All Episodes

Issue 111 – Back the winners

Issue 110 – The Clarity Act collapses

The Senate must reject the Clarity Act’s ethics charade

Issue 109 – Reg Crypto

Issue 108 – In a word, applesauce

Issue 107 – An unserious offer

Trump’s $1.4 billion crypto disclosure

Issue 106 – A tremendous birthday present

End Citizens United’s Tiffany Muller on fighting big money in politics

I’m launching Tech Influence Watch as AI follows crypto into politics

Issue 105 – The new boogeyman

No new trial for Sam Bankman-Fried

Issue 104 – World Tyranny Financial

Issue 103 – The President’s Council of Podcasters

Sam Bankman-Fried’s helicopter parents crash into federal court

Issue 102 – The public will pay

Issue 101 – Bought and paid for

Crypto super PACs have hundreds of millions ready to spend on the midterms

Issue 100 – Freedom of all kinds is worth fighting for

Issue 99 – They’ve bought themselves a Congress

The year of technoligarchy

Issue 98 – The world’s most corrupt crypto startup operation

Digital asset treasury companies are running out of steam

Issue 97 – This is hardship

Issue 96 – Redefining solvency

Trump says he has “no idea” who he just pardoned

Issue 95 – The pardon was the payoff

Anatomy of a crypto collapse

Issue 94 – Backdoor deals

Issue 93 – Undermining deregulation

Prediction markets are booming. Oversight is barely there.

Issue 92 – The scam of all scams

Trump Jr.-advised prediction markets invite bets on president’s demise

Issue 91 – GDP on the blockchain

As he builds US power, Justin Sun fights to control his story

Issue 90 – Crime szn bro

Curate your own newspaper with RSS

The Tornado Cash case: When politics sabotage a prosecution

Issue 89 – Crypto wins in Washington with midnight calls, chocolate bars, and a $141 million threat

Issue 88 – The stockchain

Issue 87 – SO ORDERED

Issue 86 – State power sponsored by Coinbase

It matters. I care.

Issue 85 – All the President’s tokens

Trump to launch branded crypto trading application

OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men

Issue 84 – Rogue overseas support agents

Issue 83 – Trump’s crypto-backed plan to auction off access to the White House

Meet Trump’s memecoin dinner guests

Issue 82 – E-moluments

Trump’s newest grift: Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators

Issue 81 – Crypto crime is legal

Issue 80 – Aimed at benefiting the digital assets industry

Issue 79 – Mundus sine Caesaribus

“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI

Crypto reserves: no public good, no principles

Issue 78 – President on brink of bailout for bitcoin

Issue 77 – Whenever presidents get involved, if they become angry, you don't want to be there

The crypto industry’s debanking smokescreen

Issue 76 – Tripartisan legislation

Trump's Project 2025 ghostwriters

Issue 75 – Absolutely preposterous

No, Trump didn’t make $50 billion from his memecoin

Issue 74 – Stop asking me questions like “where does the yield come from”

Issue 73 – Degen volunteer fire brigade

Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia

Not just one bad apple: FTX's practices were business as usual in crypto

Issue 72 – A seat at the table

Issue 71 – (Crypto) banks are not your friends

The Cryptocurrency Industry's Unprecedented Election Spending

Issue 70 – The Cryptocurrency States of America

Wind the clock

Issue 69 – Nice

I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent”

Guilty or coerced? Ryan Salame’s last interviews before prison

Issue 68 – Opportunity agenda

Fighting for our web

Caroline Ellison: A woman with agency or a helpless pawn?

POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world

Issue 67 – Bug out bitcoin

Issue 66 – Pretensions to relevance

Big publishers think libraries are the enemy

Issue 65 – World Liberty Fiasco

Polling: Are Democratic voters really “increasingly gravitating towards crypto”?

Issue 64 – Pointing its arsenal at our friends

Sexism in Bitcoin: an interview with Lyn Alden

Issue 63 – RobConf 2024

Coinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with a $25 million super PAC donation

When did cryptocurrency policy become a voter issue?

Issue 62 – Grassroots

Follow the Crypto

Issue 61 – Soft war by the enemy

Issue 60 – Raging in favor of the machine

Issue 59 – Hot damn, this is going to get interesting quickly

Cryptocurrency companies have raised over $115 million to influence US elections this cycle, and they’re just getting started

Privacy, human rights, and Tornado Cash

Issue 58 – Threats to the stability and integrity of Ethereum

Issue 57 - I take deep breath and I get real high

We can have a different web

Issue 56 – What are you gonna do, arrest me?