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Pledditor
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diff --git a/wiki/characters/pledditor.md b/wiki/characters/pledditor.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..017e9618 @@ -0,0 +1,187 @@ +--- +title: Pledditor +type: character +factions: + - Bitcoin Twitter +status: seeded +aliases: + - Pleditor + - Palladitor + - Pledger + - Pledder + - Pleader + - Plotter + - Platter + - Plutator + - Plater + - predator + - clutter + - Bader +card: + id: inf-5 + tier: 1 + class: Political + role: Mid + hp: 144 + atk: 55 +portrait: /portraits/x-pledditor.jpg +sources: + - "raw/cards/roster.json#inf-5" + - raw/episodes/grumpy-with-a-cause-bugle-weekly-episode-67/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-economy-is-still-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-21/bundle.json +--- + +> *Henry's note: stub entry, but the aliases above are load-bearing — see "Not Matt Odell" below. The rest fills out as Henry replays episodes and news.* + +The Bugleverse's professional snitch: an independent journalist exposing +shitcoiners, whose investigation format is a *To Catch A Predator* parody. He +introduces himself in character in [[episodes/the-economy-is-still-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-21|The Economy Is Still Fine]]: +"Hi, my name is Pleditor. I'm an independent journalist exposing shitcoiners in +the Bitcoin space."[^intro] The parody is where the ASR's "predator" comes from. + +He operates on Bitcoin Twitter rather than Nostr, issues purity tests, and is +filed by the show alongside the progressive Bitcoiners. See +[[storylines/pledditor|Pledditor, Professional Snitch]] for the arc. + +## Not Matt Odell + +**Pledditor and [[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]] are different people**, and +the ASR conflates them constantly — both are grumps whose names get mangled, so +a name-match scan will merge them if it is allowed to. The `aliases:` above +exist to stop that. + +The clearest separation is in *Grumpy With A Cause* +([[episodes/grumpy-with-a-cause-bugle-weekly-episode-67|Bugle Weekly 67]]), where +the name "Odell" is never spoken but the grumpy figure is named throughout — and +the episode's own `chapters.json` spells him "Pleditor". The passage that settles +it is the cop run: "ACAB, all cops are bastards. That includes Predator,"[^acab] +followed by "Pleader's a cop"[^cop] — a sustained snitch and fake-authority bit +that lands only for the man who phoned the Nashville police on the Taproot +Wizards. It has no reading in which it is about Odell. + +Both are separately attested inside a single conversation in +[[episodes/pioneering-v4v-music-with-open-mike-btp-episode-21|Pioneering V4V Music with Open Mike]], +where Odell is the grumpy Nostr base influencer and "Plutator" is the one +"running around, issuing purity tests left and right." + +> irl: Pledditor and Matt Odell are both real Bitcoin Twitter/Nostr accounts, +> which is why the show plays them as adjacent without ever explaining the +> difference. + +## As told by the Bugle accounts + +The transcripts give Pledditor his mission statement; the Bugleverse's own X +accounts — [@bitcoin_bugle](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle), +[@rodpalmerhodl](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl) and +[@GreaserRichard](https://x.com/GreaserRichard) — are where the character +actually *lives*, posted into being almost daily across 2024–2026. What follows +is drawn from those posts. They are remarkably consistent: the same man, the same +grievances, running for two years without a single day off. As Rod puts it, he +"absolutely refuses to make friends."[^rp-friends] + +### The paper Bitcoin crusade + +Pledditor's defining beat is his war on *paper Bitcoin* — rehypothecation, +custodial IOUs, and anyone he suspects of selling claims to coins they cannot +produce. The Bugle frames every skirmish as breaking news. When [[characters/jack-mallers|Jack +Mallers]] caught heat, the paper of record reported he "has upgraded to an even +larger empty closet to appear more humble after rehypothecation controversy with +Pledditor."[^bb-closet] + + + +The crusade escalates until Pledditor is treated as a head of state. The Bugle +files him entering talks with White House advisor [[characters/david-bailey|David +Bailey]] "to meet at Jekyll Island, Georgia to discuss a Paper Bitcoin +Truce,"[^bb-jekyll] and later has BlackRock's Larry Fink warning insiders that +"Bitcoin influencers like Pledditor are the biggest threat to (paper) Bitcoin +$IBIT."[^bb-fink] By 2026 even his own tooling has defected: "Pledditor claims his +AI agent went rogue and bought paper Bitcoin without his permission."[^bb-agent] +The [[memes/paper-bitcoin|paper Bitcoin]] bit is inseparable from him. + +### Purity tests and the grumpy-maxi bracket + +The show's second-favorite Pledditor mode is the purity test. He is seeded into a +[[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]] bracket — the Bugle's "Grumpy Maxi +Championship," polling "Who is your favorite grumpy Bitcoin Maximalist?" between +Odell, Pledditor and LAIH[^bb-grumpy] — and crowned its patron saint of gatekeeping: + + + +> "Pledditor if passing purity tests was a sport" +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-08-18](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1957242348246913347) + +The grumpiness has a diagnosis. Rod: "pledditor and many others are grumpy +because bitcoin is making new highs but none of their friends and family have +called to congratulate them."[^rp-grumpy] It also has a foil — [@GreaserRichard](https://x.com/GreaserRichard) +reports that "Nakamoto's strategy in a nutshell is to do everything in their power +to make Pledditor mad."[^gr-nakamoto] The pleb-slop verdict is absolute: "you will +NEVER impress pledditor with your pleb slop."[^rp-plebslop] + +### The man who does not understand commerce + +The richest running joke is that the Bitcoiner most obsessed with purity does not +appear to grasp money. Rod's foundational text has him as "a baby that never +developed object permanence," who "gets mad any time he sees a commercial because +he doesn't know about commerce."[^rp-permanence] + + + +The bit compounds: he is "a fiat maxi. he doesn't view bitcoin as money. he thinks +transactions involving bitcoin are 'gifts',"[^rp-fiat] and — after some hapless +promoted post — Rod thanks him "for explaining paid advertising to us all."[^rp-ads] + + + +### Receipts, dossiers, and the naughty list + +His journalism, per the accounts, is surveillance. He keeps "confidential +influencer dossiers,"[^bb-dossier] "has already personally emailed this video to +Gary Gensler,"[^rp-gensler] and is durable enough that Santa reportedly retires +Palantir in his favor — "Santa Will Use Pledditor's 'Naughty List' During +Christmas 2025 Instead of Palantir's."[^bb-santa] Rod keeps the vigil canonical +with a clip of Pledditor "monitoring the situation for scams": + +<video controls preload="none" poster="/tweets/2014528220071157981-poster.jpg" src="/tweets/2014528220071157981.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;margin:.5rem 0;"></video> + +### Corruptibility, allegedly + +The counter-bit is that the incorruptible snitch has a price, and it is +denominated in Nintendo. The Bugle reports "Pledditor Was Paid $500 In Nintendo +Store Points To Support Bitcoin Core,"[^bb-nintendo] and traces his feud with +Fold to the fact "he couldn't use $FLD to buy a Ninento [sic] Switch on the +app."[^bb-fold] To his credit, some lines hold: when "Epstein +contacted Pledditor about a meme coin pre-sale opportunity … to nobody's surprise, +Pledditor wasn't interested."[^bb-epstein] + +Henry's note: across two years and three accounts, not one post reads him as +[[characters/matt-odell|Odell]] — the paper-Bitcoin obsession, the Nintendo +running gag, and the *To Catch A Predator* snitch framing are Pledditor's alone. +He also earns the occasional cross-canon cameo: cast as Frodo in a Bitcoiner +*Lord of the Rings*,[^gr-lotr] and awarded "the J.D. Power and Associates 2024 +Journalism Excellence in Bitcoin Maximalism Reporting."[^rp-jdpower] See +[[storylines/pledditor|Pledditor, Professional Snitch]] for the arc. + +[^intro]: [[transcripts/the-economy-is-still-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-21#t-243|Bugle Weekly 21 @ 4:03]]. +[^acab]: [[transcripts/grumpy-with-a-cause-bugle-weekly-episode-67#t-3139|Bugle Weekly 67 @ 52:19]]. +[^cop]: [[transcripts/grumpy-with-a-cause-bugle-weekly-episode-67#t-3146|Bugle Weekly 67 @ 52:26]]. +[^rp-friends]: [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-10-05](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1974861698302701610). +[^bb-closet]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-06-05](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1930696193039802790). +[^bb-jekyll]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-06-29](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1939433524257329514). +[^bb-fink]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-06-29](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1939439753172054292). +[^bb-agent]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-04-16](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2044595395808858370). +[^bb-grumpy]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-06-16](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1934666401043693768). +[^rp-grumpy]: [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-07-14](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1944797261654798754). +[^gr-nakamoto]: [@GreaserRichard, 2025-06-13](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1933633202796577141). +[^rp-plebslop]: [@rodpalmerhodl, 2026-02-04](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/2018876647429046735). +[^rp-permanence]: [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-04-17](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1912957830384193980). +[^rp-fiat]: [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-08-06](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1953122781752627385). +[^rp-ads]: [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-07-05](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1941527096918167908). +[^bb-dossier]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-04-02](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1907222701757874529). +[^rp-gensler]: [@rodpalmerhodl, 2024-07-28](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1817689142115156170). +[^bb-santa]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-06-14](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1933960680912412864). +[^bb-nintendo]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-03-29](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2038283738921017667). +[^bb-fold]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-06-30](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1939823630697042129). +[^bb-epstein]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-02-02](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2018363495188770861). +[^gr-lotr]: [@GreaserRichard, 2025-07-22](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1947705150832865687). +[^rp-jdpower]: [@rodpalmerhodl, 2024-04-22](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1782383254034629109).