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diff --git a/wiki/storylines/barnminer-barn-jerky.md b/wiki/storylines/barnminer-barn-jerky.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7cdb218a @@ -0,0 +1,142 @@ +--- +title: "Barnminer & Barn Jerky" +type: storyline +status: confirmed +kind: character-arc +span: 2024-04 to 2026-06 +aliases: [Barn Miner, Bonn Miner, Barminer, Barmire, VonMiner, Barn Miner Jerky, Born Jerky, Non-KYC Jerky] +related: + - behind-the-podcast + - fountain-podcasting-2-0 + - cigarette-money-donations +sources: + - raw/episodes/comply-side-economics-101-bugle-weekly-episode-3/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/bitcoin-is-tax-affording-technology-bugle-weekly-episode-40/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/2024-recap-bugle-weekly-episode-42/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/protecting-your-daughters-from-breedloves-orange-pill-behind-the-podcast-episode-8/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/orange-pilled-pioneers-bugle-weekly-episode-63/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/be-a-good-example-bugle-weekly-episode-78/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/boomers-on-trial-with-bubba-intellectual-silk-road-episode-2/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-2/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/fundamentals-larps-as-a-journalist-bugle-weekly-episode-115/bundle.json +--- + +[[characters/barnminer|Barnminer]] is a home miner, a beef jerky smoker, and the +Bugleverse's longest-running demonstration that a listener can become a sponsor +without either party quite deciding to do it. Over two years he moves from a name +in a boost, to the show's advertiser, to its guest, to its gift supply — a +value-for-value loop that closes so completely the hosts eventually complain +about it. + +**Who's in it:** [[characters/barnminer|Barnminer]] · [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[sponsors/barn-jerky|Barn Jerky]] + +**Related:** [[storylines/fountain-podcasting-2-0]] · [[storylines/cigarette-money-donations]] · [[storylines/behind-the-podcast]] · [[storylines/war-on-bitcoin-mining]] + +## Recruitment (2024) + +Barnminer enters the record early, and not as a jerky man. In episode 3 he is +claimed for the [[storylines/war-on-bitcoin-mining|compliance camp]] as a miner +who stands to gain from a subsidised industry: "just like Barn Miner, he he's +definitely on the compliance bandwagon with us."[^comply] The identification is +the boost-reader's, and the spelling is his too. + +The jerky arrives at the end of the year, and it arrives as advertising. Episode +40 cold-opens on the [[sponsors/barn-jerky|Barn Jerky]] read before either host +speaks — a Bitcoin-only cowboy whose position on tobacco is settled: "I've been +smoking cigarettes since my very first rodeo."[^adread] The copy measures its own +heat against [[characters/lyn-alden|Lyn Alden]]: "Barn Jerky's grass fed smoked +beef jerky made with organic cayenne pepper sourced from the volcanic craters of +El Salvador is hotter than Lynn Alden."[^hotter] The episode then spends twenty +minutes relitigating the comparison the ad had already made for it. + +By the 2024 recap, [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] has worked out what the +arrangement is and named it. Barnminer boosts the show; the show buys his jerky: +"He boosts us. He engages with us in v four v."[^v4v] Rod's verdict on the loop is +that it is a thermodynamically sound venture. + +## The guest (2025-01-30) + +Barnminer appears on *Behind The Podcast* episode 8, and Rod's first question is +not about Bitcoin: "And Bonn Miner, are you are you slang in are you slang in beef +jerky? Are you slang in spicy beef jerky".[^guest] [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard +Greaser]] folds the product into the Bugle's noncompliance canon by inventing a +category for it — "So it sounds like there's a lot of demand in the market for +some non KYC jerky."[^nonkyc] Barnminer confirms he floated non-KYC cigarettes and +that nobody asked. + +The same episode gets his central heresy on the record. He hates Lightning and +bills over it anyway: "I hate lightning. It sucks. I hate lightning sucks for +sure. I use it because people use it, and I sell jerky".[^heresy] Half his revenue +arrives by a rail he despises, and the revenue is not the point — the proceeds go +to [[orgs/the-bugle|the Bugle]]. Greaser: "your born jerky donation to us. So you +donated over a 100000¢ to the Bugle, which we really appreciate."[^donation] +Barnminer prefers to think of it in fiat; Rod re-denominates it in USDT, for the +tax. + +## The gift economy (2025–2026) + +After PODCONF the thank-yous read as an inventory. Barnminer's contributions are +hardware: "thank you barn miner for the precision screwdriver,"[^screwdriver] +alongside a [[memes/40hpw|40 hours per week]] Zippo. A week later the boost segment +turns the same material sincere — "Barminer got Rod and I these really cool Zippo +lighters."[^zippos] — in a chapter about what it means to meet listeners. + +The loop strains in episode 78. Barnminer boosts 3,333 sats to scold Greaser for a +lapse in credentialed journalism: "as a credentialed journalist, Richard certainly +should have known that Run the Jewels were at a Bitcoin conference."[^scold] Rod +turns the complaint into a diagnosis — Barnminer is a good example of not focusing +time and energy on the right things, and he would rather the man spend that time +making jerky. + +The read survives into other shows. On *Intellectual Silk Road*, Rod works it into +a trucking segment: "don't you wish you had Barn Miner Jerky with you when you're +on the road?"[^trucking] The guest, Bubba, allows that he only got some after +retiring to Arizona and left it sitting for a couple of weeks — a sponsor read the +guest audibly fails. + +By late 2025 the jerky is simply present at the desk. Greaser, mid-record: "Barn +Miner gave me some, spicy beef jerky."[^onmic] Rod notes the pattern; the man is +now eating something spicy every episode. The final beat on record is not jerky at +all. In episode 115 Greaser reports that Barnminer mailed him a baseball yarmulke +for Christmas,[^yarmulke] which [[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]] rates the +least holy yarmulke ever made, but also the funniest. + +## Disputed + +This page previously carried a narrative seeded from episode descriptions and +headlines rather than from the record. Three of its claims do not survive contact +with the beats, and are corrected here rather than deleted: + +- **"Found wandering the streets drunk by Richard Greaser."** No source in the + index supports this. Barnminer's introduction on the record is as a miner on the + compliance bandwagon.[^comply] +- **The span "2024-12 to 2025-01."** Understated at both ends. The arc opens in + episode 3 (2024-04-09)[^comply] and is still running in episode 115 + (2026-06-30).[^yarmulke] +- **[[episodes/onwards-and-upwards-bugle-weekly-episode-41|Bugle Weekly 41]] as a + source.** No beat places this storyline in episode 41. The recap that names the + value-for-value loop is episode 42.[^v4v] + +The seeded page also framed *Behind The Podcast* episode 8 as an episode Barnminer +"receives" — a warning to fathers about Breedlove's orange pill. He is the guest on +it, and the jerky is the first thing asked about.[^guest] + +> irl: barnjerky.hashrootsinc.io is the storefront named in the episode 40 ad read, +> which also hawks Zippos, flasks, drink coasters and stickers powered by BTCPay +> Server. + +[^comply]: [[transcripts/comply-side-economics-101-bugle-weekly-episode-3#t-1826|Bugle Weekly 3 @ 30:26]]. ASR renders him "Barn Miner"; the referent is named as a miner riding the compliance bandwagon. +[^adread]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-is-tax-affording-technology-bugle-weekly-episode-40#t-3|Bugle Weekly 40 @ 0:03]]. The cowboy announcer is unnamed and is not necessarily Barnminer himself. +[^hotter]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-is-tax-affording-technology-bugle-weekly-episode-40#t-34|Bugle Weekly 40 @ 0:34]]. ASR: "Lynn Alden". +[^v4v]: [[transcripts/2024-recap-bugle-weekly-episode-42#t-1731|Bugle Weekly 42 @ 28:51]]. ASR: "VonMiner". +[^guest]: [[transcripts/protecting-your-daughters-from-breedloves-orange-pill-behind-the-podcast-episode-8#t-103|Behind The Podcast 8 @ 1:43]]. ASR: "Bonn Miner". +[^nonkyc]: [[transcripts/protecting-your-daughters-from-breedloves-orange-pill-behind-the-podcast-episode-8#t-284|Behind The Podcast 8 @ 4:44]]. ASR renders cigarettes as "spokes" in Barnminer's reply. +[^heresy]: [[transcripts/protecting-your-daughters-from-breedloves-orange-pill-behind-the-podcast-episode-8#t-2953|Behind The Podcast 8 @ 49:13]]. +[^donation]: [[transcripts/protecting-your-daughters-from-breedloves-orange-pill-behind-the-podcast-episode-8#t-3009|Behind The Podcast 8 @ 50:09]]. ASR: "born jerky", and "100000¢" for 100,000 sats. +[^screwdriver]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-3416|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 56:56]]. ASR: "barn miner". +[^zippos]: [[transcripts/orange-pilled-pioneers-bugle-weekly-episode-63#t-3250|Bugle Weekly 63 @ 54:10]]. ASR: "Barminer". +[^scold]: [[transcripts/be-a-good-example-bugle-weekly-episode-78#t-3220|Bugle Weekly 78 @ 53:40]]. ASR mangles him as "Barmire" / "Darmire" elsewhere in the segment. +[^trucking]: [[transcripts/boomers-on-trial-with-bubba-intellectual-silk-road-episode-2#t-6322|Intellectual Silk Road 2 @ 1:45:22]]. +[^onmic]: [[transcripts/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-2#t-1911|Bugle Weekly 83 Part 2 @ 31:51]]. +[^yarmulke]: [[transcripts/fundamentals-larps-as-a-journalist-bugle-weekly-episode-115#t-768|Bugle Weekly 115 @ 12:48]].