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Pleb Nodes Don't Matter | Bugle Weekly Episode 118
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diff --git a/wiki/episodes/pleb-nodes-dont-matter-bugle-weekly-episode-118.md b/wiki/episodes/pleb-nodes-dont-matter-bugle-weekly-episode-118.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c7953268 @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +--- +title: "Pleb Nodes Don't Matter | Bugle Weekly Episode 118" +type: episode +status: confirmed +show: The Bugle Weekly +number: 118 +date: 2026-07-20 +sources: + - raw/episodes/pleb-nodes-dont-matter-bugle-weekly-episode-118/bundle.json +--- + +**The Bugle Weekly** — Episode 118 · July 20, 2026 · ~57 min + +[[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] and [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard +Greaser]] open on the week's lead [[storylines/core-vs-knots-war|BIP 110]] +story: Foundry USA, the largest mining pool, put signaling to a democratic +vote of its pool-account owners, and a pseudonymous new account, "Dathan +Hone," immediately posted a purported consensus bug threatening to brick any +node that switched off Core too late.[^foundry] The hosts extend the show's +running cult-and-clergy bit for the node-runner movement to its logical +endpoint, casting [[characters/luke-dashjr|Luke Dashjr]] as its pontiff — +"Luke is the pope's pope"[^pope] — before Greaser coins the episode's lasting +legacy on air: **[[memes/big-bitcoin|Big Bitcoin]]**, a funded +corporate-developer establishment framed as the movement's opposite number, +analogous to "big pharma" and "big defense."[^bigbitcoin] Palmer catalogs +[[characters/justin-bechler|Justin Bechler]]'s target list for the new +term — [[characters/jack-mallers|Jack Mallers]] and +[[characters/jack-dorsey|Jack Dorsey]] as untouchable insiders, +[[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]] and [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael +Saylor]] as the ones he actually names.[^horsemen] The episode also carries +the war's most senior defection so far: [[characters/need-creations|Need +Creations]] flips from BIP-110 proponent to the opposing camp, and the +[[storylines/war-watch|Iran war]] flares back up after its June "paper +peace," with US casualties reported in Jordan.[^warflare] + +## Arcs advanced + +- [[storylines/core-vs-knots-war]] — Foundry USA vote, the "block slop" + consensus-bug scare, Big Bitcoin's coinage, the Need Creations defection. +- [[storylines/war-watch]] — the paper peace from episode 113 breaks. +- [[storylines/pleb-slop-wars]] — the cult-and-clergy framing continues. + +## Who appeared + +[[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · +[[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/luke-dashjr|Luke +Dashjr]] · [[characters/matthew-kratter|Matthew Kratter]] · +[[characters/justin-bechler|Justin Bechler]] · +[[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]] · [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael +Saylor]] · [[characters/jack-mallers|Jack Mallers]] · +[[characters/jack-dorsey|Jack Dorsey]] · [[characters/nic-carter|Nic +Carter]] · [[characters/trace-mayer|Trace Mayer]] · +[[characters/preston-pysh|Preston Pysh]] · +[[characters/cory-klippsten|Cory Klippsten]] · [[characters/gary-cardone|Gary +Cardone]] · [[characters/jameson-lopp|Jameson Lopp]] · +[[characters/stephan-livera|Stephan Livera]] · +[[characters/need-creations|Need Creations]] + +[[transcripts/pleb-nodes-dont-matter-bugle-weekly-episode-118|Read the full transcript]]. + +[^foundry]: [[transcripts/pleb-nodes-dont-matter-bugle-weekly-episode-118#t-53|@ 0:53]]; the bug is at [[transcripts/pleb-nodes-dont-matter-bugle-weekly-episode-118#t-220|@ 3:40]]. +[^pope]: [[transcripts/pleb-nodes-dont-matter-bugle-weekly-episode-118#t-744|@ 12:24]]. +[^bigbitcoin]: [[transcripts/pleb-nodes-dont-matter-bugle-weekly-episode-118#t-1771|@ 29:31]]. +[^horsemen]: [[transcripts/pleb-nodes-dont-matter-bugle-weekly-episode-118#t-1905|@ 31:45]]. +[^warflare]: Need Creations defection at [[transcripts/pleb-nodes-dont-matter-bugle-weekly-episode-118#t-468|@ 7:48]]; Iran at [[transcripts/pleb-nodes-dont-matter-bugle-weekly-episode-118#t-262|@ 4:22]].