Scam Economy

65 - 57: Crypto Number Goes Up + The AI Hype Bubble (w/ Ed Zitron of Better Offline)

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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65 - 57: Crypto Number Goes Up + The AI Hype Bubble (w/ Ed Zitron of Better Offline)

Thu, 07 Mar 2024
64 - 56: How MrBeast Inadvertently Revealed X / Twitter Monetization is Rigged

Mon, 05 Feb 2024
63 - 55: Sam Bankman-Fried Guilty!: The FTX Fraud Trial (w/ Molly White)

Wed, 08 Nov 2023
62 - 54: The Tech Hype Bubble: VR Edition (w/ Paris Marx)

Mon, 31 Jul 2023
61 - 53: Meta Launches Threads by Instagram as Elon Musk Wrecks Twitter

Fri, 07 Jul 2023
60 - 52: Unregistered Securities: SEC Sues Coinbase & Binance...Is This the End of Crypto in the U.S.? (w/ Molly White)

Tue, 13 Jun 2023
59 - 51: Worldcoin Wants to Scan Your Eyeballs & Give You Crypto in Return: What Could Go Wrong? (w/ Leo Schwartz)

Wed, 24 May 2023
58 - 50: Elon Musk and the Twitter Blue (Check)Mark of Shame

Tue, 09 May 2023
57 - 49: Orange is the New Blockchain: Crypto Crime ft. Kwon, Sun, SBF, & CZ (w/ Jacob Silverman)

Thu, 06 Apr 2023
56 - 48: Bitcoin Miners Are Making Bank...But Not From Mining Crypto (w/ Jackie Sawicky)

Mon, 27 Mar 2023
55 - 47: The Fall of Silicon Valley Bank & the Crybaby Tech VCs (w/ Edward Ongweso Jr.)

Wed, 15 Mar 2023
54 - 46: No Banking. No Staking. No Crypto Services? (w/ Bennett Tomlin)

Thu, 09 Mar 2023
53 - 45: Crypto Conspicuously Absent From This Year's Super Bowl. Wonder What Happened? (w/ Brandon Sutton)

Thu, 09 Feb 2023
52 - 44: Genesis, Gemini, and the Winklevi (w/ Ed Zitron)

Thu, 26 Jan 2023
51 - CES 2023: The Good, The Bad, The Dystopian Tech (w/ Eoin Higgins) (Scam Economy BONUS episode)

Tue, 24 Jan 2023
50 - 43: The Weirdest Frauds, Grifts, & Rug Pulls of Crypto's Hellish 2022 (w/ Molly White)

Wed, 18 Jan 2023
49 - 42: From Sam Bankman-Fried to Sam Bankman-Jailed: The FTX Saga Continues (w/ Molly White)

Thu, 22 Dec 2022
48 - 41: So Many Hacks! The Myth of Blockchain Security (w/ Domingo Flores)

Mon, 12 Dec 2022
47 - 40: BlockFi BankruptcyFi: A Bizarre FTX "Bailout" Story (w/ Nikhilesh De of CoinDesk)

Mon, 05 Dec 2022
46 - 39: FTX Conspiracies About Ukraine & Democrats Don't Add Up (w/ Sergey Vasylchuk)

Mon, 21 Nov 2022
45 - 38: Scam Bankrupt-Fraud: The Death of FTX (w/ Ed Zitron)

Mon, 14 Nov 2022
44 - 37: Sam Bankman-Fried is Known as Crypto's Bailout King. Is His Own Empire Broke? (w/ Mike Burgersburg)

Mon, 07 Nov 2022
43 - 36: Inside Yuga Labs: Bored Ape Yacht Club Behind-the-Scenes (w/ Yasmin Gagne and Connie Lin)

Mon, 31 Oct 2022
42 - 35: Crypto is the Future...Just Like Google Glass (w/ Quinn Myers)

Fri, 21 Oct 2022
41 - 34: RIP CNN's NFT Vault But Media's Terrible Crypto Coverage Lives On (w/ Parker Molloy)

Fri, 14 Oct 2022
40 - 33: Who'll Stop Celebrities From Unlawfully Shilling Shady Crypto & NFTs to Their Fans? (w/ Bonnie Patten)

Fri, 07 Oct 2022
39 - 32: GiveCrypto and the Real Goal of "Crypto Charity" (w/ Leo Schwartz)

Thu, 29 Sep 2022
38 - 31: One Year of Bukele's Bitcoin Law: Chaos in El Salvador (w/ Domingo Flores)

Sat, 24 Sep 2022
37 - 30: The Ethereum Merge is Here. What It Means, Who's Getting Rich & Why It Won't Be You (w/ Bennett Tomlin)

Thu, 15 Sep 2022
36 - 29: Binance and the Mystery of Who is Guangying Chen? (w/ Jacob Silverman)

Fri, 09 Sep 2022
35 - 28: Crypto's Summer From Hell (w/ Molly White)

Fri, 02 Sep 2022
34 - Immutable and the Push to Force NFTs on Gamers (Scam Economy Live Post Show BONUS Clip)

Fri, 26 Aug 2022
33 - 27: All Your Coinbase Are Belong To Us (w/ Ed Zitron)

Thu, 18 Aug 2022
32 - Crypto Yield Rates Were Always a Red Flag (Scam Economy Live Post Show BONUS Clip)

Fri, 12 Aug 2022
31 - 26: Dune and Done: The Spice DAO Saga (w/ Adi Robertson)

Fri, 05 Aug 2022
30 - 25: Helium is Touted as the Web3 Gold Standard. Is It All Just a Bunch of Hot Air? (w/ Liron Shapira)

Sat, 30 Jul 2022
29 - 24: PayWrecked: The People Who Took Their Paychecks in Crypto Regret It Now (w/ Quinn Myers)

Sat, 23 Jul 2022
28 - 23: Elon Musk Loves Cryptocurrency (But Elon and Crypto Don't Love You)

Fri, 15 Jul 2022
27 - 22: Bon Voyager! Your Crypto Loan Cash is Gone (w/ Ed Zitron)

Fri, 08 Jul 2022
26 - 21: Coinspiracy: How QAnon Influencers Conned Their Followers with Crypto (w/ Ernie Piper & Nick Backovic of Logically.ai)

Fri, 01 Jul 2022
25 - 20: Damn, the Torpedoes: The Story of Celsius (w/ Mike Burgersburg/Dirty Bubble Media)

Fri, 24 Jun 2022
24 - 19: Crypto Jenga Tower Collapse: Celsius & the Crypto Time Bombs (w/ David Gerard & Amy Castor)

Fri, 17 Jun 2022
23 - 18: They Lost Everything: How the Terra Crypto Crash Ruined Lives Around the World (w/ Leo Schwartz)

Fri, 10 Jun 2022
22 - 17: Bitcoin Nazis, Ethereum Grifters: A Tale of Two Communities (Scam Economy LIVE in Brooklyn w/ Michael E. Hayden)

Fri, 03 Jun 2022
21 - 16: How Wikipedia Cancelled Crypto (w/ Molly White)

Fri, 20 May 2022
20 - 15: Terra, Luna, & The Crypto Crash: Everything You Need to Know (w/ Bennett Tomlin of Crypto Critics' Corner)

Thu, 12 May 2022
19 - 14: Crypto Bad Ideas: Abortions on the Blockchain!? + Bored Apes Break Ethereum (w/ Molly White)

Fri, 06 May 2022
18 - 13: Arrested for Protesting Bitcoin (w/ Mario Gomez)

Fri, 29 Apr 2022
17 - 12: A/S/L/Crypto?: The Dating App Crypto Scam Scourge

Fri, 22 Apr 2022
16 - 11: Inside the Bizarre Bitcoin 2022 Conference (w/ Ryan Broderick)

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