0:00Richard Greaser Hey, guys. This is Rudy Dazleworth coming back at you with another Plebslot Pulitzer article. This one is titled, how overnight not grubbles abandoned everything he believed about Bitcoin spam by Justin Beckler. 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 just for efficiency in getting you this groundbreaking piece of pleb journalism. Something is happening to Bitcoin's anti spam movement.

0:38Richard Greaser One by one, accounts that spent years raging against inscriptions, 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. Or over two years, NotGrubbles was one of Bitcoin's clearest and most aggressive voices against spam on the network. 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 fist pumped every time he posted. Then something happened in August, a sudden and shocking

1:17Richard Greaser 180 degree reversal on Bitcoin spam. This is the documented record of that reversal, sourced entirely from his own public posts on x. Note, since research for this article began, Grubbles has been actively deleting posts from his timeline,

1:35Richard Greaser 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. Phase one, the anti spam warrior 2023 to 2024. When the first four megabyte inscription block was mined at the very beginning of the inscriptions

1:57Richard Greaser exploit on 02/01/2023, at not grubbles reacted the way any principled Bitcoin are concerned about block space abuse would react. He wanted to filter it. He wanted to apply spam filtering to his own Bitcoin node. He saw Luke Dashcher's filter patch as a sensible, necessary tool. In early twenty twenty three,

2:20Richard Greaser this was a considered 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, and he understood the problem through the lens of the people who actually run Bitcoin nodes. This is a precise, technically sound argument. Inscryption's spam bloats the blockchain,

2:44Richard Greaser pressures node operators into pruning, and centralizes archival data. Fewer archival nodes means slower IBD for new participants. He understood the externalities. He articulated them clearly, and we all know that he was right. He called it what it was repeatedly without hedging.

3:03Richard Greaser He also understood and stated clearly that spam degrades the ability to run a node. On 12/09/2023, he connected the dots between spam and the real world cost of syncing Bitcoin. Harder to sync a full node. Those are his words. That was his concern.

3:23Richard Greaser He will abandon this argument completely within eighteen months. By late December the twentieth twenty three, his position had only hardened. When the Atomacle's ARC 20 quark token launched, requiring approximately 1,000,000 on chain transactions to mint out, his response was unambiguous.

3:44Richard Greaser He warned about JPEG spam out pricing lightning on chain operations, precisely the kind of economic displacement that spam inflicts on legitimate Bitcoin users. In November 2024, he was still fighting the same fight.

3:59Rod Palmer This has been a preview of another episode, Plebslop Pulitzer Prize Pieces with Rudy Dazleworth. Listen to this full article by subscribing to the Bugle Weekly on Fountain.