Well folks, @zachxbt is now officially on the #Binance payroll.
What’s been obvious for a long time is now official and everyone’s celebrating.
Not me, though. But let me break down my thoughts.
Many will probably unfollow, maybe because I’ve attracted the (maybe) same people who admired Zach’s work.
People who believed in integrity and in holding power accountable.
And honestly, full credit to Zach for what he’s done, it takes guts to keep fighting for truth and facts in a space full of rot.
But now, this news from Binance…
What am I supposed to do now? Stay silent? Applaud and congratulate? Pretend nothing happened?
Applaud the fact that the most well-known CT scam hunter, the face of “transparency”, is now officially part of the very machine he once claimed to fight?
(Did he ever claimed to fight this?)
On their payroll, serving the same empire that built this rotten ecosystem?
Money once again mattered more than anything else.
What happened?
Well, to be honest, it’s been visible for ages.
He never challenged @cz_binance, never questioned Binance, the empire of manipulation and control that turned crypto into a playground for whales, insiders, and market makers.
The same machine that dictates price discovery, silences dissent, and calls it “innovation.”
--> Centralization.
And now it’s clear: Binance can buy almost anyone. From clueless clout-chasing $ASTER tweeters to people`s work like Cobie`s and now even ZachXBT, one of the last bastions.
Everyone has their price, it seems.
The empire always wins when truth becomes negotiable.
I get it, there’s nothing wrong with monetizing your work when it’s honest. It’s business. Such investigations take hundreds of hours, and you’d have to be pretty naive to do it all for free.
In this space mostly garbage gets rewarded, so why not take what you can if they want to pay you for it?
We also charge a small fee when a coin applies for the $MASTR Badge, and in the future we’ll launch more paid features on the app, because there’s real, hard work behind it, and no one gives anything back for free.
It’s okay to earn something when you actually create value.
Because this space is built on “take, take, take” everyone wants, no one gives and when someone does, it’s understandable you eventually take something too.
But when it contradicts everything you once stood for, is that not surrender?
Is that the moment the hunter becomes the prisoner?
And yes, I know it’s “just” an announcement, that he’ll be overseeing the “right things” on #BSC.
But anyone with more than two brain cells can see the deeper meaning and the bigger picture behind it.
Let’s see if a sharp reply comes from him now. Did I say anything wrong? Maybe he’ll post a useless Bubblemaps chart of our one-year-old token that had a big presale and now this looks like a cluster?
I know he’s smarter than that. Just thinking out loud.
Doesn’t matter. My conscience is clean. My team’s soul is clean.
There probably won’t be any pink, happy friendship anymore after this.
We never bent the knee, and we admit our mistakes when they happen, because learning from them is growth.
But some mistakes are simply too big to stay silent about.
Is this tweet a mistake? Maybe.
I honestly don’t know. I just know I don’t feel comfortable watching all this and yeah, I feel increasingly alone.
But at least I’m still free. Still doing my thing.
Congratulations to you, Zach.
You made it in so many ways.
Just not the way I hoped it would end.
Many beautiful stories leave a bitter taste in the end.
Good luck, CT. Good luck, crypto.
You turned into a controlled casino.
Now you’re just a bad movie.
I'm exhausted.
— by $MASTR Project
Note: Some screenshots are probably not mine, I honestly can’t remember where they came from.
If any of them are yours, let me know and I’ll gladly tag you.
