MASTR · 2024–2026
Original investigations, critical essays and the conversations behind them. Read by subject, follow a thread, or find a person or project in the source texts.
694 · Selected publications · 11/29
Every chain founder, public figure, crypto company, DEX, even CEXs and every other actor that gave money to Trump, worked with him, or let him use their platform should start distancing themselves now.
Somehow it is both embarrassing and concerning that crypto czar @cz_binance leading #Binance needs to have wallet basics explained to him.
Reminder that many crypto bros, sisters, and everyone else voted this autocrat in again after he already:
Crypto was the first major destruction play of Trump’s second term. One of the first things they touched, they damaged and destroyed.
It is also the wider state of the world. Too much instability. Too much chaos. Too much dumb ppl and false information. Too much uneducated ppl.
Almost everyone on CT I respected when I was approached 2 years ago to help with this project turned out to be a loser, a scammer, or simply vanished when things stopped being easy.
Memescope is not a safety tool, not alpha. It is not due diligence. It is just a faster conveyor belt for fresh garbage.
Some of the people helping to wire it together were not random nobodies. They were exchanges, market makers, launchpads, funds, insiders, and political parasites.
That piece of shit @realdonaldtrump is tearing the world apart and has already extracted at least $1 billion from crypto, while the broader Trump family crypto machine pulled in even more than that.
This is one of those posts only a few people will read, but it still needs to be said. Out of respect for the 4-5 people in the background who kept MASTR alive for free, and in some cases at a massive personal financial loss.
My view is clouded by free floating shit every-fucking-where, and everyone knows it, but nobody stands up and fucking kicks them in the ass.
Conviction, prediction theatre and the work of staying. Dated original source, with context and links.
What would make a credible crypto discussion platform?. Dated original source, with context and links.
They want people to trust X with payments and cards even though the platform can barely stay functional 48h.
A tiny minority made life changing gains early on, and that distorted the minds of everyone who came later.
2025 closed with about $3.35B in hacks, scams, and exploits by @CertiK count, while @chainalysis and @MastrXYZ estimated about $17B+ in scams and fraud.
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.
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.
Well, @cobie, with the Kurt Cobain pfp, was never really on my radar, which is probably and always a good sign.
Estimates for 2025 put Iran linked crypto activity at roughly $8 billion to $10 billion, while analysts say up to 15 million Iranians have had some exposure to crypto. Iran’s biggest exchange, #Nobitex, has reportedly claimed around 11…
🔺 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…
Not through hype. Not through price action. Not through endless cycles of attention, speculation, and narrative warfare.
Now this deeply corrupt figure wants to weaken post 2008 bank capital safeguards that were put in place after the financial crisis.
I want to encourage everyone to actively stand up against nonsense, hate, scams/ scammers, manipulation and lies wherever they appear.