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Commentary & rants · 9

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Binance: political influence · 5 Feb 2026

We are living through a peculiar fracture in modern society. Information has never been more abundant, yet shared reality has never been more fragile.

Commentary & rants3 min
Networks & infrastructure

Solana: Web3 culture · 4 Feb 2026

A crypto software engineer, @AlexanderTw33ts , just launched a platform where AI agents can rent humans via API, with payments in crypto.

Commentary & rants2 min
KOLs & promotion

Web3 culture · 1 Feb 2026

You can clearly sense the uncertainty in many of them, which is completely understandable....and it goes far beyond crypto.

Commentary & rants2 min
Politics & conflicts

Decentralisation and control · 29 Jan 2026

It is time to see which projects are promoted by questionable billionaires and which ones are actually built from zero by people who care.

Commentary & rants2 min
Networks & infrastructure

Binance: Web3 culture · 28 Jan 2026

This last 3 months brought the kind of likes and engagement we should have had long ago, for work done well before CT finally woke up and started sharing my posts and findings.

Commentary & rants2 min
KOLs & promotion

Binance: attention and incentives · 26 Jan 2026

I have to say, it is almost cynical to watch how many people and accounts suddenly “discover” the courage to call out Binance, CZ, the Trump/ MAGA network and things that have been visible for a very long time.

Commentary & rants2 min
Politics & conflicts

Trump: political influence · 26 Jan 2026

The USA has now lost even #TikTok as an independent platform and centralized it under a small jerk circle of MAGA connected owners, much like what happened with X.

Commentary & rants6 min
Politics & conflicts

Solana: Web3 culture · 25 Jan 2026

I, and I am not the only one, miss crypto and the world before Trump came and drove everything into the ground while enriching himself and his friends, like he and his family have always done.

Commentary & rants2 min
Politics & conflicts

Binance: political influence · 23 Jan 2026

Buddy, Brian Armstrong can’t seem to do anything other than cling to Donald Dumb's ass like a slimy parasite. Like almost every CEX.

Commentary & rants3 min
KOLs & promotion

Web3 culture · 23 Jan 2026

If we want to be taken seriously, if we want to be seen as more than a crowd addicted to charts, tolerating scams, and kneeling to the loudest and richest voices on the timeline, then we must change what we reward, what we discuss, and…

Commentary & rants2 min
Exchanges & custody

Binance: Web3 culture · 23 Jan 2026

People love to argue about pumpfun-, zora-, bonkfun-, bagsapp- scams while missing the bigger picture.

Commentary & rants1 min
Politics & conflicts

Do you know what I envy about sports?

There are clear rules and clear boundaries, and everyone agrees to them before the game even starts.

Commentary & rants2 min
Politics & conflicts

Trump: political influence · 21 Jan 2026

What happened in the last 24 hours is pretty clear to me: it is the beginning of the end of something that will change everything if this continues.

Commentary & rants3 min
Politics & conflicts

Trump: Web3 culture · 21 Jan 2026

Standing up against @realdonaldtrump means standing up for crypto itself, because MAGA, Musk-cultists, and strongman worship are exactly what crypto was designed to resist.

Commentary & rants3 min
KOLs & promotion

Building useful products · 19 Jan 2026

This is a reminder not to chase hype, shills or KOLs but to focus on truly organic and real projects with teams.

Commentary & rants2 min
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