcoin Storage Solution]]); the human-interest piece that opened [[storylines/bitcoiners-in-love|the romance arc]], on an anonymous Bitcoiner paralyzed by the acquisition of a girlfriend ([[news/bitcoiner-gets-girlfriend-doesnt-know-what-to-do-next|Bitcoiner Gets Girlfriend, Doesn't Know What to Do Next]]); and his first White House-adjacent assignment, covering President [[characters/joe-biden|Joe Biden]]'s [[bits/inner-city-mempool|inner city Mempool]] speech in Baltimore ([[news/joe-biden-brings-peace-to-inner-city-mempool|Joe Biden Brings Peace to Inner City Mempool]]). + +Mid-March 2023 broadened the portfolio abruptly upward, from the bedroom to the situation room. On a single day he broke the State Department's [[media/softwar|Softwar]] partnership with [[companies/compass-mining|Compass Mining]] — his first federal exclusive, opening [[storylines/softwar|the Softwar rollout]] ([[news/state-department-announces-partnership-with-compass-mining-for-new-softwar-initiative|State Department Announces Partnership with Compass Mining]]) — and The Bugle's first dispatch from [[storylines/banking-crisis-of-2023|the banking crisis]], on European bankers whose calls for help no American could understand ([[news/european-bankers-desperately-calling-america-for-assistance-americans-have-no-idea-what-they-are-saying|European Bankers Desperately Calling America for Assistance]]). A week later he was back on brand with celebrity romance, breaking the [[characters/gisele-bundchen|Gisele Bundchen]]–[[characters/vitalik-buterin|Vitalik Buterin]] courtship, 5-ETH hug and all ([[news/ftx-spokeswoman-gisele-bundchen-spotted-with-vitalik-buterin|Recently Divorced FTX Spokeswoman Spotted with Vitalik Buterin]]). + +Where [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] covers the coverage, Shaft covers the merchandise — and, increasingly, the loneliness that moves it. + + +## Appearances +### Episodes (1) + +- [[episodes/out-complying-the-competition-bugle-weekly-episode-1|Out Complying The Competition | Bugle Weekly Episode 1]] — 1 mention + +### In the news (3) + +- [[news/janet-yellen-declares-growing-poverty-as-transitory|Janet Yellen Declares Growing Poverty As Transitory, Tells America To HFSP For Now]] +- [[news/bitcoin-bekka-wont-make-me-a-sandwich|Bitcoin Bekka Won't Make Me a Sandwich]] +- [[news/holy-shit-the-ethheads-just-got-shanghaied|Holy Shit the ETH-heads just got Shanghaied]] + +*Mention counts are mechanical (name matches in transcripts); Henry verifies and annotates them.*