Interview with Coffeezilla on Cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and modern scammers
Decoding the Gurus
Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 187 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we are joined by the irrepressible "Coffeezilla" (aka Stephen Findeisen), a man who is, it's fair to say, kind of a big deal on YouTube. And rightly so! His channel focuses on exposing "scams, fraudsters and fake gurus" and he has received a great deal of praise for the detail, depth, and quality of the research that he goes into for each episode. Coffeezilla has been particularly active in digging into cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and other financial Ponzi and pump and dump schemes. Indeed, he has received praise from the MSM in relation to his coverage of the infamous Sam Bankman-Fried, and has most recently managed to arouse the ire of mega-influencer Logan Paul, after covering Paul's total NFT scam ‘problematic’ failed NFT offering.
We share a lot of common interests with Coffeezilla and this interview as a result is pretty broad-ranging. To mention just a few, we discuss Elon Musk, the way unscrupulous individuals leverage capitalist financial systems, the death of expertise, modern online ecosystems, the differences and parallels between financial and secular gurus , and the psychological and technological tricks gurus use to seperate people from their hard-earned cash.
Coffeezilla's hard work on financial scammer has made him extremely knowledgeable. He's also as sharp as a tack and really fun guy to chat with. So, we were super lucky to be able to snag him as a guest. We enjoyed ourselves thoroughly, and we hope you enjoy the interview too.
Oh, and Chris and Matt talk about Lex Fridman and that damn booklist in the introduction, and introduce a new segment the 'Weekly Wisdom of Mikhaila' at the end.
Enjoy!
Links
Coffeezilla's Investigating Logan Paul's CryptoZoo series
Logan Paul's attempts to address and redress
CoffeeZilla on The Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And the Oh, Hello again and welcome to Decoding the Guru's the podcast where an anthropologist |
| 0:31.2 | and a psychologist listen to the greatest minds the world has to offer |
| 0:34.2 | and we try to understand what they're talking about. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm Professor Matt Brown with me is Associate Professor Chris Kavanaugh. |
| 0:41.1 | Gday Chris, good afternoon. |
| 0:43.7 | Hello from Australia. |
| 0:45.3 | How is Japan today? |
| 0:47.4 | It's 2023, Matt. |
| 0:48.8 | We're in the future. |
| 0:50.5 | There weren't really any movies set in 23, where there. |
| 0:53.6 | It's not a very good number. |
| 0:55.0 | It's not a good number. |
| 0:56.0 | No, no. |
| 0:57.4 | What was- |
| 0:57.8 | 22 was good. |
| 0:59.6 | Like it had a cyberpunk field up, but that three it really messes us up. |
| 1:04.4 | Yeah, it does. |
| 1:05.5 | Yeah, I think the next movies will be set in 2050 or something. |
| 1:08.5 | So we got a while to go. |
| 1:10.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.2 | But Hope Springs Eternal, maybe this is the year of the cyber truck. |
| 1:15.0 | I saw some release notes on the cyber truck. |
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