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| Trump’s $1.4 billion crypto disclosure | 01 Jul 2026 | 00:10:48 | |
The White House insists there’s no conflict of interest as Trump reports $1.4 billion in income from an industry he’s deregulated. Originally published on July 1, 2026. | |||
| Issue 106 – A tremendous birthday present | 18 Jun 2026 | 00:34:51 | |
The crypto industry spent the spring buying primaries, an octagon at the White House, and — they hope — a market-structure bill by the Fourth of July. Originally published on June 18, 2026. | |||
| End Citizens United’s Tiffany Muller on fighting big money in politics | 10 Jun 2026 | 00:48:10 | |
Tiffany Muller talks to me about what Citizens United enabled, how crypto and AI fit into the bigger picture of money in politics, and what it would actually take to fix this broken system. Originally published on June 10, 2026. | |||
| I’m launching Tech Influence Watch as AI follows crypto into politics | 08 Jun 2026 | 00:20:19 | |
Most voters don’t know that crypto and AI companies have spent more than $400 million this cycle to buy Congress. Let’s make that spending visible. Originally published on June 8, 2026. | |||
| Issue 105 – The new boogeyman | 08 May 2026 | 00:32:41 | |
A crypto billionaire who escaped fraud allegations after investing hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump family’s crypto projects is now accusing them of fraud. Originally published on May 8, 2026. | |||
| No new trial for Sam Bankman-Fried | 29 Apr 2026 | 00:08:39 | |
The former CEO of FTX has essentially no realistic avenues left to avoid his 25-year prison sentence. Originally published on April 28, 2026. | |||
| Issue 104 – World Tyranny Financial | 20 Apr 2026 | 00:30:51 | |
As the Trump family’s crypto dealings raise more alarms, crypto enforcement is falling to new lows. Originally published on April 20, 2026. | |||
| Issue 103 – The President’s Council of Podcasters | 31 Mar 2026 | 00:29:21 | |
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. Originally published on March 31, 2026. | |||
| Sam Bankman-Fried’s helicopter parents crash into federal court | 27 Mar 2026 | 00:20:15 | |
SBF praises Trump from prison, his parents beg for a pardon on CNN, and his legal ethics professor mother files court documents claiming to be from him — prompting a judge to demand he swear under oath who wrote them. Originally published on March 27, 2026. | |||
| Issue 102 – The public will pay | 16 Mar 2026 | 00:39:55 | |
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. Originally published on March 16, 2026. | |||
| Issue 101 – Bought and paid for | 27 Feb 2026 | 00:37:54 | |
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. Originally published February 26, 2026. | |||
| Crypto super PACs have hundreds of millions ready to spend on the midterms | 21 Feb 2026 | 00:25:18 | |
With Trump faltering and their policy agenda incomplete, the crypto industry has moved at least $288 million toward the midterms in a desperate bid to keep Republicans in control of Congress. Originally published on February 20, 2026. | |||
| Issue 100 – Freedom of all kinds is worth fighting for | 30 Jan 2026 | 00:28:33 | |
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. Originally published on January 29, 2026. | |||
| Issue 99 – They’ve bought themselves a Congress | 19 Jan 2026 | 00:31:23 | |
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. Originally published on January 19, 2026. | |||
| The year of technoligarchy | 07 Jan 2026 | 00:17:41 | |
In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities they’re creating may be their downfall. Originally published on January 7, 2026. | |||
| Issue 98 – The world’s most corrupt crypto startup operation | 17 Dec 2025 | 00:35:28 | |
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. Originally published on December 16, 2025. | |||
| Digital asset treasury companies are running out of steam | 25 Nov 2025 | 00:10:05 | |
Convincing traders to pay $2 for $1 of bitcoin worked — for a while. As premiums evaporate, an unwind could be painful. Originally published on November 25, 2025. | |||
| Issue 97 – This is hardship | 20 Nov 2025 | 00:19:52 | |
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. Originally published on November 19, 2025. | |||
| Issue 96 – Redefining solvency | 08 Nov 2025 | 00:19:11 | |
Sam Bankman-Fried makes his case for a retrial and aspiring crypto banks hit roadblocks. Originally published on November 7, 2025. | |||
| Trump says he has “no idea” who he just pardoned | 03 Nov 2025 | 00:12:07 | |
President Trump reacts to condemnations of his recent pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao by claiming he doesn’t know who he is. Originally published on November 3, 2025. | |||
| Issue 95 – The pardon was the payoff | 29 Oct 2025 | 00:36:48 | |
Binance’s Changpeng Zhao earns a gold-plated pardon as other industry figures fund Trump’s $300 million ballroom. Originally published October 28, 2025. | |||
| Anatomy of a crypto collapse | 17 Oct 2025 | 00:17:46 | |
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. Originally published on October 17, 2025. | |||
| Issue 94 – Backdoor deals | 09 Oct 2025 | 00:38:11 | |
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. Originally published on October 8, 2025. | |||
| Issue 93 – Undermining deregulation | 25 Sep 2025 | 00:21:36 | |
Democratic lawmakers sound corruption alarms while crypto PACs gear up for the midterms. Originally published on September 25, 2025. | |||
| Prediction markets are booming. Oversight is barely there. | 16 Sep 2025 | 00:26:30 | |
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. Originally published on September 16, 2025. | |||
| Issue 92 – The scam of all scams | 12 Sep 2025 | 00:28:47 | |
The Trumps “debank” major customers from their “anti-debanking” cryptocurrency venture, and a CFTC nominee says the Winklevosses are blackballing him. Originally published on September 12, 2025. | |||
| Trump Jr.-advised prediction markets invite bets on president’s demise | 02 Sep 2025 | 00:08:30 | |
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. Originally published on September 2, 2025. | |||
| Issue 91 – GDP on the blockchain | 27 Aug 2025 | 00:28:48 | |
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. Originally published on August 27, 2025. | |||
| As he builds US power, Justin Sun fights to control his story | 19 Aug 2025 | 00:26:06 | |
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. Originallly published on August 19, 2025. | |||
| Issue 90 – Crime szn bro | 14 Aug 2025 | 00:37:03 | |
The Trump administration cracks down on software to limit surveillance of crypto transactions, while celebrating a “deregulatory blitz” tailored for its billionaire benefactors. Originally published on August 13, 2025. | |||
| Curate your own newspaper with RSS | 31 Jul 2025 | 00:14:45 | |
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read. Originally published on July 31, 2025. | |||
| The Tornado Cash case: When politics sabotage a prosecution | 29 Jul 2025 | 00:13:00 | |
The Trump administration’s regulatory whiplash has left prosecutors scrambling with misattributed chat messages and questionable victim testimony. Originally published on July 28, 2025. | |||
| Issue 89 – Crypto wins in Washington with midnight calls, chocolate bars, and a $141 million threat | 23 Jul 2025 | 00:20:29 | |
Trump stands to profit from a $2 billion bitcoin bet as the crypto industry pushes through bills aimed at bolstering the sector. Originally published on July 23, 2025. | |||
| Issue 88 – The stockchain | 11 Jul 2025 | 00:31:43 | |
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. Originally published on July 11, 2025. | |||
| Issue 87 – SO ORDERED | 01 Jul 2025 | 00:23:53 | |
Trump’s crypto empire attracts more foreign millions, the FHFA pushes crypto on mortgage lenders, and Mamdani’s mayoral primary win makes billionaires sweat. Originally published on July 1, 2025. | |||
| Issue 86 – State power sponsored by Coinbase | 19 Jun 2025 | 00:18:46 | |
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. Originally published on June 19, 2025. | |||
| It matters. I care. | 11 Jun 2025 | 00:04:56 | |
Originally published on June 11, 2025. | |||
| Issue 85 – All the President’s tokens | 05 Jun 2025 | 00:33:41 | |
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. Originally published on June 5, 2025. | |||
| Trump to launch branded crypto trading application | 03 Jun 2025 | 00:09:27 | |
New crypto trading and wallet application, created in partnership with Magic Eden, invites fans of President Trump to buy his memecoin. Originally published on June 3, 2025. | |||
| OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men | 31 May 2025 | 00:11:00 | |
OpenAI's featured chatbot recommends $200,000 in surgeries while promoting incel ideology. Originally published on May 31, 2025. | |||
| Issue 84 – Rogue overseas support agents | 20 May 2025 | 00:22:27 | |
Coinbase’s substantial data breach coincides with a convenient terms of service update, while the GENIUS Act stablecoin bill regains momentum in the Senate. Originally published on May 20, 2025. | |||
| Issue 83 – Trump’s crypto-backed plan to auction off access to the White House | 12 May 2025 | 00:25:37 | |
Trump’s crypto conflicts continue to multiply as Democratic legislators demand ethics inquiries and block industry-backed bills. Originally published on May 12, 2025. | |||
| Meet Trump’s memecoin dinner guests | 08 May 2025 | 00:12:45 | |
Trump's crypto-for-access dinner triggers broad ethics alarms, and 73% non-US attendance raises fresh concerns over foreign influence. Originally published on May 7, 2025. | |||
| Issue 82 – E-moluments | 24 Apr 2025 | 00:28:08 | |
As Celsius victims detail their devastation even under the weak crypto regulations of the past, the Trump administration continues to dismantle those same rules while he pumps his personal memecoin with promises of private access. Originally published on April 24, 2025. | |||
| Trump’s newest grift: Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators | 17 Apr 2025 | 00:23:13 | |
Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it. Originally published April 17, 2025. | |||
| Issue 81 – Crypto crime is legal | 08 Apr 2025 | 00:22:07 | |
Trump continues to dismantle crypto enforcement while expanding his personal crypto empire. Originally published on April 8, 2025. | |||
| Issue 80 – Aimed at benefiting the digital assets industry | 28 Mar 2025 | 00:26:52 | |
As the US government lays a very favorable groundwork for the crypto industry, Trump positions himself for maximum personal profit. Originally published on March 28, 2025. | |||
| Issue 79 – Mundus sine Caesaribus | 20 Mar 2025 | 00:26:48 | |
The crypto industry frees itself from the last remnants of SEC oversight, and Solana tries to appeal to its target demographic by bashing trans people. Originally published on March 20, 2025. | |||
| “Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI | 14 Mar 2025 | 00:13:30 | |
The real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free. Originally published on March 14, 2025. | |||
| Crypto reserves: no public good, no principles | 11 Mar 2025 | 00:10:58 | |
The formerly anti-government bitcoin movement abandons its principles in favor of number-go-up, applauds federal plan to stockpile seized crypto with no clear benefit to national interest. Originally published on March 11, 2025. | |||
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