All Episodes
Scam Economy — 67 episodes
59: The Golden Age of Grift
58: Her: OpenAI v. Scarlett Johansson
57: Crypto Number Goes Up + The AI Hype Bubble (w/ Ed Zitron of Better Offline)
56: How MrBeast Inadvertently Revealed X / Twitter Monetization is Rigged
55: Sam Bankman-Fried Guilty!: The FTX Fraud Trial (w/ Molly White)
54: The Tech Hype Bubble: VR Edition (w/ Paris Marx)
53: Meta Launches Threads by Instagram as Elon Musk Wrecks Twitter
52: Unregistered Securities: SEC Sues Coinbase & Binance...Is This the End of Crypto in the U.S.? (w/ Molly White)
51: Worldcoin Wants to Scan Your Eyeballs & Give You Crypto in Return: What Could Go Wrong? (w/ Leo Schwartz)
50: Elon Musk and the Twitter Blue (Check)Mark of Shame
49: Orange is the New Blockchain: Crypto Crime ft. Kwon, Sun, SBF, & CZ (w/ Jacob Silverman)
48: Bitcoin Miners Are Making Bank...But Not From Mining Crypto (w/ Jackie Sawicky)
47: The Fall of Silicon Valley Bank & the Crybaby Tech VCs (w/ Edward Ongweso Jr.)
46: No Banking. No Staking. No Crypto Services? (w/ Bennett Tomlin)
45: Crypto Conspicuously Absent From This Year's Super Bowl. Wonder What Happened? (w/ Brandon Sutton)
44: Genesis, Gemini, and the Winklevi (w/ Ed Zitron)
CES 2023: The Good, The Bad, The Dystopian Tech (w/ Eoin Higgins) (Scam Economy BONUS episode)
43: The Weirdest Frauds, Grifts, & Rug Pulls of Crypto's Hellish 2022 (w/ Molly White)
42: From Sam Bankman-Fried to Sam Bankman-Jailed: The FTX Saga Continues (w/ Molly White)
41: So Many Hacks! The Myth of Blockchain Security (w/ Domingo Flores)
40: BlockFi BankruptcyFi: A Bizarre FTX "Bailout" Story (w/ Nikhilesh De of CoinDesk)
39: FTX Conspiracies About Ukraine & Democrats Don't Add Up (w/ Sergey Vasylchuk)
38: Scam Bankrupt-Fraud: The Death of FTX (w/ Ed Zitron)
37: Sam Bankman-Fried is Known as Crypto's Bailout King. Is His Own Empire Broke? (w/ Mike Burgersburg)
36: Inside Yuga Labs: Bored Ape Yacht Club Behind-the-Scenes (w/ Yasmin Gagne and Connie Lin)
35: Crypto is the Future...Just Like Google Glass (w/ Quinn Myers)
34: RIP CNN's NFT Vault But Media's Terrible Crypto Coverage Lives On (w/ Parker Molloy)
33: Who'll Stop Celebrities From Unlawfully Shilling Shady Crypto & NFTs to Their Fans? (w/ Bonnie Patten)
32: GiveCrypto and the Real Goal of "Crypto Charity" (w/ Leo Schwartz)
31: One Year of Bukele's Bitcoin Law: Chaos in El Salvador (w/ Domingo Flores)
30: The Ethereum Merge is Here. What It Means, Who's Getting Rich & Why It Won't Be You (w/ Bennett Tomlin)
29: Binance and the Mystery of Who is Guangying Chen? (w/ Jacob Silverman)
28: Crypto's Summer From Hell (w/ Molly White)
Immutable and the Push to Force NFTs on Gamers (Scam Economy Live Post Show BONUS Clip)
27: All Your Coinbase Are Belong To Us (w/ Ed Zitron)
Crypto Yield Rates Were Always a Red Flag (Scam Economy Live Post Show BONUS Clip)
26: Dune and Done: The Spice DAO Saga (w/ Adi Robertson)
25: Helium is Touted as the Web3 Gold Standard. Is It All Just a Bunch of Hot Air? (w/ Liron Shapira)
24: PayWrecked: The People Who Took Their Paychecks in Crypto Regret It Now (w/ Quinn Myers)
23: Elon Musk Loves Cryptocurrency (But Elon and Crypto Don't Love You)
22: Bon Voyager! Your Crypto Loan Cash is Gone (w/ Ed Zitron)
21: Coinspiracy: How QAnon Influencers Conned Their Followers with Crypto (w/ Ernie Piper & Nick Backovic of Logically.ai)
20: Damn, the Torpedoes: The Story of Celsius (w/ Mike Burgersburg/Dirty Bubble Media)
19: Crypto Jenga Tower Collapse: Celsius & the Crypto Time Bombs (w/ David Gerard & Amy Castor)
18: They Lost Everything: How the Terra Crypto Crash Ruined Lives Around the World (w/ Leo Schwartz)
17: Bitcoin Nazis, Ethereum Grifters: A Tale of Two Communities (Scam Economy LIVE in Brooklyn w/ Michael E. Hayden)
16: How Wikipedia Cancelled Crypto (w/ Molly White)
15: Terra, Luna, & The Crypto Crash: Everything You Need to Know (w/ Bennett Tomlin of Crypto Critics' Corner)
14: Crypto Bad Ideas: Abortions on the Blockchain!? + Bored Apes Break Ethereum (w/ Molly White)
13: Arrested for Protesting Bitcoin (w/ Mario Gomez)
12: A/S/L/Crypto?: The Dating App Crypto Scam Scourge
11: Inside the Bizarre Bitcoin 2022 Conference (w/ Ryan Broderick)
10: Bitcoin Goes Green[washing] (w/ Leanna First-Arai)
Axie Infinity, Indentured Servitude (Scam Economy Hotline LIVE Post Show Teaser Clip)
9: The Play to Earn Pyramid: Axie Infinity & the Dystopia That Crypto Wants (w/ Ed Zitron)
8: Monkey Business: Bored Ape Yacht Club, Yuga Labs, & ApeCoin (w/ Amy Castor)
7: The Crypto Grift Descends on Ukraine
The Depravity of Randi Zuckerberg's Web3 Song (Scam Economy Post Show Teaser Clip)
6: Web3 Sucks (w/ Molly White)
5: NFTs Get Physical, Real Estate Gets Digital, It's All Despicable (w/ Wilfred Chan)
4: Crypto Super Bowl Ads Weren't Like the Dot Com Bubble (It's Much Worse.)
3: Razzlekhan & The Great Bitfinex Heist (w/ Jack Morse)
Scam Economy Post Show: Episode #2 (Teaser Clip!)
2: Cryptocurrency is a Ponzi (w/ Sohale Mortazavi)
Scam Economy Post Show: Episode #1
1: Scam Economy 101: The ABCs of Crypto (w/ David Gerard)
0: Welcome to the Scam Economy