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All you're doing all day is just like refreshing the thing where you see the money coming in. Then out of nowhere, like 100 grand comes in. And then another 500 grand comes. And now you're, you know, a couple million a day, right? Like every single day, you're like, whoa, this is different. This is different. So I was basically like, I'm just going to murder the world.

Today's guest is Ray Tripani, star of the new Netflix documentary BitCon. Back in 2017, Ray was

involved in a cryptocurrency scam that defrauded investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

He and his buddies created a fake business centered around a piece of crypto technology that they sold to investors

as a revolutionary new idea. Now, by the end, they actually ended up developing that technology,

but by then it was too late. The FBI was already closing in. Ray chose to cooperate against

his co-conspirators, sending them to prison. Now, the documentary goes into details about the scam, but I wanted to know the person behind it.

And what I found surprised me.

I'll let you be the judge.

And as always, for a bonus episode with Ray, go over to patreon.com slash the Connect show.

Without further ado, I give you Ray Tripani right here on The Connect with Johnny

Mitchell. I basically take like the remaining 100, like 120,000 and I just fly to Vegas with it in cash.

And if I win, I'll pay all the debt back and just go back to working in construction.

I'm going to just risk it all or die.

That's when I see lights behind me start to flash. And I didn't even think. I just hit it. I was driving like my life depended on. Then I parked the car, popped out, closed the door, and I started running. And he pulls out a burner, shank. It's like six inches. And he passes it to me. And he goes, here, that's yours. Don't ever leave the cell block without this. He was the reason I made it out of that place alive.

Ray Tripani, at long last, star of BitConned. Welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. Yes, we're going to make you the most infamous white collar criminal. If I have anything to say about it.

Sounds good. Uh, yeah, that did not to say about it. Sounds good.

Yeah, that did not make you look good, that doc.

The doc is great, very well done.

You shine in it.

But you and your whole crew look like Long Island scumbags, you know.

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