Funding independent research: MASTR’s Giveth announcement
A small update from my side as a builder who often gets sidelined here, although maybe 2 or 3 people are actually interested.
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MASTR · 2024–2026
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Why MASTR refuses paid promotional deals
But the thought of posting a product here, praising it, telling people how great it is and putting my name behind things I cannot fully control makes my skin crawl.
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Solana: paid promotion · 6 Sep 2026
What disappoints me most about this space rn is how different the reality is from the opportunities everyone keeps talking about...or how it changed. That applies to building useful things too, not talking about trading.
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MASTRpass Pro: the original Solana dApp Store launch note
I wanted one private, local app where I could store everything important, including passwords, wallet seed phrases, recovery codes, notes, documents and images, with all data encrypted directly on my own device.
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What crypto users reward: questions for the audience
You love when a convicted liar becomes a respected founder again because he sponsored the correct event, don’t you?
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Independent research: MASTR’s account of the hours and support
Independent research: MASTR’s account of the hours and support. Dated original source, with context and links.
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AI, cloud platforms and the concentration of information power
1/3; A small cluster of companies is quietly inserting itself into the most important layer of modern civilisation: the layer between citizens and knowledge, between institutions and decisions, between governments and operational reality.
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The cost of remaining independent on Crypto Twitter
The cost of remaining independent on Crypto Twitter. Dated original source, with context and links.
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Community or a temporary alignment of financial incentives?
Is it provocative, wrong, or accurate to say that the word “community” is abused in crypto and that real communities are rare?
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Decentralisation and control · 18 Jan 2026
For me, freedom means creating it myself by questioning, comparing, and drawing my own conclusions and then constantly questioning those conclusions and myself as well.
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Crypto gave me a lot and took a lot.
Later I realized you have to take care of the baby, otherwise it becomes what it sadly became this year.
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