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
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MASTR · 2024–2026
KOLs & promotion · 6
Private deals, paid visibility, manufactured credibility and the audience on the other side.
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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: 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
right now, i have no chance for visibility. still, i keep going.
l2 crypto is poisoned, rotting from the inside out. my algo is completely wrecked. big accounts, almost all scammers and extractors, have blocked me to protect their game.
Commentary & rants3 min
Web3 culture · 13 Sep 2025
Labels like HighCryptoSpamScore (visible in leaked dev screenshots) suggest that tweets or accounts heavily associated with crypto get flagged more aggressively.
Commentary & rants1 min
DEX boosts and the incentives to buy visibility
DEX boosts and the incentives to buy visibility. Dated original source, with context and links.
Commentary & rants1 min
Solana: paid promotion · 6 Sep 2025
The only thing that keeps me going are the few of you who interact, like, retweet. Otherwise I wouldn’t even be here anymore.
Commentary & rants3 min
Paid promotion: the conflict behind the price of a tweet
Paid promotion: the conflict behind the price of a tweet. Dated original source, with context and links.
Commentary & rants1 min
Paid promotion · 1 Sep 2025
Pump-and-dump coins spike short-term also with volume, but lose on avg. –30% within a year: 🔺 🔺 Academic research shows pump organizers had >100% median returns, while the top quartile made >2000%, leaving retail wrecked:
Commentary & rants2 min
Wen Rug? The original research-based risk guide
They are engineered social-technical attacks that exploit information asymmetry, hype psychology, and structural weaknesses in token design.
Research & analysis5 min
ThreadGuy and Web3 promotion: MASTR’s archived critique
One of the most shocking elements of the current crypto landscape is not just the behavior of shady influencers, but the fact that institutional actors actively legitimize them.
Research & analysis5 min
Emotional trading and receiving criticism
Emotional trading and receiving criticism. Dated original source, with context and links.
Commentary & rants1 min
The bad fuel that keeps this industry running is everywhere.
For an industry that once preached freedom from the state, it has rotted into a spectacle of weakness, begging the very governments it claimed to outgrow for rescue every time victims are gutted.
Commentary & rants2 min
The August 2025 guide for crypto newcomers
– Only interact in your wallet with coins you’re sure about, coins sent to you are most likely meant to drain your wallet.
Research & analysis2 min
Scams like $SWIF are pure psychology.
How they operate, what they post, all proven techniques to farm followers and drain them when the time comes.
Commentary & rants2 min
Attention and incentives · 11 Aug 2025
I’m totally aware that I could get far more impressions, followers, and likes by simply calling out Dex scams…
Commentary & rants1 min
Trump: Web3 culture · 5 Aug 2025
I’ve gone head-to-head with big names like @bubblemaps over $BMT and exposed fake “scam exposers” like ScamR and many more.
Commentary & rants2 min
$IMG once again proved how Web3 degens are the most easily manipulated crowd in financial history.
The same pattern over and over: follower-farming KOL clowns like @cryptobeastreal or @barkmeta @ardizor and many more, (tbh almost all big accounts in CT) pushing worthless garbage, rugging their own followers for a few thousand dollars…
Commentary & rants3 min
Pumpfun: paid promotion · 3 Aug 2025
I never shill projects where I lack deep internal insights (team, structure, long-term vision, much more).
Commentary & rants1 min
Scammer collection here 👇👇 Need YOU ALL ❗
Let’s build a full list of accounts that shilled scams: ➤ X handles ➤ Cashtags ➤ Contract addresses (if you have them) ➤ Screenshots (if you have them)
Commentary & rants1 min
If Crypto Twitter KOLs and big accounts were honest for a day, here’s what they’d actually say:
Let's play a CT game: If Crypto Twitter KOLs and big accounts were honest for a day, here’s what they’d actually say: • “If you support me, I will....drain you.” • “Leave a GM so my X payout gets bigger.” • “Give me the next 100x, so I…
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Pumpfun: paid promotion · 29 Jul 2025
Launch token low effort jpeg token Bundle the whole supply Shill to followers Dump it on day one or wait a few days
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X: paid promotion · 23 Jul 2025
KOLs turned that into a business model: flashing rented Ferraris (if they even managed to pay the lease) and photoshopped wallets.
Commentary & rants1 min
Bitcoin: Web3 culture · 10 Jul 2025
Sure, if the dollar continues to lose value that drastically, then yes, those prices might become realistic someday.
Research & analysis1 min