Gotcha! The Crypto Grift w/ Mark Hays

Gotcha! The Crypto Grift w/ Mark Hays

Hey you! Do you want some free internet money? If this sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is!

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This is Gotcha! A four-part series on scams, how they work, and how technology is supercharging them. We start with Mark Hays from Americans for Financial Reform (AFR), and get into one of the biggest tech-fuelled financial scams out there: cryptocurrencies.

Like many things that require mass-buy in, crypto started with an ideology (libertarianism, people hating on Wall Street post 2008). But where does that leave us now? What has crypto morphed into since then, and how does it deceive both consumers and regulators into thinking it’s something that it’s not?

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