Bitcoin Twitter is the primary theater of the Bugleverse: the loose, self-governing mass of accounts whose collective moods, petitions, proclamations, and reversals constitute most of what bugle.news covers. It has no leadership, no memory, and no shortage of conviction.

Documented behaviors (January 2023)

• Consensus reversal. Having driven Anthony Pompliano to renounce sponsorships, it produced a 20,000-signature petition demanding their return (Members Of Bitcoin Twitter Urge Pomp To Resume Sponsorships).
• Price floor proclamations. At every $1,000 price threshold, it declares that level the permanent bottom (Bitcoin Price Crosses $18K Threshold).
• The stack chain. Public posting of weekly $25 purchase screenshots as a peer-pressure and price-support campaign (Bitcoiner Who Stacks $25 A Week).
• Collective litigation. When Dan Held was convicted of stealing tweets from 1,000 of its members, it declared the reparations verdict “a massive win for the Bitcoin Community” (Dan Held Ordered By Judge To Pay Reparations). See tweet theft.
• The dogpile. Members collectively pile onto posts by apostates like Nic Carter, sharing “a special camaraderie” — an arrangement The Bugle judged mutually beneficial, as both sides farm the engagement (Nic Carter Finds New Found Hobby).
• Shadowban complaints. “A large angry group of Twitter users with #Bitcoin in their bios” posted constantly about being shadow banned — until Matt Taibbi‘s Twitter Files review found zero evidence anyone was suppressing them, and reclassified the complaint as an engagement farming technique (Bitcoiners Stunned To Find Out They Weren’t Targeted).

Documented behaviors (March 2023)

• Harassment as courtship. Its members’ default register for addressing women proved sufficiently maladaptive offline that Natalie Brunell built an $800 course around unlearning it — “Harassment is not a recipe for a healthy relationship” (Natalie Brunell Launches $800 Relationship Course). See Bitcoiners in Love.
• The great Lowery debate. When “Space Spook” Jason Lowery came out of nowhere to dominate its conversation, the platform split between federally endorsed enthusiasm and maximalist conspiracy theory. The skeptic wing’s signature protest — Stoney Bitson‘s pledge to buy Lowery’s book and burn it — got its author banned “for the infinite time,” a phrase implying an extensive prior record (CIA Director Insists Jason Lowery’s Engagement Is Organic). See The Softwar Rollout.

Notable constituents

Cory Klippsten, @BTCHODLVirginia, @Coinicarus, the full time podcast listeners, and, observing it all from behind a typewriter, Richard Greaser. Its documented antagonists-from-within include convicted tweet thief Dan Held and salt hobbyist Nic Carter.