Scam Economy

66 Episodes

1. 58: Her: OpenAI v. Scarlett Johansson

   Published: 5/30/2024
2. 57: Crypto Number Goes Up + The AI Hype Bubble (w/ Ed Zitron of Better Offline)

   Published: 3/7/2024
3. 56: How MrBeast Inadvertently Revealed X / Twitter Monetization is Rigged

   Published: 2/5/2024
4. 55: Sam Bankman-Fried Guilty!: The FTX Fraud Trial (w/ Molly White)

   Published: 11/8/2023
5. 54: The Tech Hype Bubble: VR Edition (w/ Paris Marx)

   Published: 7/31/2023
6. 53: Meta Launches Threads by Instagram as Elon Musk Wrecks Twitter

   Published: 7/7/2023
7. 52: Unregistered Securities: SEC Sues Coinbase & Binance...Is This the End of Crypto in the U.S.? (w/ Molly White)

   Published: 6/13/2023
8. 51: Worldcoin Wants to Scan Your Eyeballs & Give You Crypto in Return: What Could Go Wrong? (w/ Leo Schwartz)

   Published: 5/24/2023
9. 50: Elon Musk and the Twitter Blue (Check)Mark of Shame

   Published: 5/9/2023
10. 49: Orange is the New Blockchain: Crypto Crime ft. Kwon, Sun, SBF, & CZ (w/ Jacob Silverman)

    Published: 4/6/2023
11. 48: Bitcoin Miners Are Making Bank...But Not From Mining Crypto (w/ Jackie Sawicky)

    Published: 3/27/2023
12. 47: The Fall of Silicon Valley Bank & the Crybaby Tech VCs (w/ Edward Ongweso Jr.)

    Published: 3/15/2023
13. 46: No Banking. No Staking. No Crypto Services? (w/ Bennett Tomlin)

    Published: 3/9/2023
14. 45: Crypto Conspicuously Absent From This Year's Super Bowl. Wonder What Happened? (w/ Brandon Sutton)

    Published: 2/9/2023
15. 44: Genesis, Gemini, and the Winklevi (w/ Ed Zitron)

    Published: 1/26/2023
16. CES 2023: The Good, The Bad, The Dystopian Tech (w/ Eoin Higgins) (Scam Economy BONUS episode)

    Published: 1/24/2023
17. 43: The Weirdest Frauds, Grifts, & Rug Pulls of Crypto's Hellish 2022 (w/ Molly White)

    Published: 1/18/2023
18. 42: From Sam Bankman-Fried to Sam Bankman-Jailed: The FTX Saga Continues (w/ Molly White)

    Published: 12/22/2022
19. 41: So Many Hacks! The Myth of Blockchain Security (w/ Domingo Flores)

    Published: 12/12/2022
20. 40: BlockFi BankruptcyFi: A Bizarre FTX "Bailout" Story (w/ Nikhilesh De of CoinDesk)

    Published: 12/5/2022