The Brownian first-passage subordinator has a countable dense set of jump levels almost surely, and is continuous at every other level. Its paths are finite nondecreasing functions, so on a bounded level interval there can be only finitely many jumps larger than any fixed positive size; a countable union proves countability. For density, suppose its path were continuous throughout an open level interval. It is strictly increasing, since the original continuous Brownian path takes different values at different passage times. Its continuous inverse on that interval would parametrize a positive-length time interval on which the Brownian path increases monotonically. This contradicts nowhere monotonicity of Brownian motion. Thus every level interval contains a jump. In particular dense discontinuities do not mean that the path is nowhere continuous: it is continuous at every level outside a countable random set.

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