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Política e conflitos de interesses

Trump: Web3 culture · 20 Aug 2026

I cannot believe half of this industry is once again praising Donald Trump and lining up to kiss the ass of a serial grifter who has spent his presidency turning public power into private revenue.

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Phishing, ataques e privacidade

Security and verification · 19 Aug 2026

I’m being paid to perform full security assessments on 2 of them, while I gave another 5 only a rough 30-minute pass. Even at that depth, some of the vulnerabilities and basic security failures I found are frankly alarming.

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Métodos de investigação

Building useful products · 17 Aug 2026

Education is the most valuable asset a person can build because it changes the instrument through which every other asset is understood: the mind itself.

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Corretoras e custódia

Binance: exchange accountability · 16 Aug 2026

Crypto’s chief charlatan @cz_binance may currently be in Bulgaria, or at least his X account is being accessed through Bulgarian IPs.

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Política e conflitos de interesses

Trump: political influence · 15 Aug 2026

Trump will personally attend Wednesday’s crypto summit, with the heads of the SEC and CFTC beside him and executives from @coinbase @Ripple @a16z @chainlink @paradigm @Kalshi reportedly in the room.

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Influenciadores e promoção

The cost of publishing research people do not read

I wish more people actually cared about the things I research, write about and put together here, because a lot of work goes into it.

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Influenciadores e promoção

Personal brands and the monetisation of audience trust

I’m so tired of watching grown adults in Web3 build an audience around trust, credibility and supposed expertise, then turn around and monetise that same audience by feeding them into the next casino, the next shitcoin, the next leverage…

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Estrutura de mercado

Trading psychology: MASTR’s collection of attributed quotations

Not because every one of them is universally right, but because together they say a lot about what trading actually comes down to: risk, patience, psychology, discipline and surviving your own stupidity.

Comentários e desabafos3 min
Métodos de investigação

Why serious security research struggles to pay for itself

Security, research and honest information have almost no economic value in crypto because they require the one thing this industry despises more than regulation: sustained attention.

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Influenciadores e promoção

When low-effort posts bury original work

Even some people I genuinely like have started posting complete bullshit because apparently that is what the algorithm rewards now.

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Influenciadores e promoção

Can useful products survive without a hype machine?

More accurately, I started building it before my vacation, but the further I get, the more I wonder whether serious products have any chance here unless they come wrapped in hype, a shitcoin, or somebody already famous enough to…

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Influenciadores e promoção

Bots, MEV and manufactured hype: a Web3 grievance list

- Bots. - Hype - MEV bots. - People who are in crypto but vote for oligarchs and autocrats or defend ketamine-addicted trillionaires. - AI-generated comments. - Influencers and KOLs. - Scammers. - Marketing people. - BitMart listing…

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Corretoras e custódia

Exchange accountability · 28 Jul 2026

It genuinely hurts to see so many people losing substantial amounts of money because yet another Web3 bank, this time BitMart, is allegedly withholding customer funds while still trying to extract additional payments before shutting its…

Comentários e desabafos2 min
Política e conflitos de interesses

Trump: political influence · 27 Jul 2026

They are parading a handful of alleged $TRUMP winners across your timeline and presenting one of the most grotesque retail extraction events in recent crypto history as a “missed opportunity.”

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