Opti — short for Optimist Fields — is the cohost of Simply Bitcoin and a self-made e-girl. Like host Nico, Opti’s principal documented fear is that Bitcoin’s victory over fiat will end the best job either of them has ever had.

Arc history

Opti’s canon opens in January 2023 on Simply Bitcoin’s daily Spaces, weighing in on the show’s post-hyperbitcoinization succession planning: “I have put my heart and soul into becoming an e-girl, and it’s difficult to think about doing anything else.” Thinking, per The Bugle, with low time preference about the future, Opti continued: “Maybe I can do something normal like settling down with a girl and having a family one day. I almost don’t want Bitcoin to succeed because I love my job so much” (Simply Bitcoin Discusses Future Rebrand).

irl: Opti is the real cohost of Simply Bitcoin; the e-girl bit is his own long-running joke.

Under the full name he surfaces as a recurring drive-by target. Rod blames his on-air raspiness on “swap[ping] some spit with miss Hidalnott” — MsHodlnaut420 — at a BTC Sessions party, “and Optimist Fields” moments later.¹ He is the punchline of a running music feud: hearing that Noa Gruman‘s choir Hellscore covered Linkin Park’s “In The End,” Richard notes “Optimus Fields would have lost his mind.”² And he is folded into the pleb-slop machinery — Richard pictures him doing his morning routine before he “squeeze[s] some slop on simply Bitcoin.”³

Appearances

Also credited under the full name Optimist Fields (and the transcript misspelling Optimus Fields), now merged into this page.

Episodes (3)

• This Time Is Different | Bugle Weekly Episode 70 — 2 mentions
• Apologizing To Absolutely No One | Bugle Weekly Episode 53 — 1 mention
• Let The Festivities Begin | Bugle Weekly Episode 51 — 1 mention

In the news (6)

• Simply Bitcoin Discusses Future Rebrand And Pivot After Bitcoin Defeats Fiat Currency — 2023-01-23, quoted cohost
• Leaked Messages Between Opti And Lagarde Show Plot To Convince Bitcoiners About CBDCs
• Saylor $100k Party Attendee List Leaked
• Iggy Azalea Becomes Top Crypto Influencer After Entering Crypto Influencer Market
• Creed Launches Ordinal Collection FollowIng Interest From Bitcoiners
• Cramer And The New Breed Of Wall Street/Crypto Influencers

Footnotes

1. Bugle Weekly 53 @ 5:55 — “I have to admit I did swap some spit with miss Hidalnott”; the venue (the BTC Sessions 40th-birthday party at Pub Key) is ASR-rendered “BGC Sessions”, and “Miss Hidalnott” is the ASR’s rendering of MsHodlnaut420. ↩

2. Bugle Weekly 70 @ 31:58 — “Optimus Fields would have lost his mind. They they covered a, Linkin Park song, in the end.” ↩

3. Bugle Weekly 81 @ 20:02 — “This is what I I expect the optimist feels does in the morning”; completes at t-1218, “to squeeze some slop on simply Bitcoin.” “The optimist feels” is the ASR’s rendering of Optimist Fields. ↩