Tired of pretending this is normal.
The small guy lost his money on Pumpfun rugs, degen scams, and the bot armies of big CEXs, while the big guy bought the playground, fenced it off, and wrote the rules.
Commentary & rants2 min
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MASTR · 2024–2026
All publications · 23
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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I'm tempted to say “fuck you, @aeyakovenko.” No, seriously. WTF ass?!
You’ve just proven, once again, that the people sitting at the top of this space don’t give a single damn about builders, only about power, ego, and profit.
Commentary & rants2 min
GMGN wallet-draining reports: the October 2025 account
Between October 25 and 28, 2025, hundreds of users who connected their wallets to a major Solana and BNB Smart Chain trading and analytics platform, reported their funds disappearing in real time.
Research & analysis4 min
The Rot of Crypto Twitter (Crypto X)
Crypto Twitter was supposed to be the brain of the revolution by many. Now it’s the casino floor of digital degeneracy. Long gone cryptopunk times.
Commentary & rants6 min
Binance: paid promotion · 25 Oct 2025
The biggest, and most powerful weapon we have against scammers, grifters, manipulators, and crypto-destroyers...
Commentary & rants1 min
The Death of Crypto as We Knew It? Let's break it down in one sad tweet;
Crypto as we wanted it is dying. Not from bans or hacks, but from absorption. The revolution got bought, indexed, tokenized and securitized.
Commentary & rants5 min
Crypto Wasn’t Hacked. It Was Bought;
In November 2023, @cz_binance and #Binance pleaded guilty to money laundering and agreed to pay more than $4 billion in fines.
Commentary & rants2 min
Web3 culture · 23 Oct 2025
⏩There are still a lot of people who feel the same way I do (or the team does) and that genuinely humbles me.
Commentary & rants3 min
Fuck you fr: the original Crypto Twitter rant
An even bigger FUCK YOU to everyone out there feeding short-lived hype, chasing quick pumps, and pretending they understand the game.
Commentary & rants4 min
Binance’s October 2025 disruption: the early account
In the early hours of October 11 (Beijing time), the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, turned from the deepest liquidity venue into the epicenter of a meltdown.
Research & analysis3 min
The October 2025 AWS outage and dependent services
Earlier today, Amazon Web Services experienced a major outage that started in its US-EAST-1 region in Northern Virginia, one of the most important data centers in the world.
Research & analysis1 min
Bundled launches on Solana and BNB Chain: an October snapshot
Dozens of scam detections today, the pattern is clear: fast-bundled launches, fake hype, and instant liquidity drains.
Research & analysis2 min
Binance: exchange accountability · 17 Oct 2025
#Binance now dominates crypto with ~52 % of all spot trading, ~56 % of futures, and controls over 30 % of total order-book liquidity across major pairs (CoinGecko & CryptoQuant, Q3 2025).
Research & analysis2 min
Binance: exchange accountability · 17 Oct 2025
It feels like we, the crypto people, have become the easiest to manipulate, the exit liquidity for corrupt families, syndicates, CEXs, and FIAT billionaires.
Commentary & rants1 min
Timeline and Summary (October 2025) of the #Trump Familys #Crypto Manipulations Using Retail as Exit Liquidity
⚠️Timeline and Summary (October 2025) of the #Trump Familys #Crypto Manipulations Using Retail as Exit Liquidity
Commentary & rants8 min
Perpetual futures open interest hit $120B, with 87% of positions long, a powder keg of overconfidence.
By late September 2025, global markets were already stretched thin. The U.S. government faced a third shutdown extension, dragging on fiscal uncertainty. The Federal Reserve had just slashed rates to 4%, injecting short-term liquidity but…
Commentary & rants7 min
Binance: paid promotion · 11 Oct 2025
CT and crypto let criminals like @cz_binance all the scammer KOLs and the #Trump family do whatever they want and kiss the asses of these criminals at every opportunity and every single time, everyone acts shocked when it ends badly.
Commentary & rants2 min
Solana became what it is because of innovation, resilience, and people who actually build things that last.
Now that all the degens and delusional exit liquidity have herded over to #BNB like clueless sheep chasing the next "moonshot," it’s about damn time @solana wakes up and stands by the real builders, not the scammers, not the copy-paste…
Commentary & rants2 min
People who truly care about crypto and freedom should not support $Aster or anything connected to #Binance
People who truly care about crypto and freedom should not support $Aster or anything connected to #Binance
Commentary & rants4 min
Privacy, surveillance and control
A discussion of surveillance, data collection and the relationship between privacy and personal autonomy.
Original articles4 min
The MASTR investigation toolkit
Cielo – Wallet Tracking (EVM, Bitcoin, Solana, Tron, etc.) 🔺TRM – Create graphs for addresses/transactions 🔺MetaSuites – Chrome extension that adds extra data on block explorers 🔺MetaSleuth – Similar to TRM but intended for retail users…
Research & analysis3 min
DragonForce and the ransomware service economy
An account of the DragonForce ecosystem, its affiliate model and the business structure around ransomware.
Original articles6 min
Bitcoin: paid promotion · 28 Sep 2025
I want to make one thing clear: this is not a prediction, just information for those who are interested.
Research & analysis2 min
Crypto gave me a lot and took a lot.
Later I realized you have to take care of the baby, otherwise it becomes what it sadly became this year.
Building & independence2 min