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 · 19/29
January 2025 🔺 Trump-linked tokens $TRUMP and $MELANIA launch, pump hard, then collapse after insider selling 🔺 Fake political launchpads steal millions from retail 🔺 China cracks down on offshore OTC desks, distorting global liquidity 🔺…
I do not even like being on this app anymore. It honestly disgusts me. It has become a concentrated collection of the worst parts of the world.
What is the actual price of crypto becoming mainstream? What do we lose in the process? What do we gain? And who pays for the transition?
Everyone is screaming today about the OG whale who woke up after 13 years and moved 2 BTC to Coinbase. Cool story… but let’s clear something up: most people don’t even know what a Casascius Bitcoin actually is.
🔺 Between 70 percent and 90 percent of retail traders lose money Sources: ESMA mandated CFD disclosures, FX industry reports, broker risk statements (fxstreet com, afbis com)
The Dashboard and multiple APIs are failing and many sites return 500 errors. Active maintenance in Detroit and Chicago increases rerouting, latency and interface failures.
This space was founded by thinkers, builders, rebels and mathematical lunatics who wanted to redesign how value moves in the world.
People still trade and tweet as if everything is normal, as if the market structure from 4 or 5 or 6 years ago still exists.
Before crypto he already had legal issues. He lost a lawsuit in the early 2000s over aggressive online marketing and mass email spam.
There is a limit to how long you let someone scream nonsense into your community before you shut the door.
It is truly difficult to build in this space with integrity while calling out the many things this mafia like industry keeps doing.
The self proclaimed smartest man on earth @yhbryankimiq Kim, is launching a token right now amd there is big hype around it.
Do not forget that the people behind Dexscreener make thousands upon thousands of dollars every single day from those paid boosts.
My tweets go viral regularly, just like the one with bro @realdonaldtrump because I say the one thing this industry hates the most.
You turned this industry into your personal cash extraction machine the same way you turned every business you ever touched into a crater.
The next big narrative shift is already forming beneath the surface, even while everyone is staring at the red candles.
Market uncertainty and the limits of confident predictions. Dated original source, with context and links.
Your activity in the crypto world leaves an indelible digital footprint that can reveal far more about you than you might expect.
Some people here mostly the new ones who have no clue who I am think I’m here to FUD Solana or crypto.
Every point refers to a real world event, dataset, study or case with documented facts. It is not complete (by far), but it is more than enough to show a clear pattern.
Solana once promised speed, near zero fees and mass adoption. It was hailed as a blockchain that could help crypto go global.
Public data from X, Reddit, our $MASTR data and multiple web sources shows repeated allegations of pump and dumps, rug pulls and farming operations tied to his activity.
Open infrastructure and the direction of crypto culture. Dated original source, with context and links.
A developer named Selo @seloesque built x-graphs, a viral tool that ranked X interactions based on impressions and engagement.