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Wallet bubbles without context: MASTR’s criticism

Wallet bubbles without context: MASTR’s criticism. Dated original source, with context and links.

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And this, ladies and gentlemen, is 1 of the many reasons Bubblemaps should be obsolete.

I’m talking about the actual product here, although their farmed, insider-heavy scamcoin $BMT and the fact that they blocked me for asking questions deserve criticism too.

The bubbles look nice, but without context, they tell you fuck all.

From the beginning, those visualisations have been easy to misinterpret and use to spread misinformation, while struggling to keep up with increasingly sophisticated bundlers.

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From a wallet graph to a finding someone else can reproduce →

From observation to a defensible finding
Educational diagram. Simplified mechanisms and stated assumptions; not evidence about a particular incident. Open full-size graphic ↗

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