Working on replying and dabbling in crypto and NFTs when possible with my schedule. Posts are not advice. Praying USA becomes great again! 🇺🇸 No rando DM plz
In case the 30 people still seeing my posts and the 5 still interacting with them actually see this, take a look here.
Interesting stuff.
More to come.
GM.
I wish you all a beautiful Sunday and I hope to see many of you again over the next few weeks, especially those who have not been showing up much lately.
As you know, some of the things I publish take many hours of work. By now, there is a huge database behind it.
But if it is not packaged in a way that feels exciting enough, dramatic enough or sensational enough, it simply does not land.
And then the work was basically for nothing.
I feel like I somehow lost connection lately, and that many people I hoped to work more closely with are once again going their own way.
What almost nobody understands is that even in a supposedly decentralized space, collaboration is necessary if you actually want to move something.
Because the people who are only here to exploit others are better organized than most of the people trying to fight back.
But most of the time, I feel like I am speaking into the void.
Next week, I will make another attempt to bring a few good accounts under one roof, so we can maybe build something bigger and have more impact together.
We will see.
I appreciate you. I need you.
Thank you for still being here.
Fuck you @Binance
“In search of knowledge” is a strange thing to post after 10/10, because the one thing Binance did not give the market was knowledge;
No full post mortem.
No raw trade data.
No complete order book reconstruction.
No tick level timeline.
No liquidation engine report.
No explanation of mark price behaviour.
No clear index methodology during the event.
No venue by venue comparison.
No matching engine logs.
No latency data.
No API degradation report.
No market maker activity breakdown.
No liquidation queue data.
No ADL transparency.
No insurance fund movement report.
No account class exposure.
No explanation why so many Binance USDT spot pairs printed insane lows compared to other major exchanges.
Binance has 430 USDT spot pairs. 410 of them also had prices available on OKX, Bybit, Bitget or Gate during the same period.
On 10/10, 103 Binance pairs hit lows more than 10% below the second lowest exchange.
Many were not small deviations. They were absurd structural breaks.
Retail got liquidated on prices the public still cannot properly audit, while the largest offshore exchange and primary altcoin USDT price discovery venue gave everyone slogans instead of forensic transparency.
If Binance is really in search of knowledge, start by releasing the data you refused to give after 10/10.
The worst part about red times like this is almost that many people stop showing up here.
So respect to everyone who is still here, or still checks in from time to time.
Protect your wallets, but even more importantly, protect your minds.
Wherever you see this, I hope you have a good weekend.
I do not take it for granted that you are still here, still reading, still supporting, and still showing up in a space that often feels completely rotten.
So thank you.
@MastrXYZ I believe there is a higher power, too much seems just so calculated for us to even exist on this planet. None the less, I don't think I have to attend church or advertise my belief to be a good person. If there is a heaven and hell, in the end I'll be judged on my character.
This is a post that will probably cost me hundreds of followers. (Assuming hundreds see it)
One topic I have mostly tried to avoid here is faith and religion in crypto.
Everyone has the right to believe, doubt, pray, question, or reject all of it.
What I find strange is how often faith is used almost like a public badge in spaces that are supposed to be about technology, finance, decentralisation, markets, scams, risk and code.
It feels like every 2nd profile has God, Jesus, faith, blessings or some religious declaration in the bio.
Maybe that is partly cultural. Many people in this space come from countries where religion is much more publicly visible, sometimes an absolute cult far removed from common sense, especially the US, Nigeria and other regions where faith is not just private, but part of identity, community and language.
I understand that intellectually.
But I still find it difficult to relate to.
I was raised Catholic.
I went through the rituals, the ceremonies, the guilt structures, the symbolic performances, the things you are told to accept before you are old enough to properly question them.
Thanks to my family, I had great experiences in Roman monasteries, but what impressed me, funnily enough, was primarily the architecture and the vibe.
As a child, I had Already doubts. Something about it always felt imposed rather than discovered.
And the older I got, the more I experienced the power of knowledge, education, critical thinking and actual life, the less I could connect with it.
I have visited churches and faith shaped places all over the world, because they are cultural heritage.
And because, I have always been fascinated by what can influence other grown adults so deeply that it shapes their identity, their morals, their fears and sometimes even their ability to think freely.
For me, reality became more meaningful than belief.
Questions became more honest than certainty
Human responsibility, facts and science became more important than divine branding.
That is why I find it strange when even in cyberspace, 2778 after Rome was born, even in Web3, even in a supposedly future facing environment, people still feel the need to constantly put their faith in everyone’s face.
Maybe it gives them meaning. Maybe it gives them structure. Maybe it gives them trust signals. Maybe it is just part of their culture.
Maybe you can answer that for me..
But for me, faith is strongest when it does not need to advertise itself.
And if your belief is real, it should not require everyone else to be reminded of it every 5 minutes or in your fucking web3 bio or in a reply.
Live and let live. Believe what you want. But let knowledge, actions and character speak louder than slogans in a bio.
And what I had to learn is that strongly presented faith is often the first indication that you should avoid those people and circles.
None of this means that I mock or judge religious people.
I just think it is also okay to keep something like that to yourself sometimes.
Good morning/ evening/ night/ day dear people.
I will drop an article today or tomorrow about “The Industrialization of Crypto Manipulation”, but after that I will stay quiet for a moment because I barely get seen anymore.
Either it is the algorithm, or my stuff is simply shit.
Need to reset me and the algo.
Thank you to everyone who still shows up and stays loyal.
Have a nice day 💚
Never measure yourself by numbers.
Measure yourself by what you do, what you build, what you choose, what you expose, what you survive, how you treat those with less power than you, and what you refuse to become.
Measure yourself by the people you protect, the truth you are willing to defend, the principles you refuse to sell, and the line you do not cross when crossing it would make life easier.
Numbers can show fragments of impact, but they will never capture conviction, integrity, independence, sacrifice, or the price paid for staying true to yourself.
The most important things are not for sale.
And the most important people in history were not remembered because they were rich.
They were remembered because they spoke when silence was safer, acted when obedience was easier, and stood for something when it actually mattered.
Stay independent.
Stay unowned.
Stay impossible to buy.
That is freedom.