Who wants to be a crypto millionaire?
This Is Uncomfortable
Marketplace
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
What would you do with a million dollars…in crypto? Reema Khrais talks with Marketplace reporter Matt Levin about one man’s journey to becoming crypto rich. Levin’s reporting reveals a complicated picture, not just about the ups and downs of crypto, but also about what it means to chase the American dream when you're living on the margins.
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| 1:01.7 | It's a wild story. Yeah, it's nice. It's like a nice little longitudinal study of what happens to a |
| 1:07.8 | human being when they become suddenly crypto-rich and then not-cryptor rich and then |
| 1:12.4 | crypto-rich again. |
| 1:14.4 | I'm Riem Reyes, and welcome to This Is Uncomfortable. |
| 1:17.6 | This week, I am talking with my colleague Matt Levin, Marketplace's unofficial crypto reporter. |
| 1:23.8 | For the last four years, Matt's been following one man's wild ride through the world of cryptocurrency, |
| 1:29.9 | a guy named Glauber Contasoto. |
| 1:32.5 | Glabur got internet famous for his big bet on Dogecoin. |
| 1:35.9 | I just spent all my money on Dogecoin. |
| 1:40.4 | What's going on, guys? |
| 1:41.7 | Welcome to my brand new channel, the Dogecoin millionaire, where I plan on |
| 1:45.7 | becoming a millionaire by buying and holding Dogecoin. |
| 1:49.8 | Glabber didn't grow up with money. He's a regular guy who stumbled into crypto, hoping to change |
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