Crypto Crime Season Has Begun feat Molly White (E309)
Added 2025-01-29 23:46:05 +0000 UTC$TRUMP and $MELANIA meme coins compete with $FART, $ASS and $TITS for attention in a crypto industry defined by scams, grifts and financial malfeasance. We cover the intersection of politics with crypto and dive into some of the less savory tokens on pump dot fun, a website where “degens” go to mint, pump and inevitably dump thousands of meme coins every single day. Our guest is Molly White, a journalist, researcher and critic of the crypto and tech industries.
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Molly White: https://x.com/molly0xFFF / https://bsky.app/profile/molly.wiki / https://www.citationneeded.news / https://www.followthecrypto.org
Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com)
QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.
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Im begging you guys, please stop reporting crypto in terms of market cap. Crypto markets are so shallow even small sales can crater the price. Even for stocks it’s only a good measure for how much it would cost to acquire a company.
Cumshitter
2025-02-14 01:39:35 +0000 UTCYeah nah that article was pretty worthless 😊 when the expert started saying the only things you would need this for was to hire hitmen and buy drugs. He kinda outs himself as no expert. I know people who are super hyped about the uses for crypto in their day to day. People who run a trucking firm or construction....
Toadwine
2025-02-08 09:44:28 +0000 UTCThank you so much :)
Toadwine
2025-02-08 09:37:31 +0000 UTCI'm in tech, so it's often hard for me to assess whether something that seems written /documented with the nontechnical in mind is actually good enough XD
Byron Lagrone
2025-02-07 21:48:55 +0000 UTCI don't know if this will help, but this is usually what I refer people towards: https://www.vox.com/conversations/2018/4/11/17206018/bitcoin-blockchain-cryptocurrency-weaver
Byron Lagrone
2025-02-07 21:48:25 +0000 UTCInteresting
Madhup Joshi
2025-02-07 18:16:32 +0000 UTCI found Dan Olson's video essay "Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs" on YouTube very very helpful as he dissects all aspects of this including the cult-like mindset it can result in. The essay is over 2 hours long though. You might want to watch it and make a list of timestamp links for specific topics perhaps?
lady8jane
2025-02-06 11:08:52 +0000 UTCI wonder what’s up. Seven days is a lot. I just hope it’s not related to the fires.
Donna Palermino
2025-02-06 02:50:19 +0000 UTCHow can i convince my people that this crypto stuff is a scam? Ive found a number of podcasts that sorta make fun of crypto or talk about the problems, but not much in the way of weighty arguments or convincing reasons to sell it all. It feels like a cult to my mind and its painfull to see
Toadwine
2025-02-05 21:17:34 +0000 UTCc'mon y'all 7 days between episodes is not super cool
Grey
2025-02-05 11:24:59 +0000 UTCMolly takes Molly when Molly reaches $1m market cap. Don't give the degens ideas!
Larry44
2025-02-04 07:11:16 +0000 UTCCan QAA do something on the Network State? I’ve been seeing things for a while but I’m not sure what to believe. https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=Ej1rt65fNhANwcFE https://www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capital-extremism
Jack Van Houten
2025-02-04 06:48:34 +0000 UTCAnother poetry night pls. I rocked out to the song on the fucking freeway for fuck's sake.
Evan Nelson
2025-02-03 20:02:38 +0000 UTCJulian come play in my game on pokerbros
pq
2025-02-03 16:59:04 +0000 UTCThis episode made me think about a past QAA episode about bros who were going to strike it rich with their unvaxxed sperm…seems so quaint and wholesome now. We live in hell indeed. I do love how Travis is so equanimous about it all.
S G
2025-02-02 22:37:57 +0000 UTCIn retrospect, I’m surprised we didn’t have “The Trumpty Dance” a long time ago.
Hanes Leyes
2025-02-02 20:09:17 +0000 UTCSoooo, has anyone started $LIVAGAR on pumpdotfun yet?
Laura Walsh
2025-02-02 19:21:33 +0000 UTCLiv Agar
Queeriam
2025-02-02 19:15:36 +0000 UTC"They aren't based on memes in the traditional sense, just ideas." So... they are based on memes in the even more traditional sense?
Doctor Unk
2025-02-02 15:01:19 +0000 UTCI doubt the hosts see this but if y’all are going to talk about the helicopter crash in an upcoming episode, please call out Laura Loomer’s nonsense that she’s spreading on social media about Rebecca Lobach. We went to Sewanee together, she was a good and kind person and her family doesn’t deserve the hate that is being spread about her online. They are trying to use her to back the ridiculous claims that this happened because of DEI policies. Thank you for all the work you do to report actual facts!
Karagan Walter
2025-02-02 14:44:58 +0000 UTCAdmittedly because the original is good. But still.
James Beattie
2025-02-02 12:51:36 +0000 UTCSay what you want about Trump but the Trumpty Dance is a banger.
James Beattie
2025-02-02 12:51:10 +0000 UTCCognitive behavioral torture is an acquired taste
'Mech Bae
2025-02-01 04:35:25 +0000 UTCCrypto rap is like the Christian radio of rap, totally soulless and devoid of any creative spark and same-sounding
Dani Moor
2025-02-01 01:35:06 +0000 UTCThat song ☹️
Carley Jennings
2025-01-31 20:38:22 +0000 UTCSerious comment: I'm quasi aware of prediction markets and I don't understand the concept all that well, but my understanding is that (for example) Metaculus is explicitly not a betting platform and distances itself from that...buuut I gotta imagine there's a Metaculus to polymarket pipeline that's roughly analogous to what's going on in the crypto world. Oh and Manifold is another one...it all smells like bullshit to me, but my sense is that some of these things try to have a veneer of seriousness that others dispense with?
d'egg
2025-01-31 19:47:50 +0000 UTC"It's a banana, Michael, how much could it cost?"
d'egg
2025-01-31 18:53:15 +0000 UTCAm I the only hoping that Matt Stone and Trey Parker spent some of their $900 million to fund meme coins to show up late stage capitalism for what it really is? Farts FFS
Siân
2025-01-31 17:23:16 +0000 UTCJulian getting scammed by mepepe despite having talked about this shit for years 💀💀💀you couldn’t beat that story out of me
tapwaterskeptic
2025-01-31 04:37:51 +0000 UTCAnyone got link to song at end?
Bennett J.
2025-01-31 01:50:27 +0000 UTCIf only our boy Teddy K. was around still to see the consequences of the post industrial technological revolution.
Mel Black
2025-01-31 01:39:04 +0000 UTCThere are times that I'm sorry I didn't inherit the alcoholism gene in my family. 😵💫
Melissa Humbert
2025-01-30 22:03:03 +0000 UTCCryptidCoin
I'm a Sentient Lichen - and so can YOU!!
2025-01-30 21:33:17 +0000 UTCYeah, I hate that the song kinda slaps. >(
Greg Unger
2025-01-30 20:43:54 +0000 UTCThe Trumpty Trump...
Courtney Smith
2025-01-30 19:37:47 +0000 UTCLiv agar
Zoidy
2025-01-30 18:11:57 +0000 UTCThe value of the USD is essentially underpinned by the fact that you pay US taxes with it. Yes, all cryptocurrencies are simply greater-fools scams (of which Ponzi is one type), and the crypto people know it. They just think they'll be the ones winning.
Charlotte KL
2025-01-30 17:31:14 +0000 UTCliv agar hive
claire
2025-01-30 17:27:04 +0000 UTCJulian’s fav football player is the best in the world Lol
leem
2025-01-30 17:00:59 +0000 UTCI put 100 dollars into a crypto coin well, I gave it to my friend who says he knows stuff. I guess 98 dollars in one and two in the other. He is into that stuff. Native dude who lives on a casino basically. I am up 700 dollars. Do I tell him to bail. Lol. I have no idea how it works but great episode. He did 3D print me an AK74m. (For art) so. Maybe we call it even.
Gallo Altanero
2025-01-30 16:14:56 +0000 UTCI never got on the Bitcoin bandwagon, but there is little that will ever convince me that Bitcoin isn't a huge scam /Ponzi scheme. I already know that regular USD and other world currencues are basically fake and fabricated. But if any of those currencies had the same boom/bust cycle that bitcoins did, people would be in uproar.
Kimberley Gibson
2025-01-30 16:12:29 +0000 UTCSatire is dead
Kimberley Gibson
2025-01-30 16:08:23 +0000 UTCLike the new TrueAnon ep?
Hanna
2025-01-30 15:56:11 +0000 UTCHell is were the pump is
Cuerpo
2025-01-30 15:36:08 +0000 UTCIt took my ears a minute to understand what I was hearing, then I wanted to eat a cyanide capsule
Ty Ryan
2025-01-30 15:28:10 +0000 UTCLol
Patrick Hill
2025-01-30 14:57:55 +0000 UTCWow! Never heard of them until now. Some evil knuckleheads for sure.
Jeff Faulkner
2025-01-30 14:56:39 +0000 UTCA Trump-themed cover of The Humpty Dance is, honestly, the most offensive and depraved part of this episode. We used to have morals in this country. We used to hold our cultural touchstones as sacred. I’m fucking disgusted.
TravisPewPewPew
2025-01-30 14:09:18 +0000 UTCLiv Agar
Louise Duke
2025-01-30 13:36:15 +0000 UTCWe should have nuked Silicon Valley a decade ago.
James Mackey
2025-01-30 13:33:42 +0000 UTCNot every episode is a home run and sometimes they need a break from reality. Everyone who is immersed in the social media hellscape is already predisposed to believe in the get rich quick schemes, so it's not surprising they are mutual benefactors. Everyone is a potential Kardashian, just ask them.
Patrick Hill
2025-01-30 12:58:45 +0000 UTCIm right here with ya
Shivvy
2025-01-30 12:53:50 +0000 UTCprophet ev
Bobby Dubs
2025-01-30 12:30:20 +0000 UTCAlways great to hear Molly.
batlock666
2025-01-30 12:24:11 +0000 UTCAt times we may believe that technology brings steady improvement to civilization. Currently we are disproving that concept with brutal clarity.
Brent
2025-01-30 12:12:15 +0000 UTCI hate everything.
Heather B
2025-01-30 12:08:28 +0000 UTCThe citizen jounalism angle to polymarket is so laughable. The gap between what people think will happen and what will actually happen is huge for a lot of things. Think of the difference between detransitioners and how big people think that demographic is. Think about the crime statistics influenced by overpolicing. Heck, look at all the things called "something"~bias on wikipedia. How would this work in any reality???
It's-Mees
2025-01-30 11:42:01 +0000 UTCWas at conference with the Polymarket founder I’d say he’s a true believer. In the ‘new news’ spiel. Make of that what you will, he’s still fairly young. Jokes aside the risk of Polymarket creating perverse incentives is a reasonable concern. Does anyone know of any confirmed cases of someone trying to control the result?
Mac-something
2025-01-30 10:29:59 +0000 UTCWhat the FUCK was that Auto-Q????? 😭😭😭 Every day we stray further from the Gods' light 😭😭😭
Raine Says Trans Rights
2025-01-30 10:23:11 +0000 UTCSailor-Jake-to-the-moon.
Mac-something
2025-01-30 10:22:18 +0000 UTCI fuckin' love the quant kid, it's the funniest story. The fact that the site is called Pump.fun makes it even funnier and the marks even dumber.
Paul Farra
2025-01-30 07:27:52 +0000 UTC“We live in Hell.”
Lisa Bentz
2025-01-30 06:52:21 +0000 UTCTell me i’m not the only one who thinks “Do The Trumpdy Trump” is as good a signifier of the end of our current civilization as any.
Daniel Reed Miller
2025-01-30 06:18:19 +0000 UTCMy meme coin is called K*ll a Billionaire. Get it to a billion dollar market cap and I'll remove myself.
Aaron
2025-01-30 06:18:06 +0000 UTCMolly White is brilliant, thanks for introducing her to us/me! Crypto is extractive colonial capitalism and deserves all the criticisms.
Lindsay
2025-01-30 06:11:58 +0000 UTCWhat
Sarah Biggs
2025-01-30 06:11:00 +0000 UTCSound legit...
Chris
2025-01-30 05:41:30 +0000 UTCthey wanted to mint one but jake already had all his finances tied up in cryptid currencies
ev
2025-01-30 05:15:30 +0000 UTCQAA coin when?
Chris
2025-01-30 04:11:01 +0000 UTCI can't wait for the pod to do an episode on the Zizians. The murderous cult of computer nerds.
bigphoton
2025-01-30 04:03:56 +0000 UTCYeah, but it's a dry heat. Luckily.
bigphoton
2025-01-30 03:58:44 +0000 UTCHAIL STRUMP!
ploob
2025-01-30 03:20:59 +0000 UTCI'd buy Liva Agar coins
Craig
2025-01-30 03:02:54 +0000 UTCtrue!
Alex Anderson
2025-01-30 02:59:09 +0000 UTCWe're in hell.
Ryeman
2025-01-30 02:47:45 +0000 UTCwho up agaring their liv rn?
ev
2025-01-30 02:38:39 +0000 UTCJulian's fetish is definitely CBT. No, the OTHER CBT
I'm a Sentient Lichen - and so can YOU!!
2025-01-30 02:19:16 +0000 UTCRaga Vil
I'm a Sentient Lichen - and so can YOU!!
2025-01-30 02:15:24 +0000 UTCC-beams glittering in the dark by the Tannhauser Gate
I'm a Sentient Lichen - and so can YOU!!
2025-01-30 02:15:13 +0000 UTCWhat the fuck
Sebastian Pickett
2025-01-30 02:10:55 +0000 UTCliv agar
ev
2025-01-30 01:52:07 +0000 UTCmy head hurts
Brad Plumb
2025-01-30 01:44:54 +0000 UTCThis is so supremely depressing. What have we devolved to?
Jon Adams
2025-01-30 01:44:18 +0000 UTCNow this gal’s Livving like Agar
Alex Anderson
2025-01-30 01:22:35 +0000 UTCLiv agar
Alex Anderson
2025-01-30 01:22:13 +0000 UTCI think crypto could be a really powerful tool if it were accessible to everyday people and not just a tool for rich people to make more money for themselves. I know folks who were able to quickly fund evacuations out of Gaza at the start of the genocide because they only needed a few eth holders vs getting tons of donations from strangers. It could be really powerful when centralized banks lock funds in times of war or oppressive governments, etc. but instead we’ve got $ASS. Yep.
desert.gremlin
2025-01-30 01:14:12 +0000 UTCI work in crypto on the technical side, not the degenerate gambling side. I’m still exposed to “degens” … lots of ADHDers (I say that as one myself). Totally separate from that, my friend created the original $FART several years ago basically to troll crypto and see what would happen. 🤣🤣🤣
desert.gremlin
2025-01-30 01:05:01 +0000 UTCTRAVI$ coin to the moon!
Brendan Luster
2025-01-30 01:00:10 +0000 UTCL̴̡̅̆̌i̶̛̟̗̬̭͒̓v̶̢͓͍̥̌͑̌ ̶̞͚̽Ä̴̠̗́̄͝g̸̘̩̈́̈́a̴̫̲̅̒̈́r̸̤̲͚̥̈́̐
Lulu Messier
2025-01-30 00:46:04 +0000 UTCSailor Jake meme coin! That's the ticket!
bigphoton
2025-01-30 00:32:53 +0000 UTCLive-Laugh-Love Agar
ehli
2025-01-30 00:27:46 +0000 UTCJust finished the last episode 10 minutes ago perfect timing
Robbie McCleery
2025-01-30 00:13:24 +0000 UTCLiv Agar
Dixon Rivera
2025-01-29 23:53:01 +0000 UTC🪿
'Mech Bae
2025-01-29 23:49:14 +0000 UTC
