Scam Economy
Technology

Scam Economy

by 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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1
59: The Golden Age of Grift
55:39 Feb 7, 2025
2
58: Her: OpenAI v. Scarlett Johansson
50:26 May 30, 2024
3
57: Crypto Number Goes Up + The AI Hype Bubble (w/ Ed Zitron of Better Offline)
1:28:05 Mar 7, 2024
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56: How MrBeast Inadvertently Revealed X / Twitter Monetization is Rigged
54:40 Feb 5, 2024
5
55: Sam Bankman-Fried Guilty!: The FTX Fraud Trial (w/ Molly White)
1:33:51 Nov 8, 2023
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54: The Tech Hype Bubble: VR Edition (w/ Paris Marx)
1:24:19 Jul 31, 2023
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53: Meta Launches Threads by Instagram as Elon Musk Wrecks Twitter
1:02:36 Jul 7, 2023
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52: Unregistered Securities: SEC Sues Coinbase & Binance...Is This the End of Crypto in the U.S.? (w/ Molly White)
1:10:27 Jun 13, 2023
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51: Worldcoin Wants to Scan Your Eyeballs & Give You Crypto in Return: What Could Go Wrong? (w/ Leo Schwartz)
56:06 May 24, 2023
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50: Elon Musk and the Twitter Blue (Check)Mark of Shame
1:17:56 May 9, 2023
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49: Orange is the New Blockchain: Crypto Crime ft. Kwon, Sun, SBF, & CZ (w/ Jacob Silverman)
1:10:42 Apr 6, 2023
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48: Bitcoin Miners Are Making Bank...But Not From Mining Crypto (w/ Jackie Sawicky)
1:12:28 Mar 27, 2023
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47: The Fall of Silicon Valley Bank & the Crybaby Tech VCs (w/ Edward Ongweso Jr.)
1:13:50 Mar 15, 2023
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46: No Banking. No Staking. No Crypto Services? (w/ Bennett Tomlin)
1:01:03 Mar 9, 2023
15
45: Crypto Conspicuously Absent From This Year's Super Bowl. Wonder What Happened? (w/ Brandon Sutton)
1:26:03 Feb 9, 2023
16
44: Genesis, Gemini, and the Winklevi (w/ Ed Zitron)
1:30:39 Jan 26, 2023
17
CES 2023: The Good, The Bad, The Dystopian Tech (w/ Eoin Higgins) (Scam Economy BONUS episode)
53:56 Jan 24, 2023
18
43: The Weirdest Frauds, Grifts, & Rug Pulls of Crypto's Hellish 2022 (w/ Molly White)
55:52 Jan 18, 2023
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42: From Sam Bankman-Fried to Sam Bankman-Jailed: The FTX Saga Continues (w/ Molly White)
1:11:37 Dec 22, 2022
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41: So Many Hacks! The Myth of Blockchain Security (w/ Domingo Flores)
1:19:29 Dec 12, 2022
21
40: BlockFi BankruptcyFi: A Bizarre FTX "Bailout" Story (w/ Nikhilesh De of CoinDesk)
1:07:56 Dec 5, 2022
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39: FTX Conspiracies About Ukraine & Democrats Don't Add Up (w/ Sergey Vasylchuk)
1:03:08 Nov 21, 2022
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38: Scam Bankrupt-Fraud: The Death of FTX (w/ Ed Zitron)
2:03:38 Nov 14, 2022
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37: Sam Bankman-Fried is Known as Crypto's Bailout King. Is His Own Empire Broke? (w/ Mike Burgersburg)
1:00:05 Nov 7, 2022
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36: Inside Yuga Labs: Bored Ape Yacht Club Behind-the-Scenes (w/ Yasmin Gagne and Connie Lin)
2:05:20 Oct 31, 2022
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35: Crypto is the Future...Just Like Google Glass (w/ Quinn Myers)
1:19:49 Oct 21, 2022
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34: RIP CNN's NFT Vault But Media's Terrible Crypto Coverage Lives On (w/ Parker Molloy)
1:05:59 Oct 14, 2022
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33: Who'll Stop Celebrities From Unlawfully Shilling Shady Crypto & NFTs to Their Fans? (w/ Bonnie Patten)
55:58 Oct 7, 2022
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32: GiveCrypto and the Real Goal of "Crypto Charity" (w/ Leo Schwartz)
1:04:51 Sep 29, 2022
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31: One Year of Bukele's Bitcoin Law: Chaos in El Salvador (w/ Domingo Flores)
1:16:44 Sep 24, 2022
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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)
1:13:01 Sep 15, 2022
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29: Binance and the Mystery of Who is Guangying Chen? (w/ Jacob Silverman)
49:26 Sep 9, 2022
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28: Crypto's Summer From Hell (w/ Molly White)
1:10:09 Sep 2, 2022
34
Immutable and the Push to Force NFTs on Gamers (Scam Economy Live Post Show BONUS Clip)
33:01 Aug 26, 2022
35
27: All Your Coinbase Are Belong To Us (w/ Ed Zitron)
1:19:56 Aug 18, 2022
36
Crypto Yield Rates Were Always a Red Flag (Scam Economy Live Post Show BONUS Clip)
57:08 Aug 12, 2022
37
26: Dune and Done: The Spice DAO Saga (w/ Adi Robertson)
1:06:05 Aug 5, 2022
38
25: Helium is Touted as the Web3 Gold Standard. Is It All Just a Bunch of Hot Air? (w/ Liron Shapira)
1:07:44 Jul 30, 2022
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24: PayWrecked: The People Who Took Their Paychecks in Crypto Regret It Now (w/ Quinn Myers)
58:00 Jul 23, 2022
40
23: Elon Musk Loves Cryptocurrency (But Elon and Crypto Don't Love You)
48:00 Jul 15, 2022
41
22: Bon Voyager! Your Crypto Loan Cash is Gone (w/ Ed Zitron)
59:59 Jul 8, 2022
42
21: Coinspiracy: How QAnon Influencers Conned Their Followers with Crypto (w/ Ernie Piper & Nick Backovic of Logically.ai)
58:57 Jul 1, 2022
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20: Damn, the Torpedoes: The Story of Celsius (w/ Mike Burgersburg/Dirty Bubble Media)
1:04:55 Jun 24, 2022
44
19: Crypto Jenga Tower Collapse: Celsius & the Crypto Time Bombs (w/ David Gerard & Amy Castor)
1:09:53 Jun 17, 2022
45
18: They Lost Everything: How the Terra Crypto Crash Ruined Lives Around the World (w/ Leo Schwartz)
1:13:25 Jun 10, 2022
46
17: Bitcoin Nazis, Ethereum Grifters: A Tale of Two Communities (Scam Economy LIVE in Brooklyn w/ Michael E. Hayden)
41:14 Jun 3, 2022
47
16: How Wikipedia Cancelled Crypto (w/ Molly White)
56:15 May 20, 2022
48
15: Terra, Luna, & The Crypto Crash: Everything You Need to Know (w/ Bennett Tomlin of Crypto Critics' Corner)
54:40 May 12, 2022
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14: Crypto Bad Ideas: Abortions on the Blockchain!? + Bored Apes Break Ethereum (w/ Molly White)
56:14 May 6, 2022
50
13: Arrested for Protesting Bitcoin (w/ Mario Gomez)
1:12:15 Apr 29, 2022
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