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 · 7/29
Anyone who has been here longer than 1 cycle has seen empty timelines, forced liquidations, panic candles, broken narratives, fake conviction disappearing overnight, leverage getting deleted, and the same people who called every dip…
This time he is trying to turn Binance withdrawing its MiCA application in Greece into some grand ECB plot to destroy crypto liquidity for a future CBDC.
Binance users in the Europe, did any of you receive an email from Binance saying they are unable to comply with MiCA by July 1 and that services may therefore be restricted or shut down in your country?
SecondFi is the rebranded Yoroi wallet, originally developed by Emurgo, one of Cardano’s founding entities alongside IOG and the Cardano Foundation.
Independent research: MASTR’s account of the hours and support. Dated original source, with context and links.
And of course the clean up crew will now arrive in their little founder hoodies, their VC podcasts and their regulatory trauma faces to explain that everyone is overreacting.
According to the WSJ, Polymarket allegedly manufactured an illusion of ordinary young people getting rich through fake trades and fake wins.
I’m probably in the minority again, but Pumpfun GO is what happens when a casino, a humiliation kink and a venture backed slop factory all get locked in the same room and nobody with a fucking conscience survives.
That is why I am increasingly questioning whether it still makes sense to keep investing so much effort into these investigations.
A detailed investigation of interview invitations, impersonated podcasts and the attempt to compromise creators’ devices.
When the audience recognises extraction and funds it anyway. Dated original source, with context and links.
Once again, something a little longer that most people will not take the time to read, let alone think through before forming an opinion;
Idiots need to stop turning half understood headlines into propaganda when they clearly do not understand the rules they are screaming about.
World Liberty Financial, $TRUMP, USD1, American Bitcoin and ALT5 Sigma all followed the same disgusting model I have warned about for 2 years: political branding, insider control, almost no personal risk and retail carrying the entire…
Bro got pulled over for speeding in a white Rolls Royce Cullinan and accidentally exposed a $13 million crypto fraud operation;
Dan Peña is mostly known for aggressive business rhetoric, brutal seminars, provocation, and oversized claims.
Big accounts keep pushing things they do not control, do not properly understand and will not take responsibility for when followers get destroyed.
1/3; A small cluster of companies is quietly inserting itself into the most important layer of modern civilisation: the layer between citizens and knowledge, between institutions and decisions, between governments and operational reality.
These systems are moving into the layers where modern society actually runs: code, cloud, identity, payment rails, financial markets, logistics, media, operating systems, cyber operations, hardware design and the information feeds through…
AI will multiply the scale, speed and precision of attacks, but the ugly truth is that many of these incidents are not some mysterious act of cyber warfare.
Other days it feels like the last public square where a random person can still write something honest at 2 AM and somehow reach people they would never meet in real life.
If the reports are accurate, Sam Bankman Fried @SBF_FTX has now formally applied for a Trump pardon.
I'm here because after years inside this space, the pattern became impossible to ignore without becoming part of the problem myself.
Humans are down to 43%. Across all HTTP requests, humans are still ahead with 66%, but the direction is obvious.