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David Bailey & Bitcoin Magazine

David Bailey runs Bitcoin Magazine, and Bitcoin Magazine runs the conference, and the conference decides who in the Bugleverse gets a stage. That arrangement — one man holding the gate to the industry’s only real venue — is the engine of this storyline. Across two years the Bugle treats Bailey as neither villain nor hero but as weather: the thing that happens to everyone else. He is blamed for ordinals, credited with the presidency, diagnosed as a syndrome, and eventually charged with a felony.

The magazine itself has no page in this wiki and no fixed name in the record. The ASR and the hosts between them call it Ordinals Magazine, Ordinance Magazine, Shitcoin Magazine, Big One Magazine, and — once, predictively — Politics Magazine. Bailey fares no better: he is rendered David Daley, David Thailie, David Beatty, David Babley, David Orangebill, and, on one memorable occasion, Dennis Byrd.

Who’s in it: David Bailey · Bitcoin Magazine · Richard Greaser · Rod Palmer · Dennis Porter · Shinobi · Pete Rizzo · Frank Corva · Donald Trump · Pledditor · Dylan LeClair · Steven Lubka

Related: storylines/trump-crypto-saga · storylines/dennis-porter-saga · storylines/orange-pilling-the-powerful · storylines/paper-bitcoin-menace · storylines/podconf-industrial-complex · storylines/bitcoin-2024-nashville · storylines/bitcoin-2025-vegas

The gatekeeper (2024)

The storyline opens on the grievance that will outlast every other: Dennis Porter cannot get a speaking slot. In the Bugle’s first episode Greaser reports the groundswell — “44 signatures on the petition to get him a speaking slot at at the Bitcoin conference”1 — and reads the snub as ego. The same episode establishes the magazine’s other permanent condition, which is that its staff are a liability: covering the story that Bitcoin Magazine would counsel employees traumatised by its CEO’s posting, Greaser announced “I hold Shinobi particularly responsible for for David Bailey’s Twitter antics.”2 Shinobi is blamed for Bailey throughout; this is never explained.

Bailey’s management style enters the record a week later, sourced to anonymous industry insiders who “reported David Bailey, Dodge, Shinobi, and Rizzo on a video call, like, at 8AM”3 — an early-morning dressing-down of the Bitcoin Magazine staff, because he refused to lose the inaugural Maxi Madness bracket to Swan. By episode 4 he has been canonised. Naming the Bugleverse’s “greatest agents of number go up,” Greaser gives the litmus test for an enemy: “of number go up. They don’t like Corey Clipston. They don’t like Dennis Porter. They don’t like David Bailey.”4 To be hated by the grumps is the qualification.

The magazine’s competitive deficiencies are catalogued with equal seriousness. Its real problem, the hosts conclude, is that it “doesn’t have the influencer romantic dynamics down like Swan does” — “Swan really struck gold with Sam Callahan and Natalie. What what a power couple. Huge.”5 Later, at conference time, Greaser is scandalised that the magazine has failed to ship a surveillance product: there is still no “Bitcoin related KYC product, like Sailor’s Orange”6 with which to identify its own attendees. Missed revenue, in both cases.

Orange-pilling the president

The claim that makes Bailey load-bearing arrives with Trump’s Free Ross pledge. Rod asks whether Bailey is involved; Greaser answers that he is responsible for it, and the pledge itself — “that Donald Trump wants to, free Ross Ulberg”7 — is entered as Bailey’s work. Lobbying is then reframed as a spiritual vocation “largely led by the lobbyists like Dennis Porter and David Bailey, who have done the work to orange pill Trump and orange pill all these other politicians.”8

From there the escalations come weekly. Bailey and Dylan LeClair are named the architects of the corporate-treasury conversion blueprint, and Rod proposes replacing Social Security with shares of MicroStrategy and MetaPlanet.9 Then the magazine’s ambition is stated outright: it is brokering a deal with the Trump campaign “to achieve the status of being official state run media”10 — reported by Greaser as a straight promotion. Rod Palmer‘s explanation is that Bailey looked at the Bugle and copied its credentials strategy. A backchannel surfaces at the Fourth of July: the claim that the Trump family “are closet smokers. Like, this is something, you know, I had David Bailey reach out to me”11 — a rare on-record instance of the magazine calling the Bugle.

Greaser’s structural read lands next: “I I think David Bailey is trying to attempt to be the next Rupert Murdoch”12 — Ordinals Magazine will rebrand to Politics Magazine, build a Bitcoin Fox News, and install Dennis Porter as its political commentator. Against this, hyperbitcoinization is judged to be stalled on Bailey’s booking decisions: “maybe what it comes down to is you just need David Bailey to to kinda get his priorities in order,”13 i.e. book Candace Owens instead of politicians.

The Bugle’s outro that week renames the venue and sets the terms of entry: “If you’re going to the ordinals mag conference in Nashville, make sure to bring funds on lightning to be able to transact with us.”14

Nashville

Nashville week opens on Bailey’s timeline: “This week, the people of the world will be watching David Bailey’s Twitter account with notifications”15 — he is about to break the internet while breaking all the rules, and he will personally usher in the God candle. Afterward, Rod’s exculpatory theory for the ejections is medical: “The politicians were so orange pilled. Donald Trump was so orange pilled that they didn’t want them to wipe overdose”16 — Bailey’s team acting as bartender, cutting off the over-served. Greaser’s verdict is that “David Bailey you know, ushered them into the initial club,”17 and his fear is that Trump joins the platform side rather than the Intellectual Silk Road.

The on-stage gift is later reclassified as a motive. “David Bailey gave Donald Trump one full Bitcoin”18 — one of twenty-one million, permanently off the market if Trump is killed, though Rod suspects Trump has already lost it. Much later the same gift is re-read as a technicality and a triumph: “him being a Bitcoin. David Bailey gave him that, cashless coin or whatever it’s called”19 — a Casascius coin, making Trump the first self-custodying president, which Greaser calls a very brilliant marketing scheme.

The 2025 venue move is claimed by the Bugle as a policy win. Bitcoin Magazine “might have moved to Vegas this year, upcoming year, is probably because they wanted to allow smoking in the conference”20 — the hosts complained, the magazine listened, and props are given.

The body count

Episode 22 opens the storyline’s most durable argument. Greaser credits Bailey with a double conversion — “So he turned he turned Peter Schiff into a pleb and he turned the former president Donald Trump into a pleb”21 — and asks whether anyone is left he cannot convert. Rod frames the resulting dispute: “it’s kind of a debate between David Bailey and Dennis Porter,”22 orange-pilling as a body count in which certain bodies carry higher weights. Porter’s volume against Bailey’s quality. The listener boost from We All Eat ratifies Porter: “and Dennis Porter. He thinks Porter is a better orange pillar, otherwise known as penis daughter.”23

Bailey’s own contributions to the news cycle are less structural. The October surprise, he has been tweeting, is Diddy: “the October surprise as it’s known in politics, excuse me, is Diddy.”24 Meanwhile the institution springs a leak — “it seems like Rizzo left, Bitcoin Magazine”25 — which Greaser reads as the decentralization of Bitcoin educators away from central points, and Rod claims the Bugle predicted.

The state-media deal, reported six months earlier as a promotion, is by the selection specials an indictment: “this is the problem with what Bitcoin magazine is doing. So Bitcoin magazine wants to be the you know, have a relationship with the federal government. They wanna be state sanctioned media”26 — and President Porter, Richard warns, would remove the subsidies that let them operate. The magazine is also accused, with reluctant credit-where-due, of sending “Camilla and Natalie and the girls from Bitcoin magazine to Diddy parties” on the company’s behalf.27 Rod’s answer to the magazine’s superior engagement is arithmetic: “the bugle might only get 10 or or 10 or 15 likes and retweets on a on a on an article”28 against Bitcoin Magazine’s thousands — control for the pseudo-spoofing and the Bugle is pound for pound the best news in the business.

Employment at the magazine is meanwhile portrayed as coercive. Rod sources to Bailey an ultimatum issued to Shinobi — “be a White House correspondent, like you’re told, that the only alternative is that you have to go on The Bachelor to find a niece”29 — which pushes Shinobi toward independent media. And Jyn, demanding a disabled black trans womyn to lead Bitcoin propaganda, calls for Bailey and Odell to step aside;30 she would additionally rewire Bailey to “make it so that he had gender dysphoria so he would become a woman because I think that would help. You know, I think that would help him understand.”31 Rod concurs that he would make a great woman, citing his emotional excitability and hysterical bullishness.

By December the price is high enough that hostilities cease. Rod’s index of euphoria is that “even Corey and David Bailey are exchanging pleasantries”32 — a ceasefire he expects to break the moment number stops going up.

2025: the derangement syndromes

The Bugle’s 2024 retrospective pins its own origin not to its launch but to a raid on the magazine: “it was after we took over Bitcoin magazine on April fools, I think, when it really kicked off.”33 The same episode settles the strategic-reserve paternity fight — Bitcoin Magazine vs. Bailey vs. Porter vs. BPI — by fiat: “Yeah. I would I would pin all of that on David Bailey. It’s all his fault,”34 on the grounds that the drama consumed resources owed to the Samourai devs. The Crypto Ball is renamed to match the victors: “the compliance cantillionaire ball is maybe what it should have been called.”35 When Ross Ulbricht walks free, Bailey is among the podcast royalty flown in to greet him bearing “homemade baklava. That’s a true story that’s happening.”36

Then the reckoning: “By introducing the president to bitcoin, David Bailey has unleashed the shitcoin kraken upon humanity.”37 The cold open asks whether he can be redeemed. It is the same bet as the orange-pilling arc, restated as catastrophe.

Frank Corva‘s appearance is the storyline’s fullest interior view of the institution, largely because Frank is flattered into it. He is introduced as “the guy on Bitcoin Magazine livestreams who asks much more interesting questions than Isabella”38 and Rizzo. Shinobi’s communism is handled as a branding problem — “having having a communist technical editor might not be the best look for Bitcoin Magazine”39 — and journalistic-ethics complaints are routed to a department that does not exist: “I know David Bailey is looking to hire someone to do this. Our our HR department is currently lacking a bit.”40 The state-media framing, by now a year old, is accepted and improved upon: “it’s gonna be crazy. Like, do we replay Big One magazine is kind of becoming like the state run media”41 — which Rod argues is fine, because unlike the old state media this one holds equity in the state. Frank can neither confirm nor deny that the conference after Vegas is “happening in Gaza in 2026.”42 The mechanism is supplied the following week: “Barely David Bailey told him that Bitcoin fixes this to almost everything. So he thinks that this is going to, he’s going to use Bitcoin to fix to fix Gaza.”43 Bailey’s access to the president, rendered as the load-bearing cause of Middle East policy.

The Porter grievance returns hardened. Bailey stands accused of “blackballing Dennis from speaking at the conference, which is really important”44 while covertly supporting Trump’s meme coin. Rod escalates to a national-security argument by refusing to rule it out: “And if you can’t say with a 100% certainty that we’re not gonna have another 09:11 if David Bailey and Dennis Porter don’t get along,”45 the two should break bread peer to peer as Satoshi would have wanted. When Porter’s state-reserve bills keep failing, Greaser absolves him — “It’s not Dennis Porter’s fault. It’s David’s fault. David hasn’t given a platform at the conference”46 — and calls him a future president. The Bugle is also sitting on an unpublished scoop: a leaked memo “outlined that David Bailey was floating the idea of of how much engagement he could get by doing a covert Nazi salute,”47 killed by Rizzo and Shinobi before it gained traction.

Episode 49 gives the phenomenon its name. A caller blames the strategic reserve on the magazine — “all of this is David Beatty and Shinobi’s fault”48 — and Rod formalises the taxonomy: “there’s two camps really. There’s people with, Donald Trump derangement syndrome and there’s people with David Bailey derangement syndrome,”49 the latter diagnosed as orange pill jealousy. The sufferers are named — “Dieter Bob, suffers from David Bailey derangement syndrome”50 — Deeter Bob, Terrence Yang, and Pledditor, the usual suspects, whose symptom is replying to any Bitcoin Magazine employee to blame them for ordinals.

Bailey’s defenders are as strange as his accusers. He is the movement’s non-judgmental on-ramp because he declines to “call Donald Trump a retarded shitgoiner”51 for trading meme coins — everyone gets there eventually. He is credited with solving two-tier compliance, the grievance that “why should they comply when the people enforcing compliance aren’t even compliant themselves?”52 And the whole orange-pilling scoreboard reduces to one image of him: “a podcast listener taking selfies in the Oval Office.”53 When the reserve disappoints, Greaser treats it as FUD rather than policy — “They’re gonna blame David Bailey. You know? And you had you had people out there like Cynthia Ramos propagating”54 — casting Lummis as the source of unhelpful information for predicting states would move before the feds. The next cue falsifies her.

His résumé, when the PodConf bracket puts him out over Porter, is two items long: “Simply, it’s as simple as this David Bailey got Ross free”55 and the strategic Bitcoin-only reserve. His brokerage continues regardless: off GameStop’s reserve, “Nintendo got on the the line with, with David Bailey to get the introduction to Dylan,”56 LeClair briefing Nintendo’s interns. And Zack Shapiro, playing along, describes the orange-pilling process as private dinner parties at John Podesta’s house where “usually, David Bailey has a lot to say at that point. And then, you know, they it usually ends with them buying some amount of of Shiba Inu.”57

Erin Redwing supplies the sharpest read of the conference economy from inside it: Bitcoin Magazine sold her event’s tickets and takes indirect shitcoin exposure without the heat, because their red line was never federal agents. “They like feds, but they don’t like Right. A token, for example.”58

The paper Bitcoin turn

In June 2025 the storyline changes shape. “Steven Lupka debuted a new broccoli haircut as he announced that he would be joining David Bailey’s PBC called Nakamoto”59 — Lubka to the treasury vehicle, and Bailey out of media and into paper Bitcoin. Greaser’s response to the man remains physical: “But, like, when I think of David Bailey, I wanna twist his nipples. You know what I mean?”60 — not in a mean way; just as a first introduction, before the handshake. He also makes a dated, checkable prediction: “I think David Bailey is probably gonna be the first paper Bitcoiner on Rogan. That’s my prediction.”61

The purity line now runs through payroll. L0la L33tz takes Bailey’s money, but: “I guess he paid her in Bitcoin and not paper Bitcoin, which is kinda interesting.”62 Then Nakamoto’s SPAC filing makes podcaster compensation public — “And it’s a lot. David Bailey’s making a million dollars a year”63 — which Rod reads as the market pricing the profession above doctors and lawyers. The casualty is the purity-tester: “this value was very humbling to Clenitor,”64 Pledditor learning that failing purity tests pays a million a year. Greaser’s contribution is a wage-gap inquiry: “John Seth was tweeting about how Perianne Boring is on the board of Nakamoto,”65 and he wants Amanda Fabiano paid at least 20% more for being Bitcoin-only.

The Bugle’s coverage of Bailey’s spending is granular. There is “this mysterious cobbler David Bailey is apparently spending a cool quarter million of investor cash on”66 for his paper-Bitcoin podcast team. His stock bull-market line — “David Bailey told them all to buckle up”67 — is repurposed by Rod into a road-safety warning about guardrail-free mountain roads.

His antagonists get their own taxonomy. Pledditor and Justin Bechler established the tag-a-regulator method: “and Pleneter. You know? They’re always tweeting about at the SEC about, you know, Dave Bailey or whoever.”68 Greaser coins a terminal variant of the syndrome — “having Dave Bailey derangement syndrome or, you know, whatever it is”69 — a day spent complaining about everyone else, then sports ball on Netflix. Rod supplies the theological diagnosis: “Basically, his Pledder has made David Daley and Swan his gods in Bitcoin, and they are really letting him down”70 — they cannot even get a webinar on time. When Greaser offers Bubba the two names a pioneer is meant to refuse — “who who would you like to invite to Lake Satoshi next year? Is, like, Platteader on your list, David Bailey?”71 — Bubba declines both.

Then the storyline crosses its own line. Greaser announces “my most recent article in Bitcoin magazine titled The Revolution”72 — the Bugle’s habitual punching bag now publishes a Bugle host — and praises the issue’s layout while admitting “I I haven’t read through the whole thing yet, but they did a really good job with the layout and the graphics.”73 Two months later, Rod alleges the issue was memory-holed, the only one in years pulled from the store,74 and Greaser theorises why: his argument threatened the paper-Bitcoin scaling line. “That’s my going theory. They say, okay. Well, you know, maybe Greasers on to something here. Lightning,“75

2026: jestermaxxing

Bailey’s repeated attempts to manufacture the god announcement by courting Trump receive a verdict: “God did not look”76 shine his light fondly on him. He is folded into the lore as one of “the four horsemen of Podkoff,” one of whom is “on the verge of getting devoted” almost weekly;77 Bailey, Greaser notes, has crashed and burned super hard.

The season’s organising concept is jestermaxxing, and Bailey is its author. Grant Cardone‘s crash-out is diagnosed as a reading failure: “he didn’t realize that David Daley was jester maxing”78 — he put real money into paper Bitcoin, and NAKA is down 99.9%. The following week it becomes a crime: Bailey has been charged “with felony jester maxing for what he did at Nakamoto.”79 Meanwhile Greaser accuses Bechler and Adam Semeka of farming Twitter ad revenue “posting memes or whatever, talking about how terrible Dave Bailey is”80 rather than betting their convictions. And Bailey graduates to anti-oracle: he “is not an oracle of truth, that is a counter indicator kinda like David Bailey,”81 wrong so reliably you assume everything is wrong — but a broken clock is right twice a day, which keeps you on your toes.

Greaser also fields a Bitcoin Magazine commission to forecast 2036 — “so I’ve been writing this this article for, the physical print Bitcoin magazine”82 — which is the only reason that episode spends an hour on ten-year AI horizons.

The Maxi Madness victory ceremony is staged as the magazine’s, not the Bugle’s: the host opens with “My name is Isaiah Austin. I am the admin of the Bitcoin conference x handle,”83 and closes by pivoting into the funnel that paid for it — “Thanks, everybody. See you all in Vegas next month. Use code x 10 for 10% off. See you.”84

Two long-running threads land. Rod puts the obligation question to Bailey directly: “Is it your obligation to be a good role model? Is it David Bailey’s”85 obligation to be a good role model for plebs? And after four years, the campaign wins: “I have tweeted so many times at David Bailey to let Dennis speak”86 — petitions, trended hashtags, and finally Porter on the Vegas stage. Greaser proposes the magazine vibe-check grumpy plebs in its replies by asking “how many hugs did you get from your wife today?”87; the Prime Trust clawbacks reach the podcast layer;88 and the Pleb Pride Month ad fixes his place in the liturgy of blame: “It’s the state’s fault. It’s the shitcoiner’s fault. It’s Paper Bitcoin’s fault. It’s the devs’ fault. It’s my wife’s fault. It’s David Bailey’s fault.”89

The last word in the record is a shareholder ruling. Asked what Bailey would do if Hunter Biden came out hardcore cypherpunk, Rod judges that “Maybe Hunter Biden could resurrect it, but I think that the last thing Nakamoto shareholders want is more Jestermax”90 — and delivers the verdict the whole arc was building toward: hitching his wagon to Trump was not good for his stock price.

Disputed

Who is the better orange-piller. The record never settles Bailey vs. Porter. Rod frames it as volume against quality;22 the We All Eat boost ratifies Porter;23 Greaser blames Bailey for Porter’s losing streak on the grounds that Bailey controls the stage.46 Greaser proposed settling it on Polymarket. It was not settled.

Whether state-run media is an achievement or a betrayal. Reported as a straight promotion in June 2024 — the magazine “achieve[s] the status of being official state run media”10 by copying the Bugle’s credentials strategy — and then as an indictment four months later, with President Porter poised to remove the subsidies.26 By February 2025 Rod has resolved it in the magazine’s favour on a technicality: it is state media, but it holds equity in the state.41 All three readings stand.

Why the conference moved to Vegas. The Bugle claims it as a win for its smoking campaign — “we complained about it, we criticized them and they listened.”20 Frank Corva sells the same event as “the most deep state level conference you’ve ever seen.”42 These are not incompatible, but neither host acknowledges the other’s account.

Corrections to the seeded page. This page previously spanned 2023-04 to 2025-05 and was assembled from episode descriptions and news headlines rather than from the record. The beat index carries no beats before 2024-03-24 and runs through 2026-06-15; the 2023 material (the Jim Cramer hire, the Saylor bathwater ordinals, the Halloween party, the ten-day silent yoga retreat) is not attested in any indexed episode beat and has been removed from the narrative pending sources that support it. The seeded page also stated that Bailey bought Trump’s assassination suit for 700 BTC. No beat attests this. What the record attests is a gift in the other direction: Bailey gave Trump one full Bitcoin on stage,18 later specified as a Casascius coin and credited with making him the first self-custodying president.19 Henry’s note: the two claims may both be true and merely disjoint — the suit story derives from a Bugle News headline, not an episode — but they are not the same transaction, and the coin is the one the hosts actually talk about.

Footnotes

  1. Bugle Weekly 1 @ 11:41. ↩

  2. Bugle Weekly 1 @ 39:51. ↩

  3. Bugle Weekly 2 @ 41:06. ASR renders Bailey as “David Daley” at t=2503; “Dodge” has no roster match and is left unattributed. ↩

  4. Bugle Weekly 4 @ 17:30. “Corey Clipston” is ASR for Cory Klippsten; “And they don’t like Michael Sailor” follows at t=1056. ↩

  5. Bugle Weekly 5 @ 15:58. “Natalie” is Natalie Brunell. ↩

  6. Bugle Weekly 17 @ 35:32. ASR: “Sailor’s Orange” for Saylor’s Orange. ↩

  7. Bugle Weekly 10 @ 33:50. “Ross Ulberg” is ASR for Ross Ulbricht. Rod asks “Do you think David Bailey’s involved?” at t=2035; Greaser answers “I think David Bailey’s responsible for it” at t=2041. ↩

  8. Bugle Weekly 11 @ 18:52. ↩

  9. Bugle Weekly 12 @ 50:15. “Dylan LeClaire” is ASR for Dylan LeClair; “keep the system solved” is likely “solvent”. ↩

  10. Bugle Weekly 13 @ 19:26. Greaser calls the outfit “ordinals magazine” at t=1306 and t=3443. ↩ ↩2

  11. Bugle Weekly 15 @ 46:57. ↩

  12. Bugle Weekly 16 @ 45:41. ASR gives the magazine as “Orgnos”/“Originals”/“old guys magazine”. ↩

  13. Bugle Weekly 17 @ 17:55. Rod at t=1090: “People aren’t gonna realize that Bitcoin is won until Candace starts talking about it.” ↩

  14. Bugle Weekly 17 @ 52:49. ↩

  15. Bugle Weekly 18 @ 4:11. The God-candle prophecy is at t=279 and t=301. ↩

  16. Bugle Weekly 19 @ 9:25. “wipe overdose” is ASR, roughly “ripe for overdose”. The bartender simile runs t=551–561. ↩

  17. Bugle Weekly 19 @ 31:50. “initial club” is ASR, likely “inner circle”. Greaser calls Trump “the first pleb president” at t=1931. ↩

  18. Bugle Weekly 26 @ 23:39. ↩ ↩2

  19. Bugle Weekly 83 Part 1 @ 22:14. “cashless coin” is ASR for “Casascius coin”; payoff at t=1343. ↩ ↩2

  20. Bugle Weekly 21 @ 17:59. Rod claims the win at t=1097. ↩ ↩2

  21. Bugle Weekly 22 @ 6:13. Palmer coins “David Orangebill” at t=352 — ASR for “David Orange Pill”. ↩

  22. Bugle Weekly 22 @ 6:41. Greaser extends it at t=429 (“certain bodies have higher weights to them”) and proposes settling it on Polymarket at t=565. ↩ ↩2

  23. Bugle Weekly 23 @ 46:11. “Penis daughter” is ASR for Dennis Porter and “Davie” for David Bailey. We All Eat is a recurring booster with no wiki page. ↩ ↩2

  24. Bugle Weekly 27 @ 31:32. Rod glosses Diddy as “the day Epstein of hip hop” at t=1928 — ASR for “the Epstein of hip hop”. Diddy has no wiki page. ↩

  25. Bugle Weekly 29 @ 36:06. Greaser learned it “on my typewriter” (t=2170). Casa has no company page. ↩

  26. Bugle Weekly 32 @ 34:39. The subsidy threat is at t=2124. ↩ ↩2

  27. Bugle Weekly 33 @ 26:48. Beat confidence is medium: “Camilla” is unresolved, and “People like Corey and David Bailey” at t=1598 is likely Klippsten, who is Swan rather than Bitcoin Magazine — neither is attributed here. ↩

  28. Bugle Weekly 34 @ 53:41. The comparison — “Bitcoin magazine might get thousands” — and the claim land at t=3226–3242. ↩

  29. Behind the Podcast 2 @ 9:48. ASR mangles Bailey to “David Thailie” at t=577 and “muse” to “niece”. Shinobi’s reply at t=606. ↩

  30. Behind the Podcast 4 @ 1:05:04. Bailey and Odell named at t=3918. ↩

  31. Behind the Podcast 4 @ 1:08:24. Rod at t=4112: “I think David would make a great woman, honestly.” ↩

  32. Bugle Weekly 38 @ 21:43. “Corey” is Cory Klippsten. The same episode carries the conference takeaway “Bitcoin is the gateway drug to USDT,” attributed to a Kraken speaker: @ 15:39. ↩

  33. Bugle Weekly 42 @ 4:14. Greaser corroborates at t=277. ↩

  34. Bugle Weekly 42 @ 42:18. “EPI” at t=2509 is ASR for BPI, the Bitcoin Policy Institute. ↩

  35. Bugle Weekly 43 @ 6:24. Bailey named at t=363. The Crypto Ball has no event page. ↩

  36. Behind The Podcast 7 @ 10:13. Beat confidence is medium — the other name in the pair is ASR’d “Nandrick”/“Mandrake” and unresolved; Bailey is unambiguous at t=621 and t=635. ↩

  37. Bugle Weekly 44 @ 1:08. “Will David Bailey be redeemed or will we descend into darkness?” at t=139. ↩

  38. Behind The Podcast 9 @ 0:11. “Isabella” is a Bitcoin Magazine livestream host with no wiki page. ↩

  39. Behind The Podcast 9 @ 3:58. ↩

  40. Behind The Podcast 9 @ 12:48. Frank recommends Shinobi as “Great with, using HR appropriate language” (t=782) and reads out “editor@btcmedia.org” (t=805). ↩

  41. Behind The Podcast 9 @ 31:44. “Big One magazine” is ASR for Bitcoin Magazine. The equity payoff is at t=1940. ↩ ↩2

  42. Behind The Podcast 9 @ 1:23:35. Frank’s non-denial at t=5018; the deep-state pitch at t=5036–5066. ↩ ↩2

  43. Bugle Weekly 46 @ 46:28. “Barely David Bailey” is ASR, probably “Apparently, David Bailey”. ↩

  44. Bugle Weekly 47 @ 18:38. The meme-coin charge is at t=1132. ↩

  45. Bugle Weekly 47 @ 21:45. Resolution at t=1317. ↩

  46. Bugle Weekly 48 @ 57:09. Greaser’s “future president of The United States” at t=3440. ↩ ↩2

  47. Bugle Weekly 48 @ 32:50. Rod at t=1990: “Thank god for Rizzo and Shinobi shooting that down.” ↩

  48. Bugle Weekly 49 @ 2:37. “David Beatty” is ASR for David Bailey, resolved by Timmy naming him correctly at t=172. The caller is “Terrence from Pasadena, California” — a one-off, and not Terrence Yang. ↩

  49. Bugle Weekly 49 @ 23:39. Diagnosis completed at t=1440. Rod ASRs “David Bailey” as “Dennis Byrd” at t=1428. ↩

  50. Bugle Weekly 49 @ 24:20. ASR: “Dieter Bob” = Deeter Bob; “that predator” (t=1469) = Pledditor. ↩

  51. Bugle Weekly 50 @ 20:58. “shitgoiner” is the ASR rendering. Rod’s “David Bailey is an accessory” (t=1269) is left ambiguous between “accessible resource” and criminal accessory — the cue is cut off. ↩

  52. Bugle Weekly 50 @ 19:15. ASR renders Bailey as “David Babley” at t=1178. ↩

  53. Bugle Weekly 50 @ 19:45. The unnamed listener is Bailey, per the surrounding passage. ↩

  54. Bugle Weekly 50 @ 10:44. Beat confidence is medium: “Cynthia Ramos” is a new ASR variant of Cynthia Lummis, resolved from content rather than spelling. The claim is falsified at t=660. ↩

  55. Bugle Weekly 51 @ 29:39. Rod stresses “the strategic Bitcoin only reserve” at t=1789–1792 against Porter’s “digital assets strategic reserves” at t=1804. ↩

  56. Behind The Podcast 12 @ 40:30. Greaser fixes attribution at t=2410: “Well, Rod, you broke that story. Right?” ↩

  57. Satarize the System @ 8:57. ↩

  58. Spamming Vegas @ 1:12:00. “Right.” is a host interjection the diarization folded into her cue. ↩

  59. Bugle Weekly 64 @ 0:43. ASR spells Lubka “Steven Lupka”. “PBC” is the episode’s coinage for “paper Bitcoin companies” (t=33). Nakamoto has no wiki page. ↩

  60. BTP 18 @ 40:50. Greaser clarifies at t=2472: “not in a mean way… just as, like, the first introduction. Before I shake his hand.” ↩

  61. Bugle Weekly 66 @ 27:01. “Steven Lopka” at t=1628 is Lubka. ↩

  62. Bugle Weekly 69 @ 22:12. ASR renders L0la L33tz as “Lola Leads” at t=1323. ↩

  63. Bugle Weekly 72 @ 2:40. Rod frames the filing as “the mid year purity test report cards” (t=121). ↩

  64. Bugle Weekly 72 @ 3:13. Beat confidence is medium. “Clenitor” is a new ASR variant for Pledditor — read as him because the passage is about who is humbled by the market value of impurity, and the same episode ASRs him “predator” and “pleader” at t=3221/t=3241. Not Matt Odell. ↩

  65. Bugle Weekly 72 @ 3:58. Beat confidence is medium: “John Seth” is read as Junseth. Perianne Boring has no wiki page. Greaser’s wage demand is at t=278. ↩

  66. Bugle Weekly 73 @ 1:53. ↩

  67. Bugle Weekly 74 @ 21:06. ↩

  68. Bugle Weekly 75 @ 14:51. “Pleneter” is a new ASR variant of Pledditor, who is a different person from Matt Odell and is distinguished here from Matthew Kratter, named separately at t=906. ↩

  69. Bugle Weekly 76 @ 56:30. ASR gives “Dave Bailey”. ↩

  70. Bugle Weekly 77 @ 1:03:46. Beat confidence is medium: “Pledder” and “Plettetor” are both Pledditor, “David Daley” is Bailey, and the syntax is mangled enough that Rod may be describing someone in Pledditor’s orbit. Rod adds “despite David not being a grumpy guy” (t=3848). ↩

  71. Intellectual Silk Road 2 @ 1:19:44. Beat confidence is medium: “Platteader” is a new ASR mangling of Pledditor, read as him rather than Odell on the pairing. ↩

  72. Greaser’s Take 1 @ 0:07. ↩

  73. Greaser’s Take 1 @ 0:23. The “I I” stutter is in the ASR and preserved verbatim. ↩

  74. Bugle Weekly 80 @ 48:59. The single-cue quote is thin; the sentence spans t=2936–2947: “Bitcoin Magazine censored their highly anticipated lightning issue… It’s completely unavailable on the website.” ↩

  75. Bugle Weekly 80 @ 51:37. ↩

  76. Intellectual Silk Road 4 @ 35:28. The sentence completes at t=2130: “shine his light fondly on David Bailey.” ↩

  77. BTP 29 @ 42:16. Beat confidence is medium: “getting devoted” is ASR mush, probably “doxxed”; “the bay Bailey has crashed and burned super hard” at t=2543 gives only the surname and is read as Bailey from the Podkoff context. ↩

  78. Bugle Weekly 97 @ 22:01. “David Daley” is ASR for Bailey; “NACA shares” (t=1316) is ASR for NAKA. ↩

  79. Bugle Weekly 98 @ 3:04. The sentence begins at t=181 (“David Bailey has been charged”); anchored on the cue carrying the charge. ↩

  80. Bugle Weekly 98 @ 37:15. “Justin Belcher” (t=2214) is ASR for Justin Bechler; “Adam Smacka” (t=2225) for Adam Semeka. ↩

  81. Bugle Weekly 101 @ 11:01. The other anti-oracle is Kim Dotcom, ASR-mangled as “kim.com”/“tim.com”/“chem.com”; he has no wiki page. ↩

  82. Bugle Weekly 97 @ 4:47. ↩

  83. Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 0:00. Isaiah Austin has no character page. ↩

  84. Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 1:03:10. ↩

  85. Bugle Weekly 104 @ 11:18. Completed in the next cue: “obligation to be a good role model for plebs?” ↩

  86. Bugle Weekly 105 @ 41:02. Campaign length at 40:54: “I’ve been campaigning for, like, four years.” ↩

  87. Bugle Weekly 107 @ 34:13. Bailey is named separately at 34:30. ↩

  88. Bugle Weekly 110 @ 33:07. Beat confidence is medium: “Stephen Lepka” (33:24) is possibly Stephan Livera, but the Bailey employment claim is unverified and he is not attributed. ↩

  89. Bugle Weekly 111 @ 0:43. ↩

  90. Bugle Weekly 113 @ 25:32. Rod’s verdict on the alliance at 25:22: “I think David Bailey hitching his wagon to Trump was not good for his stock price.” ↩