Show Notes
Hunter Biden walks through the $LAPTOP launch, when thin liquidity sent the token to a $317 billion market cap in a minute, and why he says it isn't a scam.
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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, Host / Unchained
Guest:
Hunter Biden - Artist, Author, and Recovery Advocate
Timestamps
🎨 01:26 How a blockchain-related initiative at the UN World Food Programme led Hunter to crypto
🏛️ 07:34 Why Hunter says most Democrats only know crypto through Trump's 'grift'
💧 12:47 1inch Aqua: See how LPs back multiple positions with one balance at http://unchainedcrypto.com/go/1inch-yt
💻 13:46 Why Hunter launched $LAPTOP and what he says went wrong at its debut
🔍 21:14 Hunter answers critics who call $LAPTOP the scam he accuses Trump of
🎲 23:52 How $LAPTOP's built-in prediction market burns tokens or funds charity
⚖️ 33:35 Hunter's case against World Liberty Financial and the Trump family business
🗳️ 46:47 Can Democrats revive the Clarity Act if they take back Congress?
🏦 50:01 Why Hunter can't understand Elizabeth Warren siding with the banks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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