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MASTR · 2024–2026

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Tools, evidence handling and the questions a strong claim must survive.

A useful investigation states what was checked, how the observation was obtained and what it cannot establish. MASTR’s toolkit describes the services used for different tasks; the scanner and wallet-attribution guides explain why an attractive visualisation does not replace the underlying records. Labels are leads. A connection between addresses still needs interpretation.

Corrections are part of the record. Several posts here challenge a dramatic headline by narrowing it to the actual question: index membership rather than a stock-market ban, a proposed law rather than a measured reduction in manipulation, or a market move rather than proof of an exchange’s intent. Reading these alongside the original claims makes the method visible.

The stolen-funds note draws another important boundary. Tracing a transaction is not the same as recovering assets. Recovery can depend on intermediaries, legal process, the availability of funds and facts outside a public ledger. Keep the evidence, the service being offered and the expected outcome separate.

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AI: decentralisation and control · 12 Sep 2026

When an American CEO (here Dario Amodei, Anthropic) is willing to warn the world about the very technology his company is banking on to bring in billions, you start to wonder how close to midnight we really are.

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Responsible disclosure: the August 2026 status note

A small update: an average of 7 - 8 days has now passed since I privately submitted 44 proven and fully documented security findings across 5 projects:

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When a market prices a lie more efficiently than the truth

Markets are often described as machines for discovering truth, although what they actually discover is the price people will pay under a particular distribution of information, incentives and fear.

Kommentare und Rants3 min
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Building useful products · 17 Aug 2026

Education is the most valuable asset a person can build because it changes the instrument through which every other asset is understood: the mind itself.

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Why serious security research struggles to pay for itself

Security, research and honest information have almost no economic value in crypto because they require the one thing this industry despises more than regulation: sustained attention.

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What Bubblemaps and token scanners cannot establish — original source image
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What Bubblemaps and token scanners cannot establish

The problem is that many traders treat a colourful cluster or a green security score as the result of an investigation, when it is merely the starting point.

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Web3 culture · 5 Jul 2026

To the few newbies here: this is neither generally considered cool, nor was it normal until a few years ago.

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Ranking chain attention with an explicit proxy model — original source image
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Ranking chain attention with an explicit proxy model

I tried to rank the major chains using a proxy model instead of pretending there is one perfect public dashboard for X mentions, web reports, on-chain activity, TVL and trading noise combined.

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Why no single tool can remove rug-pull risk

Anyone claiming otherwise forgets one fundamental truth. The real problem is not the code, the blockchain, or the smart contracts. The real problem is the people behind them.

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AI: security and verification · 3 Mar 2026

I have never experienced it as this difficult to navigate this app without being flooded by fake news and AI generated noise.

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Binance: political influence · 5 Feb 2026

We are living through a peculiar fracture in modern society. Information has never been more abundant, yet shared reality has never been more fragile.

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Separating documents from speculation in a viral thread

A lot of it is noise dressed up as certainty. Threads are going viral that mix real documents, half understood technical facts, and large speculative leaps that do not hold up under scrutiny.

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A sell-off is not proof that one exchange caused it — original source image
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A sell-off is not proof that one exchange caused it

You know I am at the VERY front when it comes to criticizing Binance, but right now it is turning into a farce because many accounts are just parroting each other.

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