Market coverage by Richard Greaser documenting the behavior of full time podcast listeners as the Bitcoin price crossed $18,000.

The article observes that every time the Bitcoin/USD price crosses a $1,000 threshold, Bitcoin Twitter fills with claims that it will never go below that price again — claims the price has “disproven over and over again,” though believers maintain this time might be different (see price floor proclamations). The bullish mood is attributed to Dylan LeClair’s recent appearance on Citadel Dispatch, which armed listeners with “their expert understanding of the macroeconomic environment.”

Dr. Jeff Ross fueled the flames by tweeting “Hello FOMO, my old friend,” while hodlonaut remained unimpressed (“18k, huh..”). Some listeners called for $20k that very day; many were reported glued to their Trading View charts.

Greaser closes in the first person with an editorial mission statement: he will “continue to closely monitor and report on the expert takes from the full time bitcoin podcast listeners of Twitter,” since he lacks the time to listen to every expert on every podcast every hour of every day. This is the earliest statement of the Bugle’s beat: covering the coverage.

irl: Published January 12, 2023, during Bitcoin’s first rally after the FTX-crash bottom near $15.5k. Dylan LeClair, Jeff Ross, and hodlonaut are real Bitcoin Twitter figures; the quoted tweets are real.