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The Emperor Has No Entropy | Bugle Weekly Episode 120
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diff --git a/wiki/episodes/the-emperor-has-no-entropy-bugle-weekly-episode-120.md b/wiki/episodes/the-emperor-has-no-entropy-bugle-weekly-episode-120.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e3e0fe32 @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +--- +title: "The Emperor Has No Entropy | Bugle Weekly Episode 120" +type: episode +status: confirmed +show: The Bugle Weekly +number: 120 +date: 2026-08-10 +sources: + - raw/episodes/the-emperor-has-no-entropy-bugle-weekly-episode-120/bundle.json +--- + +**The Bugle Weekly** — Episode 120 · August 10, 2026 · ~67 min + +Two weeks' worth of news lands at once. A Cold Card hardware-wallet security +exploit — first reported at the Lake Satoshi conference, sweeping an +estimated 1,500-2,000 BTC from victims — collides almost exactly with the +climax of [[storylines/core-vs-knots-war|BIP 110]]'s mandatory signaling +period.[^coldcard] [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] and +[[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] treat both as the same +reckoning arriving on two fronts: "the most secure, the most safe, the most +dependable thing to glaze... it was a true emperor has no entropy +moment."[^emperor] The BIP-110 chain forked off — and mined exactly two +blocks before dying. "One tenant has failed, and pretty much nobody +[disputes it]."[^failed] The hosts spend the second half on the saga's +winners and losers, credit [[characters/bitcoin-mechanic|Bitcoin +Mechanic]] with one of the fight's few substantive points, and read a +commentator's post-mortem taxonomy of the movement's personalities on +air.[^taxonomy] A post-credits update notes the remaining holdouts are +already voting on a Discord over which chain to hard-fork onto next.[^nextfork] + +## Arcs advanced + +- [[storylines/hardware-wallet-wars]] — the Cold Card exploit and its industry-wide fallout. +- [[storylines/core-vs-knots-war]] — BIP 110's activation fails; the saga closes, with a sequel seeded. +- [[storylines/boomer-problem]] — [[characters/puncher|Puncher]]'s arc continues into a peptide business. + +## Who appeared + +[[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · +[[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/justin-bechler|Justin +Bechler]] · [[characters/bitcoin-mechanic|Bitcoin Mechanic]] · +[[characters/fred-krueger|Fred Krueger]] · +[[characters/matthew-kratter|Matthew Kratter]] · +[[characters/robert-breedlove|Robert Breedlove]] · +[[characters/jimmy-song|Jimmy Song]] · [[characters/puncher|Puncher]] + +[[transcripts/the-emperor-has-no-entropy-bugle-weekly-episode-120|Read the full transcript]]. + +[^coldcard]: [[transcripts/the-emperor-has-no-entropy-bugle-weekly-episode-120#t-90|@ 1:30]]. +[^emperor]: [[transcripts/the-emperor-has-no-entropy-bugle-weekly-episode-120#t-68|@ 1:08]]. +[^failed]: [[transcripts/the-emperor-has-no-entropy-bugle-weekly-episode-120#t-119|@ 1:59]]; declared at [[transcripts/the-emperor-has-no-entropy-bugle-weekly-episode-120#t-2328|@ 38:48]]. +[^taxonomy]: [[transcripts/the-emperor-has-no-entropy-bugle-weekly-episode-120#t-3084|@ 51:24]]. +[^nextfork]: [[transcripts/the-emperor-has-no-entropy-bugle-weekly-episode-120#t-3798|@ 1:03:18]].