Claude Shannon and the ideas beneath digital money
Every crypto transaction, every encrypted message and every computer running today ultimately rests on ideas that were formalized by one man: Claude Shannon.
Research & analysis5 min
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MASTR · 2024–2026
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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.
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Decentralisation and the search for political saviours
Decentralisation and the search for political saviours. Dated original source, with context and links.
Commentary & rants1 min
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
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
Jarett Dunn and the Pump.fun incident
Jarett Dunn, also known as Stacc or StaccOverflow, was one of the most controversial developers in the Solana ecosystem.
Research & analysis4 min
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
Mert’s political posts: the archived examples and criticism
Such idiots in this space are partly responsible for the disaster. They hyped up an autocrat and call themselves crypto.
Research & analysis2 min
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
OneCoin and Ruja Ignatova: the fraud behind the cryptocurrency story
Meet Crypto Queen Ruja Ignatova, a wanted fugitive in one of the biggest financial scams in history, who is on the Federal Bureau of Investigation Top 10 Most Wanted list. 🚨
Research & analysis2 min
Prediction markets and Trump Jr.’s financial connections
DonaldJTrumpJr is financially tied to both @Polymarket and @Kalshi , the two dominant event betting platforms operating under oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Both platforms are directly affected by the regulatory…
Research & analysis3 min
Unfortunately, it seems we are living in a dark age of autocracies.
On 2 March 2026, the #UAE Federal Public Prosecution issued two official decrees ordering the restriction of specific X accounts inside the United Arab Emirates.
Commentary & rants3 min
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
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
Why no single tool can remove rug-pull risk
Anyone claiming otherwise forgets one fundamental truth. The real problem is not the code, the blockchain, or the smart contracts. The real problem is the people behind them.
Research & analysis3 min
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
Conflict, liquidity and crypto: a March 2026 scenario analysis
Within the first 24 hours after the large-scale US-Israeli strike on Iranian strategic targets, total crypto market capitalisation fell by roughly 5 – 8 %, Bitcoin dropped about 6 – 9 %, and leveraged long positions worth more than $1…
Research & analysis6 min
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
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
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
Why did Eric Trump suddenly wipe his crypto posts?
@EricTrump has removed a series of crypto related posts from his X account, prompting speculation about potential developments behind the scenes.
Commentary & rants2 min
Crypto-company political donations: MASTR’s February 2026 compilation
These people and companies in the crypto industry helped push pedo @realDonaldTrump , sending him money that ultimately came from the fees, spreads and revenue generated by their own users.
Research & analysis3 min
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
Paid visibility and the incentives behind trending tokens
The only buyers left are the compulsive gamblers and those who still refuse to accept that the expected value is worse than a lottery ticket.
Research & analysis2 min
Binance: paid promotion · 20 Feb 2026
A huge number, almost all of these KOLs who have rugged or repeatedly extracted money from their own followers with shitcoins were or still are busy bootlicking Trump and pushing one baseless lie after another.
Commentary & rants1 min