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In June, Hunter Biden replied to a small account on X that “fiat is a sham” and the banking class is corrupt. His next move was $LAPTOP, a memecoin he says has the opposite tokenomics of the $TRUMP token.

Hunter joins Laura Shin to trace his path into crypto, from the UN World Food Programme’s digital wallets for refugees (originally covered on Unchained in 2018) to The Internet of Money. He walks through $LAPTOP’s first minutes, when a market maker seeded about $5,000 of liquidity and the token briefly showed a $317 billion market cap, and answers critics who call it a scam.

He also lays out the token’s prediction market burn mechanism, argues the Clarity Act died because the administration wouldn’t bend on ethics rules covering the Trump family, and challenges Elizabeth Warren for siding with the banks.

Host:

    • Laura Shin – Founder, CEO and Host of Unchained

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