Crypto Crime Season Has Begun feat Molly White (E309)
$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)
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Comments (78)
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.
Interesting
c'mon y'all 7 days between episodes is not super cool
I wonder what’s up. Seven days is a lot. I just hope it’s not related to the fires.
Molly takes Molly when Molly reaches $1m market cap. Don't give the degens ideas!
Can 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
Another poetry night pls. I rocked out to the song on the fucking freeway for fuck's sake.
Julian come play in my game on pokerbros
This 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.
In retrospect, I’m surprised we didn’t have “The Trumpty Dance” a long time ago.
Soooo, has anyone started $LIVAGAR on pumpdotfun yet?
Liv Agar
"They aren't based on memes in the traditional sense, just ideas." So... they are based on memes in the even more traditional sense?
I 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!
Say what you want about Trump but the Trumpty Dance is a banger.
Admittedly because the original is good. But still.
That song ☹️
Serious 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?
"It's a banana, Michael, how much could it cost?"
Am 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
Julian getting scammed by mepepe despite having talked about this shit for years 💀💀💀you couldn’t beat that story out of me
Anyone got link to song at end?
There are times that I'm sorry I didn't inherit the alcoholism gene in my family. 😵💫
The Trumpty Trump...
Yeah, I hate that the song kinda slaps. >(
Liv agar
liv agar hive
Julian’s fav football player is the best in the world Lol
I 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.
I 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.
The 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.
Hell is were the pump is
A 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.
It took my ears a minute to understand what I was hearing, then I wanted to eat a cyanide capsule
Liv Agar
We should have nuked Silicon Valley a decade ago.
Always great to hear Molly.
At times we may believe that technology brings steady improvement to civilization. Currently we are disproving that concept with brutal clarity.
If only our boy Teddy K. was around still to see the consequences of the post industrial technological revolution.
I hate everything.
The 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???
Was 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?
What the FUCK was that Auto-Q????? 😭😭😭 Every day we stray further from the Gods' light 😭😭😭
Satire is dead
I 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.
“We live in Hell.”
Tell 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.
Im right here with ya
My meme coin is called K*ll a Billionaire. Get it to a billion dollar market cap and I'll remove myself.
Molly White is brilliant, thanks for introducing her to us/me! Crypto is extractive colonial capitalism and deserves all the criticisms.
What
QAA coin when?
they wanted to mint one but jake already had all his finances tied up in cryptid currencies
I can't wait for the pod to do an episode on the Zizians. The murderous cult of computer nerds.
Wow! Never heard of them until now. Some evil knuckleheads for sure.
HAIL STRUMP!
I'd buy Liva Agar coins
We're in hell.
Yeah, but it's a dry heat. Luckily.
Julian's fetish is definitely CBT. No, the OTHER CBT
Cognitive behavioral torture is an acquired taste
Raga Vil
C-beams glittering in the dark by the Tannhauser Gate
What the fuck
liv agar
true!
my head hurts
This is so supremely depressing. What have we devolved to?
Liv agar
Now this gal’s Livving like Agar
TRAVI$ coin to the moon!
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Sailor Jake meme coin! That's the ticket!
Sailor-Jake-to-the-moon.
Live-Laugh-Love Agar
Just finished the last episode 10 minutes ago perfect timing
Liv Agar
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