Stoney Bitson is the Bugleverse’s resident antisemitic troll: a Minnesotan stonemason who is banned from Twitter at a rate the platform’s own leadership treats as an infrastructure problem, and who over eighteen months accumulates the unusual distinction of being simultaneously the leader of a faction, a punchline about masonry, and a named practitioner of a meme.

The arc’s defining feature is that Bitson is almost never a speaker. He is a thing other people are asked about — a fixed point the hosts triangulate from.

Who’s in it: Stoney Bitson · Richard Greaser · Rod Palmer · Junseth · Elon Musk · Ben Shapiro

Related: storylines/jewish-conspiracy-satire · storylines/censorship-dystopia · storylines/elon-musk-antics · storylines/ethereum-eth-heads · storylines/swan-bitcoin-scandals

The ban problem (2024)

Bitson enters the record not as a participant but as an agenda item. In January 2024 Musk meets Ben Shapiro, and the express purpose of the trip is reported as working out how to keep Bitson off Twitter after roughly thirty removals for antisemitic comments — a brief that shares the meeting with the unrelated matter of Boring Company tunnel contracts.¹

Three weeks later Bitson is reported leading a departure: he and other named antisemites announce they are leaving Bitcoin for Ethereum on the stated grounds that “The Jews control Bitcoin.”² The reporting notes the audit underpinning this conclusion is unexplained and the premise unsupported — control of Bitcoin mining being, in the Bugle’s assessment, Chinese rather than Jewish.

By May 2024 the bans have become an example rather than an event. Greaser reaches for Bitson as the archetype of the misinformation spreader, “individuals like Stoney Bitzen, who continuously get banned off of Twitter for spreading”³ — the sentence trailing into a comparison with cockroaches that never die. Greaser concedes in the same breath that Bitson does not have a very big following, which does nothing to dislodge him from the example slot.

Bitson’s one recorded moment of vindication arrives in June 2024. Discussing Jason Lowery‘s apparent Treasury appointment, Rod Palmer cautions against hero worship but grants that Bitson’s long-running Lowery advocacy — “He’s been kind of a simp for Jason Lowry in the past and people have been kind of critical of him for that”⁴ — has aged better than his critics’.

Leader of a demographic (2025)

In April 2025 Junseth, enumerating who he now has reason to fear having doxxed himself as a member of a Jewish gang, arrives at the Bitcoin skinheads — “a fairly large demographic,” he says, one he suspects Shinobi belongs to but declines to confirm. Asked whether he means Bitson, Junseth confirms: “the Stony Bitzens is definitely the leader of that, that group.”⁵ He then extends Bitson a pass on the grounds that he is a Minnesotan. Rod‘s diagnosis in the same passage is structural rather than moral: when Bitson has a bad day, “He’s gotta blame the Jews.”

By July 2025 Bitson has been absorbed into the vocabulary. Defining antiswantism — see memes/antiswantism — Greaser names its practitioners rather than its principles: “when you think of anti Swanitism, you think of people like Stoney Bitzen and Udi,”⁶ the offence being that he and Udi Wertheimer are mean to Cory Klippsten for the wrong reasons. Greaser is explicit that better reasons exist.

The stone walls

Running underneath the bans is the fact that Bitson does, actually, build stone walls, and photographs them. In June 2025 Rod raises the prospect of commissioning one — “one of those big ass stone walls that Stoney Bidson builds and always most pictures of?”⁷ — and guest Evan Kaloudis appraises the work without qualification: it looks like he does some fantastic work. The consensus is that in fifteen years you will have to move mountains to get him to move stone for you.

Disputed

Did Bitson leave Bitcoin? In February 2024 he is reported as announcing his departure for Ethereum, citing Jewish control of Bitcoin.² In April 2025 he is described as the sitting leader of the Bitcoin skinheads, a demographic defined by its presence in Bitcoin.⁵ No source records a return. Either the exodus did not take, or leadership of the Bitcoin skinheads survives emigration. Henry’s note: the 2025 beat is medium-confidence — the diarizer merged the host’s prompt (“Like the Stony Bitzens?”) into Junseth’s answer, so the attribution of the naming is less secure than the answer itself.

Henry’s note on this page’s prior state. The seeded version dated the arc 2024-01 to 2024-02 and titled it “Stoney Bitson & the Antisemite Exodus”, listing only the two news articles. Both articles are real and are cited above, but the sweep missed five episodes and seventeen months: the exodus is the arc’s opening, not its subject. The title and span are corrected accordingly.

irl: no claim is made here about any actual person. The Bugleverse’s Stoney Bitson is a satirical construct of the Bugle’s own reporting.

Footnotes

1. Bugle News, 2024-01-23 — “Elon Musk Discusses Future of Boring Company with Ben Shapiro”. ↩

2. Bugle News, 2024-02-14 — “Antisemites Leaving Bitcoin In Droves For Ethereum, Citing ‘Too Many Jews In Bitcoin’”. ↩ ↩²

3. Bugle Weekly 8 @ 14:21. ASR renders the name “Stoney Bitzen”. ↩

4. Bugle Weekly 12 @ 47:58. ASR: “Stoney Bitzen” for Bitson, “Jason Lowry” for Lowery. ↩

5. Behind the Podcast 13 @ 2:01:59. ASR: “Stony Bitzens”. The cue is labelled S3 but opens with the host’s prompt; the diarizer merged the question into the answer. ↩ ↩²

6. BTP 20 @ 1:04:52. ASR: “anti Swanitism” for antiswantism, “Stoney Bitzen” for Bitson, “Corey” for Cory Klippsten. ↩

7. BTP 18 @ 1:11:25. ASR: “Stoney Bidson”; the chapter is titled “Stony Bits”. ↩