Scam Economy
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Bitcoin, the Blockchain, Web3, NFTs...welcome to the Scam Economy. Host Matt Binder (The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder, DOOMED) dives into the world of cryptocurrency in order to reveal the frauds, grifts, and scams. And there's plenty because, really, the whole thing is a scam. It's the Scam Economy.
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Episodes (67)
59: The Golden Age of Grift
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Feb 7, 202555:39pending
58: Her: OpenAI v. Scarlett Johansson
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May 30, 202450:26pending
57: Crypto Number Goes Up + The AI Hype Bubble (w/ Ed Zitron of Better Offline)
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Mar 7, 20241:28:05pending
56: How MrBeast Inadvertently Revealed X / Twitter Monetization is Rigged
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Feb 5, 202454:40pending
55: Sam Bankman-Fried Guilty!: The FTX Fraud Trial (w/ Molly White)
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Nov 8, 20231:33:51pending
54: The Tech Hype Bubble: VR Edition (w/ Paris Marx)
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Jul 31, 20231:24:19pending
53: Meta Launches Threads by Instagram as Elon Musk Wrecks Twitter
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Jul 7, 20231:02:36pending
52: Unregistered Securities: SEC Sues Coinbase & Binance...Is This the End of Cr...
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Jun 13, 20231:10:27pending
51: Worldcoin Wants to Scan Your Eyeballs & Give You Crypto in Return: What Coul...
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May 24, 202356:06pending
50: Elon Musk and the Twitter Blue (Check)Mark of Shame
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May 9, 20231:17:56pending
49: Orange is the New Blockchain: Crypto Crime ft. Kwon, Sun, SBF, & CZ (w/ Jaco...
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Apr 6, 20231:10:42pending
48: Bitcoin Miners Are Making Bank...But Not From Mining Crypto (w/ Jackie Sawic...
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Mar 27, 20231:12:28pending
47: The Fall of Silicon Valley Bank & the Crybaby Tech VCs (w/ Edward Ongweso Jr...
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Mar 15, 20231:13:50pending
46: No Banking. No Staking. No Crypto Services? (w/ Bennett Tomlin)
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Mar 9, 20231:01:03pending
45: Crypto Conspicuously Absent From This Year's Super Bowl. Wonder What Happene...
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Feb 9, 20231:26:03pending
44: Genesis, Gemini, and the Winklevi (w/ Ed Zitron)
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Jan 26, 20231:30:39pending
CES 2023: The Good, The Bad, The Dystopian Tech (w/ Eoin Higgins) (Scam Economy...
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Jan 24, 202353:56pending
43: The Weirdest Frauds, Grifts, & Rug Pulls of Crypto's Hellish 2022 (w/ Molly...
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Jan 18, 202355:52pending
42: From Sam Bankman-Fried to Sam Bankman-Jailed: The FTX Saga Continues (w/ Mol...
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Dec 22, 20221:11:37pending
41: So Many Hacks! The Myth of Blockchain Security (w/ Domingo Flores)
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Dec 12, 20221:19:29pending
40: BlockFi BankruptcyFi: A Bizarre FTX "Bailout" Story (w/ Nikhilesh De of Coin...
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Dec 5, 20221:07:56pending
39: FTX Conspiracies About Ukraine & Democrats Don't Add Up (w/ Sergey Vasylchuk...
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Nov 21, 20221:03:08pending
38: Scam Bankrupt-Fraud: The Death of FTX (w/ Ed Zitron)
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Nov 14, 20222:03:38pending
37: Sam Bankman-Fried is Known as Crypto's Bailout King. Is His Own Empire Broke...
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Nov 7, 20221:00:05pending
36: Inside Yuga Labs: Bored Ape Yacht Club Behind-the-Scenes (w/ Yasmin Gagne an...
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Oct 31, 20222:05:20pending
35: Crypto is the Future...Just Like Google Glass (w/ Quinn Myers)
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Oct 21, 20221:19:49pending
34: RIP CNN's NFT Vault But Media's Terrible Crypto Coverage Lives On (w/ Parker...
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Oct 14, 20221:05:59pending
33: Who'll Stop Celebrities From Unlawfully Shilling Shady Crypto & NFTs to Thei...
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Oct 7, 202255:58pending
32: GiveCrypto and the Real Goal of "Crypto Charity" (w/ Leo Schwartz)
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Sep 29, 20221:04:51pending
31: One Year of Bukele's Bitcoin Law: Chaos in El Salvador (w/ Domingo Flores)
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Sep 24, 20221:16:44pending
30: The Ethereum Merge is Here. What It Means, Who's Getting Rich & Why It Won't...
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Sep 15, 20221:13:01pending
29: Binance and the Mystery of Who is Guangying Chen? (w/ Jacob Silverman)
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Sep 9, 202249:26pending
28: Crypto's Summer From Hell (w/ Molly White)
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Sep 2, 20221:10:09pending
Immutable and the Push to Force NFTs on Gamers (Scam Economy Live Post Show BONU...
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Aug 26, 202233:01pending
27: All Your Coinbase Are Belong To Us (w/ Ed Zitron)
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Aug 18, 20221:19:56pending
Crypto Yield Rates Were Always a Red Flag (Scam Economy Live Post Show BONUS Cli...
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Aug 12, 202257:08pending
26: Dune and Done: The Spice DAO Saga (w/ Adi Robertson)
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Aug 5, 20221:06:05pending
25: Helium is Touted as the Web3 Gold Standard. Is It All Just a Bunch of Hot Ai...
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Jul 30, 20221:07:44pending
24: PayWrecked: The People Who Took Their Paychecks in Crypto Regret It Now (w/...
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Jul 23, 202258:00pending
23: Elon Musk Loves Cryptocurrency (But Elon and Crypto Don't Love You)
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Jul 15, 202248:00pending
22: Bon Voyager! Your Crypto Loan Cash is Gone (w/ Ed Zitron)
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Jul 8, 202259:59pending
21: Coinspiracy: How QAnon Influencers Conned Their Followers with Crypto (w/ Er...
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Jul 1, 202258:57pending
20: Damn, the Torpedoes: The Story of Celsius (w/ Mike Burgersburg/Dirty Bubble...
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Jun 24, 20221:04:55pending
19: Crypto Jenga Tower Collapse: Celsius & the Crypto Time Bombs (w/ David Gerar...
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Jun 17, 20221:09:53pending
18: They Lost Everything: How the Terra Crypto Crash Ruined Lives Around the Wor...
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Jun 10, 20221:13:25pending
17: Bitcoin Nazis, Ethereum Grifters: A Tale of Two Communities (Scam Economy LI...
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Jun 3, 202241:14pending
16: How Wikipedia Cancelled Crypto (w/ Molly White)
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May 20, 202256:15pending
15: Terra, Luna, & The Crypto Crash: Everything You Need to Know (w/ Bennett Tom...
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May 12, 202254:40pending
14: Crypto Bad Ideas: Abortions on the Blockchain!? + Bored Apes Break Ethereum...
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May 6, 202256:14pending
13: Arrested for Protesting Bitcoin (w/ Mario Gomez)
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Apr 29, 20221:12:15pending