MASTR · 2024–2026
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427 · Selected publications · 2/18
I cannot believe half of this industry is once again praising Donald Trump and lining up to kiss the ass of a serial grifter who has spent his presidency turning public power into private revenue.
Exchange inflows are not evidence of manipulation by themselves. Dated original source, with context and links.
I’m being paid to perform full security assessments on 2 of them, while I gave another 5 only a rough 30-minute pass. Even at that depth, some of the vulnerabilities and basic security failures I found are frankly alarming.
Because apparently this is too much for most people to read, here it is again, short, clearly and plainly:
Education is the most valuable asset a person can build because it changes the instrument through which every other asset is understood: the mind itself.
Everyone forgets that those who became rich here, or have simply been around long enough to understand this market, took risks when everyone else had already declared it dead and buried.
Crypto’s chief charlatan @cz_binance may currently be in Bulgaria, or at least his X account is being accessed through Bulgarian IPs.
Trump will personally attend Wednesday’s crypto summit, with the heads of the SEC and CFTC beside him and executives from @coinbase @Ripple @a16z @chainlink @paradigm @Kalshi reportedly in the room.
What is being built underneath the casino noise?. Dated original source, with context and links.
I wish more people actually cared about the things I research, write about and put together here, because a lot of work goes into it.
Low engagement does not establish low research quality. Dated original source, with context and links.
My main criticism is not that every builder deserves funding, a stage at Breakpoint or a retweet from @solana.
I’m so tired of watching grown adults in Web3 build an audience around trust, credibility and supposed expertise, then turn around and monetise that same audience by feeding them into the next casino, the next shitcoin, the next leverage…
Not because every one of them is universally right, but because together they say a lot about what trading actually comes down to: risk, patience, psychology, discipline and surviving your own stupidity.
Security, research and honest information have almost no economic value in crypto because they require the one thing this industry despises more than regulation: sustained attention.
Its own documentation states that paid Boosts directly increase a token’s Trending Score for 12 to 24 hours.
Even some people I genuinely like have started posting complete bullshit because apparently that is what the algorithm rewards now.
More accurately, I started building it before my vacation, but the further I get, the more I wonder whether serious products have any chance here unless they come wrapped in hype, a shitcoin, or somebody already famous enough to…
- Bots. - Hype - MEV bots. - People who are in crypto but vote for oligarchs and autocrats or defend ketamine-addicted trillionaires. - AI-generated comments. - Influencers and KOLs. - Scammers. - Marketing people. - BitMart listing…
For someone to walk away with profit, someone else has to buy too late, trust the wrong person, hold the exit liquidity or lose entirely.
A small reward and a large permission: AI-wallet access. Dated original source, with context and links.
I am probably one of the most openly pro-crypto people you will find, but being pro-crypto does not require pretending that this industry is professionally mature.
It genuinely hurts to see so many people losing substantial amounts of money because yet another Web3 bank, this time BitMart, is allegedly withholding customer funds while still trying to extract additional payments before shutting its…
They are parading a handful of alleged $TRUMP winners across your timeline and presenting one of the most grotesque retail extraction events in recent crypto history as a “missed opportunity.”