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Issue 98 – The world’s most corrupt crypto startup operation
Terra’s Do Kwon gets 15 years, crypto banks get the green light, and the Trump family’s crypto grift expands even as one of their treasury companies goes off the rails
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December 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Digital asset treasury companies are running out of steam
Convincing traders to pay $2 for $1 of bitcoin worked — for a while. As premiums evaporate, an unwind could be painful.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Issue 97 – This is hardship
While slumping prices have some fearing it’s crypto winter again, Trump looks to Saudia Arabia and American retail crypto investors to fund the development of his next hotel
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November 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Issue 96 – Redefining solvency
Sam Bankman-Fried makes his case for a retrial and aspiring crypto banks hit roadblocks
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November 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Trump says he has “no idea” who he just pardoned
President Trump reacts to condemnations of his recent pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao by claiming he doesn’t know who he is.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Issue 95 – The pardon was the payoff
Binance’s Changpeng Zhao earns a gold-plated pardon as other industry figures fund Trump’s $300 million ballroom
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October 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Anatomy of a crypto meltdown
October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Issue 94 – Backdoor deals
Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Issue 93 – Undermining deregulation
Democratic lawmakers sound corruption alarms while crypto PACs gear up for the midterms
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October 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Prediction markets are booming. Oversight is barely there.
Prediction markets once lived on the academic fringe. Now they’re trading billions on politics, sports, and celebrity gossip — under rules never designed for retail gamblers.
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September 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Issue 92 – The scam of all scams
The Trumps “debank” major customers from their “anti-debanking” cryptocurrency venture, and a CFTC nominee says the Winklevosses are blackballing him
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September 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Trump Jr.-advised prediction markets invite bets on president’s demise
President Trump’s deregulatory agenda emboldened prediction markets to push boundaries around permitted event contracts. Now sites advised by his son are allowing bets on his death.
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September 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Issue 91 – GDP on the blockchain
The regulator set to take on primary crypto oversight is down to a single Commissioner, and new pro-crypto PACs focus on installing more Republicans in the midterms
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September 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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As he builds US power, Justin Sun fights to control his story
A crypto billionaire who once feared arrest in the US is now a Trump business adviser and White House guest. His lawsuit against Bloomberg reveals what he doesn't want Americans to know about his crypto fortune.
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August 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Issue 90 – Crime szn bro
The Trump administration cracks down on software to limit surveillance of crypto transactions, while celebrating a “deregulatory blitz” tailored for its billionaire benefactors
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August 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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August 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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The Tornado Cash case: When politics sabotage a prosecution
The Trump administration’s regulatory whiplash has left prosecutors scrambling with misattributed chat messages and questionable victim testimony
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August 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Issue 89 – Crypto wins in Washington with midnight calls, chocolate bars, and a $141 million threat
Trump stands to profit from a $2 billion bitcoin bet as the crypto industry pushes through bills aimed at bolstering the sector
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August 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Issue 88 – The stockchain
Crypto firms hope putting a blockchain veneer on traditional equities will allow them to sidestep lessons learned in the 1929 Wall Street crash, crypto firms look to become banks, and Congress celebrates crypto surveillance while claiming to outlaw it
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July 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Issue 87 – SO ORDERED
Trump’s crypto empire attracts more foreign millions, the FHFA pushes crypto on mortgage lenders, and Mamdani’s mayoral primary win makes billionaires sweat
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July 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Issue 86 – State power sponsored by Coinbase
The GENIUS Act passes the Senate after explicit threats to Democrats from the crypto lobby, and shady crypto billionaire Justin Sun cozies up even closer to the Trump family
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July 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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It matters. I care.
Giving up on the idea that truth matters is not just cynicism, it’s surrender.
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June 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Issue 85 – All the President’s tokens
As Trump’s web of crypto projects gets tangled up in itself, a regulator warns of “regulatory Jenga” in the crypto sector that echoes the 2008 financial crisis
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June 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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UPDATED: Trump to launch branded crypto trading application
New crypto trading and wallet application, created in partnership with Magic Eden, invites fans of President Trump to buy his memecoin; Trump sons deny any involvement or knowledge
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June 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men
OpenAI's featured chatbot recommends $200,000 in surgeries while promoting incel ideology
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June 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM