Linux at 35: the infrastructure behind everyday computing
A large part of crypto infrastructure too: Bitcoin nodes, Ethereum clients, Solana validators, RPCs, exchange backends and countless tools are commonly run on Linux.
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MASTR · 2024–2026
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Independent research in an attention-driven crypto feed
I don’t think people realise how rare genuinely independent accounts of any real size have become on CT, or how badly this space still needs them.
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Judge crypto actors by behaviour, not nationality
I learned very early, and life has confirmed it again and again, that appearance and origin tell you remarkably little about a person’s character, ability or intentions.
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CLARITY and crypto’s dependence on Washington: September 2026 commentary
Some of you spent fucking years explaining that crypto would make the old financial system irrelevant, only to discover that your conviction expires when the US Senate fails to advance a bill.
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What regulatory clarity can and cannot fix
Oh, look at all the accounts with some crypto coin in their name begging Washington to pass the CLARITY Act as if Congress is about to descend from the heavens and fix crypto and give a bullrun for fun.
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AI-assisted development and the need to inspect the result
software built with the latest and best AI models can be more secure than software written by developers.
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Wallet bubbles without context: MASTR’s criticism
Wallet bubbles without context: MASTR’s criticism. Dated original source, with context and links.
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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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Web3 culture · 12 Sep 2026
Isn’t it ironic that one of the most popular apps, and the one some people keep presenting as a flagship product for the chain, is also one of the entities that has been nuking that same chain for years?
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LAPTOP’s launch and the role of sniper bots
How do you spend 6 months preparing a memecoin launch and still get the most basic part of the launch this badly wrong?
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Crypto wealth concentration: the September 2026 commentary
Only 290 people are estimated to hold more than $100M in crypto, and just 23 are estimated to be crypto billionaires.
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Hunter Biden-linked tokens: uncertainty about the endorsement
I genuinely have no idea whether he understands what actually happened behind the scenes, but this whole episode is another perfect example of how absurdly naive (or extractive) celebrities can be when they enter crypto.
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One of the world’s most shameless grifting families should know when to keep its fucking mouth shut, @EricTrump
One of the world’s most shameless grifting families should know when to keep its fucking mouth shut, @EricTrump
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Pumpfun: paid promotion · 8 Sep 2026
Basically, people are voluntarily installing a memecoin casino on their phones, expecting to get rich while the published snapshots show most participants either losing money or walking away with small gains.
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An honest salary and building after work
An honest salary and building after work. Dated original source, with context and links.
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The Wall Street suits are taking over the crime, and you’re following them like a sheep!
We had a problem when Solana, the main retail chain, became dominated by scammers, memecoins and endless extraction.
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Web3 culture · 1 Sep 2026
@solanamobile might be one of the most underrated ideas and project in crypto right now, and the dApp Store on Seeker is the part people should be paying far more attention to.
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The Solana voting drama was honestly pretty fun to watch ;-)
Helius YES → Jupiter YES → Figment NO → Everstake NO → NO → Kraken NO → SGP-0002 falls below 66.67% → Drift/VelocityDEX flips YES → Kraken large validator flips ~8.1M SOL to YES → Galaxy moves from mostly Abstain toward YES → late ballots…
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Exchange accountability · 28 Aug 2026
If onchain evidence clearly documents a scam, theft or other crime, CEXs should be legally required to hand over the relevant KYC and transaction data to law enforcement when a valid legal request exists.
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Attention and incentives · 28 Aug 2026
I often speak critically about this industry because, despite everything I have seen, I still believe it can become better.
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Attention and incentives · 26 Aug 2026
MASTR is not VC-backed. We have invested tens of thousands of our own money, built working mobile apps, reached over 1,000 downloads and have several hundred people actively using our products every day. We achieved that without paid…
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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.
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Paid promotion · 23 Aug 2026
I’ll focus more heavily on bug bounties again. Unless this space decides that this public work, which depends entirely on support, matters enough to keep alive.
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Trust, opportunism and exhaustion in crypto
Liars, profiteers, useless parasites and self-righteous moral frauds performing virtue in public while behaving like absolute pieces of shit behind the scenes.
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