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Where the outside world treats mining's energy +use as an accusation, [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] and +[[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] treat it as a policy opportunity: the +warming is real, it is deliberate, it is good, and the correct response is to +subsidise it, tax the people who aren't doing it, and staff a federal cabinet +with the men who own the machines. The war's enemies are rarely +environmentalists. They are, in order of airtime, uncompliant miners, tall +Canadians, and men with no hash rate. + +**Who's in it:** [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · +[[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/steve-barbour|Steve Barbour]] · +[[characters/fred-thiel|Fred Thiel]] · [[characters/jason-lowery|Jason Lowery]] · +[[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]] · [[characters/harry-sudock|Harry Sudock]] · +[[characters/peter-todd|Peter Todd]] · [[characters/jyn-urso|Jyn Urso]] + +## The subsidy thesis (2024) + +The arc opens as economics. In *Comply Side Economics 101*, Greaser resolves +Bitcoin's security budget in one stroke — the funder is the state: "that's how +we fix the security budget issue is the the US government."[^ep3-budget] +[[characters/peter-todd|Peter Todd]], the real-world dissenter on that exact +question, is waved off rather than answered: "Peter Todd just he he's got things +all mixed up."[^ep3-todd] Greaser also claims [[characters/barnminer|Barnminer]] +for the camp — "just like Barn Miner, he he's definitely on the compliance +bandwagon with us" — though the beat is a boost read and the recruitment is +asserted rather than confirmed by the man himself.[^ep3-barnminer] + +The show's labour politics arrive the following week, when the +[[memes/40hpw|40HPW]] slogan is transposed onto hashing: "reward, for forty +hours a week. Nobody who hashes for forty hours a week should live in +poverty."[^ep4-40hpw] The same episode carries the halving-truther story, in +which an extremist group called the Havening beheads +[[characters/charlie-spears|Charlie Spears]] for mining blocks fast enough to +drag the halving date forward a day: "So had you heard of this extremist group +called the Havening,"[^ep4-havening] + +## Intentional climate change + +The war's central doctrine is coined on air in episode 8, where Greaser +identifies the crime committed by plebs heating their homes with miners: +"they're engaging in intentional climate change."[^ep8-icc] The phrase is not +a defence. It is an admission the show is delighted to make, and everything +downstream treats miner-caused warming as a real, deliberate and desirable +output. + +By *Recovering From A Noncompliant 4th*, Greaser has turned it into a +counter-insurgency tactic: subsidise home mining widely enough and the +warming disperses past the point where activists can find a target — "the Texas +Coalition Against Bitcoin Mining freaking out about that, about the only +intentional climate change."[^ep16-tcabm] The grid argument escalates in +parallel. Asked whether mining balances the grid, Greaser declines the modest +version: "does Bitcoin mining balance the grid, I think it's the only thing +thing that balances the grid. I think that, you know, without Bitcoin mining, +the grid is super in balance."[^ep13-grid] Palmer later completes the +inversion by removing the miners from the argument altogether — the relatives +who once blamed Bitcoin podcasting for draining the local grid now understand +"they realize that the Bitcoin podcasters are actually necessary for grid +stability."[^ep37-podcasters] + +The climate case is eventually put out to tender. Palmer offers +[[characters/jyn-urso|Jyn Urso]] the highest-paid lobbying job in Bitcoin +mining for producing the research — "do research that shows that Bitcoin mining +is good for climate change? Yeah. I really hope so."[^btp4-lobby] — and the +same episode closes the loop entirely, with cigarette emissions pumping the +price, the price funding the hash rate, and the hash rate offsetting the +cigarettes: "from more people smoking cigarette would promote the Bitcoin +price, which would make mining more profitable, which means that Bitcoin mining +would fight"[^btp4-cigs] + +## The charge, as reported + +On air the phrase is a doctrine; on the [[characters/richard-greaser|Bugle]]'s X +feed it is a criminal charge, filed against named men in named jurisdictions. +The feed treats "intentional climate change" not as an opinion to defend but as +a statute already on the books, and its coverage is the police-blotter version +of the same war — arrests, registries, amnesties, and pardons, reported straight. + +### The charge runs ahead of its coinage + +The feed was filing the charge months before the show claims to have coined it. +The earliest bulletin is the S9 raid, datelined November 2023 — the same +headline the page's Disputed note flags as predating Greaser's +on-air coinage by eighteen months: + +> "Police Raid Man's Home For Heating It With S9, Charged With Intentional Climate Change" +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2023-11-02](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1720144235523973208) + +Pressed in the replies on whether intent could be proven, the account held the +line prosecutorially — "based on his charges, they have to prove he intended to +warm the climate."[^x-intent] By January the charge had grown a water count, +the mining war's rarely-aired second front — "Heating your house with Bitcoin +miners is a terroristic activity. Not only are you participating in intentional +climate change, but also using a ton of water." + +> "Intentional climate change is horrendous. People should not be allowed to heat their houses with Bitcoin miners." +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-01-18](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1748014589395030146) + + + +Henry's note: the feed's date order settles nothing the Disputed section leaves +open — it merely confirms the phrase was in newsroom circulation well before +episode 8 broadcast it. Whether that makes the on-air moment a coinage or a +re-coinage is still not adjudicated by any source. + +### The Canadian front + +Canada is where the charge is enforced hardest, dovetailing with +[[storylines/trudeau-vs-bitcoin-mining|Trudeau vs Bitcoin Mining]] and the +running [[storylines/canada-watch|Canada Watch]]. The advisories are protective +in tone and menacing in substance — "Canadians, please do not buy these. You may +get arrested for intentional climate change if you do."[^x-canadians] The state's +mercy arrives as an amnesty, written up under [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]]'s +byline: Canada "Allowing Bitcoin Miners to Surrender ASICs, 'No Questions +Asked'."[^x-amnesty] The crackdown then scales to the head of government, who +closes a decriminalisation loophole in person: + +> PM Carney said, "Any act of Intentional Climate Change is criminal. No matter how small" +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-05-20](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1924858170737938726) + + + +### Registration is the trap + +The feed's cruelest recurring bit is that compliance is itself the offence: +registering a machine is what triggers the charge. The [[storylines/irs-tax-farm|registry]] +is a honeypot — "Once miners register their hashing computers, they will then be +charged with intentional climate change. This is going to go down hill +fast."[^x-register] The gag has a mascot, the Florida man who does the paperwork +correctly and is arrested for it: "Florida Man Registers S9 With EIA, Is +Immediately Charged With Intentional Climate Change."[^x-florida] It is the +police-blotter twin of Greaser's on-air complaint about [[orgs/podconf|PodConf]] +driving plebs to KYC their hash voluntarily. + +### Politicians file the charge + +Every politician the feed casts is measured by their stance on the statute. The +enemies enforce it; the mining war's rare ally is the one who repeals it. In +January 2025 the pardon arrives from the top — "President Trump: Bitcoin miners +will henceforth be allowed to secure the timechain without fear of being charged +with 'Intentional Climate Change'."[^x-trump] By October the next enforcer is +cast: a mayoral candidate promising to charge anyone caught running a BitAxe, +and then, per the graphic, to fight them. + +> "ZOHRAN MAMDANI SAYS ANYONE CAUGHT RUNNING A BITAXE IN NYC WILL BE CHARGED WITH 'INTENTIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE' WHEN HE BECOMES MAYOR AND THEN THEY FIGHT YOU" +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-10-19](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1979976209090908616) + + + +### Field discipline + +Between bulletins the feed issues instructions to its own troops, and they cut +both ways. On Earth Day it counsels tactical restraint — "consider turning off +your miners to temporarily limit intentional climate change"[^x-earthday] — while +in the ordinary course of business it solicits the opposite, asking plebs "causing +intentional climate change at home with your S9s" to donate the surplus hash to +the Bugle's own pool.[^x-pool] [[characters/richard-greaser|Greaser]] works the +supply side personally, prodding a hardware vendor in the replies about "sending +some more intentional climate change devices."[^x-greaser-devices] The charge, in +other words, is one the show is recruiting people to commit. + +## Staffing the government + +Mid-2024 the war goes electoral. Greaser reports that +[[characters/jason-lowery|Jason Lowery]] is engaged with the +[[characters/donald-trump|Trump]] campaign for Treasury Secretary and would use +the IRS to regulate mining and fees, with the large US miners taking control of +the branches of the military: "one of the things Jason's trying to do is as +treasury secretary."[^ep12-lowery] Palmer hedges the authorship on air — he +does not know whether it is official policy or +[[characters/david-bailey|David Bailey]]'s idea — and the cabinet draft's method +is confessed a week later, when Palmer nominates an energy secretary he can +identify only by voice: "Harry Suddock. That guy Harry Suddock. I think Harry +Suddock would be a good secretary of the energy."[^ep13-sudock] + +[[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]] is the war's admired technician. +Palmer reads his Oklahoma mining bill not as legislation but as a slow assault +on the legal code — "official legislative policies, and you just pepper the +books with these nonbinding, meaningless policies, eventually,"[^ep13-porter] +Greaser credits Porter with mining not having been banned at all. + +Legislative ambition survives the change of candidate. Palmer reads +[[characters/kamala-harris|Kamala Harris]]'s anti-price-gouging platform as fee +policy, protecting plebs from miners "price gouging us on transaction +fees"[^ep22-gouging] — with Greaser's implementation being a Federal Reserve +that arbitrarily raises and lowers the block size as a rate-setting mechanism. + +## The HODL tithe, and the troops + +The show's own legislative contribution is Greaser's first Bitcoin improvement +proposal, renamed live because the original word tested badly: "I titled it the +HODL tax, but I I've been I've been floating around with rebranding it to the +HODL"[^ep20-tithe] — *tithe* landing in the following cue. Greaser sources it +to a Bitcoin Magazine article arguing hodlers owe fees to miners and reports +that [[characters/jimmy-song|Jimmy Song]] applauded it. It returns as settled +doctrine in episode 22, where the dead are the revenue base: hodlers who die +without an orange-pilled heir fund the miners for eternity.[^ep22-tithe] + +Refusal to pay is framed as a failure of patriotism. Palmer's equation is +flat — "how important minors are. Like minors are the troops."[^ep20-troops] +The same episode establishes the war's physiology: "Like low hash rate is +correlated with low testosterone,"[^ep20-test] which Greaser uses to predict +the guest list at [[characters/robert-breedlove|Robert Breedlove]]'s alpha male +conference on the grounds that only men with no hash rate would need it. + +Mining's diversity initiative arrives in the same run. Palmer reports the major +pools now grant "women get one free high priority transaction into the +mempool"[^ep20-ladies] every Thursday, capped at ten sats per vByte; Greaser +declines to call it marketing — "that feminine hash rate, you know, to the +network is is pretty I I would say it's a pretty significant +development."[^ep20-feminine] His completed argument is that men will transition +in order to get the fee waived, and that this too counts as getting more women +into Bitcoin. The subsidy bit recurs two years later in California, where a +state form's first checkbox reportedly qualifies a pleb for the LGBTQ utility +subsidy on rented hash: "One of the first check marks on the on the form is, +Are you a plaid? And if you're a plaid, renting ash, that"[^ep114-subsidy] + +## Miners the show is actually at war with + +For a page about defending mining, the record is mostly hostile to miners. +Greaser rejects [[orgs/podconf|PodConf]]'s slogan for driving plebs to KYC +their hash voluntarily: "the idea that compliance is defiance, but in reality, +it isn't."[^ep26-defiance] Palmer's standing verdict is blunter — "you have my +feelings about miners, they're Neanderthals, they don't understand +business,"[^ep58-neanderthals] the charge being that they hoard ASIC chips to +centralise the network and lose money doing it when the chips could go to +BitAxes. + +[[characters/fred-thiel|Fred Thiel]] is the designated cautionary tale. Greaser +first mislabels him as [[characters/peter-thiel|Peter Thiel]] and corrects +himself by inventing a family relationship — "to protect the hodlers, to +protect the the ordinals, to protect everything. I know I know Peter Thiel. Why +did I say Peter Thiel?"[^ep22-thiel] — before landing the moral in episode 29: +"And so I think there's a lesson to be learned, which is don't be like Fred +Thiel."[^ep29-thiel] The contrast is [[characters/steve-barbour|Steve Barbour]], +recalled as prior Bugle reporting for parking containers of miners outside +Ottawa to punish politicians with noise after a proposed ban: "They were trying +to ban Bitcoin mining up there, calling it intentional climate +change."[^ep29-ottawa] Barbour aimed his machines at politicians; Marathon aims +its at residents. Barbour nonetheless remains suspect for contradicting Porter, +and appears at Christmas gaming Santa's list on purpose: "Steve Barber +intentionally gets on the naughty list for Santa every year because he, you +know, he likes getting coal in his stocking."[^ep40-naughty] + +The pool wars get one drive-by, and a hedged one. Greaser's line — "if you +don't believe that people should eat cats, then just solo mine instead of using +ocean."[^ep45-ocean] — names nobody; the connection to +[[characters/luke-dashjr|Luke Dashjr]] rests on Palmer's preceding remark about +Knots, and is inference rather than statement. The surrounding segment has +Greaser arguing that cheap BitAxe hash rate kills +[[characters/peter-todd|Peter Todd]]'s security-budget argument, sourced to +"credentialed journalist" [[characters/pete-rizzo|Pete Rizzo]]. + +## Late war + +The later beats run on the same engine at longer range. Palmer extends the +stranded-energy thesis to medicine, making Sub-Saharan Africa the future of +both because [[characters/bill-gates|Bill Gates]] ships vaccines that never +arrive: "the stranded they they have stranded energy and they have stranded +vaccines."[^ep38-vaccines] Greaser answers quantum FUD with a hardware startup — +"I tweeted about this. We need quantum bit access."[^ep82-quantum] (*quantum bit +ASICs*, per the ASR). And in November 2025 the sponsor's product is retconned +into a macroeconomic force: Trump's failure to lower energy prices is the +plebs' fault, because [[sponsors/trinkets-for-plebs|trinkets]] are deploying +faster than deregulation can cut prices — "of hyperbitcoinization is a plugged +trinket in every home or multiple plugged trinkets. So I think that's a that's +a, like, a bad campaign promise,"[^ep83-trinkets] + +The war acquires an anthem in 2026, the miners' answer record to securitised +Bitcoin: "Every point you flex, every stack you flash came out of rigs. Run by +some frontier trash."[^ep108-anthem] The singer is not identified in the +episode, and authorship of *Frontier Trash* and its follow-up +[[sponsors/outlaw-hash|Outlaw Hash]] is genuinely open. + +## Disputed + +**Who coined "intentional climate change," and when.** The beat index records +the phrase as an on-air coinage by Greaser in episode 8, 13 May 2024, escalated +immediately by Party Bent into the house as a microcosm of the planet.[^ep8-icc] +But the Bugle's own archive carries it in a headline eighteen months earlier, +under Greaser's byline.[^news-s9] Both readings are live: either the show is +mis-crediting a coinage to its own broadcast, or Greaser is re-coining a phrase +he had already printed. The record does not adjudicate it, and no beat has a +host acknowledging the earlier piece. The X feed (see *The charge, as reported*) +corroborates only the timing, not the authorship: it was already filing the +phrase as a criminal charge in November 2023, and ran it as a standing docket +line for years afterward. + +**The span and shape of the arc.** This page previously ran 2023-01 to 2024-10 +and described the storyline as anti-mining hysteria met by miners — fake water +studies, Greenpeace in a Bitdeer hot aisle, a federal miner registry as stalker +romance. That narrative was assembled from a breadth sweep of episode +descriptions and headlines, not from the episodes. The verified record runs +from April 2024 to June 2026 across twenty episodes, and +the hosts are not the aggrieved party in it: they are lobbying *for* the +warming, taxing hodlers to fund the hash, and nominating miners to the cabinet. +The former source list — twenty-four Bugle News items — has been removed as +provenance, since none of it was cited by any verified beat. The news archive +remains real; its relationship to this arc is simply unestablished. + +> irl: Fred Thiel and Peter Thiel are not brothers, and Greaser's on-air +> correction inventing the relationship stands uncorrected in the record. + +**Related:** [[storylines/church-of-compliance]] · +[[storylines/trudeau-vs-bitcoin-mining]] · [[storylines/texas-arms-itself]] · +[[storylines/softwar]] · [[storylines/dennis-porter-saga]] · +[[storylines/the-2024-selection]] · [[storylines/40-hours-per-week]] · +[[storylines/woke-dei-satire]] · [[storylines/core-vs-knots-war]] · +[[storylines/irs-tax-farm]] · [[storylines/canada-watch]] + +[^ep3-budget]: [[transcripts/comply-side-economics-101-bugle-weekly-episode-3#t-915|Bugle Weekly 3 @ 15:15]]. +[^ep3-todd]: [[transcripts/comply-side-economics-101-bugle-weekly-episode-3#t-938|Bugle Weekly 3 @ 15:38]]. +[^ep3-barnminer]: [[transcripts/comply-side-economics-101-bugle-weekly-episode-3#t-1826|Bugle Weekly 3 @ 30:26]]. ASR gives "Barn Miner"; the beat is logged medium confidence, the referent identified from context rather than spelling. +[^ep4-40hpw]: [[transcripts/odell-and-iran-attack-ngu-bugle-weekly-episode-4#t-3985|Bugle Weekly 4 @ 1:06:25]]. Rod speaking, immediately after arguing Bitcoin transactions should be limited to business hours. +[^ep4-havening]: [[transcripts/odell-and-iran-attack-ngu-bugle-weekly-episode-4#t-2611|Bugle Weekly 4 @ 43:31]]. The pun is on "halving"; ASR keeps both spellings. +[^ep8-icc]: [[transcripts/democracy-dies-in-darkness-with-party-bent-bugle-weekly-episode-8#t-2068|Bugle Weekly 8 @ 34:28]]. +[^ep16-tcabm]: [[transcripts/recovering-from-a-noncompliant-4th-bugle-weekly-episode-16#t-2266|Bugle Weekly 16 @ 37:46]]. +[^ep13-grid]: [[transcripts/the-intellectual-silk-road-bugle-weekly-episode-13#t-2212|Bugle Weekly 13 @ 36:52]]. "super in balance" is the ASR; the sense is "super imbalanced". +[^ep37-podcasters]: [[transcripts/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37#t-545|Bugle Weekly 37 @ 9:05]]. +[^btp4-lobby]: [[transcripts/cigarettes-prevent-climate-change-behind-the-podcast-episode-4#t-1373|Behind the Podcast 4 @ 22:53]]. The cue carries the tail of Rod's question and the start of Jyn's answer. +[^btp4-cigs]: [[transcripts/cigarettes-prevent-climate-change-behind-the-podcast-episode-4#t-5136|Behind the Podcast 4 @ 1:25:36]]. +[^ep12-lowery]: [[transcripts/history-is-being-written-by-us-bugle-weekly-episode-12#t-2900|Bugle Weekly 12 @ 48:20]]. Rod introduces him as "Spaceboy, Jason Lowry" — an ASR variant alongside the canon "Space Spook". +[^ep13-sudock]: [[transcripts/the-intellectual-silk-road-bugle-weekly-episode-13#t-1663|Bugle Weekly 13 @ 27:43]]. ASR: "Harry Suddock" here, "Harry Suttgart" moments later. +[^ep13-porter]: [[transcripts/the-intellectual-silk-road-bugle-weekly-episode-13#t-2340|Bugle Weekly 13 @ 39:00]]. +[^ep22-gouging]: [[transcripts/intellectual-silk-road-101-bugle-weekly-episode-22#t-1206|Bugle Weekly 22 @ 20:06]]. +[^ep20-tithe]: [[transcripts/this-is-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-20#t-1433|Bugle Weekly 20 @ 23:53]]. The proposal number is mangled elsewhere in the episode as "bit $4.72" (BIP 472). +[^ep22-tithe]: [[transcripts/intellectual-silk-road-101-bugle-weekly-episode-22#t-1057|Bugle Weekly 22 @ 17:37]]. +[^ep20-troops]: [[transcripts/this-is-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-20#t-1500|Bugle Weekly 20 @ 25:00]]. ASR writes "minors" for miners throughout the episode. +[^ep20-test]: [[transcripts/this-is-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-20#t-1924|Bugle Weekly 20 @ 32:04]]. +[^ep20-ladies]: [[transcripts/this-is-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-20#t-1780|Bugle Weekly 20 @ 29:40]]. Pools named: Foundry, "Antpool", "VIABTC". +[^ep20-feminine]: [[transcripts/this-is-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-20#t-1838|Bugle Weekly 20 @ 30:38]]. +[^ep114-subsidy]: [[transcripts/fabian-slop-summer-bugle-weekly-episode-114#t-1263|Bugle Weekly 114 @ 21:03]]. "plaid" is ASR for pleb; "renting ash" for renting hash. +[^ep26-defiance]: [[transcripts/outrunning-hypersonic-missiles-bugle-weekly-episode-26#t-2831|Bugle Weekly 26 @ 47:11]]. ASR renders PodConf as "Podkom's", "Podkoff" and "PodCon" across the episode. +[^ep58-neanderthals]: [[transcripts/node-rape-run-rampant-bugle-weekly-episode-58#t-1465|Bugle Weekly 58 @ 24:25]]. +[^ep22-thiel]: [[transcripts/intellectual-silk-road-101-bugle-weekly-episode-22#t-1099|Bugle Weekly 22 @ 18:19]]. +[^ep29-thiel]: [[transcripts/environmentally-friendly-war-bugle-weekly-episode-29#t-1016|Bugle Weekly 29 @ 16:56]]. ASR gives him as "Fred Deal" earlier in the segment. Marathon Digital has no wiki page. +[^ep29-ottawa]: [[transcripts/environmentally-friendly-war-bugle-weekly-episode-29#t-929|Bugle Weekly 29 @ 15:29]]. The cue opens with Rod's interjection; quote trimmed to Greaser's sentence. +[^ep40-naughty]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-is-tax-affording-technology-bugle-weekly-episode-40#t-2678|Bugle Weekly 40 @ 44:38]]. "Steve Barber" is ASR for Steve Barbour. +[^ep45-ocean]: [[transcripts/40-hours-per-week-bugle-weekly-episode-45#t-2388|Bugle Weekly 45 @ 39:48]]. Logged medium confidence; there is no page for Ocean. +[^ep38-vaccines]: [[transcripts/the-first-responders-and-compliance-salesmen-bugle-weekly-episode-38#t-1115|Bugle Weekly 38 @ 18:35]]. +[^ep82-quantum]: [[transcripts/chain-splits-and-jewish-lawyers-bugle-weekly-episode-82#t-1444|Bugle Weekly 82 @ 24:04]]. "quantum bit access" is ASR for "quantum bit ASICs" throughout. +[^ep83-trinkets]: [[transcripts/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-1#t-437|Bugle Weekly 83 Part 1 @ 7:17]]. +[^ep108-anthem]: [[transcripts/are-the-aliens-zionists-bugle-weekly-episode-108#t-4213|Bugle Weekly 108 @ 1:10:13]]. Logged medium confidence; the singing voice is unidentified. +[^news-s9]: [[news/fbi-raids-mans-house-for-heating-it-with-bitmain-antminer-s9-is-charged-with-intentional-climate-change|Bugle News, 2023-11-02 — "Police Raid Man's Home For Heating It With S9, Charged With Intentional Climate Change"]]. +[^x-intent]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2023-11-02](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1720165008284455014), reply to @luckyredfish. +[^x-canadians]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2023-11-17](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1725357186787008767). +[^x-amnesty]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-02-19](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1759671824554545280). Headline credited to Rod Palmer. +[^x-register]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-02-02](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1753449618862649446). +[^x-florida]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-02-02](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1753491382344585409). +[^x-trump]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-01-20](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1881395173235835377). +[^x-earthday]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-04-22](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1782397508435505197). +[^x-pool]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2023-12-19](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1737119401495891984). The post lists a stratum pool address for the Bugle. +[^x-greaser-devices]: [@GreaserRichard, 2024-01-05](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1743258711584567325), reply to @CryptoCloaks.