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MASTR · 2024–2026

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KOLs & promotion

Paid promotion · 25 Mar 2026

A tiny minority made life changing gains early on, and that distorted the minds of everyone who came later.

Commentary & rants3 min
KOLs & promotion

At this point, I am tired of warning people.

I genuinely cannot understand how so many people still support Pump fun, Bonk fun, Binance, scammer KOLs and the entire extraction machine built around them.

Commentary & rants2 min
History & timelines

Security and verification · 23 Mar 2026

we will not thrive again until this #TACO guy and the cult around him, who keep acting like the whole world is winning under their rule like never before, actually leave something for the rest of us to win too.

Commentary & rants1 min
Exchanges & custody

Security and verification · 22 Mar 2026

Well, @cobie, with the Kurt Cobain pfp, was never really on my radar, which is probably and always a good sign.

Commentary & rants2 min
Politics & conflicts

Crypto political donors: the March 2026 commentary

🔺 Ripple: about $4,889,345 in XRP 🔺 Robinhood: about $2,000,000 🔺 Coinbase: about $1,000,000 🔺 Kraken: about $1,000,000 🔺 Crypto com: about $1,000,000 🔺 Circle: about $1,000,000 🔺 Solana Labs: about $1,000,000 🔺 Galaxy Digital: about…

Commentary & rants2 min
Networks & infrastructure

Bitcoin: Web3 culture · 19 Mar 2026

Now this deeply corrupt figure wants to weaken post 2008 bank capital safeguards that were put in place after the financial crisis.

Commentary & rants1 min
KOLs & promotion

Attention and incentives · 14 Mar 2026

Many big accounts here have completely lost their shame and now tweet only for X payouts, engagement farming or paid shills.

Commentary & rants1 min
Networks & infrastructure

Solana: paid promotion · 13 Mar 2026

I went through them and tried to compile a quick statistic of the most mentioned chains in this thread right now.

Commentary & rants1 min
Politics & conflicts

Paid promotion · 8 Mar 2026

Hello and a lovely Sunday to everyone who is allowed to have a lovely Sunday, in this chaotic world and on this chaotic app.

Commentary & rants4 min
Politics & conflicts

Solana: paid promotion · 6 Mar 2026

Imagine a chain leader spreading lies in favor of an autocrat who drained that same chain and enriched himself from it. More than once.

Commentary & rants1 min
KOLs & promotion

Web3 culture · 4 Mar 2026

What cannot easily be proven is whether many influencers are directly paid to tell the world that everything in places like #Dubai or #Qatar is perfectly fine.

Commentary & rants3 min
Politics & conflicts

Trump: Web3 culture · 4 Mar 2026

For fuck’s sake, who is still naive enough to believe the Trump family actually wants anything good for crypto or for the people in this space?

Commentary & rants3 min
Research methods

AI: security and verification · 3 Mar 2026

I have never experienced it as this difficult to navigate this app without being flooded by fake news and AI generated noise.

Commentary & rants2 min
KOLs & promotion

Attention and incentives · 26 Feb 2026

In a space that moves at the speed of narratives, the rarest and most valuable asset is not information, but intellectual honesty. Markets price tokens, algorithms price attention, but only individuals price truth for themselves.

Commentary & rants2 min
Exchanges & custody

Binance: exchange accountability · 26 Feb 2026

Tbh, for me it is already enough to know that @zachxbt receives money directly from @binance / @cz_binance and to see that he never says anything that could harm the biggest scammer in the space.

Commentary & rants2 min
KOLs & promotion

Attention and incentives · 26 Feb 2026

The problem with this space is that the moment you try to build with even a minimum level of ethics, long term thinking and basic decency, you are immediately framed as irrelevant.

Commentary & rants3 min
Politics & conflicts

Binance: Web3 culture · 22 Feb 2026

Even before you, you inhuman fraud, got back into power, countless crypto companies were already sending you money.

Commentary & rants2 min
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