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Redes e infraestrutura

Judge crypto actors by behaviour, not nationality

I learned very early, and life has confirmed it again and again, that appearance and origin tell you remarkably little about a person’s character, ability or intentions.

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Política e conflitos de interesses

What regulatory clarity can and cannot fix

Oh, look at all the accounts with some crypto coin in their name begging Washington to pass the CLARITY Act as if Congress is about to descend from the heavens and fix crypto and give a bullrun for fun.

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Métodos de investigação

AI: decentralisation and control · 12 Sep 2026

When an American CEO (here Dario Amodei, Anthropic) is willing to warn the world about the very technology his company is banking on to bring in billions, you start to wonder how close to midnight we really are.

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Redes e infraestrutura

Web3 culture · 12 Sep 2026

Isn’t it ironic that one of the most popular apps, and the one some people keep presenting as a flagship product for the chain, is also one of the entities that has been nuking that same chain for years?

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Estrutura de mercado

Hunter Biden-linked tokens: uncertainty about the endorsement

I genuinely have no idea whether he understands what actually happened behind the scenes, but this whole episode is another perfect example of how absurdly naive (or extractive) celebrities can be when they enter crypto.

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Influenciadores e promoção

Pumpfun: paid promotion · 8 Sep 2026

Basically, people are voluntarily installing a memecoin casino on their phones, expecting to get rich while the published snapshots show most participants either losing money or walking away with small gains.

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Redes e infraestrutura

Web3 culture · 1 Sep 2026

@solanamobile might be one of the most underrated ideas and project in crypto right now, and the dApp Store on Seeker is the part people should be paying far more attention to.

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Redes e infraestrutura

The Solana voting drama was honestly pretty fun to watch ;-)

Helius YES → Jupiter YES → Figment NO → Everstake NO → NO → Kraken NO → SGP-0002 falls below 66.67% → Drift/VelocityDEX flips YES → Kraken large validator flips ~8.1M SOL to YES → Galaxy moves from mostly Abstain toward YES → late ballots…

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Phishing, ataques e privacidade

Exchange accountability · 28 Aug 2026

If onchain evidence clearly documents a scam, theft or other crime, CEXs should be legally required to hand over the relevant KYC and transaction data to law enforcement when a valid legal request exists.

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Influenciadores e promoção

Attention and incentives · 28 Aug 2026

I often speak critically about this industry because, despite everything I have seen, I still believe it can become better.

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Influenciadores e promoção

Attention and incentives · 26 Aug 2026

MASTR is not VC-backed. We have invested tens of thousands of our own money, built working mobile apps, reached over 1,000 downloads and have several hundred people actively using our products every day. We achieved that without paid…

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Métodos de investigação

When a market prices a lie more efficiently than the truth

Markets are often described as machines for discovering truth, although what they actually discover is the price people will pay under a particular distribution of information, incentives and fear.

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Phishing, ataques e privacidade

Paid promotion · 23 Aug 2026

I’ll focus more heavily on bug bounties again. Unless this space decides that this public work, which depends entirely on support, matters enough to keep alive.

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Estrutura de mercado

Trust, opportunism and exhaustion in crypto

Liars, profiteers, useless parasites and self-righteous moral frauds performing virtue in public while behaving like absolute pieces of shit behind the scenes.

Comentários e desabafos2 min
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