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Scam Economy — 67 episodes

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59: The Golden Age of Grift

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58: Her: OpenAI v. Scarlett Johansson

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57: Crypto Number Goes Up + The AI Hype Bubble (w/ Ed Zitron of Better Offline)

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56: How MrBeast Inadvertently Revealed X / Twitter Monetization is Rigged

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55: Sam Bankman-Fried Guilty!: The FTX Fraud Trial (w/ Molly White)

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54: The Tech Hype Bubble: VR Edition (w/ Paris Marx)

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53: Meta Launches Threads by Instagram as Elon Musk Wrecks Twitter

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52: Unregistered Securities: SEC Sues Coinbase & Binance...Is This the End of Crypto in the U.S.? (w/ Molly White)

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51: Worldcoin Wants to Scan Your Eyeballs & Give You Crypto in Return: What Could Go Wrong? (w/ Leo Schwartz)

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50: Elon Musk and the Twitter Blue (Check)Mark of Shame

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49: Orange is the New Blockchain: Crypto Crime ft. Kwon, Sun, SBF, & CZ (w/ Jacob Silverman)

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48: Bitcoin Miners Are Making Bank...But Not From Mining Crypto (w/ Jackie Sawicky)

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47: The Fall of Silicon Valley Bank & the Crybaby Tech VCs (w/ Edward Ongweso Jr.)

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46: No Banking. No Staking. No Crypto Services? (w/ Bennett Tomlin)

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45: Crypto Conspicuously Absent From This Year's Super Bowl. Wonder What Happened? (w/ Brandon Sutton)

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44: Genesis, Gemini, and the Winklevi (w/ Ed Zitron)

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CES 2023: The Good, The Bad, The Dystopian Tech (w/ Eoin Higgins) (Scam Economy BONUS episode)

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43: The Weirdest Frauds, Grifts, & Rug Pulls of Crypto's Hellish 2022 (w/ Molly White)

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42: From Sam Bankman-Fried to Sam Bankman-Jailed: The FTX Saga Continues (w/ Molly White)

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41: So Many Hacks! The Myth of Blockchain Security (w/ Domingo Flores)

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40: BlockFi BankruptcyFi: A Bizarre FTX "Bailout" Story (w/ Nikhilesh De of CoinDesk)

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39: FTX Conspiracies About Ukraine & Democrats Don't Add Up (w/ Sergey Vasylchuk)

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38: Scam Bankrupt-Fraud: The Death of FTX (w/ Ed Zitron)

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37: Sam Bankman-Fried is Known as Crypto's Bailout King. Is His Own Empire Broke? (w/ Mike Burgersburg)

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36: Inside Yuga Labs: Bored Ape Yacht Club Behind-the-Scenes (w/ Yasmin Gagne and Connie Lin)

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35: Crypto is the Future...Just Like Google Glass (w/ Quinn Myers)

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34: RIP CNN's NFT Vault But Media's Terrible Crypto Coverage Lives On (w/ Parker Molloy)

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33: Who'll Stop Celebrities From Unlawfully Shilling Shady Crypto & NFTs to Their Fans? (w/ Bonnie Patten)

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32: GiveCrypto and the Real Goal of "Crypto Charity" (w/ Leo Schwartz)

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31: One Year of Bukele's Bitcoin Law: Chaos in El Salvador (w/ Domingo Flores)

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30: The Ethereum Merge is Here. What It Means, Who's Getting Rich & Why It Won't Be You (w/ Bennett Tomlin)

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29: Binance and the Mystery of Who is Guangying Chen? (w/ Jacob Silverman)

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28: Crypto's Summer From Hell (w/ Molly White)

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Immutable and the Push to Force NFTs on Gamers (Scam Economy Live Post Show BONUS Clip)

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27: All Your Coinbase Are Belong To Us (w/ Ed Zitron)

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Crypto Yield Rates Were Always a Red Flag (Scam Economy Live Post Show BONUS Clip)

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26: Dune and Done: The Spice DAO Saga (w/ Adi Robertson)

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25: Helium is Touted as the Web3 Gold Standard. Is It All Just a Bunch of Hot Air? (w/ Liron Shapira)

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24: PayWrecked: The People Who Took Their Paychecks in Crypto Regret It Now (w/ Quinn Myers)

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23: Elon Musk Loves Cryptocurrency (But Elon and Crypto Don't Love You)

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22: Bon Voyager! Your Crypto Loan Cash is Gone (w/ Ed Zitron)

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21: Coinspiracy: How QAnon Influencers Conned Their Followers with Crypto (w/ Ernie Piper & Nick Backovic of Logically.ai)

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20: Damn, the Torpedoes: The Story of Celsius (w/ Mike Burgersburg/Dirty Bubble Media)

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19: Crypto Jenga Tower Collapse: Celsius & the Crypto Time Bombs (w/ David Gerard & Amy Castor)

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18: They Lost Everything: How the Terra Crypto Crash Ruined Lives Around the World (w/ Leo Schwartz)

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17: Bitcoin Nazis, Ethereum Grifters: A Tale of Two Communities (Scam Economy LIVE in Brooklyn w/ Michael E. Hayden)

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16: How Wikipedia Cancelled Crypto (w/ Molly White)

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15: Terra, Luna, & The Crypto Crash: Everything You Need to Know (w/ Bennett Tomlin of Crypto Critics' Corner)

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14: Crypto Bad Ideas: Abortions on the Blockchain!? + Bored Apes Break Ethereum (w/ Molly White)

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13: Arrested for Protesting Bitcoin (w/ Mario Gomez)

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12: A/S/L/Crypto?: The Dating App Crypto Scam Scourge

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11: Inside the Bizarre Bitcoin 2022 Conference (w/ Ryan Broderick)

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10: Bitcoin Goes Green[washing] (w/ Leanna First-Arai)

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Axie Infinity, Indentured Servitude (Scam Economy Hotline LIVE Post Show Teaser Clip)

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9: The Play to Earn Pyramid: Axie Infinity & the Dystopia That Crypto Wants (w/ Ed Zitron)

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8: Monkey Business: Bored Ape Yacht Club, Yuga Labs, & ApeCoin (w/ Amy Castor)

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7: The Crypto Grift Descends on Ukraine

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The Depravity of Randi Zuckerberg's Web3 Song (Scam Economy Post Show Teaser Clip)

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6: Web3 Sucks (w/ Molly White)

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5: NFTs Get Physical, Real Estate Gets Digital, It's All Despicable (w/ Wilfred Chan)

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4: Crypto Super Bowl Ads Weren't Like the Dot Com Bubble (It's Much Worse.)

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3: Razzlekhan & The Great Bitfinex Heist (w/ Jack Morse)

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Scam Economy Post Show: Episode #2 (Teaser Clip!)

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2: Cryptocurrency is a Ponzi (w/ Sohale Mortazavi)

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Scam Economy Post Show: Episode #1

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1: Scam Economy 101: The ABCs of Crypto (w/ David Gerard)

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0: Welcome to the Scam Economy