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Bitcoin 2025 Vegas

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 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: Rod Palmer · Richard Greaser · Erin Redwing · Fundamentals · Tatum · Maggie Morris · Dennis Porter · Pledditor · Evan Kaloudis · Rob Hamilton · Frank Corva · 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, 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.”1

Two weeks later 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.”2 Rod claims the win outright in the same stretch. Props are given.

Buildup (February–May 2025)

The programming becomes the joke first. 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.3 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.”4 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.”5

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.”6 40HPW and the Comply lines are pitched as conference camouflage, “some of the best ways to really” stand out in a crowd full of simps,7 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,”8 — the ASR renders Rod as “Ron”.

Others announce their positions. Cory Klippsten, having taken Greaser’s advice to diversify his targets, will spend the week “standing outside the slot machines”9 harassing gamblers on behalf of Swan. Junseth declines on doctrinal grounds: “I’ve adopted a new political philosophy called, steampunk glutism.”10 Shinobi and 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.”11 Rod, unprompted, volunteers his one named debate target: “I’d I’d still love to debate predator”12 — ASR for 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 Maggie Morris to Erin Redwing‘s event as accredited press.13 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”14 — 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.”15 Commerce is planned in kind: “You’re gonna have the opportunity to buy non KYC cigarettes from me,”16 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,”17 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,”18 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”19 — 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.”20

The rationale is stated as market research. Greaser gives the Bugle’s founding premise as demand against PODCONF: “They’re tired of Podkoff. The reason why we exist is because there was a marked demand for something other than Podkoff.”21 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”22 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,”23 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”24 — 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”25 away, where a sit-down with 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.”26 Greaser’s deadpan — there’s a reason he started fifteen minutes late.

Rod’s invitation to 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.”27

Conference week (26–28 May 2025)

Timmy Tether plugs “Saturize the System, the Bugle’s first ever live show taking place on Wednesday night from seven to 11PM”28 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”29 — 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.”30 Rod offers the mitigating fact — Vegas is “a lot more respectful to the rights of cigarette smokers”31 — 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.”32

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,”33 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.”34 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.”35 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.”36

Tatum, the most recent Behind the Podcast guest, “posted this afternoon that he thought the conference was in Miami again this year”37 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.”38 Tatum arrives with an agenda of his own — anti-boner underwear, his stated countermeasure for interviewing Dennis Porter on camera, which he offers to hand out;39 an apology tour, conditioned on a guest slot in return — “Vegas Vegas is where I start my apology tour. Okay?”40 (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,”41 promising Levels at least ten times, original mix only.

Rod’s sole piece of conduct advice concerns MsHodlnaut420, the running bit Fremont Street was built for.42 She is, in Vegas, the only grenade worth jumping on: “Miss Haldenott is trying to cock block”43 — 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.”44 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.”45

News breaks live twice. Mike Brock “has been spotted at the Venetian,”46 which converts instantly into a plan involving cigarettes, forty hours per week and an Ayn Rand novel. And Erin Redwing walks up mid-stream — “we’re talking to one of the the the organizers here of spamming Vegas, Erin Redwing”47 — 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.”48

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.”49 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.”50 The outro’s lore drop is Terrence Yang, who crashed the Mandrake event and reports that he “does very much miss, fight with Shinobi in spaces”51 — 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,”52 NGU, treasury companies and stablecoins. 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.”53 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”54 — and record that “nothing out of the ordinary happened besides a couple of lackluster Lynn Alden is hot chants,”55 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.”56

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.”57 Caitlin Long is added to the casualty list for trying to open a stablecoin bank,58 which surfaces the live contradiction Greaser pounces on: the enforcers issuing the purity tests are themselves big fans of stablecoins. Maggie Morris is documented as having screamed “embrace the game theory multiple times throughout the conference,”59 to Dennis Porter’s reported annoyance. Greaser establishes Vegas as EMF-hostile — “Jack Cruz won’t even set foot in it because of all the EMFs”60 — 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.”61 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.”62 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,”63 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. 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”64 — a charge he partially contests on the record (“Not not most of the beer”). The same episode preserves the conference’s kickoff flex: Teddy Bitcoins mocked Dennis Porter for flying coach, and “Dennis posted a picture of his jet and said, I fly private.”65 Hodl Magoo is established as canon to have been one of the Satirize the System wrestlers, entering from a trash can dressed in green;66 he asked not to be named. A Nostr booster is thanked for volunteer help on the night.67 The Bugle also threatens defection to BTC Prague should Vegas throw a Diddy party, while asserting “New York Times publishing standards.”68

The event’s most consequential downstream effect is reported by 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”69 — 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 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.”70 Adam Back gave his million-dollar prediction from a stage that organizers “had christened the Nakamoto”71 — signal treated as omen.

irl: Bitcoin 2025 was held in Las Vegas, 27–29 May 2025.

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,26 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. 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”72 — airs in February 2026 and never states a conference year. 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”73 — 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 Zack Shapiro and 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 Satirize the System, though the raw renders it Saturize, Satterize, Satire of and Sanitize besides.

Footnotes

  1. Bugle Weekly 19 @ 45:42. “plaid party” is ASR for pleb party. ↩

  2. Bugle Weekly 21 @ 17:59. ↩

  3. Behind The Podcast 9 @ 1:23:35. ↩

  4. Bugle Weekly 48 @ 6:35. ↩

  5. Bugle Weekly 57 @ 23:52. ↩

  6. Bugle Weekly 51 @ 45:09. ↩

  7. Bugle Weekly 48 @ 50:38. “compliant line” is ASR for the Comply line. ↩

  8. Bugle Weekly 56 @ 46:49. ASR renders Rod as “Ron”. ↩

  9. Bugle Weekly 55 @ 1:00:41. ASR gives Klippsten’s first name as “Corey”. ↩

  10. Behind the Podcast 13 @ 1:27:18. ↩

  11. Behind the Podcast 17 @ 37:08. ↩

  12. 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. ↩

  13. Bugle Weekly 57 @ 20:41. “in Scribe” is ASR for Inscribe; “Aaron” is Erin Redwing. ↩

  14. Bugle Weekly 59 @ 50:48. ASR “Aaron Redwing”; “Inscribing Vegas”. ↩

  15. Bugle Weekly 60 @ 54:26. ASR “Nordinals hats” for No-rdinals. ↩

  16. Bugle Weekly 57 @ 59:18. ↩

  17. Bugle Weekly 57 @ 1:02:14. ↩

  18. Bugle Weekly 57 @ 41:04. ↩

  19. Bugle Weekly 58 @ 48:21. ASR “Saturize the System”; the quote breaks at the cue boundary. ↩

  20. Scaling With Paper Bitcoin @ 10:45. ASR “Satire of the System”; the same episode also gives “satirize the system” and “sanitize the system”. ↩

  21. Bugle Weekly 59 @ 44:26. ASR “Podkoff” for PODCONF. ↩

  22. Scaling With Paper Bitcoin @ 20:34. ↩

  23. Satarize the System and Samourai Wallet @ 57:26. Jeremy Poley has no page. ↩

  24. Satarize the System and Samourai Wallet @ 1:32:13. ↩

  25. Bugle Weekly 60 @ 44:56. ↩

  26. Scaling With Paper Bitcoin @ 1:14:06. ↩ ↩2

  27. Bugle Weekly 61 @ 13:10. ASR “Plutator”. ↩

  28. Bugle Weekly 61 @ 4:39. ASR “Saturize the System”. ↩

  29. Bugle Weekly 61 @ 5:06. ASR renders the show name “bweekly”. ↩

  30. Bugle Weekly 61 @ 5:22. Quote spans two adjacent cues. ↩

  31. Bugle Weekly 61 @ 7:59. ↩

  32. Bugle Weekly 61 @ 8:45. ASR “Plutator” — the X purity-tester, not Matt Odell. ↩

  33. Bugle Weekly 61 @ 11:43. ↩

  34. Bugle Weekly 61 @ 12:40. ASR “Pleader’s”. ↩

  35. Bugle Weekly 61 @ 16:34. ASR “Sailor” for Saylor. ↩

  36. Bugle Weekly 61 @ 27:56. ↩

  37. Bugle Weekly 61 @ 13:49. ↩

  38. Bugle Weekly 61 @ 14:03. ↩

  39. Behind the Podcast 17 @ 9:20. ↩

  40. Behind the Podcast 17 @ 55:04. ↩

  41. Behind the Podcast 17 @ 55:48. ASR renders Avicii as “Vici”. ↩

  42. Bugle Weekly 59 @ 45:43. ASR “miss Haldlemott”. ↩

  43. Bugle Weekly 61 @ 37:30. ASR “Miss Haldenott”. ↩

  44. Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 4:34. ↩

  45. Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 11:36. The diarization merges both voices into this cue. ↩

  46. Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 40:05. ↩

  47. Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 51:31. ↩

  48. Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 1:12:00. The “Right.” is a host’s interjection folded into her cue by the diarization. ↩

  49. Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 1:05:26. ↩

  50. Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 58:19. ↩

  51. Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 1:57:11. ↩

  52. Bugle Weekly 62 @ 0:04. ASR alternates “PodCon” and “PodConf”. ↩

  53. Bugle Weekly 62 @ 0:17. The cue packs Kailey Welch’s toss and Buster’s dispatch together. ↩

  54. Bugle Weekly 62 @ 0:46. The same cue names the off-site critics as “Matthew Crater and Plutator” — ASR for Matthew Kratter and Pledditor, two distinct people, neither of them Matt Odell. ↩

  55. Bugle Weekly 62 @ 1:21. ASR “Lynn Alden”. ↩

  56. Bugle Weekly 62 @ 1:55. ASR “Satterize the System”. ↩

  57. Bugle Weekly 62 @ 6:35. ↩

  58. Bugle Weekly 62 @ 9:29. ↩

  59. Bugle Weekly 62 @ 12:00. ↩

  60. Bugle Weekly 62 @ 3:04. ASR “Jack Cruz” for Jack Kruse. ↩

  61. Bugle Weekly 62 @ 27:11. ASR renders tallow as “towel” and “talo”. ↩

  62. Bugle Weekly 62 @ 36:51. ↩

  63. Bugle Weekly 62 @ 42:29. ↩

  64. BTP 18 @ 1:43. ↩

  65. BTP 18 @ 44:58. ↩

  66. BTP 19 @ 14:59. ASR “Hanel Magoo”; also “Hoddle Magoo” earlier in the segment. ↩

  67. BTP 25 @ 1:31:42. ASR “saturize the system”. ↩

  68. Bugle Weekly 67 @ 55:31. ↩

  69. BTP 27 @ 2:12:51. ASR “Michael Sailor” for Saylor. ↩

  70. Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 3 @ 11:26. ↩

  71. Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 3 @ 12:10. ↩

  72. Bugle Weekly 95 @ 59:46. ↩

  73. Bugle Weekly 102 @ 17:14. ASR “Shinno”. The beat is medium confidence and the conference year is inferred from the episode date, not stated. ↩