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: Justin Bechler‘s long-form dossier “How Overnight NotGrubbles Abandoned Everything He Believed About Bitcoin Spam,” read aloud in full by Rudy Dazzleworth on the second episode of Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces.¹ 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,”² 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,”³ and he “fist pumped every time he posted.”⁴

Phase 1 of the dossier — “The Anti-Spam Warrior, 2023 to 2024”⁵ — 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.”⁶ Specifically, he “wanted to apply spam filtering to his own Bitcoin node. He saw Luke Dashcher‘s” filter patch as a sensible, necessary tool⁷ — placing him squarely on the Knots-adjacent side of the 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.”⁸ Bechler quotes him from December 2023 — “Harder to sync a full node.”⁹ — 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.”¹⁰

The inscription era is charted as hardening him rather than softening him. The Atomicals ARC-20 quark mint, “requiring approximately”¹¹ a million on-chain transactions, is logged as an escalation, and he “warned about JPEG spam out pricing lightning on chain operations”¹² — the economic-displacement argument he is charged with dropping.

The reversal

“Then something happened in August, a sudden and shocking”¹³ 180-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”¹⁴ 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 Rod Palmer (@rodpalmerhodl, thirteen) and 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 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

“yep. they’re scaring the poor plebs like fox news for nodes” — @rodpalmerhodl, 2025-10-20

The company he keeps in these mentions places him on the Knots-adjacent axis of the filter war: a June 2025 reply threads him directly with Luke Dashjr, whose patch Bechler credits him with championing.

“@LukeDashjr @notgrubles” — @GreaserRichard, 2025-06-25

Greaser also folds him into the war’s origin-story lore, needling 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

The slop lexicon

Notgrubles’ mentions are a working showroom for the universe’s “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

“greshams law of slop” — @rodpalmerhodl, 2026-05-04

“pleb slop taliban” — @rodpalmerhodl, 2026-03-30

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

“whats next? crypto influencers falling for thinly veiled rippled fud?” — @rodpalmerhodl, 2026-03-31

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

“this shut them the fuck up fast lol” — @rodpalmerhodl, 2025-05-24

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

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 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”¹⁵ — 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,”¹⁶ 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.”¹⁷ 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.

Footnotes

1. 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”. ↩

2. Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 0:53. The cue opens “Or over two years” — ASR for “For over two years.” ↩

3. Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 1:01. The first person is Bechler as author, performed by Rudy. ↩

4. Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 1:10. ↩

5. Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 1:45. The heading is read across cues 105–109; the quote is kept to the cue cited. ↩

6. 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.” ↩

7. Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 2:09. ASR renders Luke Dashjr as “Luke Dashcher”; the sentence completes at cues 134 and 136. ↩

8. Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 2:48. ↩

9. 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. ↩

10. Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 3:23. ↩

11. 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. ↩

12. Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 3:44. ↩

13. Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 1:13. The sentence completes across cues 77 and 78 (“180” / “degree reversal on Bitcoin spam.”). ↩

14. Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 0:38. ↩

15. Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 1:24. ↩

16. Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 1:29. ↩

17. Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 2 @ 1:35. ↩