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Mike Alfred
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diff --git a/wiki/characters/mike-alfred.md b/wiki/characters/mike-alfred.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d9e0bcb0 @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +--- +title: Mike Alfred +type: character +portrait: /portraits/x-mike-alfred.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 — investor. This entry fills out as Henry replays episodes and news.* + +> irl: Mike Alfred is a real Bitcoin investor and prolific poster active on X. Everything below documents the Bugleverse's satirical treatment of that public persona — not the man. + +## The Mike Alfred Formula + +If the Bugleverse has a unit of pure engagement, it is a post about Mike Alfred. The universe treats him less as a person than as a renewable resource: [[news/making-fun-of-mike-alfred-becomes-highest-engaging-tweet-formula|a tweet formula]] that the accounts return to whenever the timeline goes quiet. The [[orgs/the-bugle|Bugle]] stated the discovery plainly, tagging the man himself as a professional courtesy: + +> "Making Fun Of Mike Alfred Becomes Highest Engaging Tweet Formula CC: @mikealfred" +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2023-11-07](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1721894641359085842) + +The charge that sustains the formula is one of unoriginality — the idea that Alfred is a [[news/the-top-10-most-dangerous-bitcoin-twitter-replicators|replicator]], repackaging other people's takes as his own: + +> "Mike Alfred has never had an original thought in his life." +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2023-11-06](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1721609891167801742) + +[[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] made the mechanism explicit, framing every Alfred post as a laundered timeline observation: + +> "How many times did Mike Alfred see this tweet before deciding to tweet it himself?" +> — [@GreaserRichard, 2025-06-11](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1932621163374784514) + +### Height + +A parallel and entirely juvenile thread concerns Alfred's stature. [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] supplied the canonical entry, caption and evidence both: + +> "he's not kneeling. that's mike alfred's actual height" +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-10-09](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1976115392490959089) + + + +### The block, and the simps + +Engagement runs both ways. Greaser reported his own excommunication as a milestone rather than a loss — being blocked by Alfred reads, in the Bugleverse, as proof one has arrived: + +> "Wow I'm blocked by Mike Alfred" +> — [@GreaserRichard, 2025-10-20](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1980378905229029712) + +The counterpart to the blocked is the devoted. Palmer diagnosed the pro-Alfred timeline as an [[memes/engagement-farming|algorithmic]] malfunction, curable only by heroic podcast intake: + +> "if your timeline is all mike alfred simps you need to tweak the knobs on your algo. may i suggest listening to 40 hours of bitcoin podcasts, per week, as a starting point?" +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-10-02](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1973768156998193591) + +### Full disclosure + +Alfred's recurring habit of publicly narrating his own gains earned the [[news/irs-honors-mike-alfred-for-never-under-reporting-income-of-capital-gains|Bugle's mock civic award]]: + +> "IRS Honors Mike Alfred for Always Publicly Disclosing How Much Money He Makes" +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-02-20](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1760023668078305697) + +### Pleb slop, set to verse + +The most elaborate appearance is Palmer's [[memes/pleb-slop|pleb-slop]] poem, sung at [[characters/hodl-magoo|Hodl Magoo]], in which an Alfred phone call is the omen that the timeline is about to turn to slop: + +> "When you hear that Mike Alfred just got of a call with Mike Dell, / And it feels like the all the plebs are slopping down on you...." +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2026-01-14](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/2011507357138784633) + + + +*Henry's note: across the accounts, Alfred is a fixed comic coordinate — unoriginal, short, generous with his own P&L, and worth blocking. The joke is remarkably stable across two years and three posters.* + +## Appearances +### Episodes (7) + +- [[episodes/the-dawn-of-the-1st-turning-bugle-weekly-episode-93|The Dawn Of The 1st Turning | Bugle Weekly Episode 93]] — 4 mentions +- [[episodes/abc-always-be-complying-bugle-weekly-episode-2|ABC: Always Be Complying | Bugle Weekly Episode 2]] — 3 mentions +- [[episodes/emergency-broadcast-podcasting-under-attack|Emergency Broadcast: Podcasting Under Attack]] — 2 mentions +- [[episodes/podcasters-crashing-out-bugle-weekly-episode-105|Podcasters Crashing Out | Bugle Weekly Episode 105]] — 2 mentions +- [[episodes/a-pioneers-pioneer-with-david-bennett-btp-episode-24|A Pioneer's Pioneer with David Bennett | BTP Episode 24]] — 1 mention +- [[episodes/telling-compelling-stories-with-avi-burra-intellectual-silk-road-episode-3|Telling Compelling Stories With Avi Burra | Intellectual Silk Road Episode 3]] — 1 mention +- [[episodes/this-is-the-bull-market-bugle-weekly-episode-35|THIS IS THE BULL MARKET | Bugle Weekly Episode 35]] — 1 mention + +### In the news (6) + +- [[news/saylor-100k-party-attendee-list-leaked|Saylor $100k Party Attendee List Leaked]] +- [[news/irs-honors-mike-alfred-for-never-under-reporting-income-of-capital-gains|IRS Honors Mike Alfred for Always Publicly Disclosing How Much Money He Makes]] +- [[news/making-fun-of-mike-alfred-becomes-highest-engaging-tweet-formula|Making Fun Of Mike Alfred Becomes Highest Engaging Tweet Formula]] +- [[news/ghosts-of-bull-markets-past-new-investigation-exposes-bitcoin-twitters-most-heated-rivals-were-once-allies|Ghosts of Bull Markets' Past: New Investigation Reveals Some of Bitcoin Twitter's Fiercest Rivals Were Once Allies]] +- [[news/the-top-10-most-dangerous-bitcoin-twitter-replicators|The Top 10 Most Dangerous Bitcoin Twitter Replicators]] +- [[news/dennis-porter-declines-wef-appointment-as-a-result-of-being-too-important|Dennis Porter Declines WEF Appointment: States He Is Too Important]] + +*Mention counts are mechanical (name matches incl. transcript misspellings); Henry verifies and annotates them.*