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    +title: "Bitcoin 2025 Vegas"
    +type: storyline
    +status: confirmed
    +kind: event-series
    +span: 2024-07 to 2026-04
    +aliases:
    +  - Satarize the System
    +  - Saturize the System
    +  - Satterize the System
    +  - Satire of the System
    +  - Sanitize the System
    +  - PODCONF Superbowl
    +  - PodCon Super Bowl
    +  - Spamming Vegas
    +  - The regulatory clarity conference
    +related:
    +  - podconf-industrial-complex
    +  - samourai-wallet-saga
    +  - boomer-problem
    +  - dennis-porter-saga
    +  - ordinals-civil-war
    +  - cigarette-money-donations
    +  - pledditor
    +  - bitcoin-2024-nashville
    +sources:
    +  - raw/episodes/satoshi-would-be-proud-bugle-weekly-episode-19/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/the-economy-is-still-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-21/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/fixing-the-cias-incentives-with-frank-corva-behind-the-podcast-episode-9/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/kim-jong-uns-strategic-reserve-bugle-weekly-episode-48/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/bitcoin-is-like-prison-with-junseth-behind-the-podcast-episode-13/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/bugle-easter-special-bugle-weekly-episode-56/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/truckin-down-the-rabbit-hole-bugle-weekly-episode-57/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/node-rape-run-rampant-bugle-weekly-episode-58/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/scaling-with-paper-bitcoin-ft-21-media-evan-kaloudis-and-rob-hamilton/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/the-coremunists-vs-the-knotzis-bugle-weekly-episode-59/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/satarize-the-system-and-samourai-wallet-with-frank-corva-zack-shapiro-jeremy-poley-and-the/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/moodys-says-nothing-stops-this-train-bugle-weekly-episode-60/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/eligible-bachelor-tatum-turnup-behind-the-podcast-episode-17/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/boomers-shitcoining-in-vegas-bugle-weekly-episode-61/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/spamming-vegas-livestream-with-fundamentals-and-erin-redwing/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/pressure-creates-good-ux-with-evan-kaloudis-btp-episode-18/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/grumpy-with-a-cause-bugle-weekly-episode-67/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/broccolispace-media-with-charlie-spears-btp-episode-19/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/a-vibes-revival-with-walker-america-btp-episode-25/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/predicting-bitcoins-future-with-paul-sports-btp-episode-27/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/the-truth-has-consequences-bugle-weekly-episode-95/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/my-quest-to-solve-bitcoins-great-mystery-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-3/bundle.json
    +---
    +
    +Bitcoin 2025 Vegas is the Bugleverse's longest-running event arc: the conference the
    +Bugle spent ten months anticipating, one week attending, and eleven months afterwards
    +refusing to stop talking about. In-universe it is not primarily a conference. It is a
    +place where you are allowed to smoke indoors, and everything else — the politicians, the
    +treasury companies, the ordinals, the erections — is weather.
    +
    +The Bugle's answer to it was [[events/satirize-the-system|Satirize the System]], the
    +show's first live event, staged on Fremont Street on the Wednesday of conference week as
    +a Samourai defense-fund benefit disguised as midget wrestling.
    +
    +**Who's in it:** [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] ·
    +[[characters/erin-redwing|Erin Redwing]] · [[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]] ·
    +[[characters/tatum|Tatum]] · [[characters/maggie-morris|Maggie Morris]] ·
    +[[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]] · [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] ·
    +[[characters/evan-kaloudis|Evan Kaloudis]] · [[characters/rob-hamilton|Rob Hamilton]] ·
    +[[characters/frank-corva|Frank Corva]] · [[characters/paul-sports|Paul Sports]] · Jeremy Poley
    +
    +**Related:** [[storylines/podconf-industrial-complex]] · [[storylines/samourai-wallet-saga]] ·
    +[[storylines/dennis-porter-saga]] · [[storylines/ordinals-civil-war]] ·
    +[[storylines/cigarette-money-donations]] · [[storylines/boomer-problem]] ·
    +[[storylines/pledditor]] · [[storylines/bitcoin-2024-nashville]]
    +
    +## The arc begins as a smoking complaint (2024)
    +
    +The storyline opens ten months early and for one reason. Fresh off Nashville,
    +[[characters/rod-palmer|Rod]] projects forward to a venue where the indoor ashtrays are
    +legal, and produces the anecdote he intends to tell his grandchildren: "I was at a a
    +plaid party in Las Vegas, and I shared a cigarette with the director of the CIA."[^cia-cig]
    +
    +Two weeks later [[characters/richard-greaser|Greaser]] supplies the causal theory the arc
    +never abandons — that Bitcoin Magazine relocated the conference to accommodate the
    +Bugle's campaign: "Bitcoin Magazine might have moved to Vegas this year, upcoming year, is
    +probably because they wanted to allow smoking in the conference."[^bm-moved] Rod claims
    +the win outright in the same stretch. Props are given.
    +
    +## Buildup (February–May 2025)
    +
    +The programming becomes the joke first. [[characters/frank-corva|Frank Corva]] can neither
    +confirm nor deny Greaser's exit question about the 2026 edition being held in Gaza, then
    +pivots to selling Vegas as the most deep-state conference ever staged.[^gaza-nondenial]
    +Greaser meanwhile files the objection that Bitcoin 2025's real scandal is its guest list:
    +"If Dennis Porter and Kim Jong Un are not allowed to speak at the conference, it will be a
    +massive strategic mistake."[^kim-dennis] By late April he has named the thing: the
    +regulatory clarity conference, on the grounds that "Dennis Porter rounded up all the
    +politicians. All the politicians he's been lobbying are gonna be speaking there."[^clarity-conf]
    +
    +Attendance planning proceeds along Bugle lines. A listener's boost becomes an announced
    +meetup inside sixty seconds — "Bitcoiners who listen to forty hours per week can dock.
    +We're gonna dock together in Vegas."[^docking] [[sponsors/40-hpw|40HPW]] and the
    +[[sponsors/comply-clothing-line|Comply]] lines are pitched as conference camouflage, "some
    +of the best ways to really" stand out in a crowd full of simps,[^merch-camo] and the
    +follow-up read doubles as the first on-air confirmation both hosts are going: "If you're
    +going to Vegas and you're doxxing yourself to all the spooks out there, like Ron and I
    +are,"[^doxx-spooks] — the ASR renders Rod as "Ron".
    +
    +Others announce their positions. [[characters/cory-klippsten|Cory Klippsten]], having
    +taken Greaser's advice to diversify his targets, will spend the week "standing outside the
    +slot machines"[^klippsten-slots] harassing gamblers on behalf of Swan.
    +[[characters/junseth|Junseth]] declines on doctrinal grounds: "I've adopted a new political
    +philosophy called, steampunk glutism."[^steampunk] [[characters/shinobi|Shinobi]] and
    +[[characters/luke-dashjr|Luke Dashjr]] are also out, which Greaser treats as a loss for
    +public discourse — "Shinobi won't be there. Nobody's gonna get called retarded at the
    +conference."[^absentees] Rod, unprompted, volunteers his one named debate target: "I'd I'd
    +still love to debate predator"[^debate-pledditor] — ASR for
    +[[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]], who Rod notes will not be there either.
    +
    +The Bugle also signs a truce. "Aaron invited us to in Scribe in Vegas": a media
    +partnership with the ordinals people sends Rod, Greaser and
    +[[characters/maggie-morris|Maggie Morris]] to [[characters/erin-redwing|Erin Redwing]]'s
    +event as accredited press.[^inscribe-deal] The embed is announced without embarrassment even
    +though Rod has declared for the Knotzis: "we're gonna be hanging out with, Aaron Redwing at
    +the, the Inscribing Vegas event"[^behind-lines] — ground zero, per Greaser, for node rapage.
    +Greaser will be wearing his No-rdinals hats
    +while he does it, defending the right to inscribe but preferring block space go to "non
    +KYC cigarette transactions."[^nordinals-hats] Commerce is planned in kind: "You're gonna
    +have the opportunity to buy non KYC cigarettes from me,"[^nonkyc-smokes] with autographed
    +packs of Marlboro Reds. Lightning liquidity is not planned at all, which is how the
    +catchphrase gets deployed as literal advice: "The the revolution will not have good UX. If
    +you wanna participate in the revolution,"[^bad-ux] have a game plan for bad UX.
    +
    +Greaser also spends the run-up predicting that Bitcoin maximalism will this year be ranked
    +alongside "other dominant world religions like Judaism and Islam,"[^religion] then asking
    +whether that implies an eventual war between them.
    +
    +## Satirize the System
    +
    +The counter-event is announced on 5 May: "First live event, Saturize"[^sts-announce] — the
    +System — Wednesday 28 May, seven to eleven Pacific, on Fremont Street, with midget
    +wrestling, non-KYC arcade games, a cigarette balcony, and a Samourai Defense Fund
    +fundraiser. Four days later it is stated as counter-programming without hedging: you might
    +have heard about the Bitcoin conference, that'll be happening too, but the event to be at
    +is "Satire of the System on Fremont Street on Wednesday night."[^sts-fremont]
    +
    +The rationale is stated as market research. Greaser gives the Bugle's founding premise as
    +demand against [[orgs/podconf|PODCONF]]: "They're tired of Podkoff. The reason why we exist
    +is because there was a marked demand for something other than Podkoff."[^podkoff-demand] Rod
    +frames the week as a merch war to be won by out-representing them.
    +
    +The venue is ideology. The Strip, where the conference is, is the most surveilled and most
    +KYC'd place on Earth; Fremont, by contrast, "is not that. Fremont Street is a
    +citadel"[^fremont-citadel] for crazy ungovernable misfits and loons. Jeremy Poley reports
    +having found the darkest available alley, rendering KYC physically impossible and
    +guaranteeing non-KYC arcade games.
    +
    +The mechanics are a donation with the donation hidden inside the fun: "we are doing a
    +trivia contest, that is, sponsored by the good people over at Zeus Wallet,"[^trivia] played
    +in the wrestling ring, with five dollars of every ticket and all raffle money routed to the
    +peer-to-peer rights fund — currently focused on the Samourai case. Poley's reasoning is
    +that anyone who has already got themselves to Vegas has already committed. He then leaves
    +to fetch noise-cancelling headphones and coins a catchphrase on the way out — "Gotta
    +recharge the headphones, boys. Time to recharge the headphones"[^headphones] — which Rod
    +canonizes on the spot.
    +
    +Distance to the event is measured in the local unit: the Fremont Street Steak and Shake is
    +"about the time that it takes to smoke three cigarettes"[^three-cigs] away, where a
    +sit-down with [[characters/adam-semeka|Adam Semeka]] is pretty likely.
    +
    +The ad read's high point is unplanned. Mid-stream, Rob Hamilton reports that 2,300
    +twelve-year-dormant Silk Road coins have just moved, and Rod annexes the news inside a
    +second: "It was Ross it was Ross buying tickets to satirize the system."[^ross-tickets]
    +Greaser's deadpan — there's a reason he started fifteen minutes late.
    +
    +Rod's invitation to [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] to come and roast the Bugle on stage
    +was declined: "yeah, I Plutator did not take up my offer to come to satirize the system and
    +roast us."[^pledditor-declines]
    +
    +## Conference week (26–28 May 2025)
    +
    +[[characters/timmy-tether|Timmy Tether]] plugs "Saturize the System, the Bugle's first ever
    +live show taking place on Wednesday night from seven to 11PM"[^timmy-plug] as almost sold
    +out. The episode itself is truncated for travel — "This is gonna be a short one. Rod's
    +gonna catch a flight out to Vegas"[^short-ep] — and shot through with what Greaser is
    +already seeing on the floor of the casino: "I'm reminded why democracy is so retarded. I'm
    +looking at all these boomers, spending all their Social Security on on the slot
    +machines."[^boomer-thesis] Rod offers the mitigating fact — Vegas is "a lot more respectful
    +to the rights of cigarette smokers"[^smoke-inside] — and Greaser accepts it as the silver
    +lining. He then volunteers to file field reports on the gamblers: "I'm gonna be sending
    +reports to Plutator this week of all the, the people that are gambling instead of, buying
    +Bitcoin."[^snitch-reports]
    +
    +The week's economic thesis is that the treasury-company boom has created "a CEO position
    +for every Bitcoin podcaster at a Bitcoin treasury company,"[^ceo-slots] so the reason to
    +attend is to apply — ideally to a boomer who has just lost his Social Security on the
    +slots. Rod notes the corollary: an incoming flood of memers shopping meme portfolios for
    +executive jobs is "honestly Pleader's worst nightmare."[^pledditor-nightmare] Against this,
    +Greaser observes that every conference has exactly two constants — the price dips, and
    +somebody announces a decentralized ID system that never ships. The graveyard runs
    +Impervious, "then it was, the Microsoft guys, then it was Sailor."[^did-graveyard] Rod sells
    +the Bugle's own event by the negative standard: "this isn't, you know, an announcement of
    +an announcement. This isn't a letdown like some of Dennis Porter's."[^porter-standard]
    +
    +[[characters/tatum|Tatum]], the most recent Behind the Podcast guest, "posted this afternoon
    +that he thought the conference was in Miami again this year"[^tatum-miami] and bought a
    +last-second flight. Rod's concern is chemical: "I hope that you packed hair tallow for you
    +know, formulated for the desert heat, not formulated for the Miami humidity."[^tallow-warn]
    +Tatum arrives with an agenda of his own — anti-boner underwear, his stated countermeasure
    +for interviewing [[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]] on camera, which he offers to
    +hand out;[^anti-boner] an apology tour, conditioned on a guest slot in return — "Vegas Vegas
    +is where I start my apology tour. Okay?"[^apology-tour] (Rod asks whether it is an apology
    +tour or a tour of things he will apologize for later; Tatum concedes the latter); and a DJ
    +debut, "Debut debut set, 10:00, Wednesday,"[^dj-debut] promising Levels at least ten times,
    +original mix only.
    +
    +Rod's sole piece of conduct advice concerns [[characters/mshodlnaut420|MsHodlnaut420]], the
    +running bit Fremont Street was built for.[^hodlnaut-fremont] She is, in Vegas, the only
    +grenade worth jumping on: "Miss Haldenott is trying to cock block"[^cock-block] — jump, and
    +free your buddy up, as long as she's not a fed.
    +
    +## The livestream (28 May 2025)
    +
    +The Bugle broadcasts from behind enemy lines — the ordinals side event, where Greaser
    +records the inversion the whole stream runs on: "I find it really strange to be surrounded
    +by people that are actually using Bitcoin."[^actually-using] [[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]]
    +turns up with a press pass, which upgrades the credentialed-journalist bit to a prop:
    +"You know I'm a credential journalist now? Why is that? Oh, because you got your press
    +pass."[^press-pass]
    +
    +News breaks live twice. [[characters/mike-brock|Mike Brock]] "has been spotted at the
    +Venetian,"[^brock-sighting] which converts instantly into a plan involving cigarettes, forty
    +hours per week and an Ayn Rand novel. And [[characters/erin-redwing|Erin Redwing]] walks up
    +mid-stream — "we're talking to one of the the the organizers here of spamming Vegas, Erin
    +Redwing"[^redwing-walkup] — for an unplanned interview whose first minute is unusable
    +because she is speaking into Greaser's voice-mod mic. Her read of the conference economy is
    +the sharpest thing anyone says all week: Bitcoin Magazine sold her event's tickets and takes
    +indirect shitcoin exposure without taking the heat, because "They like feds, but they don't
    +like Right. A token, for example."[^feds-not-tokens]
    +
    +The Bugle commits, on air, to inscribing something: "We're gonna do we're gonna do a bugle,
    +inscription. We just don't know exactly how we're gonna do it."[^bugle-inscription] Rod
    +anticipates the blowback. The event is plugged throughout — "It could be midget wrestling,
    +some good panels. It's gonna help go to help the samurai devs."[^live-plug] The outro's lore
    +drop is [[characters/terrence-yang|Terrence Yang]], who crashed the Mandrake event and
    +reports that he "does very much miss, fight with Shinobi in spaces"[^yang-shinobi] — Shinobi
    +being in Oslo at the Freedom Forum, which Rod files under Bilderberg.
    +
    +## Aftermath (2 June 2025)
    +
    +The post-mortem opens on the fake news desk, which names the frame: "This past week was
    +dominated by the PodCon Super Bowl. Influencers from all over the world gathered in Las
    +Vegas to discuss compliance,"[^podcon-superbowl] NGU, treasury companies and stablecoins.
    +[[characters/buster-cherry|Buster Cherry]] files the dispatch that becomes the episode's
    +dominant bit: "many women expressed their discomfort due to a large number of men walking
    +around with erections due to Dennis Porter being present at the event."[^porter-erections]
    +The headlines also plant the banana — "Justin Sun gave Ross a banana, a just stop ordinals
    +protester was arrested before being able to throw tomato soup on the ordinals
    +section"[^banana] — and record that "nothing out of the ordinary happened besides a couple of
    +lackluster Lynn Alden is hot chants,"[^lyn-chants] the meme having decayed from rallying cry
    +to contingency. The Bugle reports its own milestone through the desk rather than claiming it
    +directly: "The bugle had their first live event called Satterize the System, which was a
    +smashing success."[^sts-success]
    +
    +The main show is a two-hour purity-test tribunal. Rod's premise is theological: Vegas is Sin
    +City and therefore proves the test unpassable — "we are all sinners in the eyes of the Lord,
    +and we are all shitcoiners, in the eyes of Satoshi."[^all-shitcoiners]
    +[[characters/caitlin-long|Caitlin Long]] is added to the casualty list for trying to open a
    +stablecoin bank,[^caitlin-purity] which surfaces the live contradiction Greaser pounces on:
    +the enforcers issuing the purity tests are themselves big fans of stablecoins.
    +[[characters/maggie-morris|Maggie Morris]] is documented as having screamed "embrace the game
    +theory multiple times throughout the conference,"[^game-theory] to Dennis Porter's reported
    +annoyance. Greaser establishes Vegas as EMF-hostile — "[[characters/jack-kruse|Jack Cruz]]
    +won't even set foot in it because of all the EMFs"[^emf-vegas] — which pays off in the
    +tallow-as-sunscreen image the episode commits to hardest: seagulls dipping Steak and Shake
    +fries in "the the towel dripping down Tatum's face when he's walking down Fremont Street one
    +day."[^tallow-seagulls] The Dennis Porter bit reaches its final form as an overheard expo-hall
    +marital argument: "she didn't want a Dennis Porter boner. She wanted a love boner."[^love-boner]
    +Greaser's special underwear worked; Rod's did not; Rod exonerates the men.
    +
    +Rod closes with the doctrine that retroactively justifies the hour of complaints — a boring
    +Bitcoin is a captured Bitcoin, and therefore the freak show is the health indicator: "as long
    +as Bitcoin remains a freak show, as long as the Bitcoin commerce remains an absolute goon
    +spectacle,"[^ossification] it is not yet ossified. He hopes next year's is worse.
    +
    +## The long tail (June 2025 – April 2026)
    +
    +The event keeps producing canon for a year. [[characters/evan-kaloudis|Evan Kaloudis]]
    +attended and had his beer spilled by a flying midget — "we hung out in Vegas at the
    +conference. We got to know it. You came to satirize the system"[^evan-attended] — a charge he
    +partially contests on the record ("Not not most of the beer"). The same episode preserves the
    +conference's kickoff flex: [[characters/teddy-bitcoins|Teddy Bitcoins]] mocked Dennis Porter
    +for flying coach, and "Dennis posted a picture of his jet and said, I fly private."[^private-jet]
    +[[characters/hodl-magoo|Hodl Magoo]] is established as canon to have been one of the Satirize
    +the System wrestlers, entering from a trash can dressed in green;[^magoo-wrestler] he asked not
    +to be named. A Nostr booster is thanked for volunteer help on the night.[^booster-help] The
    +Bugle also threatens defection to BTC Prague should Vegas throw a Diddy party, while asserting
    +"New York Times publishing standards."[^nyt-standards]
    +
    +The event's most consequential downstream effect is reported by
    +[[characters/paul-sports|Paul Sports]], who credits a Bugle promo video — "there'll be, like,
    +people in tuxedos who kinda vaguely look like Michael Sailor. And then it was like, oh, but
    +then we're gonna have midget wrestling"[^sports-video] — with dragging him and multiple
    +extremely rich friends to a Samourai fundraiser. The hat, he notes, was never passed.
    +
    +Vegas outlives the Bugle's own coverage of it. The [[characters/rudy-dazzleworth|Pleb Slop
    +Pulitzer]] investigation retroactively places a Satoshi stakeout inside the same conference:
    +"A year ago, I flew to Las Vegas to meet him. He was scheduled to speak at the Bitcoin twenty
    +twenty five conference at the Venetian Resort."[^rudy-vegas] [[characters/adam-back|Adam Back]]
    +gave his million-dollar prediction from a stage that organizers "had christened the
    +Nakamoto"[^nakamoto-stage] — signal treated as omen.
    +
    +> irl: Bitcoin 2025 was held in Las Vegas, 27–29 May 2025.
    +
    +## The Bugle's own feed
    +
    +The accounts kept their own record of the week, and it corroborates the on-air version
    +almost line for line — the promotional apparatus, the purity tests, and the frame that
    +outlived everything else.
    +
    +### The promotional apparatus ("Spamming Vegas")
    +
    +The [[characters/richard-greaser|Bugle]]'s marketing for the trip never once called it a
    +conference. The pre-show for [[events/satirize-the-system|Satirize the System]] was booked
    +around the [[storylines/samourai-wallet-saga|Samourai]] case first and the venue second —
    +"We will be doing a stream tomorrow ... with @zackbshapiro and @frankcorva to discuss the
    +Samourai Wallet case and the ... Satarize the System event happening in Vegas"
    +— [[@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-05-14](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1922803402871800196)] —
    +which is the [[characters/frank-corva|Corva]]/[[characters/zack-shapiro|Shapiro]] stream the
    +page dates to mid-May. The livestream itself was sold under the house term for the
    +conference: the Bugle would be "reporting live from Bitcoin spam's ground zero"
    +— [[@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-05-27](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1927420119359123911)],
    +staged from the Las Vegas Illuminarium. The live-event announcement, when it came, was two
    +words and a photograph — "Satarize the System is live!"
    +— [[@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-05-29](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1927928928506892526)].
    +
    +![](/tweets/1927928928506892526-0.jpg)
    +
    +### Purity tests, on the record
    +
    +Greaser's post-mortem from behind the ordinals lines is the tribunal of the Aftermath
    +episode stated as autobiography rather than doctrine. He led with
    +the verdict on himself — "Rod and I failed so many purity tests by going to that event"
    +— [[@GreaserRichard, 2025-06-08](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1931565581024530618)] —
    +and closed it as a standing challenge to the arc's absent antagonist: "I'm surprised
    +Pledditor hasn't blocked me yet"
    +— [[@GreaserRichard, 2025-06-08](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1931565581024530618)],
    +which reads as the sequel to [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] declining the invitation to
    +come roast the show. The same post files the only unironic praise in the record — the
    +mid-stream walkup interview with [[characters/erin-redwing|Erin Redwing]] was, he reports,
    +the second time he had her on, and she is "truly a great event organizer and podcaster"
    +— [[@GreaserRichard, 2025-06-08](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1931565581024530618)].
    +The credentialed-journalist bit made flesh.
    +
    +![](/tweets/1931565581024530618-0.jpg)
    +
    +### The PODCONF Superbowl, one year on
    +
    +The frame the fake-news desk coined — the PodCon Super Bowl — never decayed. Eleven months
    +later Greaser was still deploying it as the [[orgs/podconf|PODCONF]] arc's fixed epithet,
    +un-hedged: "What else do you expect from the PODCONF Superbowl?"
    +— [[@GreaserRichard, 2026-04-23](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/2047357483413287119)].
    +Pressed on it the next day, he supplied the arc's tightest single-line thesis on what the
    +conference actually is: "It's not a freedom money conference. It's a paper bitcoin and
    +politics conference. The PODCONF Superbowl"
    +— [[@GreaserRichard, 2026-04-24](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/2047751207049986412)] —
    +a straight restatement of [[characters/erin-redwing|Redwing]]'s feds-not-tokens read from the
    +livestream. By April 2026 the term had generalised past Vegas entirely, applied to
    +staff-meeting prep at rival shops.
    +
    +![](/tweets/2045690479853916189-0.jpg)
    +
    +## Disputed
    +
    +**The Silk Road ticket price.** Within ninety seconds of the same livestream, the annexed coin
    +movement is reported as 2,300 coins by Rob Hamilton and Rod,[^ross-tickets] and as a super
    +secret VIP pass costing "exactly 2,003 coins" by Jeremy Poley. The record does not reconcile
    +the two figures and neither speaker corrects the other.
    +
    +**Two beats may belong to a different conference.** [[characters/sasha-hodder|Sasha Hodder]]'s
    +boost about a Vegas Bitcoin race — which becomes Greaser wanting the race run inside the casino
    +so he can chain-smoke through it, Rod bidding "four, one per hundred metres"[^cig-race] — airs in
    +February 2026 and never states a conference year. [[characters/shinobi|Shinobi]]'s prophecy,
    +that ticket sales are down and the remaining buyers are attending to confront him — "This is
    +gonna be Shinno. He's gonna be surrounded by all the people he's called retarded"[^shinobi-2026]
    +— airs in March 2026 and is explicitly about a Vegas conference still to come, i.e. 2026. Both
    +are filed here because no page yet exists for that event. Neither should be read as evidence
    +about 2025.
    +
    +> *Henry's note: the seeded version of this page was assembled from episode descriptions and
    +> headlines, and was wrong in three ways worth recording. It dated the arc 2025-05 to 2025-06;
    +> the record runs from July 2024 (the smoking complaint that starts it) to April 2026. It listed
    +> eight source episodes; twenty-six carry material, and one of the eight —* Clowns Against Knotzis
    +> *— carries none. And it credited [[characters/zack-shapiro|Zack Shapiro]] and
    +> [[characters/frank-corva|Frank Corva]] with conference "panel specials"; Corva's contribution in
    +> the record is a February 2025 sales pitch for Vegas as a deep-state operation, and Shapiro's
    +> appearance on the Satirize the System episode leaves no beat of its own. The seeded title also
    +> carried the ASR spelling "Satarize"; the event is [[events/satirize-the-system|Satirize the
    +> System]], though the raw renders it Saturize, Satterize, Satire of and Sanitize besides.*
    +
    +[^cia-cig]: [[transcripts/satoshi-would-be-proud-bugle-weekly-episode-19#t-2742|Bugle Weekly 19 @ 45:42]]. "plaid party" is ASR for pleb party.
    +[^bm-moved]: [[transcripts/the-economy-is-still-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-21#t-1079|Bugle Weekly 21 @ 17:59]].
    +[^gaza-nondenial]: [[transcripts/fixing-the-cias-incentives-with-frank-corva-behind-the-podcast-episode-9#t-5015|Behind The Podcast 9 @ 1:23:35]].
    +[^kim-dennis]: [[transcripts/kim-jong-uns-strategic-reserve-bugle-weekly-episode-48#t-395|Bugle Weekly 48 @ 6:35]].
    +[^merch-camo]: [[transcripts/kim-jong-uns-strategic-reserve-bugle-weekly-episode-48#t-3038|Bugle Weekly 48 @ 50:38]]. "compliant line" is ASR for the Comply line.
    +[^docking]: [[transcripts/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51#t-2709|Bugle Weekly 51 @ 45:09]].
    +[^klippsten-slots]: [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-3641|Bugle Weekly 55 @ 1:00:41]]. ASR gives Klippsten's first name as "Corey".
    +[^steampunk]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-is-like-prison-with-junseth-behind-the-podcast-episode-13#t-5238|Behind the Podcast 13 @ 1:27:18]].
    +[^doxx-spooks]: [[transcripts/bugle-easter-special-bugle-weekly-episode-56#t-2809|Bugle Weekly 56 @ 46:49]]. ASR renders Rod as "Ron".
    +[^inscribe-deal]: [[transcripts/truckin-down-the-rabbit-hole-bugle-weekly-episode-57#t-1241|Bugle Weekly 57 @ 20:41]]. "in Scribe" is ASR for Inscribe; "Aaron" is Erin Redwing.
    +[^clarity-conf]: [[transcripts/truckin-down-the-rabbit-hole-bugle-weekly-episode-57#t-1432|Bugle Weekly 57 @ 23:52]].
    +[^debate-pledditor]: [[transcripts/truckin-down-the-rabbit-hole-bugle-weekly-episode-57#t-1622|Bugle Weekly 57 @ 27:02]]. ASR "predator" — the To Catch A Predator parody name collapsing into the word it parodies. Not Matt Odell, who is named separately in the same episode.
    +[^religion]: [[transcripts/truckin-down-the-rabbit-hole-bugle-weekly-episode-57#t-2464|Bugle Weekly 57 @ 41:04]].
    +[^nonkyc-smokes]: [[transcripts/truckin-down-the-rabbit-hole-bugle-weekly-episode-57#t-3558|Bugle Weekly 57 @ 59:18]].
    +[^bad-ux]: [[transcripts/truckin-down-the-rabbit-hole-bugle-weekly-episode-57#t-3734|Bugle Weekly 57 @ 1:02:14]].
    +[^sts-announce]: [[transcripts/node-rape-run-rampant-bugle-weekly-episode-58#t-2901|Bugle Weekly 58 @ 48:21]]. ASR "Saturize the System"; the quote breaks at the cue boundary.
    +[^sts-fremont]: [[transcripts/scaling-with-paper-bitcoin-ft-21-media-evan-kaloudis-and-rob-hamilton#t-645|Scaling With Paper Bitcoin @ 10:45]]. ASR "Satire of the System"; the same episode also gives "satirize the system" and "sanitize the system".
    +[^fremont-citadel]: [[transcripts/scaling-with-paper-bitcoin-ft-21-media-evan-kaloudis-and-rob-hamilton#t-1234|Scaling With Paper Bitcoin @ 20:34]].
    +[^ross-tickets]: [[transcripts/scaling-with-paper-bitcoin-ft-21-media-evan-kaloudis-and-rob-hamilton#t-4446|Scaling With Paper Bitcoin @ 1:14:06]].
    +[^podkoff-demand]: [[transcripts/the-coremunists-vs-the-knotzis-bugle-weekly-episode-59#t-2666|Bugle Weekly 59 @ 44:26]]. ASR "Podkoff" for PODCONF.
    +[^hodlnaut-fremont]: [[transcripts/the-coremunists-vs-the-knotzis-bugle-weekly-episode-59#t-2743|Bugle Weekly 59 @ 45:43]]. ASR "miss Haldlemott".
    +[^behind-lines]: [[transcripts/the-coremunists-vs-the-knotzis-bugle-weekly-episode-59#t-3048|Bugle Weekly 59 @ 50:48]]. ASR "Aaron Redwing"; "Inscribing Vegas".
    +[^trivia]: [[transcripts/satarize-the-system-and-samourai-wallet-with-frank-corva-zack-shapiro-jeremy-poley-and-the#t-3446|Satarize the System and Samourai Wallet @ 57:26]]. Jeremy Poley has no page.
    +[^headphones]: [[transcripts/satarize-the-system-and-samourai-wallet-with-frank-corva-zack-shapiro-jeremy-poley-and-the#t-5533|Satarize the System and Samourai Wallet @ 1:32:13]].
    +[^three-cigs]: [[transcripts/moodys-says-nothing-stops-this-train-bugle-weekly-episode-60#t-2696|Bugle Weekly 60 @ 44:56]].
    +[^nordinals-hats]: [[transcripts/moodys-says-nothing-stops-this-train-bugle-weekly-episode-60#t-3266|Bugle Weekly 60 @ 54:26]]. ASR "Nordinals hats" for No-rdinals.
    +[^anti-boner]: [[transcripts/eligible-bachelor-tatum-turnup-behind-the-podcast-episode-17#t-560|Behind the Podcast 17 @ 9:20]].
    +[^absentees]: [[transcripts/eligible-bachelor-tatum-turnup-behind-the-podcast-episode-17#t-2228|Behind the Podcast 17 @ 37:08]].
    +[^apology-tour]: [[transcripts/eligible-bachelor-tatum-turnup-behind-the-podcast-episode-17#t-3304|Behind the Podcast 17 @ 55:04]].
    +[^dj-debut]: [[transcripts/eligible-bachelor-tatum-turnup-behind-the-podcast-episode-17#t-3348|Behind the Podcast 17 @ 55:48]]. ASR renders Avicii as "Vici".
    +[^timmy-plug]: [[transcripts/boomers-shitcoining-in-vegas-bugle-weekly-episode-61#t-279|Bugle Weekly 61 @ 4:39]]. ASR "Saturize the System".
    +[^short-ep]: [[transcripts/boomers-shitcoining-in-vegas-bugle-weekly-episode-61#t-306|Bugle Weekly 61 @ 5:06]]. ASR renders the show name "bweekly".
    +[^boomer-thesis]: [[transcripts/boomers-shitcoining-in-vegas-bugle-weekly-episode-61#t-322|Bugle Weekly 61 @ 5:22]]. Quote spans two adjacent cues.
    +[^smoke-inside]: [[transcripts/boomers-shitcoining-in-vegas-bugle-weekly-episode-61#t-479|Bugle Weekly 61 @ 7:59]].
    +[^snitch-reports]: [[transcripts/boomers-shitcoining-in-vegas-bugle-weekly-episode-61#t-525|Bugle Weekly 61 @ 8:45]]. ASR "Plutator" — the X purity-tester, not Matt Odell.
    +[^ceo-slots]: [[transcripts/boomers-shitcoining-in-vegas-bugle-weekly-episode-61#t-703|Bugle Weekly 61 @ 11:43]].
    +[^pledditor-nightmare]: [[transcripts/boomers-shitcoining-in-vegas-bugle-weekly-episode-61#t-760|Bugle Weekly 61 @ 12:40]]. ASR "Pleader's".
    +[^pledditor-declines]: [[transcripts/boomers-shitcoining-in-vegas-bugle-weekly-episode-61#t-790|Bugle Weekly 61 @ 13:10]]. ASR "Plutator".
    +[^tatum-miami]: [[transcripts/boomers-shitcoining-in-vegas-bugle-weekly-episode-61#t-829|Bugle Weekly 61 @ 13:49]].
    +[^tallow-warn]: [[transcripts/boomers-shitcoining-in-vegas-bugle-weekly-episode-61#t-843|Bugle Weekly 61 @ 14:03]].
    +[^did-graveyard]: [[transcripts/boomers-shitcoining-in-vegas-bugle-weekly-episode-61#t-994|Bugle Weekly 61 @ 16:34]]. ASR "Sailor" for Saylor.
    +[^porter-standard]: [[transcripts/boomers-shitcoining-in-vegas-bugle-weekly-episode-61#t-1676|Bugle Weekly 61 @ 27:56]].
    +[^cock-block]: [[transcripts/boomers-shitcoining-in-vegas-bugle-weekly-episode-61#t-2250|Bugle Weekly 61 @ 37:30]]. ASR "Miss Haldenott".
    +[^actually-using]: [[transcripts/spamming-vegas-livestream-with-fundamentals-and-erin-redwing#t-274|Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 4:34]].
    +[^press-pass]: [[transcripts/spamming-vegas-livestream-with-fundamentals-and-erin-redwing#t-696|Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 11:36]]. The diarization merges both voices into this cue.
    +[^brock-sighting]: [[transcripts/spamming-vegas-livestream-with-fundamentals-and-erin-redwing#t-2405|Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 40:05]].
    +[^redwing-walkup]: [[transcripts/spamming-vegas-livestream-with-fundamentals-and-erin-redwing#t-3091|Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 51:31]].
    +[^live-plug]: [[transcripts/spamming-vegas-livestream-with-fundamentals-and-erin-redwing#t-3499|Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 58:19]].
    +[^bugle-inscription]: [[transcripts/spamming-vegas-livestream-with-fundamentals-and-erin-redwing#t-3926|Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 1:05:26]].
    +[^feds-not-tokens]: [[transcripts/spamming-vegas-livestream-with-fundamentals-and-erin-redwing#t-4320|Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 1:12:00]]. The "Right." is a host's interjection folded into her cue by the diarization.
    +[^yang-shinobi]: [[transcripts/spamming-vegas-livestream-with-fundamentals-and-erin-redwing#t-7031|Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 1:57:11]].
    +[^podcon-superbowl]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-4|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 0:04]]. ASR alternates "PodCon" and "PodConf".
    +[^porter-erections]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-17|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 0:17]]. The cue packs Kailey Welch's toss and Buster's dispatch together.
    +[^banana]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-46|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 0:46]]. The same cue names the off-site critics as "Matthew Crater and Plutator" — ASR for [[characters/matthew-kratter|Matthew Kratter]] and Pledditor, two distinct people, neither of them Matt Odell.
    +[^lyn-chants]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-81|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 1:21]]. ASR "Lynn Alden".
    +[^sts-success]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-115|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 1:55]]. ASR "Satterize the System".
    +[^emf-vegas]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-184|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 3:04]]. ASR "Jack Cruz" for Jack Kruse.
    +[^all-shitcoiners]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-395|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 6:35]].
    +[^caitlin-purity]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-569|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 9:29]].
    +[^game-theory]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-720|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 12:00]].
    +[^tallow-seagulls]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-1631|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 27:11]]. ASR renders tallow as "towel" and "talo".
    +[^love-boner]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-2211|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 36:51]].
    +[^ossification]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-2549|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 42:29]].
    +[^evan-attended]: [[transcripts/pressure-creates-good-ux-with-evan-kaloudis-btp-episode-18#t-103|BTP 18 @ 1:43]].
    +[^private-jet]: [[transcripts/pressure-creates-good-ux-with-evan-kaloudis-btp-episode-18#t-2698|BTP 18 @ 44:58]].
    +[^nyt-standards]: [[transcripts/grumpy-with-a-cause-bugle-weekly-episode-67#t-3331|Bugle Weekly 67 @ 55:31]].
    +[^magoo-wrestler]: [[transcripts/broccolispace-media-with-charlie-spears-btp-episode-19#t-899|BTP 19 @ 14:59]]. ASR "Hanel Magoo"; also "Hoddle Magoo" earlier in the segment.
    +[^booster-help]: [[transcripts/a-vibes-revival-with-walker-america-btp-episode-25#t-5502|BTP 25 @ 1:31:42]]. ASR "saturize the system".
    +[^sports-video]: [[transcripts/predicting-bitcoins-future-with-paul-sports-btp-episode-27#t-7971|BTP 27 @ 2:12:51]]. ASR "Michael Sailor" for Saylor.
    +[^cig-race]: [[transcripts/the-truth-has-consequences-bugle-weekly-episode-95#t-3586|Bugle Weekly 95 @ 59:46]].
    +[^shinobi-2026]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-1034|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 17:14]]. ASR "Shinno". The beat is medium confidence and the conference year is inferred from the episode date, not stated.
    +[^rudy-vegas]: [[transcripts/my-quest-to-solve-bitcoins-great-mystery-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-3#t-686|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 3 @ 11:26]].
    +[^nakamoto-stage]: [[transcripts/my-quest-to-solve-bitcoins-great-mystery-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-3#t-730|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 3 @ 12:10]].