Building useful products · 19 Jan 2026
This is a reminder not to chase hype, shills or KOLs but to focus on truly organic and real projects with teams.
Commentary & rants2 min
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MASTR · 2024–2026
KOLs & promotion · 4
Private deals, paid visibility, manufactured credibility and the audience on the other side.
165 · Selected publications · 4/7
Recognising manipulation and manufactured trust
A detailed guide to manipulation, social pressure and the use of trust in personal and online encounters.
Original articles44 min
Full of information, smart discussions, and nice people.
Research consistently shows that what looks like random low quality posting is often the result of coordinated inauthentic behavior.
Commentary & rants2 min
Practical principles for a healthier Crypto Twitter
Stop outsourcing your thinking to KOLs. Stop confusing visibility or money with credibility. Stop chasing shills, sponsored narratives, and artificial urgency. Stop buying into political theater whose only purpose is liquidity extraction.…
Commentary & rants2 min
Altcoin Gordon: MASTR’s archived account critique
"Altcoin" Gordon @GordonGekko is a pathetic, stinking, top tier serial scammer who endlessly cosplays as the good guy while leaving wreckage behind him.
Commentary & rants1 min
Whaleguru and the alleged Solana Syndicate network
This account belongs to the "Solana Syndicate", a coordinated swarm pushing mass hype, artificial narratives, and extraction cycles disguised as community.
Commentary & rants2 min
X, algorithmic amplification and crypto’s declining signal
It was a gradual takeover by low effort posters, 100x hunters, launchpads, giveaways, and an environment where scamming faced NO resistance and often direct amplification.
Research & analysis5 min
New Twitter: X vs Operation Bluebird
A legal battle over the Twitter brand is unfolding. X Corp, owned by Elon Musk, has filed a federal lawsuit against the startup Operation Bluebird.
Commentary & rants1 min
Hey @nikitabier bring back intelligence and quality in CT.
That most big accounts are scammers is a community problem. That their content and slop gets algorithmically pushed is a platform problem and one you could change.
Commentary & rants3 min
As a small reminder: The problem you have is that you’ve exploited your followers multiple times in the past.
As a small reminder: The problem you have is that you’ve exploited your followers multiple times in the past.
Commentary & rants1 min
The crypto cabal as an incentive structure
What people describe as the cabal is something far more concrete and far more dangerous: a repeatable market structure that systematically transfers value from the many to the few through access, coordination, and speed.
Research & analysis4 min
Attention and incentives · 7 Jan 2026
Effort and quality do not guarantee anything anymore. And that realisation fits this space perfectly.
Commentary & rants3 min
Solana: Web3 culture · 4 Jan 2026
I ask you to please show a bit of respect and read this to the end, because it is slowly reaching an uncomfortable level of noise.
Commentary & rants4 min
How user demand rewards extraction
The industry likes to blame external enemies because that preserves the self image of a revolution. But the most important force shaping crypto has always been internal selection pressure.
Research & analysis6 min
Web3 culture · 30 Dec 2025
But, I am extremely positive in the long term, even if my tweets appear otherwise. here is why they read the way they do:
Commentary & rants3 min
Why MASTR keeps a written, pseudonymous public presence
The environment was different. The risks were different. Over the past months, things have changed fundamentally, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.
Commentary & rants3 min
Fuck them, from the depths of my heart.
I see endless tweets saying “it’s over” and “crypto is dead”. Shut up. It isn’t. It's only prices and you fucks are one of the main reasons this happened
Commentary & rants3 min
Decentralisation and control · 26 Dec 2025
There is another form of centralisation far more dangerous than the price discovery of cryptocurrencies.
Commentary & rants9 min
Trump: political influence · 21 Dec 2025
It became repetitive, predictable, shallow, trapped in loops that endlessly repeat while pretending to be new. The same narratives are recycled, the same people farm reactions, the same moral theatre plays out every day, loud, aggressive,…
Commentary & rants4 min
If you are still here, building, learning, and contributing, you are very likely not the problem.
And in my view, that matters more than ever, because crypto has reached its lowest point. Not in price. Structurally.
Commentary & rants3 min
A tweet is going viral claiming Elon Musk nuked the reach of crypto accounts.
Here’s how I see it: yes, crypto reach on X has dropped hard, but there’s still zero solid proof that X is deliberately suppressing crypto.
Commentary & rants4 min
Paid promotion · 9 Dec 2025
This is a bit different than usual because I just needed to get it off my chest. It won’t happen again. Unfollow me if needed.
Commentary & rants4 min
Trump: Web3 culture · 9 Dec 2025
If it were not for our project, I would have left this platform a long time ago without looking back.
Commentary & rants2 min
Attention and incentives · 7 Dec 2025
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.
Commentary & rants3 min