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$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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Robbie McCleery

Just finished the last episode 10 minutes ago perfect timing

ehli

Live-Laugh-Love Agar

bigphoton

Sailor Jake meme coin! That's the ticket!

Lulu Messier

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desert.gremlin

I 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

I 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.

Jon Adams

This is so supremely depressing. What have we devolved to?

Brad Plumb

my head hurts

ev

liv agar

Ryeman

We're in hell.

Craig

I'd buy Liva Agar coins

ploob

HAIL STRUMP!

bigphoton

I can't wait for the pod to do an episode on the Zizians. The murderous cult of computer nerds.

Chris

QAA coin when?

ev

they wanted to mint one but jake already had all his finances tied up in cryptid currencies

Lindsay

Molly White is brilliant, thanks for introducing her to us/me! Crypto is extractive colonial capitalism and deserves all the criticisms.

Aaron

My meme coin is called K*ll a Billionaire. Get it to a billion dollar market cap and I'll remove myself.

Daniel Reed Miller

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.

Lisa Bentz

“We live in Hell.”

Paul Farra

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.

Raine Says Trans Rights

What the FUCK was that Auto-Q????? 😭😭😭 Every day we stray further from the Gods' light 😭😭😭

Mac-something

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?

It's-Mees

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???

Heather B

I hate everything.

Brent

At times we may believe that technology brings steady improvement to civilization. Currently we are disproving that concept with brutal clarity.

batlock666

Always great to hear Molly.

Patrick Hill

Not 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.

James Mackey

We should have nuked Silicon Valley a decade ago.

TravisPewPewPew

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.

Ty Ryan

It took my ears a minute to understand what I was hearing, then I wanted to eat a cyanide capsule

Cuerpo

Hell is were the pump is

Kimberley Gibson

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.

Gallo Altanero

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.

leem

Julian’s fav football player is the best in the world Lol

claire

liv agar hive

Charlotte KL

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.

Zoidy

Liv agar

Melissa Humbert

There are times that I'm sorry I didn't inherit the alcoholism gene in my family. 😵‍💫

Mel Black

If only our boy Teddy K. was around still to see the consequences of the post industrial technological revolution.

Bennett J.

Anyone got link to song at end?

tapwaterskeptic

Julian getting scammed by mepepe despite having talked about this shit for years 💀💀💀you couldn’t beat that story out of me

Siân

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

d'egg

"It's a banana, Michael, how much could it cost?"

d'egg

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?

Dani Moor

Crypto rap is like the Christian radio of rap, totally soulless and devoid of any creative spark and same-sounding

James Beattie

Say what you want about Trump but the Trumpty Dance is a banger.

Karagan Walter

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!

Doctor Unk

"They aren't based on memes in the traditional sense, just ideas." So... they are based on memes in the even more traditional sense?

Queeriam

Liv Agar

Laura Walsh

Soooo, has anyone started $LIVAGAR on pumpdotfun yet?

Hanes Leyes

In retrospect, I’m surprised we didn’t have “The Trumpty Dance” a long time ago.

S G

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.

pq

Julian come play in my game on pokerbros

Evan Nelson

Another poetry night pls. I rocked out to the song on the fucking freeway for fuck's sake.

Jack Van Houten

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

Larry44

Molly takes Molly when Molly reaches $1m market cap. Don't give the degens ideas!

Grey

c'mon y'all 7 days between episodes is not super cool

Toadwine

How 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

Donna Palermino

I wonder what’s up. Seven days is a lot. I just hope it’s not related to the fires.

lady8jane

I 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?

Byron Lagrone

I 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

I'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

Toadwine

Yeah 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....

Cumshitter

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.