Scam Economy
Matt Binder
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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Ed Zitron of the new podcast Better Offline joins Scam Economy with Matt Binder to discuss Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies getting some a new life and pumping in recent weeks, what's going on with crypto lately? We also discuss the AI hype bubble and Apple Vision Pro. Check out Ed's new podcast Better Offline at https://www.betteroffline.com/ Visit: ScamEconomy.com Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Previous episodes
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65 - 57: Crypto Number Goes Up + The AI Hype Bubble (w/ Ed Zitron of Better Offline)Thu, 07 Mar 2024
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64 - 56: How MrBeast Inadvertently Revealed X / Twitter Monetization is RiggedMon, 05 Feb 2024
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63 - 55: Sam Bankman-Fried Guilty!: The FTX Fraud Trial (w/ Molly White)Wed, 08 Nov 2023
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62 - 54: The Tech Hype Bubble: VR Edition (w/ Paris Marx)Mon, 31 Jul 2023
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61 - 53: Meta Launches Threads by Instagram as Elon Musk Wrecks TwitterFri, 07 Jul 2023
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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
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59 - 51: Worldcoin Wants to Scan Your Eyeballs & Give You Crypto in Return: What Could Go Wrong? (w/ Leo Schwartz)Wed, 24 May 2023
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58 - 50: Elon Musk and the Twitter Blue (Check)Mark of ShameTue, 09 May 2023
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57 - 49: Orange is the New Blockchain: Crypto Crime ft. Kwon, Sun, SBF, & CZ (w/ Jacob Silverman)Thu, 06 Apr 2023
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56 - 48: Bitcoin Miners Are Making Bank...But Not From Mining Crypto (w/ Jackie Sawicky)Mon, 27 Mar 2023
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55 - 47: The Fall of Silicon Valley Bank & the Crybaby Tech VCs (w/ Edward Ongweso Jr.)Wed, 15 Mar 2023
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54 - 46: No Banking. No Staking. No Crypto Services? (w/ Bennett Tomlin)Thu, 09 Mar 2023
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53 - 45: Crypto Conspicuously Absent From This Year's Super Bowl. Wonder What Happened? (w/ Brandon Sutton)Thu, 09 Feb 2023
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52 - 44: Genesis, Gemini, and the Winklevi (w/ Ed Zitron)Thu, 26 Jan 2023
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51 - CES 2023: The Good, The Bad, The Dystopian Tech (w/ Eoin Higgins) (Scam Economy BONUS episode)Tue, 24 Jan 2023
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50 - 43: The Weirdest Frauds, Grifts, & Rug Pulls of Crypto's Hellish 2022 (w/ Molly White)Wed, 18 Jan 2023
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49 - 42: From Sam Bankman-Fried to Sam Bankman-Jailed: The FTX Saga Continues (w/ Molly White)Thu, 22 Dec 2022
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48 - 41: So Many Hacks! The Myth of Blockchain Security (w/ Domingo Flores)Mon, 12 Dec 2022
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47 - 40: BlockFi BankruptcyFi: A Bizarre FTX "Bailout" Story (w/ Nikhilesh De of CoinDesk)Mon, 05 Dec 2022
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46 - 39: FTX Conspiracies About Ukraine & Democrats Don't Add Up (w/ Sergey Vasylchuk)Mon, 21 Nov 2022
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45 - 38: Scam Bankrupt-Fraud: The Death of FTX (w/ Ed Zitron)Mon, 14 Nov 2022
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44 - 37: Sam Bankman-Fried is Known as Crypto's Bailout King. Is His Own Empire Broke? (w/ Mike Burgersburg)Mon, 07 Nov 2022
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43 - 36: Inside Yuga Labs: Bored Ape Yacht Club Behind-the-Scenes (w/ Yasmin Gagne and Connie Lin)Mon, 31 Oct 2022
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42 - 35: Crypto is the Future...Just Like Google Glass (w/ Quinn Myers)Fri, 21 Oct 2022
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41 - 34: RIP CNN's NFT Vault But Media's Terrible Crypto Coverage Lives On (w/ Parker Molloy)Fri, 14 Oct 2022
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40 - 33: Who'll Stop Celebrities From Unlawfully Shilling Shady Crypto & NFTs to Their Fans? (w/ Bonnie Patten)Fri, 07 Oct 2022
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39 - 32: GiveCrypto and the Real Goal of "Crypto Charity" (w/ Leo Schwartz)Thu, 29 Sep 2022
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38 - 31: One Year of Bukele's Bitcoin Law: Chaos in El Salvador (w/ Domingo Flores)Sat, 24 Sep 2022
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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
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36 - 29: Binance and the Mystery of Who is Guangying Chen? (w/ Jacob Silverman)Fri, 09 Sep 2022
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35 - 28: Crypto's Summer From Hell (w/ Molly White)Fri, 02 Sep 2022
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34 - Immutable and the Push to Force NFTs on Gamers (Scam Economy Live Post Show BONUS Clip)Fri, 26 Aug 2022
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33 - 27: All Your Coinbase Are Belong To Us (w/ Ed Zitron)Thu, 18 Aug 2022
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32 - Crypto Yield Rates Were Always a Red Flag (Scam Economy Live Post Show BONUS Clip)Fri, 12 Aug 2022
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31 - 26: Dune and Done: The Spice DAO Saga (w/ Adi Robertson)Fri, 05 Aug 2022
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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
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29 - 24: PayWrecked: The People Who Took Their Paychecks in Crypto Regret It Now (w/ Quinn Myers)Sat, 23 Jul 2022
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28 - 23: Elon Musk Loves Cryptocurrency (But Elon and Crypto Don't Love You)Fri, 15 Jul 2022
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27 - 22: Bon Voyager! Your Crypto Loan Cash is Gone (w/ Ed Zitron)Fri, 08 Jul 2022
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26 - 21: Coinspiracy: How QAnon Influencers Conned Their Followers with Crypto (w/ Ernie Piper & Nick Backovic of Logically.ai)Fri, 01 Jul 2022
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25 - 20: Damn, the Torpedoes: The Story of Celsius (w/ Mike Burgersburg/Dirty Bubble Media)Fri, 24 Jun 2022
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24 - 19: Crypto Jenga Tower Collapse: Celsius & the Crypto Time Bombs (w/ David Gerard & Amy Castor)Fri, 17 Jun 2022
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23 - 18: They Lost Everything: How the Terra Crypto Crash Ruined Lives Around the World (w/ Leo Schwartz)Fri, 10 Jun 2022
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22 - 17: Bitcoin Nazis, Ethereum Grifters: A Tale of Two Communities (Scam Economy LIVE in Brooklyn w/ Michael E. Hayden)Fri, 03 Jun 2022
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21 - 16: How Wikipedia Cancelled Crypto (w/ Molly White)Fri, 20 May 2022
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20 - 15: Terra, Luna, & The Crypto Crash: Everything You Need to Know (w/ Bennett Tomlin of Crypto Critics' Corner)Thu, 12 May 2022
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19 - 14: Crypto Bad Ideas: Abortions on the Blockchain!? + Bored Apes Break Ethereum (w/ Molly White)Fri, 06 May 2022
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18 - 13: Arrested for Protesting Bitcoin (w/ Mario Gomez)Fri, 29 Apr 2022
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17 - 12: A/S/L/Crypto?: The Dating App Crypto Scam ScourgeFri, 22 Apr 2022
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16 - 11: Inside the Bizarre Bitcoin 2022 Conference (w/ Ryan Broderick)Fri, 15 Apr 2022
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