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 · 20/29
A place where you park value, avoid volatility and wait for your next move. In reality they are not a side product. They are the core plumbing that keeps trading, DeFi and liquidity alive.
#Upbit lost about 36 to 38M from a compromised hot wallet that held Solana based assets. #Solana was not hacked. The Solana blockchain processed valid transactions exactly as designed.
Crypto on X has become a contaminated wasteland ruled by bots, noise, manipulation, tribalism and engineered stupidity.
Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonym of the person or group who created Bitcoin. Nobody knows who he was. Everything we know comes from archived emails, forum posts, the original Bitcoin code and the whitepaper he released on 31.10.2008.
Account-name history as a research lead. Dated original source, with context and links.
What follows is a critical dissection of Binance’s power on X and what this means for the future of crypto’s information landscape, financial integrity and public opinion.
🔺 Real conviction is tweeting when no one likes your tweets 🔺 Real conviction is building when no one sees you 🔺 Real conviction is staying here while everyone else leaves 🔺 Real conviction is calling out what harms this space 🔺 Real…
A single malformed transaction triggered a chain split, internal drama exploded, an FBI probe began, developers resigned, and the entire ecosystem was forced into a stress test that revealed both strengths and weaknesses.
A new wave of allegations is again pulling Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the founder of Binance, back into the centre of global scrutiny.
Many of you are damaging your own financial health, and the Solana ecosystem is damaging itself, unless we begin to change our behavior collectively.
People love to dream, but let us bring clarity because many think they can tweet a bit, launch a random app, keep a platform alive on the side and magically get rich.
🔺Raise your hands if you are sick of it 🔺Raise your hands if you are sick of centralized entities buying the entire space 🔺Raise your hands if you are sick of influencers dumping on their own followers 🔺Raise your hands if you are sick of…
Over the last 48 hours, the Tensor $TNSR timeline has turned into one of the clearest case studies in how insider advantage, information asymmetry and silent power structures still dominate crypto.
Cypherpunk values and the people chosen to represent Bitcoin. Dated original source, with context and links.
The problem is that I sometimes spend 2 hours on a tweet, doing research, cross checking, digging into everything, and almost nobody sees it or wants to read it, while right next to me someone asks for the next 100x ticker or posts half…
Bundles raise the day one floor. That is all. No real pressure. No real discovery. Just a trap where early wallets feast while the rest get slaughtered.
Andrew and Tristan Tate are not role models. Not for crypto, not for trading, not for anything. These guys are a parody of themselves pretending to be financial geniuses while every piece of data shows the opposite.
1. Mining power and geography Recent global hash rate heatmap data for Q4 2025 shows a very tight concentration of physical security.
Bitcoin is down hard, altcoins are bleeding even harder, and the headlines make it sound like the sky is falling.
It was the year the political class, the influencer class and the exchange class all stepped out from behind the curtain and showed that crypto is no longer an independent monetary system.
The headline “WALL STREET JUST BANNED BITCOIN COMPANIES FROM THE STOCK MARKET” is false, sensationalized and completely detached from reality.
This is horror. One of the worst traders in crypto is out here pretending to be a financial guru: Andrew Tate.
I wish people would give my older tweets the same attention as the new ones, because many of the important points are already explained there.
Everyone keeps repeating the same fairy tale. Scams are a minority. Bad actors are a small problem. Decentralisation will fix everything. The numbers prove the exact opposite.