Bitcoin
The chat's principal cryptocurrency referent. 68 corpus mentions of bitcoin (plus 30 coin, 19 btc) spanning all six chat years and five members. The chat's preferred crypto frame is "This is good for bitcoin?" — first attested by Matt on 2026-04-08 in the Iran-Hormuz tolls thread.
Bitcoin
The chat's principal cryptocurrency referent. 68 corpus mentions of bitcoin (plus 30 coin, 19 btc) spanning all six chat years and five members. The chat's preferred crypto frame is "This is good for bitcoin?" — first attested by Matt on 2026-04-08 in the Iran-Hormuz tolls thread.
Bitcoin is the chat's principal cryptocurrency referent. The bare token bitcoin appears in 68 corpus messages; coin (often as Epstein coin, KirkCoin, etc.) adds 30 more; btc adds 19 more. The chat's collective Bitcoin posture is somewhere between Daniel Miller's empirical skepticism, Kyle Derrick's transactional pragmatism, Matt's tabloid frame, and Evan Bbbender's "Bitcoin is inevitable my man!" register.
First mention
The earliest in-corpus mention is by Daniel Miller on 2020-11-17:
"Also, why are people super into Bitcoin again?" — Daniel Miller, 2020-11-17
The construction — people super into Bitcoin again — is the chat's preferred frame for Bitcoin as a recurring news cycle rather than an investment.
"I hate bitcoin"
Evan Bbbender's 2021-01-07 post is the chat's earliest documented declarative Bitcoin position:
"I hate bitcoin" — Evan Bbbender, 2021-01-07
The position has, in the corpus, evolved (see Bitcoin is inevitable my man! below).
"I got a blackmail email demanding Bitcoin"
Kyle Derrick's 2021-01-11 post is the chat's most-quoted personal Bitcoin transaction-narrative:
"I got a blackmail email demanding Bitcoin" "The email wants 5k in Bitcoin" — Kyle Derrick, 2021-01-11
The two-message thread — Kyle reporting a blackmail demand priced in Bitcoin — is the corpus's only documented case of a chat member receiving an in-the-wild Bitcoin-denominated extortion attempt.
"Peg it to bitcoin cause money is fake anyway"
Matt's 2021-01-27 post is the chat's earliest documented monetary-policy proposition:
"Peg it to bitcoin cause money is fake anyway" — Matt, 2021-01-27
The proposal — pegging fiat to Bitcoin on the grounds that fiat is fake — is in the chat's preferred no-context-needed monetary-skeptic register and is the encyclopedia's standard reference for Matt's general crypto frame.
"I can't feel too bad for a tech bro in California that can't remember…"
Cullen Conway's 2021-01-12 post is the chat's most fully-formed Bitcoin schadenfreude:
"I can't feel too bad for a tech bro in California that can't remember how to access the 7k Bitcoin he has on an external drive lol" — Cullen Conway, 2021-01-12
The line is the chat's preferred summary of its general posture toward forgotten Bitcoin wallets and is the encyclopedia's standard reference for the era.
The 2026 Iran-Hormuz Bitcoin thread
The chat's most fully-articulated recent Bitcoin discourse is the 2026-04-08 Iran-Hormuz tolls thread (see also Iran war discourse and Strait of Hormuz):
"As a two-week ceasefire takes hold, Iran is asserting formal control over the Strait of Hormuz — requiring oil tankers to pay tolls in Bitcoin and submit cargo details before passage, the Financial T[imes]…" — Matt, 2026-04-08
"This is good for bitcoin?" — Matt, 2026-04-08
"Bitcoin is inevitable my man!" — Evan Bbbender, 2026-04-08
"Also good for bitcoin" — Matt, 2026-04-08
"And can I pay in bitcoin?" — Daniel Miller, 2026-04-08
The four-message Matt → Evan → Matt → Daniel exchange is the corpus's most-cited sustained Bitcoin discourse and is the encyclopedia's preferred summary of the chat's late-period Bitcoin frame: Iran adopts Bitcoin for international oil settlement, Evan calls Bitcoin's victory inevitable, Matt repeats his trademark "this is good for bitcoin" frame, and Daniel asks if he can use Bitcoin to pay for things.
Cross-references
The chat's Bitcoin discourse touches on several related articles:
- Crypto Scam Pardon Theory — Brian Ambuel's 2026-05-13 doctrine.
- Charlie Kirk — Brian's 2025-09-10 "Bad for KirkCoin" line.
- Epstein discourse — Kyle Derrick's "Epstein coin" business proposal (2026-02-04).
- Iran war discourse — the 2026-04-08 Bitcoin-tolls thread.