Binance: exchange accountability · 7 Jun 2026
“In search of knowledge” is a strange thing to post after 10/10, because the one thing Binance did not give the market was knowledge;
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MASTR · 2024–2026
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Originalrecherchen, kritische Essays und die Gespräche dahinter. Lies nach Thema, folge einem Thread oder finde Personen und Projekte in den Quelltexten.
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Hunter, if you see this, do yourself a favour and do not touch it.
I genuinely hope @HunterBiden is smart enough to stay far away from crypto shill offers, memecoins, paid promo traps and every desperate Web3 parasite already trying to convert his sudden attention into liquidity for their garbage.
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Paid promotion · 6 Jun 2026
You like their posts, comment under their fake wisdom, repost their garbage, join their Telegram sewer, buy the coins they shill, defend them when people warn you, and then sit there crying when the same professional scammers empty your…
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Zcash Orchard: reading the reported vulnerability and its limits
Over the last week, the entire zcash:native narrative was hit by one issue: a critical bug in Orchard, Zcash’s shielded privacy pool.
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Web3 is absolutely not aware of how much this family and this administration have damaged it.
For years, crypto told itself it was building an alternative to the corrupt financial system, an escape from captured institutions, banking cartels, lobbyists, political dynasties, insider networks, frozen access, rigged markets, and…
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Maybe this washout is exactly what crypto needed.
Maybe this market became too bloated, too complacent, too convinced that institutions, ETFs, treasury companies and endless leverage had somehow abolished downside risk.
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Binance: political influence · 3 Jun 2026
I did not only warn early about the Trump, CZ and Binance deals, market makers, CEXs and the network of connections around them, back when it was not fashionable to say it and when most of this space still refused to understand what was…
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Being early versus still being here at the end
Being early versus still being here at the end. Dated original source, with context and links.
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Paid promotion · 2 Jun 2026
Andrew Left, the founder of Citron Research, has been found guilty of securities fraud after prosecutors said he used his public influence to move markets through tweets and research calls, then traded around those moves for profit.
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Bitcoin: attention and incentives · 1 Jun 2026
He did it because Strategy is a company, and companies exist to protect capital, manage liabilities, satisfy shareholders, service obligations, and extract profit when the structure demands it.
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Which side are you choosing with your trades?
Why should fighting paid shillers, scammers and hackers be a basic duty for everyone in crypto and Bitcoin?
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Crypto exploits and breaches: January to May 2026
A 7,000-word incident catalogue covering the publicly discussed cases recorded by MASTR through 30 May 2026.
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Pumpfun: paid promotion · 29 May 2026
I am seeing more and more tier 1 scammers trying to warn people about scams or expose other scammers.
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Pumpfun: paid promotion · 25 May 2026
If someone asked me what the consequences of poor education and centralization look like, I would tell them to spend some time studying CT.
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Worse, many of them probably never even understood it in the first place.
Holding 200k (More likely the money skimmed from followers) on a CEX is proof enough for me that many of these big accounts out there do not take sovereignty and self custody seriously.
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Paid promotion · 25 May 2026
Nick, shit, you make me feel like the asshole here because I am the one bringing a negative tone into a story where nobody really wants to be the guy asking uncomfortable questions.
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Big Tech and Web3: concentrated control behind open branding
A society that gives a handful of private tech empires control over speech, data, infrastructure and intelligence does not remain free simply because those empires use the word freedom in their marketing.
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Liquidity and market structure · 24 May 2026
"Waiting on a Sunday afternoon For what I've read between the lines Your lies Feelin', like a hand in rusted shame So do you laugh or does it cry”
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An exchange memoir is not an order-book record
It does not. That was the visible number, the number that could be reported from exchange liquidation dashboards.
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Attention and incentives · 23 May 2026
What I find strange is how often faith is used almost like a public badge in spaces that are supposed to be about technology, finance, decentralisation, markets, scams, risk and code.
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BitBoy Crypto and the cost of influencer culture
Ben Armstrong, better known as BitBoy Crypto, was once one of the biggest crypto influencers on YouTube.
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Over the last few hours, 2 things have been circulating at the same time, and both honestly made me think and sad.
Over the last few hours, 2 things have been circulating at the same time, and both honestly made me think and sad.
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SIMD-0538: explaining the Solana proposal discussed on X
In simple terms, compute units are the amount of work Solana allows inside a block. More compute units means the chain can process more activity per block.
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Private data and AI: where MASTR draws the boundary
Private/ personal thoughts I would not want stored, processed, analysed, profiled, misunderstood, leaked, subpoenaed, monetised or used to build a better psychological map of me.
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