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Transcript: Justin Bechler Takes Down Notgrubles | Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces Episode 2
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This is Rudy Dazleworth coming back at you with another Plebslot Pulitzer article.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-6" data-t="6">This one is titled, how overnight not grubbles abandoned everything he believed about Bitcoin spam by Justin Beckler.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-15" data-t="15">The article was originally posted on Twitter and can be found on Justin's Twitter page. The article includes multiple screenshots I will not be reading</span> <span class="cue" id="t-25" data-t="25">just for efficiency in getting you this groundbreaking</span> <span class="cue" id="t-28" data-t="28">piece of pleb journalism.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-35" data-t="35">Something is happening to Bitcoin's anti spam movement.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-38">0:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-38" data-t="38">One by one, accounts that spent years raging against inscriptions,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-43" data-t="43">warning about blockchain bloat, and defending the right of ordinary node runners to sync and verify Bitcoin without downloading a sudden flood of spam have reversed completely.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-53" data-t="53">Or over two years, NotGrubbles was one of Bitcoin's clearest and most aggressive voices against spam on the network.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-61" data-t="61">I was his biggest fan, and there are hundreds of tweets that could be embedded in this article to document why so many of us who are toxically opposed to spam on Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-70" data-t="70">fist pumped every time he posted.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-73" data-t="73">Then something happened in August, a sudden and shocking</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-77">1:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-77" data-t="77">180</span> <span class="cue" id="t-78" data-t="78">degree reversal on Bitcoin spam.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-81" data-t="81">This is the documented record of that reversal,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-84" data-t="84">sourced entirely from his own public posts on x.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-88" data-t="88">Note,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-89" data-t="89">since research for this article began, Grubbles has been actively deleting posts from his timeline,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-95">1:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-95" data-t="95">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.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-105" data-t="105">Phase one,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-106" data-t="106">the anti spam warrior</span> <span class="cue" id="t-108" data-t="108">2023</span> <span class="cue" id="t-109" data-t="109">to 2024.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-111" data-t="111">When the first four megabyte inscription block was mined at the very beginning of the inscriptions</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-117">1:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-117" data-t="117">exploit on 02/01/2023,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-121" data-t="121">at not grubbles reacted the way any principled Bitcoin are concerned about block space abuse would react. He wanted to filter</span> <span class="cue" id="t-129" data-t="129">it. He wanted to apply spam filtering to his own Bitcoin node. He saw Luke Dashcher's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-134" data-t="134">filter patch as a sensible,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-136" data-t="136">necessary tool.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-138" data-t="138">In early twenty twenty three,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-140">2:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-140" data-t="140">this was a considered</span> <span class="cue" id="t-142" data-t="142">technically informed position from someone who understood what was at stake. Over the following weeks, he went further. He raised alarms about what inscription spam was doing to the network's infrastructure,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-153" data-t="153">and he understood the problem through the lens of the people who actually run Bitcoin nodes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-158" data-t="158">This is a precise,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-159" data-t="159">technically sound argument.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-161" data-t="161">Inscryption's spam bloats the blockchain,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-164">2:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-164" data-t="164">pressures node operators into pruning, and centralizes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-167" data-t="167">archival data.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-168" data-t="168">Fewer archival nodes means slower IBD for new participants.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-173" data-t="173">He understood the externalities.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-175" data-t="175">He articulated them clearly, and we all know that he was right. He called it what it was repeatedly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-182" data-t="182">without hedging.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-183">3:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-183" data-t="183">He also understood and stated clearly that spam degrades the ability to run a node.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-189" data-t="189">On 12/09/2023,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-191" data-t="191">he connected the dots between spam and the real world cost of syncing Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-197" data-t="197">Harder to sync a full node.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-200" data-t="200">Those are his words.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-201" data-t="201">That was his concern.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-203">3:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-203" data-t="203">He will abandon this argument completely within eighteen months.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-208" data-t="208">By late December the twentieth twenty three, his position had only hardened.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-213" data-t="213">When the Atomacle's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-214" data-t="214">ARC 20 quark token launched, requiring approximately</span> <span class="cue" id="t-218" data-t="218">1,000,000 on chain transactions to mint out,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-221" data-t="221">his response was unambiguous.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-224">3:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-224" data-t="224">He warned about JPEG spam out pricing lightning on chain operations,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-229" data-t="229">precisely the kind of economic displacement that spam inflicts on legitimate Bitcoin users.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-234" data-t="234">In November</span> <span class="cue" id="t-235" data-t="235">2024,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-236" data-t="236">he was still fighting the same fight.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-239">3:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-239" data-t="239">This has been a preview of another episode, Plebslop Pulitzer Prize Pieces with Rudy Dazleworth.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-244" data-t="244">Listen to this full article by subscribing to the Bugle Weekly on Fountain.</span></span></p>