Paid promotion · 22 Jul 2026
I am genuinely stunned by how much some casinos and Web3 companies are willing to pay KOLs whose credibility is roughly equal to a pile of shit.
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MASTR · 2024–2026
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The intermediary returned with a referral link
Web3 records every transaction forever, except the transaction where accountability quietly disappears.
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The case for onchain markets, with execution still to improve
The case for onchain markets, with execution still to improve. Dated original source, with context and links.
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What personal accountability would change in Web3
What would Web3 look like if founders and KOLs were personally accountable for the promises they make and the millions that disappear behind them?
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The isolation of independent crypto research
After 2.5 years in Web3, I increasingly feel that very few people still care about the same things I do.
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Robinhood Chain: MASTR’s critique of volume and liquidity
Robinhood Chain: MASTR’s critique of volume and liquidity. Dated original source, with context and links.
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Crypto Is Still Swimming in Stablecoins.
People keep talking about the next bull run, bullish catalysts and whatever narrative is supposed to send everything higher.
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Paid promotion · 13 Jul 2026
The thing is, posts like this often take me hours to research, verify and explain properly, while 99% of the timeline is effortless slop that is easier to consume and usually performs better.
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From decentralisation to attention capture: the published abstract
Yet the public communication surrounding many blockchain ecosystems increasingly reproduces the same structures of influence these systems claimed to challenge.
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Growing an audience without paid shills
Honestly, I am still surprised I managed to grow to 31K followers while refusing to play most of these games.
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Paid promotion · 10 Jul 2026
I understand that attention has value, that reach takes work, and that not everyone can spend years online without getting anything back.
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Decentralisation and control · 10 Jul 2026
How the fuck are so many of you bullish on a broker-owned finance chain just because they slapped “onchain” on it? Lmao
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Capital for useful software instead of disposable tokens
Imagine this money going into real projects and startups in Web3 that are actually building something useful, shipping something, solving something, or doing anything good for this space.
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MASTR’s iOS and Android app release: July 2026 note
Even under difficult circumstances, the work has continued, products have been shipped, and real value has been delivered.
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Airdrop farming: activity, loyalty and temporary incentives
A shocking amount of Web3 behaviour is built around the belief that people might receive something for doing almost nothing.
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Stop dragging crypto through your corrupt mouth, @realDonaldTrump.
Have you not enriched yourself enough already with scams, insider games, political grifting and every other rotten trick in the book?
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Web3 culture · 6 Jul 2026
How is crypto supposed to get better when so many crypto people feel completely at home on an app that rewards the loudest, dumbest, most criminal, most dishonest behaviour imaginable?
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Web3 culture · 5 Jul 2026
To the few newbies here: this is neither generally considered cool, nor was it normal until a few years ago.
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Paid DEX visibility: MASTR’s July 2026 boost-price snapshot
Paid DEX visibility: MASTR’s July 2026 boost-price snapshot. Dated original source, with context and links.
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Because I keep getting asked this over and over again, let me make it very clear:
Yes, CT forgets everything after 5 minutes and then runs straight back to the same KOLs as if nothing ever happened, but rugging the runner of the trenches right now would still be catastrophic.
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Belief in open networks and disappointment with their culture
but I am still bullish on crypto prices and on the long-term future of Bitcoin and open networks, assuming the world gets through this insane geopolitical period with only a black eye.
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When a memecoin becomes an influencer distribution deal
It has died again and again, through the market, through self-destruction, and now again because these are not even memes anymore.
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Maybe I am old-fashioned, sidelined, bitter, washed or whatever else you want to throw in my face.
I am honestly tired of watching another round of worthless bundled coins with no utility, no product, no real purpose and no reason to exist being treated like the next runner, or even worse, like some kind of rescue mission for the…
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Binance: exchange accountability · 26 Jun 2026
I keep seeing tweets from people claiming that all the gloating and piling on Binance only exists because some people want to push another CEX.
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