The CLARITY Act is NOT bullish for crypto. And that`s nothing new.
It is bullish for turning crypto into another floor inside the same financial casino that Bitcoin was originally created to escape from.
Commentary & rants4 min
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MASTR · 2024–2026
All publications · 9
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 · 9/29
Binance: exchange accountability · 17 May 2026
On the surface, it looks warm, simple and personal: CZ holding his own book, Yi He smiling beside him, two people who built the largest crypto exchange in the world from almost nothing.
Commentary & rants3 min
Trading accounts and war coverage: criticism of engagement incentives
Watch trading/ crypto accounts once again pave the road to the next war in Cuba by ignorantly repeating White House propaganda 1:1.
Commentary & rants1 min
Attention and incentives · 12 May 2026
Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom got +- 2,000 likes, more than 600 reposts and around 50,000 impressions by simply posting my screenshot 1 to 1, taken from my own work, without mentioning me.
Commentary & rants2 min
The DOGE Files: access, oversight and private interests
MASTR’s examination of DOGE access, government oversight and the business interests involved.
Original articles7 min
James Wynn: public leverage, liquidations and attention
JamesWynnReal did not fall in private, but in full public view. That is what makes his story so strange, so brutal, and so perfectly crypto.
Research & analysis10 min
Why the original promise of open networks still matters
Crypto was never supposed to be only about charts, market caps, influencer screenshots, exchange listings, and the next group of insiders dumping on retail.
Commentary & rants3 min
Trump: political influence · 9 May 2026
I love Trump and Musk with the exact kind of obedient enthusiasm this platform seems to reward, because apparently civilisation has now reached the stage where billionaire mood swings, political cults, rage farming, war propaganda and…
Commentary & rants3 min
Attention and incentives · 5 May 2026
I am trying to keep the balance between being a project lead and being a normal X account as honestly and sincerely as I can, with the tools, time and possibilities I have.
Commentary & rants1 min
Trump: political influence · 5 May 2026
A crypto CEO bootlicking a wannabe autocrat and convicted criminal like a desperate cheerleader begging for access.
Commentary & rants2 min
Grok and DRB: the trust problem in agentic finance
A "short" scientific breakdown of AI finance, agentic wallets and the problems nobody wants to think about yet, for those who occasionally still enjoy reading something longer: 👇
Research & analysis8 min
Grok and DRB: an early account of the agentic-finance incident
$DRB, short for DebtReliefBot, is a Base memecoin with one of the strangest origin stories in crypto.
Research & analysis2 min
Trump-family business interests: MASTR’s May 2026 compilation
Here’s an unmotivated list of the $4B+ the Trumps have allegedly drained from the presidency in a very short time:
Commentary & rants2 min
Dormant Ethereum wallets: the April 2026 drain trail
A wallet labelled by Etherscan as Fake_Phishing2831105 has been receiving funds from many addresses and rapidly moving them through swaps and cross chain infrastructure.
Research & analysis3 min
The cost of remaining independent on Crypto Twitter
The cost of remaining independent on Crypto Twitter. Dated original source, with context and links.
Building & independence2 min
World Liberty Financial: political influence · 28 Apr 2026
The real scandal here is not that World Liberty Financial $WLFI has been proven to knowingly work with sanctioned scam operators.
Commentary & rants2 min
Decentralisation across custody, access and decision-making
In practice, it means power is spread far enough that 1 actor cannot quietly change the rules, block access, freeze assets, manipulate information, or force everyone else to accept its version of reality.
Research & analysis5 min
Meet the 2026 Bitcoin Conference speakers.
- Michael Saylor Turned Bitcoin into a corporate balance sheet machine. He talks sovereignty while building one of the largest centralized Bitcoin exposure vehicles on Earth.
Commentary & rants2 min
Trump-linked business interests: a dated map of money and access
1. World Liberty Financial / WLFI • Link to Trump: Trump family crypto venture • Deal: More than $800 million in Trump family crypto income in the first half of 2025 • Amount: about $463 million from World Liberty token sales • Why it…
Research & analysis11 min
The Mar-a-Lago token dinner and the market for access
Trump’s Mar a Lago crypto dinner is one of the cleanest examples yet of what crypto becomes or has become when speculative markets, personal branding, political power and access capitalism collapse into 1 machine.
Research & analysis4 min
Luckio’s shutdown and the paid-promotion record
The problem is that they were paid to promote it, while retail saw it as a genuine recommendation from a major crypto figure.
Research & analysis2 min
Binance: exchange accountability · 24 Apr 2026
If you want an easy life here, if you want to be accepted, if you want the fake applause of this rotten industry, never say anything about Binance and the big crPto brotherhood. Never touch Binance sponsored people. Never touch crypto…
Commentary & rants2 min
Tether: ownership and influence behind a stablecoin
And while Forbes estimates CZ at over $100 B, which CZ himself has questioned, Devasini may very well be the richest man in crypto.
Research & analysis2 min
Foundation’s closure and the fragility of NFT marketplaces
One of the most iconic Ethereum art marketplaces, a platform that pushed roughly $230M in primary sales during the mania years, is shutting down for good after its Blackdove rescue deal collapsed.
Research & analysis2 min