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Scam Economy

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.

59: The Golden Age of Grift

55 mins; February 07, 2025

58: Her: OpenAI v. Scarlett Johansson

50 mins; May 29, 2024

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

88 hours 5 mins; March 07, 2024

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

54 mins; February 04, 2024

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

93 hours 51 mins; November 07, 2023

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

84 hours 19 mins; July 30, 2023

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

62 hours 36 mins; July 06, 2023

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

70 hours 27 mins; June 12, 2023

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

56 mins; May 23, 2023

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

77 hours 56 mins; May 08, 2023

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

70 hours 42 mins; April 05, 2023

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

72 hours 28 mins; March 26, 2023

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

73 hours 50 mins; March 14, 2023

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

61 hours 3 mins; March 08, 2023

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

86 hours 3 mins; February 08, 2023

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

90 hours 39 mins; January 25, 2023

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

53 mins; January 23, 2023

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

55 mins; January 17, 2023

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

71 hours 37 mins; December 21, 2022

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

79 hours 29 mins; December 11, 2022

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

67 hours 56 mins; December 04, 2022

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

63 hours 8 mins; November 20, 2022

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

123 hours 38 mins; November 13, 2022

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

60 hours 5 mins; November 06, 2022

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

125 hours 20 mins; October 30, 2022

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

79 hours 49 mins; October 20, 2022

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

65 hours 59 mins; October 13, 2022

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

55 mins; October 06, 2022

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

64 hours 51 mins; September 29, 2022

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

76 hours 44 mins; September 23, 2022

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

73 hours 1 min; September 15, 2022

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

49 mins; September 08, 2022

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

70 hours 9 mins; September 01, 2022

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

33 mins; August 26, 2022

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

79 hours 56 mins; August 18, 2022

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

57 mins; August 12, 2022

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

66 hours 5 mins; August 04, 2022

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

67 hours 44 mins; July 29, 2022

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

58 mins; July 22, 2022

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

48 mins; July 14, 2022

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

59 mins; July 07, 2022

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

58 mins; June 30, 2022

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

64 hours 55 mins; June 23, 2022

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

69 hours 53 mins; June 16, 2022

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

73 hours 25 mins; June 10, 2022

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

41 mins; June 03, 2022

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

56 mins; May 19, 2022

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

54 mins; May 11, 2022

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

56 mins; May 05, 2022

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

72 hours 15 mins; April 28, 2022

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

67 hours 10 mins; April 21, 2022

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

69 hours 8 mins; April 14, 2022

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

50 mins; April 07, 2022

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

24 mins; April 05, 2022

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

92 hours 39 mins; March 31, 2022

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

69 hours 12 mins; March 24, 2022

7: The Crypto Grift Descends on Ukraine

51 mins; March 17, 2022

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

19 mins; March 14, 2022

6: Web3 Sucks (w/ Molly White)

63 hours 40 mins; March 10, 2022

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

45 mins; March 03, 2022

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

35 mins; February 17, 2022

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

45 mins; February 10, 2022

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

26 mins; February 09, 2022

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

55 mins; February 03, 2022

Scam Economy Post Show: Episode #1

116 hours 9 mins; January 30, 2022

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

70 hours 22 mins; January 27, 2022

0: Welcome to the Scam Economy

4 mins; January 25, 2022

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