World Liberty Financial: political influence · 25 Jan 2026
If we are talking about crypto companies politically aligned with the Trump regime, here is something everyone should be aware of:
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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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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.
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Political money, exchanges and Trump-linked tokens
MASTR’s analysis of the overlap between political finance, exchange interests and Trump-linked crypto ventures.
Original articles4 min
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.
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World Liberty Financial: political influence · 23 Jan 2026
I see many people in recent days picking up my work around the topics #Binance, @cz_binance + @realDonaldTrump / $Aster + $WLFI.
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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…
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Binance: Web3 culture · 23 Jan 2026
People love to argue about pumpfun-, zora-, bonkfun-, bagsapp- scams while missing the bigger picture.
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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.
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Seeker: hardware, distribution and the mobile access layer
Even though purely crypto related topics currently receive almost no reach on X, I want to come back to #Seeker for a moment because it represents something that is often talked about but rarely seen in practice: meaningful crypto adoption.
Research & analysis3 min
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.
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SKR and the Seeker ecosystem: commentary at launch
Seeker is not just a phone. It’s an open mobile platform, where users and developers can interact, transact, and eventually govern without the restrictions of Apple’s App Store or Google’s monopoly. In practice, Seeker is one of the first…
Research & analysis3 min
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.
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World Liberty Financial: political influence · 20 Jan 2026
That piece of shit @realdonaldtrump is tearing the world apart and has already extracted over $1 billion from crypto, and he is still draining more.
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Paradex: a zero-price display, liquidations and rollback
A severe technical malfunction on the derivatives exchange Paradex caused the Bitcoin price to briefly display at 0 US dollars, triggering mass liquidations across the platform.
Research & analysis2 min
About 1 year after $TRUMP, $MELANIA, $LIBRA.
I think everyone is struggling in this market. Even the innocent ones. Even those who deliver real value.
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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.
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Community or a temporary alignment of financial incentives?
Is it provocative, wrong, or accurate to say that the word “community” is abused in crypto and that real communities are rare?
Building & independence2 min
Decentralisation and control · 18 Jan 2026
For me, freedom means creating it myself by questioning, comparing, and drawing my own conclusions and then constantly questioning those conclusions and myself as well.
Building & independence2 min
Recognising manipulation and manufactured trust
A detailed guide to manipulation, social pressure and the use of trust in personal and online encounters.
Original articles44 min
Coinbase’s role in US crypto politics
Coinbase is no longer merely a cryptocurrency exchange. It has matured into a strategic political institution embedded inside the American power system.
Research & analysis4 min
Adoption and re-centralisation can happen together
It is always just bullish or bearish, but no one talks about the fact that adoption is already here and at the same time it was the end of many things.
Research & analysis6 min
Full of information, smart discussions, and nice people.
Research consistently shows that what looks like random low quality posting is often the result of coordinated inauthentic behavior.
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Ok @zachxbt /-bnb, you finally got rid of the Kaito yaps chasers and you are celebrating it.
So can you finally say something about Binance and your buddy @cz_binance, or do we have to wait until the paycheck from them stops coming before you.....you know..
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Listen carefully, because this is the fucking core problem.
This $ASTER and $WLFI bullshit is fucking blind submission to power and narratives, and it has wiped out more people than any bear market ever did.
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