The bucket shop behind the speakeasy
Prohibition and the stock mania were the same decade, the same cities, the same money. 1,920 operators work the back room in Ashgrave — each one keeping a book on a real ticker, each one drawn by the contract itself, no server and no image file anywhere.
Liquor out the front. Stock tips out the back.
The doors open September 1
0.003 at the back door · 0.004 at the front · three per customer
The presses are still warming up
Whatever remains unminted when the doors close is burned. Announced now, executed then, no exceptions.
Three houses run this city
Your ticker is you. Your house is your team.
The Wire House
AAPL · MSFT · NVDA · AMZN · META · AMD · PLTR · GOOGL
Tech and growth. Sharp tailoring, telephone wire, uptown manners — they take the call before the tape prints.
The Cellar Men
SLV · USO · USAR · INTC · MU · DELL
Commodities and industrials. Dock coats and crate branding. They deal in things you can drop on your foot.
The Strays
TSLA · GME · MSTR · COIN · RGTI · SPCX
Retail favourites and wildcards. Mixed, loud, mismatched — the degenerates, and they know it.
And then there is the book
Every Bootlegger runs a book on one real ticker. At reveal, each ticker's entry price is written down once — so nobody who minted early gets an edge, and everyone on the same ticker rises and falls together.
From then on the board keeps score, all day, every trading day. Biggest winner, biggest loser, three house standings. At the weekend the exchange shuts, so the shop shuts too.
The book is fictional. Your Bootlegger holds no assets, owes nothing, pays nothing — it is a scoreboard and a running joke, not a financial product.
The Bucket Book — sample line
Illustration only — the live board opens with the season.
There is a back door
The Ledger draws names from the register for the whitelist — 48 hours early at 0.003 instead of 0.004. Entering is free, and the draw is made against a public block hash anyone can check.
Sign the registerFully on-chain 24×24 portraits, rendered by the contract itself. No servers, no promises. Minting on Robinhood Chain.