We Audited Hunter Biden: $15 Million Owed, $0 Stocks, & Going Broke
Hunter Biden joins Graham Stephan and Jack Selby to discuss his $15 million legal debt, his Laptop Coin cryptocurrency launch gone wrong, and how he is trying to rebuild financially.
The gist
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Hunter Biden owes $15 million in legal fees, showing how government investigations can bankrupt people even without a conviction.
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His Laptop Coin spiked to a $316 billion market cap then collapsed because the market maker deployed only 1% of promised liquidity.
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He argues tokenomics matter, allocating 70% of supply to community and development rather than the 80% insider extraction he sees in competitor tokens.
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Graham Stephan used AI tools to organize hundreds of thousands of documents, making large-scale investigative research possible without a full research team.
"Have you guys read — which is an incredible book and I suggest that you read it? It's called The Second Estate and it's by this professor who is a tax expert and she talks about how we're dangerously coming close to a society that very much resembles France in the late 1700s e..."
▶ Play at 1:35:12"I have been writing on Substack now and it's a full-time job. I have two books that I've written that I'm releasing on Substack right now."
▶ Play at 38:2031 creators recommend it, including GaryVee, Peter Diamandis, and Scott Galloway.
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Graham Stephan uses it
"So here's a really good way to digest a ton of research. If you open up Claude, you create a project. This is one of the ways that I researched you for this podcast. I downloaded the transcript for every single one of the podcasts, saved it as a PDF, uploaded it to the context..."
▶ Play at 40:04"Aerodome gave us their initial report of exactly what happened and we were able to feed it into Claude and give it into a granular level of exactly what happened."
▶ Play at 1:26:35253 creators recommend it, including Riley Brown, Chris Koerner, and This Week in Startups.
See all on the Claude pageWhat they recommend · 5 picks
"So here's a really good way to digest a ton of research. If you open up Claude, you create a project. This is one of the ways that I researched you for this podcast. I downloade..."
"Have you guys read — which is an incredible book and I suggest that you read it? It's called The Second Estate and it's by this professor who is a tax expert and she talks about..."
"I have been writing on Substack now and it's a full-time job. I have two books that I've written that I'm releasing on Substack right now."
Hunter Biden
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"Have you guys read — which is an incredible book and I suggest that you read it? It's called The Second Estate and it's by this professor who is a tax expert and she talks about..."
"I have been writing on Substack now and it's a full-time job. I have two books that I've written that I'm releasing on Substack right now."
"I read The Internet of Money and from my own experience when I worked at the UN US World Food Program and believing in digital money, micro transactions and the idea of the demo..."
Graham Stephan
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"So here's a really good way to digest a ton of research. If you open up Claude, you create a project. This is one of the ways that I researched you for this podcast. I downloade..."
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