Mert’s political posts: the archived examples and criticism
Such idiots in this space are partly responsible for the disaster. They hyped up an autocrat and call themselves crypto.
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OneCoin and Ruja Ignatova: the fraud behind the cryptocurrency story
Meet Crypto Queen Ruja Ignatova, a wanted fugitive in one of the biggest financial scams in history, who is on the Federal Bureau of Investigation Top 10 Most Wanted list. 🚨
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Prediction markets and Trump Jr.’s financial connections
DonaldJTrumpJr is financially tied to both @Polymarket and @Kalshi , the two dominant event betting platforms operating under oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Both platforms are directly affected by the regulatory…
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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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Conflict, liquidity and crypto: a March 2026 scenario analysis
Within the first 24 hours after the large-scale US-Israeli strike on Iranian strategic targets, total crypto market capitalisation fell by roughly 5 – 8 %, Bitcoin dropped about 6 – 9 %, and leveraged long positions worth more than $1…
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Crypto-company political donations: MASTR’s February 2026 compilation
These people and companies in the crypto industry helped push pedo @realDonaldTrump , sending him money that ultimately came from the fees, spreads and revenue generated by their own users.
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Paid visibility and the incentives behind trending tokens
The only buyers left are the compulsive gamblers and those who still refuse to accept that the expected value is worse than a lottery ticket.
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FTX: insolvency in 2022 versus later recoveries
In November 2022 FTX stopped withdrawals because it did not have the customer assets it said it had. Billions had been routed to Alameda, which had special privileges inside the system, could run a massive negative balance and was not…
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The state of the memecoin market in February 2026
Listen carefully, because the phase we are in right now is not a market condition, it is a structural exposure of how fragile the entire web3 and CT economy actually was once the vertical liquidity stopped.
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ASTER: the decentralisation claims and exchange connections
The moment you buy into this narrative you are putting your capital into the exact same hands that have been draining this space for years.
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Binance: reading the February 2026 reporting in context
For everyone who wants more than just low effort, unresearched slop about the latest Binance headlines, here is the full story and the deeper context.
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USD1 and Binance: the reported concentration of supply
According to a "new Forbes investigation", Binance controls roughly 4.7 billion of the 5.4 billion USD1 supply across its own wallets and user accounts.
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A liquidation counter is not a single trade
“CEX Futures Liquidations #ETH Liquidated Long: 1,345,535,687” means the sum of many long liquidations across exchanges over a short window.
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Bitcoin origins: separating evidence from a viral accusation
Do not get me wrong. If there were truly dirty hands behind the development of Bitcoin and there were evidence for it, I would say it.
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Exchange transparency requires records, not a headline metric
You say $10B+ fraud prevented. Where is the dataset? Where are the incident reports? Where are the timestamps, pairs, orderbooks, and comparison feeds?
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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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The OKX account of 10/10: questions about the explanation
While many are applauding because a large account is finally speaking up, I am absolutely skeptical about this explanation for several factual reasons!
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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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The records MASTR requested after Binance 10/10
➡️No full mark price record. ➡️No index component logs. ➡️No price band data. ➡️No per second liquidation and ADL metrics. ➡️No engine versioning. ➡️No parameter freeze logs. ➡️No latency and error rate metrics. ➡️No insurance fund…
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Seeker: hardware, distribution and the mobile access layer
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.
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SKR and the Seeker ecosystem: commentary at launch
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…
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Paradex: a zero-price display, liquidations and rollback
A severe technical malfunction on the derivatives exchange Paradex caused the Bitcoin price to briefly display at 0 US dollars, triggering mass liquidations across the platform.
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Coinbase’s role in US crypto politics
Coinbase is no longer merely a cryptocurrency exchange. It has matured into a strategic political institution embedded inside the American power system.
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Adoption and re-centralisation can happen together
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.
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