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Character

Matthew Kratter

Henry’s note: rebuilt from the beat index — 70 beats across 29 episodes, coverage COMPLETE. It was a mention-scan stub until now, and the scan badly undercounted him: the ASR almost never spells his name.

The proprietor of Bitcoin University, and the single figure the Bugle covers most like a beat. He is never a guest the show sits down with; he is a subject — a man whose tuition, admissions policy, and posting habits the hosts investigate week after week and report as news. In the universe he is the credentialed antagonist of the pleb: a chart-pundit and self-styled professor, aligned with the Knotzis against Bitcoin Core, running an unaccredited school that charges $790 a year and, the Bugle maintains, delivers signature-scheme holy wars to people who signed up to learn how to use a hardware wallet.1

The whole feud rests on the Bugle’s founding conceit, which Rod Palmer states outright the first time he is accused of bullying: “I wasn’t making a joke. I wasn’t goofing. I was reporting the news. I said that Matthew Kratter has two online universities, which he does.”2 Everything the show does to Kratter — the pricing exposés, the Department of Education tag, the nepotism story — is framed not as comedy but as journalism, and telling the truth about a man’s course fees is held to be a public service.

In it with: Richard Greaser · Rod Palmer · Peter Thiel · Pledditor · Shinobi · Luke Dashjr · Gloria Zhao · Natalie Brunell · Paul Sports · Muck Anic · Stew TXO · Knotzis · Bitcoin University

Arc: storylines/university-of-bitcoin · storylines/core-vs-knots-war · storylines/pleb-persecution · storylines/pleb-slop-wars · storylines/40-hours-per-week · storylines/engagement-farming

The $790 tuition (2025)

The feud lands fully formed in The Coremunists Vs The Knotzis: there are people, Rod reports, “so retarded” they will “pay Matthew Crowder $790 a year for tuition to his uncredentialed, uncredited” Bitcoin university.1 The number is the whole bit. It anchors the episode, its ad reads, and — as Bitcoin University becomes a recurring beat — close to every subsequent appearance.

The show’s own account of how the war started is told later, in the year-in-review: the Bugle reported that Bitcoin University “charged” $790 “payable by credit card, and Kratter had a meltdown and blocked them.3 The price itself becomes a unit of measurement. When Paul Sports recalls that the community “crucified Natalie Brunell” for an $800 course, Rod finds the exact threshold of outrage: “If it’s 800 or more, it’s unreasonable. If it’s $790” it clears — “the Costco pricing model gets past the filters.”4 The doctrine survives to 2026 intact: any dollar is too high a price for Brunell, but “Bitcoin University charges $790” and that is high signal5 — the difference, Rod theorises, being net glaze flow. Kratter returns roughly what he takes in; “Natalie Burrell does not glaze the plebs. She keeps it all for herself.”6

By his own reckoning Greaser has decided the case: Kratter “fails his own purity test.” Kratter is placed among the authorities a frightened pleb outsources his thinking to — the roster of people you pay so you know “which hardware wallet do I use? Which node do I run?”7 — and by the end of 2025 the Bugle treats its own coverage as canon. Rod claims the exposés forced the school to change its terms, since “Bitcoin University did not even accept Bitcoin for payment for tuition” until the reporting shamed it.8

Bitcoin University versus the University of Bitcoin

The Bugle answers Kratter’s institution with its own. In From Grumpy To Gleeful Greaser announces “a new rival university” — “It’s called the University of Bitcoin. It’s actually a real credentialed university,” with the pioneers as its mascot9 — and adjudicates the rivalry on strictly collegiate grounds. The University of Bitcoin has a mascot; Kratter’s Bitcoin University has “no mascot, no athletic department, no cheerleaders,” not even a chess team, and no debate team — “they keep agreeing to debates and then dropping out, especially once against Shinobi.”10 Greaser’s verdict: “It’s an institution of ill repute.”11

The two schools have to be formally disambiguated, because the joke turns on their being confused: “there’s Bitcoin University, which is crater, and then there’s the University of Bitcoin.”12 Even Greaser’s theory of institutions is illustrated with it — “You could argue that Matthew Kraner’s Bitcoin University is an institution”13 — the point being that an institution is just a story enough people agree to tell.

Kratter himself, in an October 2025 premium trailer, voices a Bugle paywall drop: “This is Matthew Crater from Bitcoin University.”14 Reading the subscription pitch he lands the price gag from the wrong side — quoting the fee as “$790” per month before catching himself: “I just it’s only $9.99”15 — and closes by making subscription the qualification for pioneer status: “Head on over and subscribe if you want to be a pioneer.”16

The purity test and the closeted-fed theory

Kratter is the show’s archetype of the purity-tester, and the Bugle answers his gatekeeping with a theory of its own. In PODCONF Superbowl Aftermath Rod watches a Glenn Greenwald video and concludes that “Pleditor and Matthew Crater and these other critics, they are gayer than Glenn Greenwald”17 — the launch of the “closeted gay feds” reading of online criticism. His evidence is biographical: Kratter “used to work with Peter Thiel at the gay libertarian hedge fund,” immediately hedged with “I have no proof. I’m just speculating.”18 The Thiel detail recurs as fixed lore — Kratter is “a Peter Thiel mentored pleb, essentially LARPing as a university professor,”19 a man who worked “not Palantir, but Peter Thiel.”

The posture hardens into a standing verdict. Enough listening, Greaser says, and “you realize when you’re listening to Matthew Crater that he’s just a grumpy gay fat” man.20 The first worked example of the show’s gay-as-lame rule is aimed at him: “if you’re arguing with Matthew Crowder on Twitter at 10:00 at night, that’s gay.”21 And the purity test reaches the hosts personally — Kratter, Greaser complains, “was insinuating that I was a bad actor, because I was on stage listening to Portland Hoddle.”22

That the criticism stings is treated as Kratter’s weakness, not the show’s. Over one conference weekend Rod’s DMs fill with demands for an apology because — the storyline advancing entirely off-mic — he “made Matthew Crater cry,” and he refuses: “there’s no crying in Bitcoin podcasts. If you can’t take it, don’t dish it.”23 Rod later names Kratter’s “fear campaign” as theatre — it “looks correctly like a staged performance… because that’s exactly what it is”24 — and Greaser, far from wanting the criticism to stop, solicits it by name: “I want Matthew Kraner to write these essays about why everything that we’re saying is wrong.”25

The snitch, the FBI, and the CSAM curriculum

The sharpest charge against Kratter is that the purity-tester is a snitch. In Pioneers Attend University Of Bitcoin Rod puts Kratter’s week — tagging the FBI and “accusing CORE of being child porn relay relayers” — through the show’s unit of devotion, whether anyone has “thought about child pornography specifically on Bitcoin, for forty hours per week,” and lands the diagnosis: “he was almost like a snitch.”26 Greaser confesses in the same episode to adopting the tactic himself — “Bitcoin University I was tweeting at the Department of Education”27 — on the reasoning that if everyone is begging federal agencies to use their “course of powers,” he “might as well use it.” The Knotzi side, Greaser notes elsewhere, runs the same playbook it claims to oppose: “Krater’s out there, like trying to tag the FBI and things.”28

Greaser also reframes the informing as a service. What Kratter “is doing essentially is he’s curating the not safe for feds” content29 — the involuntary archivist of everything the state would want flagged, which becomes a perverse reason to keep listening to him.

The expulsion of Stew TXO

The feud gets a martyr in Life After Expulsion From Bitcoin University, where the Bugle interviews Stew TXO, a student “expelled from Bitcoin University by Matthew Kratter.”30 Stu’s account fills in the campus. Admission required showing the dean “my seed phrase. That was the requirement,”31 establishing the lore that Kratter holds his students’ keys. He paid “$700” for a course purely to learn why Kratter’s videos kept telling him to “buy a start line node for $700.”32 It is a men’s college — “there’s no girls allowed”33 — whose advanced curriculum is a purity ritual with no subject: “everybody gets together and just talks about how much they hate child porn… no catalyst, no class.”34 The endgame, per Stu, is Tether: the school steers students toward stablecoins on Tron because it teaches you never to spend your Bitcoin — “forget about Bitcoin. Tether is… real money.”35

The refund is the joke that pays itself off. Kratter returned the $700 in what Stu calls “Crater SATs,” sent “from Strike”36 — which, Greaser points out, runs a Bitcoin Core node, so the anti-Core dean settled his debt over Core. The episode also does the necessary bookkeeping, distinguishing Kratter’s Bitcoin University (the school that expelled Stu) from the Bugle’s own University of Bitcoin, whose surprise scholarship Stu very nearly refuses out of trauma.12

Muck Anic’s testimony (2025)

In Enemies Of Bitcoin the Bugle interviews Kratter’s closest ally, Muck Anic, and spends the first act pressing him to comment on a fresh story: that Rod’s digging turned up “nepotism, of Matthew Crater engaging in nepotism and sleeping his way to the top” of Thiel’s hedge fund Clarium.37 Muck declines to deny it — “I shudder to think of what he did to get there… Matt’s an attractive man, very suave” — and calls him “a chick magnet.”38 He also places, “in one of the back rooms of Bitcoin University itself,” a conspiracy corkboard of Gloria Zhao clippings, “like that episode of Always Sunny.”39 The messaging blitzes the Knotzis call decentralised turn out to run through a chain of command — “it does generally go from Luke,” who phones Muck “screaming” and, in one dispute, “Matt took Luke’s side.”40 Muck closes the $790 loop by announcing a Bitcoin University “branch… for people who need mental health days,” where enemies of Bitcoin pay tuition for therapy to stop being enemies of Bitcoin: “the model is you pay $790.”41

The hierarchy is drawn out fully by Paul Sports‘s episode, where Greaser lays out a feudal model of Bitcoin media — “Luke as the king, mechanic as the lord,” with Kratter another lord commanding the plebs.42 By the holidays Kratter is on the purge list: “I don’t think Matt Kratter’s getting invited this year. He was there last year.”43

The glaze economy (2026)

Through 2026 Kratter is folded into the Pleb Slop and glaze material, usually as the canonical practitioner. The sponsor Better Glaze — an AI bot that flatters demoralised Bitcoiners — advertises itself as “trained on Matthew Kratter and Bitcoin mechanic Pleb glazing techniques.”44 Rod’s worked example of glaze in the wild is Kratter telling a BTC Sessions interviewer he was bullish “because the plebs make him bullish. He was glazing the plebs.”45 The line is durable enough that Rod recut it as a standalone clip on X, captioned as a diagnosis rather than a joke:

“No Dennis Porter? No problem. Plebs make Matthew Kratter bullish.” — @rodpalmerhodl, 2026-01-24

Bitcoin University even grades for it: Kratter “reportedly gives grades to students at Bitcoin University who glazen.”46 Rod names Kratter and Shinobi as the promotional engine behind Start9’s node sales, and predicts the boxes go worthless on secondary markets if the fight over BIP 110 is lost.47

The mockery is broad enough that Kratter functions as a stock unit of insignificance. A eulogy gag runs on Barron Trump out-trading everyone without the degree: “Barron is actually enrolled at NYU, not Bitcoin University.”48 A booster’s nihilist broadside files him alongside Jack Dorsey, Saylor and Brock as equally unimportant.49 Greaser floats mass-generating AI courses “to compete with Matthew Kratter in Bitcoin University” at $790 a head50; Fundamentals is “deputized” as a stand-in journalist because the Bugle has no university to hand out honorary degrees “like professor Crowder gave to Hodlonaut.”51

The most recent beats return him to the Core-versus-Knots front. In the pleb-slop intervention Greaser reads a Dylan Leclair tweet on “non economic nodes” and names Kratter as the man actively organising the non-economic pleb bloc52 — the specific charge being that “Matthew Kratter is miseducating the Plebs,” telling them the mining pools work for them despite contributing negligible hashrate.53 He is also cast to “facilitate the trials” in the proposed pleb witch trials, with Shinobi appointed for the defence.54

The beat, in real time (the Bugle accounts, 2025–2026)

The episodes are only half the coverage. On X the three Bugle accounts — @rodpalmerhodl, @GreaserRichard and @bitcoin_bugle — run Kratter as an ongoing wire, and it is on X that the single most reused word attaches to him: crashing out. The founding post is Rod‘s, and it needs no argument, only a screenshot:

“Matthew Kratter is crashing out 🤣” — @rodpalmerhodl, 2025-05-31

It is his most-liked post about the man, and it sets the register for everything after. The verb recurs on schedule — “matthew kratter is crying about plebs nodes getting bullied again,”55 “matthew kratter is still crashing out about the giggler”56 — until Rod concludes the coverage is redundant: “im trying not to dunk on matt kratter anymore because i can’t possibly humiliate matt kratter at the level matt kratter can.”

“im trying not to dunk on matt kratter anymore because i can’t possibly humiliate matt kratter at the level matt kratter can.” — @rodpalmerhodl, 2025-12-29

The $790 tuition survives the jump to X unchanged. It is the line Greaser can’t forgive at Christmas — “I forgive Matthew Kratter for charging the plebs $790 for an unaccredited university degree”57 — and @bitcoin_bugle keeps extending it into headlines: Kratter “declares all #Bitcoin transactions are spam except the $790 tuition payment to Bitcoin University.”58 Even the fabricated character witnesses hit the number. A Fed Chair Kevin Warsh cameo lands the credential attack and the fee in one caption:

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh: “He Was The Worst Roommate I Ever Had And I Think It’s Irresponsible He’s Charging $790 To Teach College Courses.” — @bitcoin_bugle, 2026-06-17

The Thiel dossier

The Thiel backstory the episodes only gesture at is on X worked into a full dossier. Rod’s canonical version stacks the biography into a descent — the man “lived with the devil,” became “head trader” for “the gay anti Christ’s hedge fund linked to Epstein,” and now “teaches plebs about Bitcoin”:

“In college, while studying English & Music amidst the ‘radical queer renaissance’ of early 90s San Francisco, Matthew Kratter lived with the devil… Now he teaches plebs about Bitcoin” — @rodpalmerhodl, 2026-02-05

The nepotism charge that Muck Anic declined to deny on-mic is stated flatly here as sourced reporting — “i have heard from multiple sources that matthew kratter slept his way to the top at peter theil’s hedge fund, clarium”59 — and Rod insists on the double standard against Gloria Zhao: “why is it okay for matthew kratter to have sex with his boss to get ahead but not for gloria?”60 The résumé compresses to a three-stage fall: “peter thiel’s head trader → author of penny stock trading books → luke dashjr‘s head glazer.”61 The Thiel tie also gets the universe’s stray-intel treatment — @bitcoin_bugle credits “early Palantir investor Matthew Kratter” with the intelligence that “helped the Mexican Military kill El Mencho”62 — and, once BIP-110 is lost, an exit plan: “Matthew Kratter is moving to Argentina 🇦🇷 with Peter Thiel.”63 Rod supplies the visual, a video captioned only “matthew kratter face timing peter thiel”:

“matthew kratter face timing peter thiel” — @rodpalmerhodl, 2026-07-14

The snitch, escalated

The snitch and CSAM beats the episodes establish get their loudest airing on the wire. @bitcoin_bugle books the informer as both victim and aggressor of the same machinery: “Matthew Kratter Calls 911 To Report Wave of Prank Calls To Police, Blames Bitcoin Core Devs,”64 and — the accusation turned domestic — “Matthew Kratter Ejected From Family Thanksgiving After Accusing Brother Of Distributing CSAM.”65 The “tiny porn is fine” doctrine that reads as absurd in a transcript is quoted on X as a clean policy statement — Kratter allegedly telling Daniel Prince “it’s ok to put tiny pornographic images on the (Bitcoin) blockchain, just don’t put big ones on there.”66 The expulsion of Stew TXO also runs on the wire, first as the news hit — Kratter “has expelled OP_CTV influencer @stutxo from Bitcoin University for spamming”67 — and later as sequel, when the Timechain Police issue “an arrest warrant for expelled Bitcoin University student @stutxo… wanted on suspicion of felony jestermaxxing after he allegedly put a disrespectful image of Matthew Kratter on the Bitcoin blockchain.”68

The BIP-110 collapse

Through 2026 the wire converges on one story: Luke‘s and Kratter’s soft-fork, BIP-110, is losing, and Kratter is taking the loss badly. The Bugle’s framing is that every escalation is itself proof of defeat — “matthew kratter is going on any podcast shameless enough to still have him, DESPERATELY trying to change the subject. that’s how you know bip-110 has already lost.”69 @bitcoin_bugle files the campaign as insolvent grift: Kratter “needs emergency financing to service loans used to buy bots to vote for BIP-110 in online polls.”70 Greaser catalogues the pressure tactics as they descend into consumer-complaint territory — Kratter “files urgent complaints with the Better Business Bureau against top Bitcoin mining pools,”71 and, the note the whole feud has been building toward, “Matthew Kratter is threatening to leave negative Yelp reviews if mining pools don’t support BIP 110.”

“Matthew Kratter is threatening to leave negative Yelp reviews if mining pools don’t support BIP 110” — @GreaserRichard, 2026-07-12

The reach of the man’s authority is the last gag. Greaser reports the fallout in the home: “I just had to console a friend whose wife is divorcing him because he won’t support BIP 110 and she trusts Matthew Kratter more than her husband.”72 It is the $790 professor’s power stated at its most complete — a credential worth more, to somebody, than a marriage.

Note on the name

The ASR cannot spell him, which is why a mention-scan of this corpus badly undercounts him and why nearly every beat above had to be resolved from context rather than from the transcript’s spelling. Across 29 episodes he appears as Matthew Crowder, Matthew Crater, Matt Crater, Matthew Kraner, Matthew Kratik, Matthew Krater, Matthew Carrater, Matthew Kreider, Matthew Kratt, Matthew Krenner, Matthew Fratter, Matthew Schroeder, Master Crowder, Matthew Cracker, Mathcatter, Kratt Krattner, Professor Connor, and Prusher Crowder (the last two new variants from episode 11873) — with “Kratter” itself the rare correct rendering. The recurring “Matthew Crowder” is a persistent trap: it is Matthew Kratter, not Steven Crowder, and the pairing with Pledditor never makes him Matt Odell, who is a different grump entirely. The aliases: are load-bearing so the next pass does not lose him.

irl: Matthew Kratter is a real Bitcoin educator and YouTuber who runs a channel called Bitcoin University and a separate Trader University, which is why the satire can keep him “professor” of an unaccredited school without inventing anything.

Footnotes

  1. Bugle Weekly 59 @ 14:56 — “$790 a year for tuition to his uncredentialed, uncredited” Bitcoin university; ASR “Matthew Crowder” = Matthew Kratter. The hardware-wallet framing is Rod’s at Bugle Weekly 73 @ 14:50: “People sign up for Bitcoin University thinking that they were gonna learn how to use a hardware wallet.” ↩ ↩2

  2. Bugle Weekly 59 @ 20:48. ↩

  3. Bugle Weekly 91 @ 26:19 — “when you showed up to Matthew Kratters’ Dojo and you pointed out that he charged”; the $790 and “he had a meltdown” land in the following cues. ↩

  4. BTP 27 @ 1:12:10 — Sports supplies the $800 Brunell comparison; ASR “Natalie Brunel”. ↩

  5. Bugle Weekly 109 @ 33:31. ↩

  6. Bugle Weekly 109 @ 34:24 — ASR “Natalie Burrell”; “Matthew Fratter” for Kratter in the same cue. ↩

  7. Bugle Weekly 75 @ 11:52 — ASR “Matthew Crater”. ↩

  8. BTP 26 @ 11:10 — ASR “Professor Kurater”. ↩

  9. BTP 23 @ 1:13:04; Kratter is ASR’d “Matthew Kreider” and “Matthew Crowder” earlier in the episode. ↩

  10. Bugle Weekly 75 @ 28:21. ↩

  11. Bugle Weekly 75 @ 27:40 — the mascot inventory and Greaser’s “institution of ill repute” verdict; “Kratt Krattner’s University” (t=1667) is the ASR here. ↩

  12. BTP 26 @ 1:14:55 — “there’s Bitcoin University, which is crater, and then there’s the University of Bitcoin.” ↩ ↩2

  13. Intellectual Silk Road 1 @ 1:28:36 — ASR “Matthew Kraner”. ↩

  14. Everyone Is Recording The Same Podcast @ 0:00 — ASR “Matthew Crater”. ↩

  15. Everyone Is Recording The Same Podcast @ 0:17 — “$790” lives in the previous cue (t=3); the correction lands here. ↩

  16. Everyone Is Recording The Same Podcast @ 0:21. ↩

  17. Bugle Weekly 62 @ 21:08 — ASR “Pleditor” and “Matthew Crater”. ↩

  18. Bugle Weekly 62 @ 24:01 — “he used to work with Peter Thiel at the gay libertarian hedge fund”; disclaimer at t=1450. ↩

  19. Bugle Weekly 74 @ 41:56 — ASR “Matthew Krenner”/“Master Crowder” across the episode. ↩

  20. Bugle Weekly 73 @ 16:25 — ASR “Matthew Crater”. ↩

  21. Intellectual Silk Road 1 @ 45:59 — ASR “Matthew Crowder”. ↩

  22. Bugle Weekly 73 @ 16:38 — ASR “Matthew Carrater”, “Portland Hoddle”. ↩

  23. Bugle Weekly 62 @ 56:33 — “is about making Matthew Crater cry”; refusal at t=3403. ↩

  24. Bugle Weekly 77 @ 9:27 — “Matthew Crater’s fear campaign looks correctly like a staged performance”. ↩

  25. Bugle Weekly 78 @ 57:29 — ASR “Matthew Kraner”; the quote spans t=3449–3458. ↩

  26. Bugle Weekly 75 @ 15:15 — Greaser’s setup at t=906, the Core accusation at t=934, Rod’s “snitch” verdict at t=954; ASR “Crowder”. ↩

  27. Bugle Weekly 75 @ 14:41 — rationale at t=902. ↩

  28. Bugle Weekly 76 @ 24:04 — ASR “Krater”; the same episode flattens “Knotzis” to “Nazis” throughout. ↩

  29. Bugle Weekly 73 @ 24:14 — “curating the not safe for feds” content. ↩

  30. Bugle Weekly 74 @ 38:34 — “He got expelled from Bitcoin University by Matthew Kratter.” Stew TXO has no page yet. ↩

  31. BTP 26 @ 7:49. ↩

  32. BTP 26 @ 7:09 — “start line” is the ASR for Start9. ↩

  33. BTP 26 @ 9:30. ↩

  34. BTP 26 @ 12:38. ↩

  35. BTP 26 @ 58:09. ↩

  36. BTP 26 @ 17:32 — “craft of Sats”/“Crater SATs” are ASR for Kratter Sats; Greaser’s Strike-runs-Core punchline at t=1111. ↩

  37. Bugle Weekly 88 @ 3:19 — “Peter Thiel’s hedge fund, Clarium” (t=208); ASR “Matthew Crater”. ↩

  38. Bugle Weekly 88 @ 3:58 — Muck Anic (no page yet); continues “he’s a chick magnet” at t=248. ↩

  39. Bugle Weekly 88 @ 10:43 — the corkboard is “in one of the back rooms of Bitcoin University itself” (t=658). ↩

  40. Bugle Weekly 88 @ 7:11 — setup “it does generally go from Luke” at t=422. ↩

  41. Bugle Weekly 88 @ 53:09 — the branch pitch at t=3168. ↩

  42. BTP 27 @ 34:25 — “Kratters” at t=2073 is Matt Kratter; Adam Back placed “towards the top” on the Core side at t=2087. ↩

  43. Bugle Weekly 87 @ 41:25 — ASR “Matt Kratter”. ↩

  44. Bugle Weekly 95 @ 0:00 — the Better Glaze cold open; the glaze-canon line “trained on Matthew Kratter and Bitcoin mechanic” lands at t=31. ↩

  45. Bugle Weekly 95 @ 42:58 — ASR “Matt Crater”/“Matthew Crowder”; payoff at t=2592. ↩

  46. Bugle Weekly 90 @ 33:18 — “Matthew Crowder reportedly gives grades to students at Bitcoin University who glazen.” ↩

  47. Bugle Weekly 98 @ 18:24 — “StarKnight” is ASR for Start9; “Kratter” at t=1112 is rendered correctly. ↩

  48. Bugle Weekly 80 @ 10:06 — “Barron is actually enrolled at NYU, not Bitcoin University.” ↩

  49. Bugle Weekly 92 @ 47:19 — a booster’s broadside; ASR “Matthew Crater”. ↩

  50. Bugle Weekly 113 @ 19:29. ↩

  51. Bugle Weekly 115 @ 1:23 — “professor Crowder gave to Hodlonaut”; named plainly as “Matt Kratter” at t=1132. Hodlonaut has no page yet. ↩

  52. Bugle Weekly 117 @ 18:28 — “Matthew Crowder” at t=1124 = Kratter. ↩

  53. Bugle Weekly 117 @ 19:25 — name rendered correctly here. ↩

  54. Bugle Weekly 115 @ 18:52 — Shinobi for the defence at t=1152. ↩

  55. @rodpalmerhodl, 2025-10-04. ↩

  56. @rodpalmerhodl, 2026-05-27 — “the giggler broke peter thiel’s head trader.” ↩

  57. @GreaserRichard, 2025-12-23 — Christmas-forgiveness thread. ↩

  58. @bitcoin_bugle, 2025-12-04. ↩

  59. @rodpalmerhodl, 2025-12-04 — the on-mic version is Muck Anic’s non-denial; see 38. ↩

  60. @rodpalmerhodl, 2026-03-31. ↩

  61. @rodpalmerhodl, 2026-02-24. ↩

  62. @bitcoin_bugle, 2026-02-23 — “early Palantir investor”; helped “kill El Mencho, the leader of CJNG.” ↩

  63. @bitcoin_bugle, 2026-05-29 — “after being disgraced in U.S. due to #BIP110 RDTS having already lost.” ↩

  64. @bitcoin_bugle, 2025-09-14. ↩

  65. @bitcoin_bugle, 2025-11-27. ↩

  66. @bitcoin_bugle, 2026-06-03. ↩

  67. @bitcoin_bugle, 2025-08-28. ↩

  68. @bitcoin_bugle, 2026-06-15. ↩

  69. @rodpalmerhodl, 2026-05-30. ↩

  70. @bitcoin_bugle, 2026-06-29. ↩

  71. @bitcoin_bugle, 2026-07-13 — cites @hodlonaut’s “Capture” series as evidence. ↩

  72. @GreaserRichard, 2026-06-30. ↩

  73. Bugle Weekly 118 @ 25:53 — reported pressuring exchanges to support BIP 110 and offering blanket forgiveness for past shitcoining, matching his established pro-compliance persona. ↩