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LOST EPISODE - WHO SNIPED $TRUMP
🕑 Added 2025-02-12 17:39:56 +0000 UTCGood News / Bad News
GOOD: New exclusive Patreon content and director's commentary!
BAD: We had to scrap our upcoming episode of Coffeezilla about $TRUMP coin.
Here's what happened:
1. We identified a trader on $TRUMP coin who made $100 million sniping (buying early).
2. The wallet clearly had early intel based on their transaction history, we were convinced this was insider information.
3. At the last second before publication, we finally found the person behind it and interviewed them.
4. They denied insider intel and had an equally compelling explanation that they discovered the coin using public information.
While I'm not positive I believe them (plenty of reasons to lie about insider intel), the $TRUMP coin video was built around a premise that I now didn't have full confidence in, so I scrapped the episode even though 80% of the work had been done... leaving the team with a fun episode and nowhere to release it.
I thought I'd leave it here, to memorialize the work, add some director's commentary, explain what we've been up to, and say I think this is just part of the process with journalism.
Sometimes you start a story believing one thing, and end up believing another. If you're lucky, you'll figure all that out before you hit publish!
So even though it's sad to see the episode go into the dustbin, better that than seeing an episode go live that should've gone in the dustbin!
Credit to BUBBLEMAPS, who helped us with this story.
Credit to Harry and Ed, who had to see their great work go down the drain.
Comments
Tx_Sandwich
The outro is amazing!!!
Abbie Kucera
It's tough killing a story you've basically finished, but I applaud your integrity and ability to reflect that you may be wrong (at least right now with the most current info). It's a shame that outro will never see the light of day, though. It was hilarious! Would've been my favorite CZ outro to date!
Old Manrunning
That outro was bloody hilarious
Dennis Fahey
Its more like The Flash Boys. They figured out the footprint of a release and jumped to the front of the queue.
Letcha B
I still believe this is a form of insider trading. Maybe not inside the creators of the coin, but those with insider info of the exchanges and contractors. Insider trading but not from inside the house, rather inside the bank.
Elizabeth Woodley
Personally, I’m of the opinion that this was 100% an insider snipe, but that the people involved found themselves some clever plausible deniability. And I think they planned in advance to use that excuse.
MARLOW
same here ! thank u coffee and co for breaking down crypto into something i can wrap my smooth brain around lol
Logan James
I feel like you could post the Maxwell bit as a standalone on the main channel. More people need to see this masterpiece, even without the context
Amanda Crispino
Really cool to see the behind the scenes with outer members of the team! I didn't understand anything about crypto or meme coins until I started watching your channel. Apparently, my brain is only interested when there's a scam involved. Thanks guys!
K Marie
Just hopping in to say that the LIBRA interview is absolutely insane-- A few years back when I started watching I could never have imagined that meme coins would become part of the vocabulary for presidential scandals. Truly incredible work, especially because I can't see how the stakes could get much higher than they are now
Shoo
That Maxwell scene is top tier, it’s up there next to Margo Robot in a bubble bath and the movie, but this definitely takes the cake. I’m so glad y'all decided to post it on patreon still!
Richard Stephens
That has to be my favorite maxwell bit and it's a tragedy for it not to see a mainstream release.
Mike Gervasi
Good for you for killing the video. Also Ed is a genius Graphic Designer.
Leonardo
More details on the Milei shitecoin (English, and quite a juicy source) https://x.com/DiogenesCasares/status/1890853180897948091
Abbygator
That outrooooo 🤣🤣🤣
Leonardo
More here. It’s getting pretty serious, although I have no hopes for impeachment, Argentinian congresspeople are as morally weak as their Americans counterparts and that’s saying a lot. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGGnZCGuwWv/?igsh=MXgwc2I2M25jZ2xoYw==
Leonardo
Argentine President Javier Milei just promoted a Crypto in his account, and rug pulled it hours after. He and his close friends made around 7 to 8 million dollars each in a manner of days. Please Coffee, give it some coverage on the void, media is ignoring this. I don’t want to live in this planet anymore. EDIT: apparently the people behind Milei’s coin was some of the same as with Melania’s. https://www.instagram.com/p/DGExLAyOJj5/?img_index=5&igsh=MXF0emdibTB1cGZ3ag==
Jokubas
The outro is just pure gold, teared up from laughter 😂
Barry Hott
Ed is a whole vibe, very funny
Barry Hott
Agreed, this is fun
Christophe
...the grifters are calling from within the DOJ!... what an insane timeline to live in. I would suggest you do release this to the broader audience, this is still good information to get out there.
DaMu
Imagine new evidence comes into light completely debunking the sniper's claim. Then, we have a deluxe episode to publish!
LavastormSW
I appreciate you releasing the director's cut! I got a good laugh out of it.
James Linderman
Loved this. Also eds fit is fire 🔥
JoJo
Guys the below link is 1 article from our whistleblower site that is exposing another Amazon course identical to what Kevin David did. Only this spans across to globe. Feel free to read through all the other articles and write on our guestbook your thoughts. Any input or help is much appreciated 😊 https://fbabrandgrifter.com/kevin-david-vs-darren-campbell-the-fall-of-amazon-fbas-biggest-scammers/
d3vnull10
I meant it more that coffee found out the facts before posting his video.. regardless of the source (in this case it was bbmaps and sniper lateron)
MIKΞL
I got rid of my earlier comment about Bubble maps not persisting because I was going to redo it and add some images but I guess I can't. Anyway y'all be careful about Bubble Maps, unless you have a different way of doing it, but if you're just clicking on "Bubble Maps" on dex those don't persist. I've not dug deeper but timing is crucial with those... (I know the data persists, just the presentation / representation of the data changes over time.. which is odd and disappointing and can give a false sense of security)
MIKΞL
Careful. Bubble maps don't persist. The data is still there but if you just go by the "presentation" you can be easily fooled...
MIKΞL
Interesting, thanks. Yeah I don't use the trading Bots I have been told it would change my life LOL just not really my thing... guess I still try to play fair but it is all PVP
Daryl
It is hard to kill something you put effort into and this is a great way to still utilize it. Good job on the integrity, loved the outro.
Lumi
I love this director's commentary style vid with all three of you and would like to see more in the future. Thanks guys
Adithya Udupa
LOVED the outro! Thank you for this, Coffee! 🤣
jah is mighty
make integrity great again
Holly Smith
29:25 is one hell of an accusation - I’m not surprised everyone in a legal position told you not to run with it. Could you pass it on to a bigger newspaper who has the legal firepower?
Randoir
And this is why I sub to CZ patreon ! ty CZ
Coffeezilla
I HAD TO LET PEOPLE SEE IT! I’m telling you that was the most disappointing thing to kill 😭
Coffeezilla
No, it’s a tip to get validators to accept your tx ahead of others. in JITOMEV IIRC
Angie aka Mrs_Cuddelsworth
Best outro ever!
Gerald Hornsby
That was amazing. Kudos. 👍
MIKΞL
Tip? I've been in crypto a long time and never heard of that do you mean slippage?
N B
Please run the bit with maxwell sometime anyways, I loved it
Naomi Hirasaki
“ONLY the facts were wrong guys” a minor detail 😂 good to see the boys and appreciate your hard work regardless!
Mohammad R Karimi
The Maxwell part was so freaking awesome! Well done guys!!
SkepticGhost
It's insane to me that we live in a time where the president of the US is rug-pulling his constituents...
LavastormSW
I love the grok/deepseek LLM joke at the end
Liv
That outro is hilarious - glad we got to see it
Coffeezilla
Yessir. Ed. The brilliant CG man.
Winged Gunsknecht
Respect for dropping a story if the facts are sketchy. It's the "downside" of being a proper journalist. Thought you'd like to know Norwegian newspapers picked up the counter strike gambling story,, seen several articles and a quite good non-nerd news podcast episode! They have poked around and done some extra interviews, hope they dig up something interesting surrounding Grimm going onwards.
Caroline Colbert
Thank you for not putting out a story you lost confidence in! I feel respected as an audience member!
Kyle G
Have say that episode is my favorite so far. I was starting to think integrity was dead in these current times. Gotta up my Patreon contribution. So did Bubble contact you or did you contact Bubble?
MatthewK
Just the fact that you admit a story didn’t work out and let people know. Bravo sir.
Greg
Enjoyed your group breakdown. Hope to see more without you having to pull videos!
John Simpson
Great to see a Brit working on your videos Coffee! And your graphics guy is so cool!
d3vnull10
Haha you dodged one also coffee... 😅😉 haha. still good content and teamwork with bubblemaps. Keep it up bro
JoJo
Hi, is on here the best way to contact you? I left a few comments on your previous post and sent a message on IG. This is growing into a huge story and I want to make you aware. There’s a whistleblower site about it all too with all the evidence you need. Please reach out 🙏 we need help
Mario Stoilov
Hmm, when I read the title, somehow I thought you were making a documentary about the shooter......
Mario Ojeda
So the guy in the rigth built the million dollars studio?
MARLOW
genuinely so refreshing to see a journalist who can reflect and be open to new information even when it isn't convenient, especially monetarily. it's a tough call to scrap it, but really respectable of you ! plus more bonus for us mwahaha
