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Notgrubles
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diff --git a/wiki/characters/notgrubles.md b/wiki/characters/notgrubles.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f879c711 @@ -0,0 +1,186 @@ +--- +title: Notgrubles +type: character +portrait: /portraits/x-notgrubles.jpg +status: confirmed +aliases: + - NotGrubbles + - Not Grubbles + - Grubbles + - Not Grebbles + - "@notgrubles" +sources: + - raw/episodes/justin-bechler-takes-down-notgrubles-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-2/bundle.json +--- + +Notgrubles is a Bitcoin poster who spent roughly two years as one of the network's +loudest opponents of on-chain spam, and who — according to the only account the +universe has of him — abandoned that position overnight. He is known to the wiki +almost entirely as the subject of a takedown: [[characters/justin-bechler|Justin +Bechler]]'s long-form dossier "How Overnight NotGrubbles Abandoned Everything He +Believed About Bitcoin Spam," read aloud in full by [[characters/rudy-dazzleworth|Rudy +Dazzleworth]] on the second episode of *Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces*.[^title] +Every fact below is Bechler's characterization of him. Notgrubles does not speak in +any source Henry has. + +## The anti-spam warrior + +The article's before-picture is admiring. Notgrubles "was one of Bitcoin's clearest +and most aggressive voices against spam on the network,"[^clearest] and Bechler is +explicit that the piece is a betrayal story rather than an attack: "I was his biggest +fan, and there are hundreds of tweets that could be embedded in this article,"[^fan] +and he "fist pumped every time he posted."[^fist] + +Phase 1 of the dossier — "The Anti-Spam Warrior, 2023 to 2024"[^phase1] — dates his +conversion to the first four-megabyte inscription block in February 2023, at which +"at not grubbles reacted the way any principled Bitcoin are concerned about block +space abuse would react. He wanted to filter."[^filter] Specifically, he "wanted to +apply spam filtering to his own Bitcoin node. He saw [[characters/luke-dashjr|Luke +Dashcher]]'s" filter patch as a sensible, necessary tool[^dashjr] — placing him +squarely on the Knots-adjacent side of the [[storylines/core-vs-knots-war|filter +war]]. + +The technical case Bechler credits him with is the standard one, recited approvingly: +spam bloats the chain, pushes node operators into pruning, and centralizes archival +data, so that "fewer archival nodes means slower IBD for new participants."[^ibd] +Bechler quotes him from December 2023 — "Harder to sync a full node."[^sync] — and +stamps it: those are his words, that was his concern. Then the drumbeat that runs +through the whole dossier: "He will abandon this argument completely within eighteen +months."[^eighteen] + +The [[storylines/ordinals-civil-war|inscription era]] is charted as hardening him +rather than softening him. The Atomicals ARC-20 quark mint, "requiring +approximately"[^arc20] a million on-chain transactions, is logged as an escalation, +and he "warned about JPEG spam out pricing lightning on chain operations"[^jpeg] — +the economic-displacement argument he is charged with dropping. + +## The reversal + +"Then something happened in August, a sudden and shocking"[^august] 180-degree +reversal on Bitcoin spam. Bechler offers no cause for it, and Notgrubles is not +alleged to be alone: "One by one, accounts that spent years raging against +inscriptions"[^onebyone] are defecting, which is what elevates his case from a +grudge into evidence. + +The read-aloud preview ends inside Phase 1 and never reaches the reversal itself. +Henry notes that the article's own chapter list promises a "Phase 3: The Brand New +Not Grubbles" that no source in the wiki has yet heard. Henry's further note: the +Bugleverse accounts' own posts, catalogued below, register no such reversal. As late +as mid-2026 the plebs still reply to @notgrubles as a fellow filterer rather than a +convert — the "brand new" model has not surfaced in the X record either. + +## The X record + +Notgrubles does not speak in any Bugleverse source, but he is spoken *at* constantly. +The seventeen posts the archive holds are all mentions of `@notgrubles` by +[[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] (`@rodpalmerhodl`, thirteen) and +[[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] (`@GreaserRichard`, four) — replies +into threads he anchors. They are the plebs' words, not his, and so they document how +the network *treats* him rather than what he believes. On that evidence he is not a +defector at all but a standing fixture of the anti-spam trench, which sits awkwardly +beside [[characters/justin-bechler|Bechler]]'s betrayal narrative. + +### Still in the trench + +The single richest thread has the plebs cheering Notgrubles' node-filtering line well +into 2026 — the exact position the dossier says he abandoned "within eighteen months." +Palmer frames archival-node filtering as a public-health measure: + +> "nobody knows for sure but we have to run bip 110 to stop them from pooping our nodes" +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2026-07-10](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/2075381469845807111) + +> "yep. they're scaring the poor plebs like fox news for nodes" +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-10-20](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1980063570655064228) + +The company he keeps in these mentions places him on the Knots-adjacent axis of the +[[storylines/core-vs-knots-war|filter war]]: a June 2025 reply threads him directly +with [[characters/luke-dashjr|Luke Dashjr]], whose patch Bechler credits him with +championing. + +<video controls preload="none" poster="/tweets/1937665888984985939-poster.jpg" src="/tweets/1937665888984985939.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;margin:.5rem 0;"></video> + +> "@LukeDashjr @notgrubles" +> — [@GreaserRichard, 2025-06-25](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1937665888984985939) + +Greaser also folds him into the war's origin-story lore, needling +[[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] — the grump routinely mistaken for a defector — as +a bought convert: + +> "Pledditor began supporting Bitcoin Core after he was paid $500 in Nintendo Store credits" +> — [@GreaserRichard, 2026-03-29](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/2038357324864036870) + +### The slop lexicon + +Notgrubles' mentions are a working showroom for the universe's +[[memes/pleb-slop|"slop"]] vocabulary — see [[storylines/pleb-slop-wars]]. Palmer +supplies most of the coinages, all addressed into Notgrubles' threads: + +> "it's just virtue signal slop" +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2026-02-10](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/2021360364504617060) + +> "greshams law of slop" +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2026-05-04](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/2051318063740449050) + +> "pleb slop taliban" +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2026-03-30](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/2038641779180802480) + +The adjacent grievances run to the same rhythm — privacy-coin hypocrisy and +influencer credulity, filed as more of the same slop: + +> "i wish zcash and monero influencers would practice what they preach about privacy and stop posting" +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-10-11](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1977029341067510200) + +> "whats next? crypto influencers falling for thinly veiled rippled fud?" +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2026-03-31](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/2038977693459308790) + +### Comrade and punching bag + +The affection in these threads is real but not reverent. Notgrubles is treated as an +ally who nonetheless needs supervision — a running joke that he, of all people, has to +be taught Bitcoin: + +> "thank you for constantly educating grubles about bitcoin. he needs it!" +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-05-24](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1926314889380819439) + +> "this shut them the fuck up fast lol" +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-05-24](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1926309701567865112) + +Greaser's contribution to the bit is to demand Notgrubles wear the cause as identity: + +> "Please put it in your twitter bio like your pronouns" +> — [@GreaserRichard, 2025-09-22](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1969961959178313870) + +Henry's note: none of these are Notgrubles' own words, and the archive still holds not +one post *by* him. What the record establishes is narrower but firmer than the dossier +— that as of mid-2026 the plebs who mattered to the [[storylines/pleb-slop-wars|slop wars]] +were still addressing him as one of their own. + +## On the evidence + +The dossier is "sourced entirely from his own public posts on x"[^sourced] — but by +Bechler's own admission it is sourced from rather less than that. Since research +began, he reports, "Grubbles has been actively deleting posts from his +timeline,"[^deleting] and "several damning tweets cited in earlier drafts are no +longer accessible because I was a dummy, and screenshots weren't captured before they +disappeared."[^dummy] The hundreds of embeddable tweets are likewise not embedded. +The charge against Notgrubles therefore rests, on the record, on evidence its author +states he no longer has. See [[storylines/pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces]] and +[[storylines/pleb-slop-wars]]. + +[^title]: [[transcripts/justin-bechler-takes-down-notgrubles-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-2#t-6|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 0:06]]. ASR renders the byline "Justin Beckler"; the subject is variously "not grubbles", "NotGrubbles", "Grubbles" and (in the chapter list) "Not Grebbles". +[^clearest]: [[transcripts/justin-bechler-takes-down-notgrubles-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-2#t-53|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 0:53]]. The cue opens "Or over two years" — ASR for "For over two years." +[^fan]: [[transcripts/justin-bechler-takes-down-notgrubles-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-2#t-61|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 1:01]]. The first person is Bechler as author, performed by Rudy. +[^fist]: [[transcripts/justin-bechler-takes-down-notgrubles-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-2#t-70|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 1:10]]. +[^phase1]: [[transcripts/justin-bechler-takes-down-notgrubles-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-2#t-105|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 1:45]]. The heading is read across cues 105–109; the quote is kept to the cue cited. +[^filter]: [[transcripts/justin-bechler-takes-down-notgrubles-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-2#t-121|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 2:01]]. "at not grubbles" is the @notgrubles handle read aloud; "any principled Bitcoin are" is ASR for "any principled Bitcoiner." +[^dashjr]: [[transcripts/justin-bechler-takes-down-notgrubles-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-2#t-129|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 2:09]]. ASR renders Luke Dashjr as "Luke Dashcher"; the sentence completes at cues 134 and 136. +[^ibd]: [[transcripts/justin-bechler-takes-down-notgrubles-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-2#t-168|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 2:48]]. +[^sync]: [[transcripts/justin-bechler-takes-down-notgrubles-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-2#t-197|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 3:17]]. Dated 12/09/2023 in the piece; the tag lines "Those are his words." / "That was his concern." follow at cues 200 and 201. +[^eighteen]: [[transcripts/justin-bechler-takes-down-notgrubles-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-2#t-203|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 3:23]]. +[^arc20]: [[transcripts/justin-bechler-takes-down-notgrubles-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-2#t-214|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 3:34]]. ASR renders Atomicals as "the Atomacle's" at cue 213; the transaction count lands at cue 218. +[^jpeg]: [[transcripts/justin-bechler-takes-down-notgrubles-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-2#t-224|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 3:44]]. +[^august]: [[transcripts/justin-bechler-takes-down-notgrubles-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-2#t-73|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 1:13]]. The sentence completes across cues 77 and 78 ("180" / "degree reversal on Bitcoin spam."). +[^onebyone]: [[transcripts/justin-bechler-takes-down-notgrubles-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-2#t-38|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 0:38]]. +[^sourced]: [[transcripts/justin-bechler-takes-down-notgrubles-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-2#t-84|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 1:24]]. +[^deleting]: [[transcripts/justin-bechler-takes-down-notgrubles-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-2#t-89|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 1:29]]. +[^dummy]: [[transcripts/justin-bechler-takes-down-notgrubles-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-2#t-95|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 1:35]].