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Crypto recaps

Issue 104 – World Tyranny Financial

As the Trump family’s crypto dealings raise more alarms, crypto enforcement is falling to new lows

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Issue 103 – The President’s Council of Podcasters

Coinbase is accused of holding the cryptocurrency industry hostage over stablecoin rewards, prediction markets face an onslaught of opposition, and a Stand With Crypto poll can’t even get enthusiasm from its own activists

Justin Sun displays his Trump Watch at the first memecoin dinner, where he stands in front of two American flags

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Issue 102 – The public will pay

Justin Sun buys his way out of an SEC fraud case, Iranian transactions on Binance draw DOJ scrutiny as the exchange sues the newspaper that reported on them, and crypto super PACs dump millions into Tuesday’s primaries in Illinois.

President Trump walks with Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the White House in March 2025

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Issue 101 – Bought and paid for

Bitcoin is down 50%, several prominent industry figures have been uncovered in the Epstein files, Trump’s facing a probe into his family’s $500M deal with the UAE, and crypto super PACs spend their first $6 million in the midterms.

ICE agents shoot projectiles at protesters in Minneapolis on January 24. The photo has been overlaid with an upside down American flag.

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Issue 100 – Freedom of all kinds is worth fighting for

As masked agents execute people and terrorize communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom fall conspicuously silent — except when writing checks for the politicians enabling it

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong gestures with his hands in front of him

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Issue 99 – They’ve bought themselves a Congress

Coinbase calls the shots in the Senate, former New York City Mayor Eric Adams faces rug pull allegations, and a crypto executive is breaking up with Trump

A photo of Eric and Donald Trump Jr., other World Liberty Financial executives, and employees of Alt5 Sigma ringing the opening bell at the Nasdaq, superimposed with quotes from SEC filings

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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

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and President Donald Trump pose together making thumbs-up gestures. On the right is a render of the proposed Trump Maldives hotel.

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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

A photo of Sam Bankman-Fried superimposed over a photo of the NY appeals courthouse

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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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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

The UAE’s chair of the sovereign wealth fund, Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan, sits with President Trump in the Oval Office

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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.

David Sacks, Donald Trump, and Bo Hines pose for a photo in the Oval Office. Trump is seated at the Resolute Desk, the others stand to either side.

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Issue 93 – Undermining deregulation

Democratic lawmakers sound corruption alarms while crypto PACs gear up for the midterms

Tweet by Bruno Skvorc: I just got a reply from @worldlibertyfi . TLDR is, they stole my money, and because it's the @POTUS family, I can't do anything about it...

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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

Howard Lutnick speaking at a Cabinet meeting, with subtitles about putting “GDP on the blockchain”

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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

Screenshot of I Think You Should Leave episode, where the focus group man states “Oh my God, he admit it!”

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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

A blue vending machine with branding that reads “Crypto is like a bar of chocolate” in the foreground, with the Capitol building behind

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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