How Crypto Insiders Are Sidestepping the Law to Dump on Retail - Ep. 895
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Thank you for having me, Laura. Pleasure to be on.
Bubble Maps has had some great investigations into recent shenanigans in the crypto space involving people like Hayden Davis, Sahil Aurora, and others. But let's start with Hayden Davis. He's a character that's appeared in a number of these incidents, and he was involved in what you called the presidential coins because there were a few of those. So tell us about your investigation into those.
Absolutely. And it has certainly been an interesting year for crypto. With these presidential coins, I think nobody expected this tokenization era to go that far. Because last year, we already had we already have all the celebrities launching tokens. I think you had Iggy Azaila on your show at some point. But, only a few people were expecting this to go that far that even the president of The United States would endorse and would launch his own meme coin. And it was I remember this vividly. It was at the beginning of the year on a Saturday morning. I live in Europe, and we woke up to this madn
another story. And
for this one, although he posted both on Twitter, on his own Twitter account and through social, a lot of people was were skeptical. Did he get hacked? Is this really his own initiative or not? And so the first thing that we did this morning was we checked the bubble map of Trump, and we wanted to see if that was matching with the tokenomics that he shared on his website. And that was actually the case, surprisingly. The token of Trump was was done in a very transparent way, although there was one holder with 80%, but I'll I'll get to this in a second. But at least the actual tokenomics was ma
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