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FinCEN & the KYC-AML Surveillance State

The Bugleverse’s longest-running doctrine, and the one nearest the centre of the show. Know-Your-Customer is not treated as a threat to be resisted but as a product to be sold, a sacrament to be received, and — in its mature form — a source of yield. Across the record the arc runs in three movements: the Bugle out-complies everyone around it, the industry builds the identity layer the Bugle asked for, and then the whole apparatus inverts and gets aimed at the state. It is the arc the show never leaves; it turns up in ad reads, in cigarettes, in therapy, and eventually in a bit about touching God.

Who’s in it: Richard Greaser · Rod Palmer · The Bugle · PODCONF · Michael Saylor · zk-KYC · Steven Lubka · Compliance Shield · Swan Bitcoin · Pledditor · Fundamentals

Related: storylines/church-of-compliance · storylines/irs-tax-farm · storylines/cigarette-money-donations · storylines/elizabeth-warren-vs-bitcoin

The Bugle out-complies the competition

The arc opens with the outlet monetising compliance directly. In the first episode Greaser proposes the Bugle run its own paid Nostr relay, gated behind a government ID and a debit card: “is we could launch our own paid roster relay”.1 By the second episode the outro announcer has it as a platform plank — “We want a custodial lightning wallet installed by default on every cell phone paired with their digital ID.”2

The doctrine gets its clearest statement in episode 4, where Rod Palmer explains that compliance should be pre-emptive: “You share all your customers’ data and information with the government and the IRS without even being asked. You just send it to them. They’re gonna ask for it anyway.”3 The same episode turns the principle inward, announcing that guests must now verify before appearing: “One of the new policies that we put in place is that we’re gonna make all our podcast guests k y c with us before coming on the podcast.”4

Then the listeners. The show changed its terms of service mid-cold-open and required the audience to KYC to keep listening — “we updated the terms of service for the episode, required That’s right. Our listeners to KYC before continuing on.”5 Compliance ran at one percent, and the hosts were left holding the data of everyone who did comply. They resolved it on principle: refuse the government, sell to advertisers — “to either HODL the KYC data or to sell it to a private company that’s not the government.”6 The experiment was quietly abandoned by episode 7, and only because the state proved to be the non-compliant party: “Well, we were we were trying to figure out how to KYC our listeners”, complete with 1099s for boosters, until the Samourai arrests intervened.7

The bit metastasised outward from there. Greaser proposed Elon Musk KYC-verify press credentials “to ensure the only people on Twitter practicing journalism are people with journalism check marks”, which is not censorship because it is “a market based solution instead of a government force solution”.8 By episode 14 he was merely disappointed at the pace: “Are are preferred pronouns a part” of the KYC process on exchanges yet.9 Palmer, meanwhile, read his own Bugle wire piece on air — “10 best excuses to give legal and HR departments for compliance violations”.10

The identity layer

The Bugle’s asks kept getting built. PODCONF‘s Real Pleb tier started as a universal KYC sign-in — “they want to be able to tie your KYC information”, one click into compliant exchanges, “kinda like how you sign in with Google”11 — and its ad reads escalated from Number Go Up as a communism cure requiring an identity upload12 to Orange Protocol, a protocol-level ID system attributed to Michael Saylor: “In order to do this, individuals need to comply by using Sailor’s new ID verification system called Orange Protocol.”13 Within three weeks, Compliance Shield had shipped the tie-in — “RealPlev integration. Connect on chain identities with other real plebs to build a safe,”14 — alongside its own core offering of XPub upload, counterparty monitoring and address labels reported to law enforcement, sold on the grounds that “being a compliant Bitcoiner is like being a mom.”15

Henry’s note: the Compliance Shield page sources this read from Bugle Weekly 108. The episode 6 airing is 2024-04-29 and is the earlier attestation.

Episode 8 gave the digital-ID push its genealogy. Greaser credited Nikki Haley with the idea of KYCing the internet as a spam filter — “And I think the solution like, Nikki Haley was on to something when she talked about KYC and the Internet,”16 — and the guest Party Bent supplied the line the episode is remembered for: “I think it’s great too, and I I think Nicky walked so people like Michael Saylor could run.”17 Party Bent also confessed that admiring Sam Altman‘s eyeball-scanning orbs “almost felt a little dirty” while they ran on a shitcoin — “liking what the Worldcoin guys were doing knowing that they were doing it on a shitcoin. Now it’s on Bitcoin.”18 — and passed on a rumour that Orange had coaxed Mike Hearn, the first man to propose blacklisting addresses, out of retirement: “that he that he might get Mike Hearn out of retirement.”19

The show’s standing move is to hand the state a Bitcoiner-built tool. Greaser pitched Orange Pill App to the government as a ready-made tax and KYC register of every Bitcoiner in the country.20 Palmer’s contribution was an etymology: 9/11 happened because the agencies had segregated witness data, so putting it all on the blockchain fixes it — “or soft fork segregated witness because that’s what the that’s what was the reason we had nine eleven”.21 Asked about Selective Service auto-enrolment, he argued Bitcoin had already obsoleted the draft card: “They already buy Bitcoin. We have their KYC information. You could just use that. We know where they live, they know how much money they have”.22 At the Bitcoin conference, Greaser’s complaint about David Bailey‘s operation was that it had failed to ship a “Bitcoin related KYC product, like Sailor’s Orange,” for its own attendees23 — and he read the Butler shooting as a KYC failure, the shooter having “attended one of the events without KYC”.24

Decentralized KYC

Episode 9 produced the arc’s founding revision: the problem was never KYC, only centralized KYC. “That’s the that was always the problem. The problem was not KYC.”25 The same episode praised Swan by pun — its success owed to knowing its customer, paying its taxes and buying state support: “early on. They know the best way to build the best product is to know your customer. They know their customer. They know them well.”26

The idea got its full treatment when Steven Lubka arrived to propose triple-blind zero-knowledge KYC: submit an intelligence operative’s identity to several providers and see whether the answers disagree.27 The title beat followed — “verifying the proof of work of other KYC providers” — many independent providers cross-checking each other.28 The punchline is that the network should be assembled out of fully centralized providers, because that is how you do the best KYC. Mid-interview, the show ran an ad for CheckboxChamps, a KYC aggregator that shotguns customer data to several providers at once — “Are you worried about your company’s compliance? Are you afraid that having just one KYC provider is a single point of failure?” — whose disclaimer concedes a “mediocre job with data security” and that your customers’ data ends up on the dark web, “But it is necessary to be compliant in this regulatory environment.”29

ZKKYC proper debuted as an Intellectual Silk Road project — “ZKKYC, which stands for Zero Knowledge KYC.”30 — and contributed a permanent Bugleverse term in its tag line: “To learn more about z k k y c and unlocking the power of asymmetric compliance, contact us on the intellectual Silk Road today.”31 The spot was still running months later, pitching compliance you satisfy “without ever needing to know or store compromising information about your off chain identity”.32

Compliance as yield

By episode 27 the show had stopped arguing that surveillance is safe and started arguing it merely needs better UX. Greaser coined KYC Russian roulette — “where, you know, you have, like, a one in six chance as you put your information in that it gets broadcasted on the dark web”33 — and reframed leaked identity data as a sponsor-a-child charity, with photo updates of the family your stolen credit fed.34 His one act of resistance was reciprocal: he would verify himself only if the exchange’s staff sent him their own IDs, and Swan was named the first refusenik, with Cory Klippsten and Brian Armstrong asked personally: “And I’ve yet to find an institution. Like, I don’t think Swan will do that.”35

Episode 38 formalised the economics. Greaser: acquisition needs “a a full stack of compliance. The more the more compliance they add into their stack, the more NGU potential there is.”36 KYC steps are not friction, they are yield. He reported CZ’s conference advice as the salesman’s playbook — orange-pilling politicians means chain-analysis-pilling them, “explain to them how easily these technologies can be surveilled”37 — and Palmer supplied the TradFi translation: compliance and chain analysis are just fancy words for trade-offs, trade-offs behave like leverage, and leverage compounds. “The more trade offs that you can stack, more compliance, more KYC that you can stack, the more you can compound your returns”.38 Palmer had already established the constitutional basis in episode 19: “America is founded on the fact that there is a fundamental right to compliance.”39 A non-compliant government denies it by withholding regulatory clarity.

The doctrine kept finding new surfaces. Trump’s hush-money conviction was reported as a conviction for “a non KYC transaction”, making him the first convicted noncompliant presidential candidate.40 Greaser’s stimulus proposal was $1,000 in “custodial lightning vouchers that they could redeem through KYC ing.”, bundled with the vaccination.41 El Salvador’s single-LSP policy was explained straight, from the state’s chair: more providers means “the ability to easily crush noncompliance.”42 And the compliance gene got proposed via ancestry testing, on the precedent that “it was good enough for, Elizabeth Warren to realize that she was a Native American and should be good enough for us to determine whether somebody’s compliant or not.”43

The inversion

The arc’s second half turns the apparatus around. Palmer’s cleanest version: “Strong KYC requirements for spooks.” — aim it at intelligence agents rather than civilians, since the CIA sells briefcase nukes and civilians only buy marijuana.44 Episode 39 states the thesis outright: “Bitcoin is a check on power. It is not important to KYC a pleb or a Bitcoin miner with his Biddex. It is important to KYC” — the FBI, the CIA, the DEA and the Treasury.45 The enforcement mechanism is Pledditor, cast as the reason state transparency would be self-executing: “Or else predator will fucking find out right away”.46

Henry’s note: the ASR spells him “predator” here. Read as Pledditor, not Matt Odell — the referent is the timeline’s compulsive checker who exposes what people hide the instant they hide it, and Odell is not mentioned in that episode.

By episode 50 the inversion is complete and claimed as a victory: “What we’re doing now is we’re forcing the government to comply. If they steal,” — the CIA must KYC its own coins and pay taxes on them.47 Episode 63 gives the arc its blunt thesis in a chapter title: everything is KYC in a monarchy, so if you love KYC you’ll love a monarchy — the tirade aimed at Saifedean Ammous and Aleks Svetski for parroting Hans-Hermann Hoppe: “People left Europe because the monarchies are gay. They’re fake and they’re gay.”48

The record’s one direct mention of FinCEN sits here, in the Samourai coverage, where Zack Shapiro lays out the charges to Frank Corva: “The first is conspiracy to commit money laundering, which really is saying the quiet part out loud. That is what they’re being charged with.”49 The second count is unlicensed money transmission — licensed by FinCEN, which has since said it would not have considered this money transmission. Episode 72 generalises the precedent into universal liability: “Podcasters are money transmitters. Node operators are money transmitters.”50

Non-compliance as counterculture

Against all of this the show maintains a small contraband economy, almost entirely tobacco. Greaser’s ideological rationale is counterparty risk: “this is part of the reason why I love to do non KYC cigarette transactions” — a cigarette dealer won’t take his Bitcoin and buy shitcoins with it.51 Asked in the Easter special what Bitcoin’s hope actually consists of, he answered with cigarettes: “illicit non KYC cigarette transactions in a peer to peer manner, and and and nobody can stop you.”52 A 2100-sat boost from the listener BiBi handed the show its Europe axiom — “Your peos are not based because the cigarettes they smoke are KYC.”53 — which the HR specialists sent to review the episode first fact-checked earnestly (“there’s no such thing as a KYC cigarette”), then itemised European surrender as public transport “And a preference for KYC enabled lightning network implementations.”5455 and finally recommended in the outro that you pack some: “Even a pack of those metaphorical KYC cigarettes. You never know when you might need those.”56

The self-surveillance beats are the arc’s quietest register. Fundamentals observed that Bitcoiners who confide their stack to therapists, attorneys and doctors are KYCing themselves, which Palmer named: “Yeah. You don’t want KYC therapy.”57 Greaser’s account of why some communities avoid lists at all is that they know the risk of being on one — “yeah. I mean, I I wonder if the Jews just have better OPSEC”58 — a frame Palmer later tested to destruction by wishing aloud for a register of Jewish Lightning developers, which Greaser ruled a bad idea: “to mix Jews and lists.”59 Palmer’s cousin supplies the counter-doctrine that the most loving thing a man can do for his wife is “transact adversarially” around her, so she has nothing to testify to.60 Open Mike drove to a laundromat through the mask era to use the last non-KYC ATM in town, at a twenty percent premium.61 Barnminer started his son on GrapheneOS, conceded the iPhone after a year of complaints, and got the tracking app in the bargain.62 Palmer recast westward expansion as a KYC-avoidance strategy: pioneers preferred grizzly bears to smoking sections, “being mauled by bears to be compliant than to KYC.”63

The arc also holds the show’s two standing sponsor beats. The Rage, credited to L0la L33tz, is the outlet covering “financial surveillance And a digital phenopticon”64 and still opening episodes two years later on the premise that surveillance is a Truman Show you never consented to: “But where does that data go and what are they doing with it? Check out The Rage.”65 Signal & Shine supplies the counter-slogan: “We don’t do KYC, but we do do TLC.”66

Later drift

The doctrine outlives its own occasions. Kaz conceded KYC outright as the price of good UX to an audience whose entire idiom is noncompliance — “you will probably have to KYC for us to accomplish this UX that I’m talking about.”67 Frank Corva ratified KYC-as-theft-protection with a journalist’s credentials: it’s “harder for the CIA to steal your Bitcoin” if it’s KYC’d.68 The bracket poll Maxi Madness got a forked compliant edition with uploaded driver’s licences and three-angle selfies.69 Fremont Street was declared a citadel on the grounds that the Strip is the most KYC’d place on Earth.70 HRF became the HR department for the world’s dissidents, and like all HR its favourite job is collecting everyone’s KYC.71 Greaser’s own song names printing and surveillance in one breath as a single routine machine: “More printing and surveillance, we’ve been here before.”72

The show treats its own gospel as ancient history. Asked whether now is the time to quit, Greaser lists the moments that would have been better — “When Swan Bitcoin started KYC ing your asshole and and Podkol started preaching compliance is defiance, You just think”73 — using the arc’s founding doctrine as evidence that nothing new has happened. The closing song of episode 83 states the joke as sincere lament: “All I ever ask for is to be able to afford paying taxes,” and the IRS is watching the transactions anyway.74

Late in the record it is a reflex more than an argument. Nick Fuentes declaring Monero the only escape from the surveillance state is reported as two threads colliding.75 Klippsten’s XRP is read as “hedging by betting” on Operation Chokepoint 2.0 succeeding.76 The Trump bill is a trap that herds political enemies into the surveilled CBDC system while MAGA keeps using cash.77 A defunded TSA means smoking on planes again and no more fondling.78 Greaser’s cyber pandemic thesis holds that aliens are the distraction and an internet KYC lockdown is the payload.79 The bear market reached the swag table, where a Strike sweatshirt cost three hours in line and your identity.80 And the arc’s most recent appearance folds it into a bit about AI: “your access to blaze that power. You can’t just touch God,”81 — without KYC.

irl: FinCEN is the US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; KYC/AML rules are real regulatory regimes. The Samourai Wallet prosecution, Roman Storm’s case, and Operation Chokepoint 2.0 are real events the show reacts to.

Disputed

The page’s previous revision described a different storyline, and the episode record does not support it. That revision was seeded from a breadth sweep of Bugle wire headlines and episode descriptions rather than from the transcripts, and it made three claims worth recording against the evidence.

Span. The seeded page dated the arc 2023-10 to 2024-01. The beat index for this slug is COMPLETE at 86 beats across 56 episodes, and it spans 2024-03-24 to 2026-06-15 — beginning after the seeded arc had supposedly ended, and continuing for two and a half years past it.

FinCEN. The agency in the page’s title appears in the entire episode record exactly once: Zack Shapiro‘s account of the second Samourai count, unlicensed money transmission “licensed by FinCEN”, where the Kafka joke is that FinCEN has since said it would not have thought this was money transmission at all.49 The seeded lead’s FinCEN beats — the abolition of citizen privacy rights, the anal-swab proposal — are headline material with no episode attestation in this index.

The cast. The seeded “Who’s in it” line led with Janet Yellen and Apple. Neither is named in any of the 86 beats. Elizabeth Warren appears once, and not as a KYC antagonist but as the precedent for DNA-testing the compliance gene.43 Wallet of Satoshi appears once, as the instrument of a compliant CoinJoin performed by paying $25 to the person on your right at a meetup.82 Binance appears as CZ’s advice to chain-analysis-pill politicians.37 The “Wallet of Janet” rebrand, the Apple wallet filling the vacuum, and the IRS tax revolt are not in the episode record.

Henry’s reading: the news pages listed by the seeded revision are real pages and plausibly a real arc — but they are a news arc, and the beat index mines episodes. The two are not the same storyline, and the seeded prose welded them together on the strength of a shared keyword. The episode arc is the one written above; the headline arc, if it is one, belongs to storylines/church-of-compliance and storylines/irs-tax-farm, whose news sources overlap it. Those news pages are retained below rather than deleted, pending a sweep that can cite them properly.

Seeded news sources, uncorroborated by the beat index

Footnotes

  1. Bugle Weekly 1 @ 1:05:57. ASR renders “Nostr relay” as “roster relay”; the ID-and-debit-card terms land at t=3961. ↩

  2. Bugle Weekly 2 @ 1:14:18. ↩

  3. Bugle Weekly 4 @ 10:30. Rod speaking, building on Greaser’s setup at t=604. ↩

  4. Bugle Weekly 4 @ 1:10:04. Greaser speaking; Rod teases an unnamed partner company at t=4230. ↩

  5. Bugle Weekly 5 @ 1:04:58. Quote spans t=3898 and t=3902 and contains Rod’s overlapping “That’s right.” interjection, kept verbatim. ↩

  6. Bugle Weekly 6 @ 52:24. The 1% compliance figure is at t=3032; Rod’s justification at t=3157–3166. ↩

  7. Bugle Weekly 7 @ 21:04. The 1099 detail lands at t=1269–1273. ↩

  8. Bugle Weekly 6 @ 5:56. Quote spans t=356/360/362. ↩

  9. Bugle Weekly 14 @ 35:53. Question spans t=2153–2159. Rod’s answer: “It depends on which state you live in.” ↩

  10. Bugle Weekly 12 @ 53:01. The wire article carries Rod Palmer’s byline. ↩

  11. Bugle Weekly 3 @ 9:03. ↩

  12. Bugle Weekly 4 @ 8:42. Quote spans t=522 and t=525. The ad-read voice is an unnamed announcer, not a character. ↩

  13. Bugle Weekly 7 @ 1:57. ASR renders Saylor as “Sailor”. ↩

  14. Bugle Weekly 6 @ 30:46. Quote spans t=1846/1848. “RealPlev” is ASR for Real Pleb. ↩

  15. Bugle Weekly 6 @ 29:14. Snitch feature at t=1825; the $420/month price at t=1859. ↩

  16. Bugle Weekly 8 @ 7:18. ASR: “Luke Dash Junior” for Luke Dashjr; “Naught” for Knots. ↩

  17. Bugle Weekly 8 @ 7:34. ASR: “Nicky” for Nikki Haley; Saylor also appears as “Sailor” and “Taylor”. Speaker is the guest Party Bent, who has no page. ↩

  18. Bugle Weekly 8 @ 13:00. Altman is named at 11:47. ↩

  19. Bugle Weekly 8 @ 51:15. Greaser vouches at 51:47: “he worked at Google, and so he’s smarter than a lot of these other developers who’ve never worked at Google.” ↩

  20. Bugle Weekly 13 @ 30:10. Set up by Palmer’s “Orange Hill app” homeschool curriculum at t=1795. ↩

  21. Bugle Weekly 13 @ 31:26. Payoff at t=1917: “you no longer have this segregation of data. You can connect it with a hash. Super useful.” ↩

  22. Bugle Weekly 13 @ 33:17. Palmer’s setup at t=1989. ↩

  23. Bugle Weekly 17 @ 35:32. ASR: “Sailor’s Orange”. Quote spans t=2132 and t=2135. ↩

  24. Bugle Weekly 17 @ 36:17. Greaser coins “stealth KYC” at t=2161. ↩

  25. Bugle Weekly 9 @ 19:01. ↩

  26. Bugle Weekly 9 @ 22:39. Set up at t=1337 by Greaser: “the the whole Swan team is located in California because they they appreciate the high taxes.” ↩

  27. Bugle Weekly 24 @ 10:13. ↩

  28. Bugle Weekly 24 @ 12:01. The gag completes at t=1848, where Lubka clarifies the network should be built from “fully centralized providers”. ↩

  29. Bugle Weekly 24 @ 40:43. The disclaimer runs t=2482–2510. ↩

  30. Bugle Weekly 26 @ 38:18. Quote spans t=2298–2300. ↩

  31. Bugle Weekly 26 @ 40:04. Quote spans t=2404 and t=2410; the two ad voices are unidentified. ↩

  32. Behind The Podcast 5 @ 12:49. Two ad-read voices, not participants; signs off at t=802. ↩

  33. Bugle Weekly 27 @ 10:41. The phrase itself lands across t=632–638. ↩

  34. Bugle Weekly 27 @ 15:25. “Kalpesh in India” named at t=915; both he and his son “Raj” appear to be one-off in-universe names. ↩

  35. Bugle Weekly 27 @ 8:50. Armstrong asked for “his Social Security number, a picture of his ID” at t=512–515; ASR “Corey” for Cory Klippsten at t=537. ↩

  36. Bugle Weekly 38 @ 25:24. Quote spans t=1524 and t=1531; the flywheel setup is at t=1487. ↩

  37. Bugle Weekly 38 @ 25:35. Confidence: medium. “CZ from Binance” (Changpeng Zhao) has no character page and Binance has no company page. Quote spans t=1535 and t=1539; payload completes at t=1546. ↩ ↩2

  38. Bugle Weekly 38 @ 29:05. Quote spans t=1742–1749. “Appliance and Chain Analysis” at t=1690 is ASR for “Compliance and Chain Analysis”. ↩

  39. Bugle Weekly 19 @ 26:09. Quote spans t=1569–1575. ↩

  40. Bugle Weekly 11 @ 9:24. The sentence is broken into four ASR fragments across t=554/564/565/568. ↩

  41. Bugle Weekly 10 @ 9:00. The $1,000 figure is at t=535; the vaccination pairing at t=546–554. ↩

  42. Bugle Weekly 16 @ 23:27. ↩

  43. Bugle Weekly 11 @ 25:46. Setup at t=1490; Rod’s QR-code KYC at t=1533–1543. ↩ ↩2

  44. Bugle Weekly 32 @ 17:50. Quote spans the t=1070/t=1071 cue boundary. The ASR mangles “spooks” badly nearby (“the spokes”, “the spics”, “the spoons”); “spooks” is the only reading consistent with the CIA argument that follows. ↩

  45. Bugle Weekly 39 @ 32:13. Quote straddles t=1933 and t=1938. “Biddex” is ASR for Bitaxe; “the DPA” at t=1947 is ASR for DEA. ↩

  46. Bugle Weekly 39 @ 15:36. Confidence: medium. ASR spells him “predator”. Quote straddles t=936 and t=938. ↩

  47. Bugle Weekly 50 @ 14:57. Payoff at t=932 and t=922. ↩

  48. Bugle Weekly 63 @ 50:32. Chapter title: “Monarchies are Gay: Why KYC is Incompatible with Bitcoin”. Rod supplies the Bitcoin-native half at t=3117–3121. ASR: “Seifedean”/“Sephadean” for Saifedean Ammous, “Svetsky” for Aleks Svetski. Hans-Hermann Hoppe has no page. ↩

  49. Satirize The System & Samourai Wallet @ 12:52. Zack continues to t=841 on the second count and FinCEN’s position. ↩ ↩2

  50. Bugle Weekly 72 @ 37:26. Runs t=2234–2263. Roman Storm, named by Rod at t=2194, has no page. ↩

  51. Bugle Weekly 33 @ 32:23. A listener boost at t=3055 shows the phrase already circulating in the audience. ↩

  52. Bugle Weekly 56 @ 8:50. Quote spans t=530, 532 and 534. ↩

  53. Bugle Weekly 31 @ 1:07:17. Quote spans t=4037–4041; “peos” is ASR for plebs. The booster “BiBi” has no page. ↩

  54. Bugle Weekly 31 TLDR @ 5:10. The reviewers’ fact-check is at t=314. ↩

  55. Bugle Weekly 31 TLDR @ 5:59. Confidence: medium; host attribution is by role, not name. ↩

  56. Bugle Weekly 31 TLDR @ 20:31. ↩

  57. Behind The Podcast 3 @ 1:05:59. Fundamentals’ setup at t=3948–3955. ↩

  58. Behind The Podcast 3 @ 1:16:23. Greaser’s reasoning at t=4608–4619 cites historical wealth confiscation. ↩

  59. Behind The Podcast 18 @ 1:07:51. Rod’s wish at t=4061; Greaser’s payoff at t=4104. ↩

  60. Bugle Weekly 21 @ 27:27. Confidence: medium. The cousin is unnamed. Quote straddles t=1644 and t=1651. ↩

  61. Behind The Podcast 21 @ 1:04:41. The cue is a diarization bleed opening with Greaser’s question; Mike’s account runs t=3891–3920 and prices the premium at “like, 20%” at t=3948. ↩

  62. Behind The Podcast 8 @ 41:56. Quote spans t=2516 and t=2521; resolution at t=2526. ↩

  63. Bugle Weekly 66 @ 3:11. Quote straddles t=191 and t=194. The ASR drops a “not” — he means he’d rather be mauled than comply. ↩

  64. Bugle Weekly 22 @ 4:38. ASR mangles “panopticon” as “phenopticon”. The spot names “Lola Leets” at t=284. ↩

  65. Bugle Weekly 108 @ 0:38. The read credits “Lola Leets” (ASR for L0la L33tz) plus contributors “Yao Ossowski” and “David Morris”, neither of whom has a page. ↩

  66. Bugle Weekly 73 @ 43:35. Quote spans t=2615 and t=2618. ↩

  67. Behind The Podcast 12 @ 22:11. He doubles down at t=1360. ↩

  68. Behind The Podcast 9 @ 12:09. Completes at t=737: “if it’s KYC ed.” ↩

  69. Bugle Weekly 53 @ 22:48. Runs t=1368 to t=1384; Greaser adds the corporate half at t=1397. ↩

  70. Scaling With Paper Bitcoin @ 20:34. Quote spans t=1234/1238/1240; setup at t=1215–1230. ↩

  71. Behind The Podcast 18 @ 55:58. Confidence: medium. Greaser names only “HRF” at t=3347, not Gladstein. Payoff at t=3367. ↩

  72. “With Me Now” @ 0:23. Confidence: medium. No agency is named; the link is thematic. ↩

  73. Bugle Weekly 70 @ 18:40. ASR renders PODCONF as “Podkol”. ↩

  74. Bugle Weekly 83 Part 1 @ 39:39. Completes at t=2383: “but now the IRS is on my stick watching my transactions.” “on my stick” is ASR; the chorus repeat at t=2461 renders it correctly. ↩

  75. Bugle Weekly 71 @ 12:59. Continues t=786–795. ASR also renders Fuentes as “Nick Funtz” and “Nick Foentes”. ↩

  76. Bugle Weekly 110 @ 38:38. Quote completes in the next cue: “on choke point two point o to work.” ↩

  77. Bugle Weekly 111 @ 14:52. Setup at 14:29. ↩

  78. Bugle Weekly 102 @ 48:11. “hyperbaconization” is ASR for hyperbitcoinization. ↩

  79. Bugle Weekly 107 @ 49:43. ASR: “Nostra nerds”, “n pubs”, “NSACS” for nsec. ↩

  80. Bugle Weekly 107 @ 28:08. ↩

  81. Bugle Weekly 113 @ 16:03. “blaze” is ASR for “glaze”; the “without / KYC” completes across the next two cues. ↩

  82. Bugle Weekly 5 @ 1:00:38. Rod: “I think the best coin join is a Bitcoin meetup.” ↩