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MASTR · 2024–2026

Commentary & rants · 5

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KOLs & promotion

Pumpfun: paid promotion · 25 May 2026

If someone asked me what the consequences of poor education and centralization look like, I would tell them to spend some time studying CT.

Commentary & rants2 min
KOLs & promotion

Paid promotion · 25 May 2026

Nick, shit, you make me feel like the asshole here because I am the one bringing a negative tone into a story where nobody really wants to be the guy asking uncomfortable questions.

Commentary & rants2 min
Networks & infrastructure

Big Tech and Web3: concentrated control behind open branding

A society that gives a handful of private tech empires control over speech, data, infrastructure and intelligence does not remain free simply because those empires use the word freedom in their marketing.

Commentary & rants3 min
Market structure

Liquidity and market structure · 24 May 2026

"Waiting on a Sunday afternoon For what I've read between the lines Your lies Feelin', like a hand in rusted shame So do you laugh or does it cry”

Commentary & rants5 min
Networks & infrastructure

Attention and incentives · 23 May 2026

What I find strange is how often faith is used almost like a public badge in spaces that are supposed to be about technology, finance, decentralisation, markets, scams, risk and code.

Commentary & rants3 min
Phishing, exploits & privacy

Private data and AI: where MASTR draws the boundary

Private/ personal thoughts I would not want stored, processed, analysed, profiled, misunderstood, leaked, subpoenaed, monetised or used to build a better psychological map of me.

Commentary & rants1 min
Exchanges & custody

Binance: exchange accountability · 17 May 2026

On the surface, it looks warm, simple and personal: CZ holding his own book, Yi He smiling beside him, two people who built the largest crypto exchange in the world from almost nothing.

Commentary & rants3 min
Politics & conflicts

Attention and incentives · 12 May 2026

Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom got +- 2,000 likes, more than 600 reposts and around 50,000 impressions by simply posting my screenshot 1 to 1, taken from my own work, without mentioning me.

Commentary & rants2 min
Politics & conflicts

Trump: political influence · 9 May 2026

I love Trump and Musk with the exact kind of obedient enthusiasm this platform seems to reward, because apparently civilisation has now reached the stage where billionaire mood swings, political cults, rage farming, war propaganda and…

Commentary & rants3 min
KOLs & promotion

Attention and incentives · 5 May 2026

I am trying to keep the balance between being a project lead and being a normal X account as honestly and sincerely as I can, with the tools, time and possibilities I have.

Commentary & rants1 min
Politics & conflicts

Trump: political influence · 5 May 2026

A crypto CEO bootlicking a wannabe autocrat and convicted criminal like a desperate cheerleader begging for access.

Commentary & rants2 min
Networks & infrastructure

Meet the 2026 Bitcoin Conference speakers.

- Michael Saylor Turned Bitcoin into a corporate balance sheet machine. He talks sovereignty while building one of the largest centralized Bitcoin exposure vehicles on Earth.

Commentary & rants2 min
Exchanges & custody

Binance: exchange accountability · 24 Apr 2026

If you want an easy life here, if you want to be accepted, if you want the fake applause of this rotten industry, never say anything about Binance and the big crPto brotherhood. Never touch Binance sponsored people. Never touch crypto…

Commentary & rants2 min
Market structure

Much of the time it is simply decay wrapped in better marketing.

The $ASTEROID and $RAVE mess, and nearly everything that supposedly reached serious market cap territory since around January 2025, keeps pointing to the same rotten conclusion: almost nothing in this space becomes large without being…

Commentary & rants2 min
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