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diff --git a/wiki/events/maxi-madness-2026.md b/wiki/events/maxi-madness-2026.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cbff5f91 @@ -0,0 +1,210 @@ +--- +title: Maxi Madness 2026 +type: event +portrait: /portraits/event-maxi-madness.jpg +status: confirmed +aliases: + - MMM 2026 + - Maxie Madness + - Matchy Madness + - Influenza Playoffs +sources: + - raw/episodes/pleb-is-the-new-n-word-bugle-weekly-episode-98/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/behave-or-benjamin-netanyahu-bugle-weekly-episode-99/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-madness-begins-bugle-weekly-episode-101/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-importance-of-heroes-part-4/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/bitcoin-magazine-maxi-madness-victory-twitter-spaces-with-casey-and-erin/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/hard-lessons-for-plebs-bugle-weekly-episode-103/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/how-to-win-maxi-madness-with-rev-hodl-isr-5/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-plebs-killed-jesus-bugle-weekly-episode-104/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/podcasters-crashing-out-bugle-weekly-episode-105/bundle.json +--- + +**Editions:** [[events/maxi-madness|Overview]] · [[events/maxi-madness-2024|2024]] · [[events/maxi-madness-2025|2025]] · [[events/maxi-madness-2026|2026]] · [[storylines/maxi-madness|Storyline]] + + +> *Henry's note: rebuilt from the beat index — 48 beats across 10 episodes, coverage COMPLETE. The prior body cited quotes I could not verify against the cues; everything below is anchored to a beat.* + +**Maxi Madness 2026** was the third edition of [[storylines/maxi-madness|Maxi Madness]], the Bugle's open-source influencer-popularity tournament, staged across the second half of March 2026. [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] gave it its thesis on the way in — "Maxi Madness is the state of nature"[^nature] — and the year's structural innovation was that it ran as two brackets at once: the established Twitter/X promotion and an inaugural **Nostr edition** on Primal's beta zap-weighted polls.[^nostr-ux] With two brackets running at once, winning both would have made a contestant "the undisputed" champion — Rod's boxing-belt analogy, coined around Efrat Fenigson as the only entrant to reach both Sweet 16s;[^undisputed] nobody managed it. [[characters/casey-rodarmor|Casey Rodarmor]] took the X side;[^dogarmy] [[characters/rev-hodl|Rev Hodl]] took Nostr after knocking [[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]] out in the semifinals.[^meshtadel] By [[characters/richard-greaser|Greaser]]'s account, running it "is like taking a macro dose of acid."[^acid] + +## The rules + +The tournament was declared open source. Nobody needs the Bugle's permission to take part; entrants may use the Bugle's graphics, vote from a borrowed account, or delegate the whole thing — "It is the is the first open source"[^opensource] "Democratic influencer tournament with no rules except please respect the democracy," in the completed line. Rod calibrated the enfranchisement with the three-fifths compromise, ruling that a Nostr pleb's ballot — ASR "a vote from a a Plebron Noster"[^threefifths] — would count as three-fifths of an X vote, pending the Maxi Madness Committee. + +Governance was, per the running bit, offshored: the Bugle "outsourced the ballot counting and the ballot boxes to Israel,"[^israel] so any fraud complaint had to be handwritten to the Bugle's ambassador in Tel Aviv, Mike Huckabee. [[characters/benjamin-netanyahu|Benjamin Netanyahu]] supplied the pretext — investigating the count would get the Israeli counters killed. + +## The calendar + +Rod put the schedule on the record a month out: Selection Monday on March 16, play-in games "to decide who makes the final 64"[^calendar] the following Wednesday, and the bracket threads on Thursday the 20th, with Timmy Tether ([[media/timmy-tether-tonight|Timmy Tether Tonight]]) returning for coverage. The X bracket ran four regions — Node, Pioneer, PodConf and Hot.[^sweet16] Episode 101, airing the same Monday the bracket dropped, was billed as "the the calm before the storm"[^calm] before the tournament that ate the Bugle's March; [[characters/richard-greaser|Greaser]] dated his own *Importance of Heroes* recording to the moment after "the bracket drop … for Maxi Madness 2026."[^heroes] Rod predicted the crash-outs would begin not at tip-off but at the reveal, over who was left out.[^snub] Greaser, refusing to call the tournament a distraction, went further: "Maxi Madness very well could be the, start of the bull market."[^bull] + +## The X bracket + +The attested Sweet 16 pairings were read out in full — "Now Rob Hamilton versus Giacomo Siko"[^sweet16] (ASR for [[characters/giacomo-zucco|Zucco]]) — with [[characters/rob-hamilton|Rob Hamilton]], Zucco, [[characters/adam-back|Adam Back]], Casey Rodarmor, [[characters/samson-mow|Samson Mow]], defending No. 1 seed [[characters/yellow|Yellow]], [[characters/danny-knowles|Danny Knowles]] and [[characters/erin-redwing|Erin Redwing]] among the sixteen; NVK, Nifty, Uncle Rockstar, Efrat Fenigson, Chris Seder and Justine Harper filled the rest and have no pages of their own. The round's upset was Uncle Rockstar, who "shocked the world on Friday" by eliminating [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]] before the Sweet 16 — "He eliminated Michael Sailor."[^saylor] Efrat Fenigson, said to be the only contestant to reach both Sweet 16s, had beaten [[characters/lyn-alden|Lyn Alden]] after complimenting her first — "Efraad even did that against Lynn Alden"[^efrat] — the win that, per Rod, "basted Efrat's confidence." + +The X bracket went to Casey Rodarmor. The Bugle's own read on the win credited the ordinals "dog army": Greaser asked whether the meme-coin revival "was that the outcome of Maxi Madness with the dog army"[^dogarmy] helping Casey take it, treating the bracket as a market-moving event in its own right. The victory ceremony was not a Bugle production but a Bitcoin Magazine one, hosted on Twitter Spaces by the conference's X admin, Isaiah Austin — "I am the admin of the Bitcoin conference x handle"[^isaiah] — with Casey and Erin as guests and Rod as the aggrieved party. Rod's standing defense against the bot allegations was aired there: "the idea that bots are voting in Maxi Madness is pure speculation,"[^bots] the ballot being secret and the charge therefore unfalsifiable. Austin closed by pivoting straight into a conference discount code, "Use code x 10 for 10% off. See you."[^vegas] + +## The Nostr edition + +The inaugural Nostr bracket ran on Primal's beta zap-polls, where "you get your boat with your zaps instead of one man, one boat"[^zap] — ASR for a vote weighted by zaps rather than one-npub-one-vote, which Rod called social-capital price discovery. Greaser, who facilitated it, judged it early on "a lot less of a shit show than I anticipated,"[^shitshow] a verdict that did not survive the week. Greaser's theory of who wins a bracket like this was engagement above all — of Rev Hodl, "He's probably the most engaged … He's really milking it right now."[^milking] + +The launch produced the first mid-tournament recount in the tournament's history. Different users saw different totals on the [[characters/jack-dorsey|Jack Dorsey]]–Rev Hodl poll; the resolution was that "Rev Huddle had won. And in reality, Rev Huddle had won,"[^recount] disqualifying Dorsey. Because the [[sponsors/predyx|Predyx]] prediction market had already resolved for Dorsey — "The people were betting on Jack in the prediction markets"[^predyxbroke] — real sats were lost to a poll bug, which Rod waved off as the cost of "a tournament taking place on a beta feature like polls on primal."[^frontier] Rev Hodl's reinstatement was even settled on air, mid-boost, "because of a clerical issue."[^clerical] + +Rev Hodl's path to the title ran through the pre-tournament favorite. He credited the Meshtadel group chat — ASR "The Meshedale was the group chat that took down Odell in the semifinals"[^meshtadel] — with the upset of [[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]]. His campaign ran on physical bribes drawn from his own circular economy: "a jar of maple syrup from me, a pack of my cannabis seeds, a free ticket to Lake Satoshi,"[^bribes] plus a bag of [[characters/otis-bittmeyer|Otis Bittmeyer]] coffee. He also alleged, without naming a name, that someone had beaten Primal's web of trust with spun-up npubs to "juice it up with some some some men pumps that they spun up"[^npubs] in the prediction market's favor. + +## Prediction markets + +The Predyx markets were, in Greaser's framing, the ideological point: betting the bracket beats March Madness because "March Madness, sports polls, fiat," and "if you don't like that, then you don't like hyperbitcoinization."[^hyper] The tournament's own market outdrew the Bitcoin protocol's: Rod reported over 1.2 BTC of liquidity in a week against the [[storylines/core-vs-knots-war|BIP 110]] market's failure to clear a single Bitcoin in months, "literally the market telling you that that, Maxi Madness is bigger than BIP 110,"[^deathknell] which he read as a death knell for the Knotzi soft-fork push. By the results show the numbers were canon: "Bitcoin almost a Bitcoin paid out to winners who predicted Maxi Madness."[^payout] The whole exercise, Rod concluded, had "tossed we tossed some plebs, the value prediction markets"[^taught] — ASR for *taught* — and was worth it. + +## Prizes + +The bracket-challenge prize escalated from the previous year's BitAxe, cypherpunk stickers and Bitcoin candle to a real Bitcoin miner, which Rod turned into a virility bit at the BitAxe's expense — "little puny bit acts. Can barely get it up"[^miner] — with Greaser supplying the punchline that it was closed-source hash. The pool also included tickets to the Revolution Rocks Music Festival in Belgrade, Serbia, headlined by "the band Scar Dust"[^festival] — [[characters/noa-gruman|Noa Gruman]] and [[characters/lahav|Lahav]]'s Scardust, with Greaser DJing. [[characters/rob-hamilton|Rob Hamilton]] won the X-bracket pick-em; the Nostr pick-em winner remained unknown even to the hosts a week later — "Rob Hamilton who won the bracket pick them challenge, for the x bracket."[^pickem] + +## Controversies + +- **Election fraud.** Beyond Adam Back's bot accusations, American HODL "was accusing the bugle of using the Dominion"[^dominion] voting machines — the tournament's stolen-election discourse in miniature. +- **Distraction.** To the charge that the bracket distracted from monitoring geopolitics, Rod's answer was that the tournament itself qualifies: "It's a situation to be monitored,"[^situation] "a supplement, if anything." +- **Primal branding.** Maxi Madness rebranded red-to-blue, and when Primal's new logo followed — "the new Primal logo is blue, baby"[^blue] — Rod framed it as Primal copying the tournament after reaching out "in the back channels." Rev Hodl separately credited the bracket with load-testing Primal's new Spark wallet: "all this this lined up with Primal introducing the new, Spark based wallet."[^wallet] +- **Investigative excess.** Rod claimed to have FOIA'd a contestant's birth certificate — "I was able to find his birth certificate"[^foia] — Tim B's, through a "FOAI request." + +## Aftermath + +Greaser's law of the tournament held that "the least likely scenario is what always plays out."[^anything] Its emotional cost was scored by the outro songs: episode 102 played out on the Maxi Madness theme — "Teddy Bitcoins is in the building"[^song], canonizing [[characters/teddy-bitcoins|Teddy Bitcoins]] in the ad-lib — and the Rev Hodl interview closed on "Don't Crash Out," whose thesis was that the timeline "really wanna see you"[^crashout] crash out. For next year Rod floated giving Nostr the IDF courtesy: a roof-knock warning that "Maxi Madness is about to start and it's gonna go for a week,"[^idf] so plebs could evacuate or bunker in the group chats. + +The durable aftermath storyline was Noa Gruman, whom Greaser named "probably the most interesting thing in Bitcoin culture at the moment,"[^noa] the field having otherwise drifted back to watching the suitcoiners. + +> irl: Casey Rodarmor really created the Ordinals protocol; Predyx, Primal, and zap-weighted Nostr polls are real infrastructure being satirized at roughly face value. Primal's Spark-based wallet, the BIP-110 debate, and the ordinals "dog army" are live controversies of the era. + +## Note on the name + +The ASR mangles the event and its people freely. The tournament is rendered "Maxie Madness," and in the theme song "Matchy madness" and "Influenza playoffs." Nostr becomes "Noster" and "Nasr"; the recount hinges on "Rev Huddle"/"Rev Hoddle"/"Rev Hottle"; Predyx appears as "Predicts," "predates" and "PB"; the Meshtadel group chat runs through "Meshedel," "Meshedale," "Masjidel" and "Demesh Dadell"; and a vote is very often a "boat." + +[^calendar]: [[transcripts/pleb-is-the-new-n-word-bugle-weekly-episode-98#t-2738|Bugle Weekly 98 @ 45:38]] — "of play in games to decide who makes the final 64"; the full calendar runs t=2724–2771, with Timmy Tether announced at t=3013. +[^nature]: [[transcripts/pleb-is-the-new-n-word-bugle-weekly-episode-98#t-2845|Bugle Weekly 98 @ 47:25]]. +[^threefifths]: [[transcripts/pleb-is-the-new-n-word-bugle-weekly-episode-98#t-2959|Bugle Weekly 98 @ 49:19]] — "Plebron Noster" is ASR for "pleb on Nostr"; the split is spelled out at t=2969, deferred to the Maxi Madness Committee at t=2956. +[^opensource]: [[transcripts/behave-or-benjamin-netanyahu-bugle-weekly-episode-99#t-3211|Bugle Weekly 99 @ 53:31]] — completes at t=3219–3225: "the first open source influencer competent Democratic influencer tournament with no rules except please respect the democracy." +[^israel]: [[transcripts/behave-or-benjamin-netanyahu-bugle-weekly-episode-99#t-3251|Bugle Weekly 99 @ 54:11]] — quote spans cues 3249/3251/3253/3255; the Huckabee complaints procedure is at t=3386–3401. Huckabee has no page. +[^calm]: [[transcripts/the-madness-begins-bugle-weekly-episode-101#t-1083|Bugle Weekly 101 @ 18:03]]. +[^nostr-ux]: [[transcripts/the-madness-begins-bugle-weekly-episode-101#t-1093|Bugle Weekly 101 @ 18:13]] — "We're gonna be on Noster"; the UX prophecy lands at 18:20. +[^miner]: [[transcripts/the-madness-begins-bugle-weekly-episode-101#t-1181|Bugle Weekly 101 @ 19:41]] — "bit acts" is ASR for BitAxe; last year's prize set is named at 19:01–19:08, Greaser's "closed source hash" at 19:46. +[^festival]: [[transcripts/the-madness-begins-bugle-weekly-episode-101#t-1218|Bugle Weekly 101 @ 20:18]] — "Scar Dust" and "stardust" are ASR for Scardust; "Noah and Le Hav" = Noa Gruman and Lahav; Greaser's DJ claim at 20:44. +[^snub]: [[transcripts/the-madness-begins-bugle-weekly-episode-101#t-1303|Bugle Weekly 101 @ 21:43]] — the selection-committee answer follows at 22:34. +[^bull]: [[transcripts/the-madness-begins-bugle-weekly-episode-101#t-1393|Bugle Weekly 101 @ 23:13]] — quote spans cues 1393 and 1398. +[^heroes]: [[transcripts/the-importance-of-heroes-part-4#t-366|The Importance of Heroes, Part 4 @ 6:06]] — "for Maxi Madness 2026"; the sentence runs t=359–366, dating the recording after the bracket drop. +[^foia]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-54|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 0:54]] — "FOAI request" is ASR for FOIA; the target is Tim B / Timothy Bickland, who has no page. +[^shitshow]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-178|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 2:58]]. +[^recount]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-235|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 3:55]] — "Rev Huddle" is ASR for Rev Hodl. +[^predyxbroke]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-279|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 4:39]] — Predyx is rendered "Predicts." +[^frontier]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-300|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 5:00]]. +[^blue]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-353|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 5:53]] — Rod frames it as Primal copying Maxi Madness at t=331. +[^dominion]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-466|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 7:46]] *(medium confidence)* — subject is American HODL, ASR "American Huddle"; no page, and distinct from British HODL. +[^situation]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-650|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 10:50]]. +[^milking]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-1403|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 23:23]] — Greaser on Rev Hodl's engagement, "He's really milking it right now." +[^anything]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-1475|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 24:35]]. +[^sweet16]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-1544|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 25:44]] — "Giacomo Siko" = Zucco; "Aaron Redwing from Help Money" = Erin Redwing; NVK, Nifty, Uncle Rockstar, Efrat Fenigson, Chris Seder and Justine Harper have no pages. +[^saylor]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-1635|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 27:15]] — "Michael Sailor" = Michael Saylor; the victor Uncle Rockstar has no page. +[^efrat]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-1745|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 29:05]] *(medium confidence)* — "Efraad"/"Lynn Alden" = Efrat Fenigson / Lyn Alden; Efrat has no page. +[^undisputed]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-1826|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 30:26]] — the "undisputed champion" doctrine, coined around Efrat Fenigson as the only entrant in both Sweet 16s. +[^hyper]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-2843|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 47:23]] — "if you don't like that, then you don't like hyperbitcoinization." +[^clerical]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-2977|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 49:37]] *(medium confidence)* — read as the Dorsey/Rev Hodl recount settled live on the boost read. +[^song]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-3108|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 51:48]] — the Maxi Madness theme; ASR mangles "Maxi Madness" as "Matchy madness"/"Influenza playoffs." +[^isaiah]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-magazine-maxi-madness-victory-twitter-spaces-with-casey-and-erin#t-0|Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 0:00]] — Isaiah Austin, no page. +[^bots]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-magazine-maxi-madness-victory-twitter-spaces-with-casey-and-erin#t-138|Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 2:18]] — credits [[sponsors/podkoff|Podkoff]] with failing to disprove it last year. +[^vegas]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-magazine-maxi-madness-victory-twitter-spaces-with-casey-and-erin#t-3790|Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 1:03:10]] — the space opened the same way, "a month from Bitcoin twenty twenty six." +[^acid]: [[transcripts/hard-lessons-for-plebs-bugle-weekly-episode-103#t-243|Bugle Weekly 103 @ 4:03]] — quote straddles the t=233→243 cue boundary. +[^deathknell]: [[transcripts/hard-lessons-for-plebs-bugle-weekly-episode-103#t-503|Bugle Weekly 103 @ 8:23]] — "poor performance by the Nazis" (the Knotzis) at t=448, "death knell for BIP 110" at t=454. +[^zap]: [[transcripts/how-to-win-maxi-madness-with-rev-hodl-isr-5#t-36|ISR 5 @ 0:36]] — ASR renders "vote" as "boat" and "npub" as "end pub"; "price discovery" completes at t=47. +[^meshtadel]: [[transcripts/how-to-win-maxi-madness-with-rev-hodl-isr-5#t-323|ISR 5 @ 5:23]] — the Meshtadel group chat, ASR "Meshedale"; this is Matt Odell, not Pledditor. +[^bribes]: [[transcripts/how-to-win-maxi-madness-with-rev-hodl-isr-5#t-352|ISR 5 @ 5:52]] — the list finishes at t=358 with "Otis Big Meyer coffee," ASR for Otis Bittmeyer; Lake Satoshi has no page. +[^npubs]: [[transcripts/how-to-win-maxi-madness-with-rev-hodl-isr-5#t-950|ISR 5 @ 15:50]] *(medium confidence)* — "men pumps" is ASR for "npubs"; Rev declines to name the culprit at t=927. +[^idf]: [[transcripts/how-to-win-maxi-madness-with-rev-hodl-isr-5#t-1703|ISR 5 @ 28:23]] — the IDF-courtesy setup runs t=1674–1701; the bunker-down fallback at t=1716. +[^wallet]: [[transcripts/how-to-win-maxi-madness-with-rev-hodl-isr-5#t-1954|ISR 5 @ 32:34]] — Primal recolored its logo to Maxi Madness blue at t=1931. +[^crashout]: [[transcripts/how-to-win-maxi-madness-with-rev-hodl-isr-5#t-3788|ISR 5 @ 1:03:08]] *(medium confidence)* — the outro song "Don't Crash Out"; completes with "crash out." at t=3794. +[^pickem]: [[transcripts/the-plebs-killed-jesus-bugle-weekly-episode-104#t-3447|Bugle Weekly 104 @ 57:27]] — Greaser admits at 57:55 he still needs to reach the Nostr winner: "My bad." +[^payout]: [[transcripts/the-plebs-killed-jesus-bugle-weekly-episode-104#t-3509|Bugle Weekly 104 @ 58:29]] — ASR "predicts" for the prediction market. +[^taught]: [[transcripts/the-plebs-killed-jesus-bugle-weekly-episode-104#t-3544|Bugle Weekly 104 @ 59:04]] — chapter titled "We Taught Some Plebs to Value Prediction Markets"; "tossed" is ASR for "taught." +[^noa]: [[transcripts/the-plebs-killed-jesus-bugle-weekly-episode-104#t-4230|Bugle Weekly 104 @ 1:10:30]] — a later boost floats an unendorsed theory that Noa is Lyn Alden's alter ego. +[^dogarmy]: [[transcripts/podcasters-crashing-out-bugle-weekly-episode-105#t-2140|Bugle Weekly 105 @ 35:40]] *(medium confidence)* — "helping Casey win?" is the following cue at 35:46; Casey Rodarmor is the only Casey in the bracket. + +## Videos + +> *Henry's note: the Bugle's own Maxi Madness 2026 clips, archived from @bitcoin_bugle.* + +**🚨 BREAKING NEWS Investigative journalist @rodpalmerhodl discovered shocking information that could rock the very foundation of this years' #MaxiMadness🏀** + +<video controls preload="none" poster="/media/mm-2035783269338227178.jpg" src="/media/mm-2035783269338227178.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;background:#000;margin:.5rem 0;"></video> + +[Watch on X](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2035783269338227178) · 2026-03-22 + +--- + +**BREAKING: Casey Rodarmor releases new video to promote activation of $runes TURBO FLAG if he wins #MaxiMadness🏀 to motivate $DOG voters** + +<video controls preload="none" poster="/media/mm-2036540085563257006.jpg" src="/media/mm-2036540085563257006.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;background:#000;margin:.5rem 0;"></video> + +[Watch on X](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2036540085563257006) · 2026-03-24 + +--- + +**ICYMI: The #MaxiMadness🏀 Sweet 16 Recap w/ Timmy Tether** + +<video controls preload="none" poster="/media/mm-2036545979982233948.jpg" src="/media/mm-2036545979982233948.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;background:#000;margin:.5rem 0;"></video> + +[Watch on X](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2036545979982233948) · 2026-03-24 + +--- + +**Catch up with #MaxiMadness🏀 Final Four and get the scoop on who the last four Maxis are!** + +<video controls preload="none" poster="/media/mm-2036860062275182661.jpg" src="/media/mm-2036860062275182661.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;background:#000;margin:.5rem 0;"></video> + +[Watch on X](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2036860062275182661) · 2026-03-25 + +--- + +**#MaxiMadness🏀 is BRACKET SZN** + +<video controls preload="none" poster="/media/mm-2036949833886437735.jpg" src="/media/mm-2036949833886437735.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;background:#000;margin:.5rem 0;"></video> + +[Watch on X](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2036949833886437735) · 2026-03-25 + +--- + +**The #MaxiMadness🏀 Championship Begins at 9 AM ET** + +<video controls preload="none" poster="/media/mm-2037135465334047106.jpg" src="/media/mm-2037135465334047106.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;background:#000;margin:.5rem 0;"></video> + +[Watch on X](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2037135465334047106) · 2026-03-26 + +--- + +**As plebs mourn @ICOffenderII🍌🍞 being eliminated from #MaxiMadness🏀 it's important to remember to always stay humble and never forget that your time preference can ALWAYS be lower. 📽️ 'Bitcoin's Not Dead' - Coming to theaters this summer.** + +<video controls preload="none" poster="/media/mm-2037191120669593954.jpg" src="/media/mm-2037191120669593954.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;background:#000;margin:.5rem 0;"></video> + +[Watch on X](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2037191120669593954) · 2026-03-26 + +--- + +**The official #MaxiMadness🏀 anthem ▶️ Maxi Madness - @Noa_Gruman** + +<video controls preload="none" poster="/media/mm-2037362336927797372.jpg" src="/media/mm-2037362336927797372.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;background:#000;margin:.5rem 0;"></video> + +[Watch on X](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2037362336927797372) · 2026-03-27 + +--- + +**The $DOG Army group chat made a video for @rodarmor to celebrate him winning #MaxiMadness🏀 and promising to turn on the turbo flag** + +<video controls preload="none" poster="/media/mm-2037636135493447989.jpg" src="/media/mm-2037636135493447989.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;background:#000;margin:.5rem 0;"></video> + +[Watch on X](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2037636135493447989) · 2026-03-27 + +--- + +**JUST IN: @ufc’s Dana White with some advice for plebs crashing out about #MaxiMadness🏀** + +<video controls preload="none" poster="/media/mm-2038329612678074682.jpg" src="/media/mm-2038329612678074682.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;background:#000;margin:.5rem 0;"></video> + +[Watch on X](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2038329612678074682) · 2026-03-29 +