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The Ordinals Civil War

The Ordinals Civil War is the Bugleverse’s longest-running internal conflict: the fight over whether pictures belong in Bitcoin blocks. It is the beat the Bugle was founded on, the fight it declared over three separate times, and the one storyline in which the paper switched sides — publicly, on air, and without apology.

It is also the fight that the Bugle cannot leave alone. Rod Palmer dates his own arrival at the Bugle to Q4 2023 and names the ordinals war, alongside anti-Swanitism, as the beat he was hired into — “and we were writing about anti swanitism, just off ordinals.”1 The audio record opens four months later with the two positions already fully armed: in the very first episode of Bugle Weekly, Richard Greaser argues that spam is not a bug but the mechanism — “the reason why is because the only way to get Bitcoin development to happen is to break Bitcoin with spam.”2 Two cues from the end of the same episode, the show plugs the movement dedicated to destroying that mechanism: “There’ll be more information about Just Stop Originals.”3

Who’s in it: Rod Palmer · Richard Greaser · Erin Redwing · Casey Rodarmor · Udi Wertheimer · Luke Dashjr · Terrence Yang · Charlie Spears · Pledditor · David Bailey · Cory Klippsten · Notgrubles · Justin Bechler · Peter Todd · Portland Hodl · the Knotzis · Just Stop Ordinals · PODCONF

2024: the war as inherited furniture

For the show’s first year the ordinals war is ambient rather than central — a supply of metaphors more than a subject. Greaser imagines Udi banning smoking in the metaverse by flooding every virtual room with water, and Palmer immediately reads it as the blockchain joke told sideways.4 A beheading gets absorbed into the filter fight as a suspected false flag: “the Fix the Filters group to be funding terrorist organizations that are beheading Bitcoin miners is pretty alarming to me.”5 Memorial Day war dead become “spam to the government blockchain, if you know what I mean.”6

By midsummer the show declares the war finished. Ordinals are normalized and retired as the conference’s designated argument, with only holdouts left — “I think Terrence would have, Terrence Yang would have an opinion on that. I don’t think he’s over it, but I think most people are.”7 Politics takes the slot; Greaser predicts the magazine will rebrand and reads Bailey’s ambition plainly: “I I think David Bailey is trying to attempt to be the next Rupert Murdoch.”8 The outro files the verdict — politics is merely PODCONF’s successor distraction, “despite Podkomp’s attempts to waste everyone’s time with politics, just like they did with ordinals.”9 The armistice did not hold. It is the first of three.

Terrence Yang in the men’s room

The war’s most durable piece of canon is a bathroom. In July 2024, Palmer reports that Yang “got caught on TikTok offering a stranger an ordinal in the bathroom”10 and was carried out by the Secret Service. Yang denies it and pleads COVID, which the hosts read as cover: “He responded to our break in the news that he was caught at the Bitcoin conference trying to sell ordinals in the men’s bathroom.”11 By March 2025 the story is settled canon and an absence: “Nobody has seen or heard from Terrence since he got busted trying to trade ordinals.”12 The Bugle asserts itself as the record of it — “He was caught in the men’s bathroom”13 — and is still invoking it two years later as the founding precedent of the getting-caught genre: “when when Terrence when Terrence Yang was caught.”14 The war, in the Bugle’s hands, is a drug bust.

The mempool payola

October 2024 supplies the war’s corruption theory. A new tool — “this new feature Yeah. Allows users to easily spot transactions that contain ordinals”15 — is alleged to have been bought: “the feature was basically added due to bribery from the ordinals community.”16 Palmer’s version names names, badly mangled: “that Nen Po was bribed by Ui and his ordinal Shikwena army,” with a counter-allegation that Ocean Pool was quietly including ordinals in its own rare blocks to make the fees pay.17 The charge extends: Ocean “allegedly prioritizes blocks with ordinal transactions.”18 Palmer stresses it is “all a legend.”

Politics keeps feeding the fight. Greaser proposes that the fee market be rescued by Trump, who “becomes an ally of Taproot Wizards. He realizes that that shelling NFTs on”19 Ethereum was a mistake. Pledditor breaks the story that Trump sold the Bitcoin Bailey gave him — and the report itself sets off a wave of inscriptions, making the purity cop an accidental ordinals influencer: “and, Predator reported that one this week and it kind of created a flurry of ordinals.”20 At year’s end Palmer opens the annual roll call: “every year, Udi and the ordinals are on the naughty list.”21 Twenty minutes earlier in the same episode, Greaser had argued for inscribed marriage certificates — “I think every marriage, they should upload the marriage certificate signed by the minister through the blockchain as in an inscription”22 — which is the show’s position on ordinals in miniature, held in both hands at once.

2025: derangement syndromes

March 2025 gives the conflict its clinical vocabulary. A caller blames the strategic reserve on the magazine — “all of this is David Beatty and Shinobi’s fault”23 — and Palmer formalizes it: “Dieter Bob, suffers from David Bailey derangement syndrome,”24 with Deeter Bob, Yang and Pledditor named as the usual suspects and the symptom being replying to any Bitcoin Magazine employee to blame them for ordinals. The reflex is documented as premeditated: asked who would first accuse the newly freed Ross Ulbricht of shitcoining, Greaser answers “that both Dick Whitman and Platteter already have tweets drafted.”25

Erin Redwing and the turn

The Bugle’s own reversal begins in April 2025 with a listener-discretion warning: “Hey, guys. It’s Kaylee. Richard asked me to warn you that you may find this episode upsetting.”26 The guest is Erin Redwing, and she does not defend inscriptions so much as reclassify them. Ordinals are “ordinals, which is just Bitcoin astrology in its own way.”27 The chain is “Bitcoin is the library of Alexandria that can’t be burned.”28 The wallets are simply better, with the disputed part optional: “The ordinals mode is, like, the hard mode for the the wallet itself.”29

Her central charge is that the war was never technical. The spam narrative, she argues, was pushed through the Swan media orbit for business reasons: “the fact that ordinals was driving up fees was a direct threat to Swan’s business model, which tries to prioritize low fee transactions.”30 On the Luke-versus-Casey question she diagnoses a fear of losing “intellectual control or understanding of what Bitcoin is. And, like, ordinals push that in a way that doesn’t compute”31 — offered against Greaser’s competing theory that the real crux is Casey’s ancestors killing Jesus. Greaser, for his part, aims biblical astrology directly at Luke Dashjr: “you probably have your 25 kids sitting down and you’re reading them the story of Jesus”32 — the three wise men having been astrologers. Palmer draws the fork: “the two people who know Bitcoin the best are, like you said, the ordinals people and feds.”33

The episode was bait. Palmer admits it a week later: “But it was really more about astrology. We we didn’t want to scare people away.”34 In the same breath, the detente is announced — “Aaron invited us to in Scribe in Vegas”35 — a formal media partnership between the Bugle and the ordinals people.

Node rape

May 2025 is the war’s rhetorical peak, and the Bugle supplies the register. Palmer establishes a consent doctrine for himself: “You can put JPEGs in my mempool. I’m a side for punks. I’m a man that can handle it.”36 Others are sorted into the taxonomy — “you look at a guy like Charlie Spears. Like, he’s he’s all for it. He’s like, come violate my mempool.”37 The outro executes a spammer mid-gloat: “This shit is the best. Thank God that Oodie taught me how to piss in the mempool.”38

The bit is formalized the following week with a theorist attached — “Peter Todd believes that our nodes should be raped with monkey JPEGs”39 — and the Knotzis position is reported in its own register, insistently non-hyperbolic: “that they do not want their nodes raped.”40 Palmer turns it back on the outraged with a golden rule: “do unto other nodes as you would have done onto your nodes.”41 His anti-filter argument reduces to a casting call: “you have to let hot JPEGs in your mempool. You have to let them all”42 — you cannot claim to be uncensoring and keep Lyn Alden out. And he coins the line for attending enemy events: “I’m comfortable enough in my maximalism to go to an ordinals conference.”43

Greaser buys Nordinals hats and states the compromise position — the right to inscribe is real, he would simply rather the block space went to cigarettes: “them use the the block space for non KYC cigarette transactions.”44 The same episode closes on a pro-inscription answer record: “You want your man pool squeaky clean. But mine’s got memes and art and dreams. You call us spam, I call us signal.”45 Elsewhere the fight is domesticated entirely — into a mixed-marriage question, “a person who runs, like, Bitcoin knots and supports filters versus somebody who, you know, runs a horde and, like, they like hornals,”46 and into a land acknowledgement owed for block space taken.47

Vegas: the Bugle crosses the line

At Bitcoin 2025 the paper embeds with the enemy — “we’re gonna be hanging out with, Aaron Redwing at the, the Inscribing Vegas event,”48 which Greaser calls “Ground zero for node rapage” — and files the inversion the whole trip rests on: “I find it really strange to be surrounded by people that are actually using Bitcoin.”49 Palmer poses the koan — “Is it possible that one man’s spam is another man’s entropy?”50 — reframes the vocabulary itself, noting that “arbitrary data” functions “in the context of arbitrary data on Bitcoin because it’s it’s kind of a slur,”51 and dates his own turn to a permission structure: “if Trump’s not afraid to get canceled, like, a lot of people will follow. And I I was one of those.”52 Then the Bugle commits on air: “We’re gonna do we’re gonna do a bugle, inscription. We just don’t know exactly how we’re gonna do it.”53

The turn is not free. Palmer alleges live that PODCONF’s sudden anti-ordinals position was bought, naming a likely payer: “Probably Corey, that’s Swan, maybe Master Creator, one of those two.”54 Guests decline the premise entirely. Joey has no OP_RETURN opinion at all — “Bitcoin is for friends and enemies. I I printed T shirts with friends and enemies on it”55 — because paying for block space makes him richer.

The dialect and its limits

The war supplies its own reductio. Palmer ventriloquises the Knotzi case to Portland Hodl with the show’s purest specimen of its dialect — “I think Bitcoin is broken if it is gay. And if these fee markets for ordinals make Bitcoin gay,”56 — and Portland, unable to rebut an aesthetic claim on technical grounds, concedes he knows it when he sees it. Pressed to accept that ordinals broke Bitcoin, he refuses: “never broken by UTI. I think that is a completely false claim,”57 ruling that Udi only ever created a fee market. The rooftop Koreans of the 1992 riots are imported wholesale into the node war;58 Netanyahu weaponizes inscriptions and Bechler sails a filter flotilla of Knots nodes to Gaza in response.59 Dennis Porter rolls Knots out across North Korea so Kim can filter spam, “refusing to host spam” being the Juche way.60

Charlie Spears is introduced as the war’s double agent — “There’s one man who refuses to forget about ordinals. For years, he walked amongst the Bitcoin maximalists”61 — only to reveal he was a JPEG shitcoiner all along. He is candid about the economics: “if you know how shitcoins work, insiders make all the money. I’ve spent a decade making myself an insider.”62 His accounting of the damage is the war’s most useful data point: the JPEGs cost him nothing, but “It was the it was the filter discussion that really broke the camel’s back and got me blocked by a lot of people.”63 Greaser later endorses Spears’s aphorism “Bitcoin is for enemies, not for JPEGs. It’s true”64 and convicts it of engagement bait one cue later.

Late 2025: the Bugle stops pretending

By October the paper’s position is a flag, not a hedge. Palmer states it as fact and refuses the genre: “I’ve made several non standard sized op return transactions”65 — and the JPEGs are on your node right now, which is not a confession, not an apology, and not an admission of guilt. The doctrine follows: “don’t let other people call your transaction spam,”66 a message you meant being categorically distinct from an advertisement you did not. Greaser demonstrates framing as combat, flipping the Sistine Chapel argument into its opposite — “you use it to make your own Sistine Chapel.”67

The 80-byte OP_RETURN limit is the coroner’s finding: Bitcoin died because someone removed “the 80 byte limit on a GitHub pull request. And now LoopDash Jr.”68 The most complete distillation of the filter war is Greaser’s grandmother. Dashjr scolds him for inscribing her pie recipes “on chain because the pie recipes will will give Bitcoin type two diabetes,”69 and Palmer names the condition: “it’s grandma’s pie recipe, derangement syndrome, at its worst.”70 Greaser’s defense is economic: he paid a fee, a miner mined it, it is a transaction.

The war’s sincerest voice is a guest called Stu, expelled from Bitcoin University, who states the ordinals thesis without a trace of irony: “The purpose of trading JPEGs on Bitcoin is to lose your Bitcoin”71 — you buy the JPEG, it goes to zero, but you paid the miner, so you supported the network. Asked to define the object at the center of the whole conflict from first principles, he manages “it’s a j it’s a web p that lives in the control block of a tap through transaction,”72 whereupon Greaser asks him to do it again like he’s talking to a journalist. A boost reads the whole thing back to the hosts as engagement mechanics: “Nazis don’t realize the spammers like to see them pissed off.”73 Greaser poses the Christmas koan — are you “actually a Bitcoin podcaster if their podcast isn’t inscribed”74 — and Palmer inverts the purity test into a distribution strategy, since Pledditor’s block-by-block filtering is free marketing: “And if yours doesn’t set off an alarm bell and piss them off, like, it’s it’s gonna be hard to grow.”75

2026: the ordinals win a bracket

The war’s origin is retold in the archival register by Rudy Dazzleworth, reading Hodlonaut’s The Capture: the trigger was “a decision by Bitcoin Core maintainer, Gloria Zhao, to merge a change, relaxing the default limits on how much nonfinancial data”76 could be embedded — with the anti-change case stated straight, that inscriptions make the chain “a dumping ground for data.”77 In the same week Justin Bechler files the counter-obituary: “Something is happening to Bitcoin’s anti spam movement”78 — the faction is losing its own people, “One by one, accounts that spent years raging against inscriptions.”79 His exhibit is Notgrubles, “one of Bitcoin’s clearest and most aggressive voices against spam on the network,”80 who at the first four-megabyte inscription block “reacted the way any principled Bitcoin are concerned about block space abuse would react. He wanted to filter.”81 The technical case Bechler recites approvingly — “Fewer archival nodes means slower IBD for new participants”82 — is recited precisely so the reversal reads as abandoning an argument he had gotten right.

Then Casey Rodarmor wins Maxi Madness. The campaign is documented as a bribe, not a grievance: “if you vote for me, I’m gonna turn on the turbo flag. And people said, free turbo flag.”83 Having won, he has no idea what he promised: “If anybody has ideas for what the turbo flag should do, definitely let me know. You know what I mean? I’m all ears over here.”84 The ordinals “dog army” is credited with delivering the all-Hell Money final.85 Redwing reports the tournament’s one genuine détente — the maxi side’s biggest account workshopping an ordinals feature in the chat: “But yellow was in the chat on the stream, and yellow was throwing out ideas for the turbo flag.”86 The stipulated prize claims jurisdiction over the BIP process itself: Core must “close the the BIP one ten PR, and then I think they have to reopen the ordinals BIP and give it a number.”87 Greaser, defending the Bugle against the charge that ordinals were never represented, gets the premise rejected outright — Udi and Eric Wall are anti-maxis who happened to land on ordinals: “Udi and Eric have competed in the past, and they performed extremely poorly.”88

Greaser reveals what he nearly minted at Vegas: his own Core-versus-Knots propaganda posters, “of, all the propaganda posters from the, you know, core versus knots article I did a long time ago”89 — the war correspondent one step from selling the war as inventory. And Palmer’s field report closes the inversion the storyline has been building toward for two years: at the maximalist expo hall the feds outnumbered the plebs, while “when you went to the ordinals it was all it was there was no Feds in sight.”90

The third armistice arrives in April 2026, and it is a redefinition. Greaser rules that the spam was never the data: “using the Bitcoin blockchain wasn’t the spam. It was, the plebs getting out there and, you know, being annoying was the spam.”91 Asked whether Slipstream’s shutdown vindicates Core, Palmer allows that v30 may have saved Bitcoin.92 By May the surviving question is tactical: Redwing and Rodarmor, both rebuked by Core, “think that they can ally themselves with the Bitcoin plaques, and that’s their strategy right now”93 — which Greaser doubts buys them Luke Dashjr.

Disputed

When the war ran. This page previously carried a span of 2023-04 to 2024-01, drawn from a sweep of Bugle News headlines, and described the conflict as one that “later evolves into the filter wars and the Core vs Knots War.” The audio record does not support a 2024-01 terminus. The verified beats run from March 2024 to May 2026, and the Core vs Knots war is not a successor to this conflict but a concurrent front of it — the same beats are filed under both. Palmer’s own first-person dating puts the newsroom on the beat in Q4 2023,1 which the news headlines corroborate; the front end of the span is sound, the back end was invented. The span here is set from Palmer’s account and the last verified beat. The news articles listed on the earlier version of this page are not cited above because no beat in the index attests them; they may well be real Bugle coverage, but they are not evidence this page can lean on.

Whether the war ever ended. The record contains three armistices and no peace. The show declared ordinals normalized and retired in July 2024, with Yang as the last holdout;7 it was arguing about them at a rhetorical peak ten months later,41 and litigating the BIP process over them twenty months after that.87 Henry’s note: the declarations of death are themselves the recurring beat, and are recorded as such rather than reconciled.

Who the Bugle was for. The paper has no stable position and the record should not be made to supply one. Greaser argues spam is the only thing that forces Bitcoin development,2 buys Nordinals hats,44 and puts Udi and the ordinals on the naughty list21 — the last two within a month of each other. Palmer declares for the Knotzis and attends the ordinals conference in the same episode.43 Both positions are held sincerely and neither is retracted.

Related: storylines/core-vs-knots-war · storylines/taproot-wizards · storylines/udi-wertheimer · storylines/erin-redwing · storylines/maxi-madness · storylines/bitcoin-2024-nashville · storylines/bitcoin-2025-vegas · storylines/pledditor · storylines/swan-bitcoin-scandals · storylines/podconf-industrial-complex

Footnotes

  1. 2024 Recap, Bugle Weekly 42 @ 4:01. ASR renders anti-Swanitism as “anti swanitism” and “just off ordinals” as the ordinals fight; Rod says “q four of two thousand twenty three” at 3:58. ↩ ↩2

  2. Out Complying The Competition, Bugle Weekly 1 @ 51:16. ↩ ↩2

  3. Out Complying The Competition, Bugle Weekly 1 @ 1:08:54. ASR “Just Stop Originals” for Just Stop Ordinals. ↩

  4. ABC: Always Be Complying, Bugle Weekly 2 @ 14:40. “Oodie” is ASR for Udi; the referent is pinned by Rod’s follow-up at 15:00 — “That part of the metaphor for what he’s doing to the blockchain?” — not by the spelling. Beat carries medium confidence. ↩

  5. Odell and Iran Attack NGU, Bugle Weekly 4 @ 47:55. “Wortmold” at 47:14 is ASR for ordinals; Rod calls it “a setup, a psyop, by the Filterscrowd” at 47:20. ↩

  6. Vaccinating Bitcoin Derangement Syndrome, Bugle Weekly 10 @ 4:58. ↩

  7. Opsec In Spookville, Bugle Weekly 17 @ 22:58. Richard sets it up at 22:39 — “a very clear topic to replace ordinals this year”; Rod’s coda at 24:49 puts the remaining arguers on Xbox Live. ↩ ↩2

  8. Recovering From A Noncompliant 4th, Bugle Weekly 16 @ 45:41. ASR “Orgnos/Originals/old guys magazine” = Ordinals Magazine. ↩

  9. Recovering From A Noncompliant 4th, Bugle Weekly 16 @ 1:00:28. “Podkomp” is ASR for PODCONF. ↩

  10. Satoshi Would Be Proud, Bugle Weekly 19 @ 7:24. ASR spells him “Terence Yang” at 7:19; the offence at 7:58 is “register security” for unregistered security. ↩

  11. THIS IS FINE, Bugle Weekly 20 @ 47:09. ASR gives “Terence tool people” at 47:01 before correcting to “Terence Yang”. ↩

  12. The Revolution Won’t Have Good UX, Bugle Weekly 50 @ 26:58. Completes at 27:02 — “in the men’s room at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville last summer”. ↩

  13. Bitcoin Is Like Prison With Junseth, BTP 13 @ 1:31:46. Rod claims prior Bugle coverage at 1:31:40; Junseth’s cosign at 1:32:12 is “Classic Terrence.” ↩

  14. The Dawn Of White Goy Summer, Bugle Weekly 110 @ 35:35. Continues “trading ordinals in the men’s bathroom,” at 35:39; invoked as settled lore. ↩

  15. Bugle Weekly Episode 31 TLDR by HR Specialists @ 8:17. ASR splits mempool.space across cues as “mempool. Space”. ↩

  16. Bugle Weekly Episode 31 TLDR by HR Specialists @ 8:38. The reviewers append the disclaimer at 9:21 — “these are just allegations”. Beat carries medium confidence. ↩

  17. Is Saylor a Spook, Bugle Weekly 31 @ 45:47. Heavy ASR damage: “Nen Po” is mempool.space, “Ui”/“Ooty” is Udi Wertheimer, “Shikwena army” is unresolved (probably “shitcoin army”). Rod stresses it is “all a legend” at 47:32. Beat carries medium confidence. ↩

  18. Bugle Weekly Episode 31 TLDR by HR Specialists @ 9:14. Ocean Pool has no wiki page. ↩

  19. Powell Signals Everything’s Fine, Bugle Weekly 27 @ 1:00:50. ASR “shelling” for shilling. ↩

  20. Selection Special Part 2, Bugle Weekly 33 @ 29:12. ASR spellings for Pledditor here: “Predator”, “Pluder”, “Pluttr”, “creditor”. Resolved from behaviour, not spelling; this is not Matt Odell, who is never mentioned in this episode. ↩

  21. Bitcoin Is Tax Affording Technology, Bugle Weekly 40 @ 43:48. ↩ ↩2

  22. Bitcoin Is Tax Affording Technology, Bugle Weekly 40 @ 28:59. Greaser rejects Rod’s cheap OP_RETURN alternative as “too simple” at 31:12 and defends inscriptions on cost-signalling grounds at 31:20. ↩

  23. Is This The God Candle, Bugle Weekly 49 @ 2:37. ASR “David Beatty” = David Bailey, resolved by Timmy naming him correctly at 2:52. The caller is “Terrence from Pasadena, California” — a different person from Terrence Yang, who is named separately later in the episode. ↩

  24. Is This The God Candle, Bugle Weekly 49 @ 24:20. ASR “Dieter Bob” = Deeter Bob; “that predator” at 24:29 = Pledditor. ↩

  25. The Future is Wrapped, Bugle Weekly 44 @ 47:58. ASR “Platteter”/“Clutter”/“Pledder” = Pledditor. The two men are consistently treated as separate people. ↩

  26. Cypherpunks Use Ordinals Mode with Erin Redwing, BTP 14 @ 0:00. ASR spells her “Kaylee”; the page is characters/kailey-welch. ↩

  27. Cypherpunks Use Ordinals Mode with Erin Redwing, BTP 14 @ 4:08. She returns to it at 40:25. ↩

  28. Cypherpunks Use Ordinals Mode with Erin Redwing, BTP 14 @ 26:24. ↩

  29. Cypherpunks Use Ordinals Mode with Erin Redwing, BTP 14 @ 1:01:18. Title origin for the episode. ↩

  30. Cypherpunks Use Ordinals Mode with Erin Redwing, BTP 14 @ 24:38. ASR “Corey Clipston” for Cory Klippsten. ↩

  31. Cypherpunks Use Ordinals Mode with Erin Redwing, BTP 14 @ 1:38:36. ASR “set of a cantus” for sedevacantist. ↩

  32. Cypherpunks Use Ordinals Mode with Erin Redwing, BTP 14 @ 16:49. ASR calls him “Luke Junior” at 16:39. The 25-kids figure is the Bugle’s standing exaggeration. ↩

  33. Cypherpunks Use Ordinals Mode with Erin Redwing, BTP 14 @ 47:21. Resolved at 48:26 — both are “finding creative ways… to do money laundering.” ↩

  34. Truckin Down The Rabbit Hole, Bugle Weekly 57 @ 19:49. ASR calls her “Aaron Redwing”. ↩

  35. Truckin Down The Rabbit Hole, Bugle Weekly 57 @ 20:41. “in Scribe” is ASR for Inscribe. Terms at 20:49 — “we worked out a media partnership with, the Ordinals people… Rod, myself, and Maggie Morris.” ↩

  36. Node Rape Run Rampant, Bugle Weekly 58 @ 16:38. “I’m a side for punks” is ASR for “I’m a cypherpunk”. ↩

  37. Node Rape Run Rampant, Bugle Weekly 58 @ 17:36. The preceding cue names Udi as the other violator. ↩

  38. Node Rape Run Rampant, Bugle Weekly 58 @ 1:02:11. ASR “Oodie” = Udi Wertheimer. The spammer is executed on the spot by the Timechain Police. ↩

  39. The Coremunists Vs The Knotzis, Bugle Weekly 59 @ 4:49. Continues at 4:54 — “there is no way to stop the spammers. So we need to minimize the damage.” ↩

  40. Orange Pilled Pioneers, Bugle Weekly 63 @ 43:22. ASR “these Nazis” for Knotzis. Richard’s gloss at 43:27 — “that’s not hyperbole to them.” ↩

  41. The Coremunists Vs The Knotzis, Bugle Weekly 59 @ 55:39. ASR “nose” for nodes throughout. ↩ ↩2

  42. Scaling With Paper Bitcoin ft. 21 Media, Evan Kaloudis, and Rob Hamilton @ 35:32. ASR spells her both “Lynn Alden” and “Lyn Alden” inside the same cue. ↩

  43. The Coremunists Vs The Knotzis, Bugle Weekly 59 @ 52:19. Rod draws the line at 52:38 — “not the selling ordinals in the bathroom stalls like Terrence.” ↩ ↩2

  44. Moody’s Says “Nothing Stops This Train”, Bugle Weekly 60 @ 54:26. ASR “Nordinals hats” and “the normals people” — No-rdinals. ↩ ↩2

  45. Moody’s Says “Nothing Stops This Train”, Bugle Weekly 60 @ 1:05:28. “man pool” is ASR for mempool. The track is untitled in the bundle. Beat carries medium confidence. ↩

  46. Shinobi is Hot, Behind the Podcast 2 @ 20:37. ASR “runs a horde” is likely “runs a Core node”; “hornals” is ordinals. Shinobi answers “opposites attract.” ↩

  47. Sly Goomba Thanksgiving Special, Behind the Podcast 1 @ 16:10. Rod’s setup at 15:44 asks whether a Canadian inscribing an ordinal owes “the land apologies… for the block space that they took.” ↩

  48. The Coremunists Vs The Knotzis, Bugle Weekly 59 @ 50:48. ASR “Aaron Redwing” = Erin Redwing; the event is “Inscribing Vegas”. ↩

  49. Spamming Vegas Livestream with Fundamentals and Erin Redwing @ 4:34. ↩

  50. Spamming Vegas Livestream with Fundamentals and Erin Redwing @ 49:03. Rod re-credits the format to Fundamentals at 1:43:33. ↩

  51. Spamming Vegas Livestream with Fundamentals and Erin Redwing @ 1:43:20. Lands at 1:44:10 — “a database full of arbitrary data could be the most beautiful database ever built.” ↩

  52. Spamming Vegas Livestream with Fundamentals and Erin Redwing @ 1:15:22. Earlier at 37:48 — “Donald Trump has an ordinal on chain.” ↩

  53. Spamming Vegas Livestream with Fundamentals and Erin Redwing @ 1:05:26. Erin’s reply at 1:05:35 — “PodConf is gonna, like, detonate the best over that, I think.” ↩

  54. Canada Needs 40HPW with Joey Temprile, BTP 15 @ 1:16:32. ASR “Corey, that’s Swan” = Cory Klippsten; “Master Creator” is unresolved. Beat carries medium confidence. ↩

  55. Canada Needs 40HPW with Joey Temprile, BTP 15 @ 1:04:55. Payoff at 1:05:04 — “If you can pay for it, pay for it because it just makes me richer.” ↩

  56. Shake Your Adversary’s Hand With Portland Hodl, BTP 22 @ 15:06. Quote trimmed for length; Portland’s surrender at 15:29 — “I don’t have a technical definition for you… I know it when I see it.” ↩

  57. Shake Your Adversary’s Hand With Portland Hodl, BTP 22 @ 14:27. ASR mangles Udi Wertheimer relentlessly here — “Oodie”, “Ooty”, “UTI”, “booty” — all are Udi. ↩

  58. Orange Pilled Pioneers, Bugle Weekly 63 @ 26:09. The meme lands on its target at 26:51 — the Knotzis “need rooftop Koreans to protect their nodes”. ASR renders Knotzis as “the Nazis” and Coremunists as “the core meanness” throughout. ↩

  59. Good Fathers Listen To 40HPW, Bugle weekly 64 @ 1:10. ASR renders Bechler as “Justin Beckler”; “Nautz” is Knots. ↩

  60. Pioneers Prepare For Christmas, Bugle Weekly 89 @ 3:10. Continues at 3:32 — “refusing to host spam is the Juche way.” ↩

  61. BroccoliSpace Media With Charlie Spears, BTP 19 @ 0:18. Payoff at 0:27 — “Only to reveal that he was a JPEG / shitcoiner.” ↩

  62. BroccoliSpace Media With Charlie Spears, BTP 19 @ 1:52. ASR stutters “if if you know”. ↩

  63. BroccoliSpace Media With Charlie Spears, BTP 19 @ 18:58. Luke Dashjr’s block is at 17:25. ↩

  64. Emergency Broadcast: Podcasting Under Attack @ 31:35. The reversal is the very next cue. ↩

  65. Pioneers Frame The Conversation, Bugle Weekly 79 @ 1:59. Refused as a confession at 2:13 — “It’s not a confession. / It’s not an apology.” ↩

  66. Pioneers Frame The Conversation, Bugle Weekly 79 @ 9:19. The AOL Instant Messenger analogy runs 9:24–9:43. ↩

  67. Pioneers Frame The Conversation, Bugle Weekly 79 @ 5:09. The counterparty — “Austin Noah Gold” / “Asanoa Gold” — is an unresolved ASR referent with no wiki page; he is not Justin Bechler. ↩

  68. Plebslop Psychosis, Bugle Weekly 80 @ 3:41. ASR mangles Luke Dashjr as “LoopDash Jr” and “inscribed ordinals” as “entities ordinals”; the sentence begins “Bitcoin died because someone somewhere removed”. ↩

  69. Chain Splits and Jewish Lawyers, Bugle Weekly 82 @ 1:01:28. “Luke Junior” and “Deshir” are ASR for Luke Dashjr. Greaser’s defense at 1:02:02 — “my pie transaction, I paid a fee for it. It got mined by a miner, and it’s an economic transaction.” ↩

  70. Chain Splits and Jewish Lawyers, Bugle Weekly 82 @ 1:02:22. Greaser’s grievance at 1:01:51 — “They accused me of abusing the chain. They were disrespecting my grandma.” ↩

  71. Life After Expulsion From Bitcoin University with Stu, BTP 26 @ 35:59. Completed at 36:15 — “But you did pay the miner a fee while you bought the JPEG.” Stu has no wiki page. ↩

  72. Life After Expulsion From Bitcoin University with Stu, BTP 26 @ 54:52. The object is rendered by ASR as “Libetbu”, “Laboeba”, “little bit boost”, “bit booze” — most plausibly “Lil Bit Boo”; no canonical spelling is established, so none is asserted here. ↩

  73. Reflections From The Frontier, Bugle Weekly 83 Part 2 @ 30:09. Read aloud by Greaser from a boost; “Nazis” is ASR for Knotzis. Beat carries medium confidence. ↩

  74. Pioneers Prepare For Christmas, Bugle Weekly 89 @ 25:46. Rod’s answer at 25:54 — “if a pleb publishes a podcast and he doesn’t get recorded on the, ledger of record for all of history, did that pleb even have a podcast?” ↩

  75. Pioneers Prepare For Christmas, Bugle Weekly 89 @ 29:05. ASR renders Pledditor as “pledge” throughout this stretch. Again: Pledditor, not Matt Odell. ↩

  76. The Capture by Hodlonaut read by Rudy Dazzleworth, Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 1 @ 0:53. ASR spells OP_RETURN phonetically as “o p underscore return”. ↩

  77. The Capture by Hodlonaut read by Rudy Dazzleworth, Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 1 @ 1:13. Completed at 1:20 — “at the expense of its function as a monetary network”. ↩

  78. Justin Bechler Takes Down Notgrubles, Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 0:35. ↩

  79. Justin Bechler Takes Down Notgrubles, Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 0:38. ↩

  80. Justin Bechler Takes Down Notgrubles, Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 0:53. Cue opens “Or over two years” — ASR for “For over two years.” ↩

  81. Justin Bechler Takes Down Notgrubles, Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 2:01. ASR: “at not grubbles” is the @notgrubles handle read aloud; “any principled Bitcoin are” is “any principled Bitcoiner.” ↩

  82. Justin Bechler Takes Down Notgrubles, Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 2:48. ↩

  83. Hard Lessons For Plebs, Bugle Weekly 103 @ 28:58. ↩

  84. Bitcoin Magazine Maxi Madness Victory Twitter Spaces With Casey and Erin @ 21:45. He asks again at 35:28. ↩

  85. Bitcoin Magazine Maxi Madness Victory Twitter Spaces With Casey and Erin @ 0:53. ASR spells Erin as “Aaron” here and almost everywhere in this episode. ↩

  86. Bitcoin Magazine Maxi Madness Victory Twitter Spaces With Casey and Erin @ 22:04. ↩

  87. Bitcoin Magazine Maxi Madness Victory Twitter Spaces With Casey and Erin @ 1:01:14. “Dathan” is ASR-split Luke Dashjr. Brian Bishop, credited at 1:00:51 with thinking about reopening the BIPs, has no wiki page. ↩ ↩2

  88. Bitcoin Magazine Maxi Madness Victory Twitter Spaces With Casey and Erin @ 17:56. ASR renders Udi as “Oody”. ↩

  89. Hard Lessons For Plebs, Bugle Weekly 103 @ 32:48. He admits at 32:33 that his only prior inscription was an OP_RETURN reading “Lynn, and Alden is hot” — ASR for Lyn Alden. ↩

  90. Hard Lessons For Plebs, Bugle Weekly 103 @ 34:37. “fads” is ASR for Feds. Chapter 12 is titled “Ordinals: No Feds in Sight”. ↩

  91. Is Trump Taking Ibogaine, Bugle Weekly 106 @ 46:54. The line is diced across one-word cues and completes at 46:56–46:59; anchored to the cue where the sentence begins. ↩

  92. Is Trump Taking Ibogaine, Bugle Weekly 106 @ 48:19. Rod’s answer at 48:56 — “The VINV 30 may have saved Bitcoin” (ASR for v30). ↩

  93. Are The Aliens Zionists, Bugle Weekly 108 @ 44:13. “Aaron” is Erin Redwing; “plaques” is ASR for plebs. Bitcoin Mechanic has no wiki page. ↩