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Commentary & rants · 15

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Exchanges & custody

Binance: exchange accountability · 17 Oct 2025

It feels like we, the crypto people, have become the easiest to manipulate, the exit liquidity for corrupt families, syndicates, CEXs, and FIAT billionaires.

Commentary & rants1 min
KOLs & promotion

Binance: paid promotion · 11 Oct 2025

CT and crypto let criminals like @cz_binance all the scammer KOLs and the #Trump family do whatever they want and kiss the asses of these criminals at every opportunity and every single time, everyone acts shocked when it ends badly.

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KOLs & promotion

Web3 culture · 13 Sep 2025

Labels like HighCryptoSpamScore (visible in leaked dev screenshots) suggest that tweets or accounts heavily associated with crypto get flagged more aggressively.

Commentary & rants1 min
Politics & conflicts

Take a good look at this picture, bro.

Every big runner was orchestrated by @hellochow (taking 1% kickbacks) and Kelsier designed for “max extraction” (direct quote).

Commentary & rants1 min
KOLs & promotion

Solana: paid promotion · 6 Sep 2025

The only thing that keeps me going are the few of you who interact, like, retweet. Otherwise I wouldn’t even be here anymore.

Commentary & rants3 min
Market structure

Attention and incentives · 1 Sep 2025

Over a year ago I was one of the very first to say that retail and OGs would leave, because CT, DEX, launchpads and all were already turning into a scam casino, draining liquidity everywhere, every single moment, day and night.

Commentary & rants1 min
KOLs & promotion

Paid promotion · 1 Sep 2025

Pump-and-dump coins spike short-term also with volume, but lose on avg. –30% within a year: 🔺 🔺 Academic research shows pump organizers had >100% median returns, while the top quartile made >2000%, leaving retail wrecked:

Commentary & rants2 min
KOLs & promotion

The bad fuel that keeps this industry running is everywhere.

For an industry that once preached freedom from the state, it has rotted into a spectacle of weakness, begging the very governments it claimed to outgrow for rescue every time victims are gutted.

Commentary & rants2 min
KOLs & promotion

Scams like $SWIF are pure psychology.

How they operate, what they post, all proven techniques to farm followers and drain them when the time comes.

Commentary & rants2 min
KOLs & promotion

Attention and incentives · 11 Aug 2025

I’m totally aware that I could get far more impressions, followers, and likes by simply calling out Dex scams…

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Networks & infrastructure

Solana: security and verification · 10 Aug 2025

Day after day, I watch the same patterns repeat: coins bonded end up trending on Dex with inflated, bot-driven fake volume, only to rug shortly after. Almost all of them.

Commentary & rants2 min
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