MASTR · 2024–2026
The components between a user, an application and the underlying consensus system.
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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.
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.
In practice, it means power is spread far enough that 1 actor cannot quietly change the rules, block access, freeze assets, manipulate information, or force everyone else to accept its version of reality.
- Michael Saylor Turned Bitcoin into a corporate balance sheet machine. He talks sovereignty while building one of the largest centralized Bitcoin exposure vehicles on Earth.
The problem is that they were paid to promote it, while retail saw it as a genuine recommendation from a major crypto figure.
One of the most iconic Ethereum art marketplaces, a platform that pushed roughly $230M in primary sales during the mania years, is shutting down for good after its Blackdove rescue deal collapsed.
At the center of every advanced semiconductor lies an almost absurdly complex process: printing microscopic circuits onto silicon wafers.
Now this deeply corrupt figure wants to weaken post 2008 bank capital safeguards that were put in place after the financial crisis.
I went through them and tried to compile a quick statistic of the most mentioned chains in this thread right now.
Investors preach long term vision, yet exit at the first sign of volatility. The same ecosystem that celebrates innovation can cannibalize its own pioneers.
For years, the narrative was simple. Institutions will come. Central banks will come. Sovereign wealth funds will come. They only need time, clarity, and a role model bold enough to go first.
A crypto software engineer, @AlexanderTw33ts , just launched a platform where AI agents can rent humans via API, with payments in crypto.
This last 3 months brought the kind of likes and engagement we should have had long ago, for work done well before CT finally woke up and started sharing my posts and findings.
Even though purely crypto related topics currently receive almost no reach on X, I want to come back to #Seeker for a moment because it represents something that is often talked about but rarely seen in practice: meaningful crypto adoption.
Seeker is not just a phone. It’s an open mobile platform, where users and developers can interact, transact, and eventually govern without the restrictions of Apple’s App Store or Google’s monopoly. In practice, Seeker is one of the first…
It is always just bullish or bearish, but no one talks about the fact that adoption is already here and at the same time it was the end of many things.
On January 7, 2026, the entire team of the Electric Coin Company resigned simultaneously. This was not a partial walkout or leadership reshuffle. Every employee of the primary organization that has developed Zcash since 2016 stepped down at…
Many want everything for free, pumping charts, airdrops, giveaways, winning nonstop, and ideally a cake with a happy ending too.
Because this statement reflects many of the things I have been repeating and preaching for a long time.
Decentralized” describes consensus. Most users, developers, and front ends do not touch consensus. They touch an access stack: RPC gateways, oracle networks, sequencers, MEV relays, stablecoin issuers, indexers, GitHub, and cloud. That…
Solana won the speed war, then spent years paying interest on that architectural debt. Today the brand lives in 2 parallel realities: a high-throughput base layer that genuinely ships, and an ecosystem layer where outages, exploits, insider…
What draws me to the original idea of crypto is not speculation or short term profit, but systems design.
What is the actual price of crypto becoming mainstream? What do we lose in the process? What do we gain? And who pays for the transition?
Everyone is screaming today about the OG whale who woke up after 13 years and moved 2 BTC to Coinbase. Cool story… but let’s clear something up: most people don’t even know what a Casascius Bitcoin actually is.