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The Twisted Relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Cryptocurrency Billionaire Brock Pierce

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Are prediction markets a bet against democracy?

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Molly White on Trump's Crypto Corruption

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Crypto politics (feat. Nitish Pahwa)

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Trump v. Powell: The Murder of the Federal Reserve

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The Vile Truth of Bitcoin (Feat. Peter Ryan)

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Is Elon Musk’s Starbase a good idea?

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Is $TRUMP corrupt?

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Put Congress on the Blockchain (Feat. Rohan Grey)

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Cryptocurrency funded American Fascism

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The Realization™ (Elon Musk is a Fraud)

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What happened to the SEC? (Feat. Corey Frayer)

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End the Fed

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Elon Musk's St. Valentine's Day Massacre

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CFPB RIP 🪦

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What the Elon Musk coup means for Finance

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Humiliate your local billionaire (feat. Ed Zitron)

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Is there one good regulator between the SEC and the CFTC? (feat. Sean Tuffy)

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CBDCs are Dead, Long Live Trump Coin!

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What Donald Trump means for Bitcoin (Feat. Joey Politano)

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Tether wins, Skeptics lose: the end of an era

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Donald Trump, Justin Sun, and the grifts we missed

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Is Bitcoin good for the world? (feat. Andrew Bailey)

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How to investigate a fraud

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Is Venture Capital Good?

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DJT: The official Trump Token?

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Justin Sun is Insolvent

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Is Effective Altruism Evil? (Feat. Vincent Woo)

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CZ vs SBF

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Regional Banking: It's Over, Bro

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Two giant river boys and their missing $1,000,000,000: the Winklevoss Twins (Feat. Ed Zitron)

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YUM YUM MONEY TIME: Deltec Bank moved customer funds from FTX to Alameda Research

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Binanace and Changpeng Zhao Indicted: End of an Era

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Read, Write, Owned: Broken Web3 Promises (Feat. Molly White)

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Tether: The $100,000,000,000 Problem in Crypto

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Why Crypto Will Never Fix Payments (Feat. Patrick McKenzie)

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Sam Bankman-Fried Sent Himself to Prison (Feat. Elizabeth Lopatto)

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Wyre: Another crypto payment processor involved in fraud

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Sam Bankman-Fried's Trial is Going Great (feat. Molly White)

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It's so over: Sam Bankman-Fried testifies (feat. Sam Kessler)

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Tweets, Trolls, and Superstars in the Sam Bankman-Fried Trial (Feat. Katie Baker)

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Sam Bankman-Fried asked FTX's lawyer to explain away stolen funds (feat. Danny Nelson)

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Moonstone Bank: FTX, Deltec, and the Mission to Move Millions

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Caroline Ellison Takes the Stand: the Sam Bankman-Fried Trial Week 2 (Feat. Nikhilesh De)

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Can crypto companies get bank accounts?

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Did Sam Bankman-Fried's Defense Blow It? (Feat. David Z. Morris)

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Are NFTs securities?

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Elon Musk's ESG Con (Feat. Eric Roesch)

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Were SBF's parents in on it? Follow the Money

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Circle is losing the stablecoin war to Tether (Feat. Leo Schwartz)

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SBF Deserves Human Rights

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Let's Talk About Number Go Up with Zeke Faux

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All-In? We're Out: Why the All-In Podcast is Bad for America

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How to Steal Almost $100 Million: Prime Trust goes Bust

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Effective Altruism: Morally Buy An Island Nation

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All Hail The Orb: Worldcoin

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Justin Sun and TrueUSD... Again

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Prime Trust, TrueUSD, and Offshore Finance (Feat. Jonathan Reiter and Patrick Tan)

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How to attack Bitcoin (Feat. Micah Warren)

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Bennett and Cas at Consensus 2023: How to Spot a Scam

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Binance, Coinbase, and the SEC (Featuring Mike Burgersburg of Dirty Bubble Media)

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Crypto Critics Cope at Consensus Conference

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The FDIC, Infinite Insurance, and Moral Hazards (Feat. Rohan Grey)

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The Whistleblower Who Exposed WorldCom (feat. Cynthia Cooper & Daren Firestone)

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Binance in Trouble (streamed live on March 27th, 2023)

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SEC sues Justin Sun, Coinbase, Celebrities; also Do Kwon arrested (recorded on March 23rd)

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Toilet Apes and other NFT Exploitation (Feat. Ed Zitron)

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Silvergategate: The Collapse of Silvergate and the Future of Cryptocurrency Banking

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Tether Falsified Bank Records

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Satire in Cryptocurrency: West Ham (feat. Josh Cincinnati and Laurence [Insert Last Name Here])

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The El Salvador Volcano Token (feat. Domingo Flores)

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Harmony Horizon Exploit, Lazarus Group, and Cryptocurrency Bridges

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Nexo Raided, SBF Lies, and Genesis and Gemini Charged

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Cryptocurrency Banks Give Up

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Did Satoshi run a drug cartel? The Paul Le Roux Story (Feat. Evan Ratliff)

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Auditors, Binance, and Global Regulation

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The Skeptic's Guide to Skepticism

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FTX and Alameda are dead, long live cryptocurrency

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Shadow Banking 2.0 in Web3 and DeFi (Feat. Hilary Allen)

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Binance Smart Chain is Dumb and Mango Markets, Too

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High Noon at Ooki Corral: CFTC Sues DAO Participants

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A Tale of Two Ponzis: Celsius and Luna, Alex Mashinsky and Do Kwon

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Saylor's Strategy: a MicroTragedy

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Crypto Journalism and Shills (feat. Nikhilesh De)

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The Good, the Bad, and the Bukele (Feat. Frank Muci)

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Draconian Financial Regulation and the Argument for Tether (Feat. Boaz Sobrado)

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Coinbase and Kraken Facing Regulatory Actions

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Sex, Lies, and Ponzinomics: Marketing in Cryptocurrency (Feat. Adam Singer)

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A Tether Update

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The Dogecoin Joke (Feat. Jackson Palmer)

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Celsius Network: a Pyramid of Ponzis

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Cryptocurrency Criticism in a Bear Market (Feat. Molly White)

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Contagions and Cascading Liquidations in Cryptocurrency

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NFTs, Frauds, and Algorithmic Stablecoins (Feat. Mark Cuban)

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Bitcoin ETFs, the SEC, and Regulatory Clarity (Feat. James Seyffart)

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New NFT Usecase Discovered, and it's Insider Trading

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Celsius Collapsing: Causes, Concerns, and Catastrophe (Feat. Mike Burgersburg)

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Pre-Philanthropic Billionaires and Bitcoin (Feat. Mario Gibney)

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Disclosures, Conflicts of Interest, and Diplomacy

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El Salvador Revisited: Chivo, KYC/AML, and Nayib Bukele (Feat. Domingo Flores)

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