Episode 47: Christo-currency

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Christ’s cryptocurrency is on trial in Colorado. Eli and Kaitlyn Regalado have been accused of creating a worthless crypto coin and exchange, with Jesus-themed branding, that took about 3.4 million dollars from “investors” and left them holding the bag. With a hearing scheduled in Colorado for Feb 5, instead of showing up, Regalado decided to hit the Christian revival circuit in Zambia. Oh, yeah. And the laser-eyed crypto-maximalist president of El Salvador, Bukele, just won re-election. Extra reading: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/23/us-pastor-1m-cryptocurrency-scheme-christians-denver https://securities.colorado.gov/press-release/press-release-colorado-securities-commissioner-files-complaint-against-alleged https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/el-salvador-politics-media/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware) Music: Schemawound - Self-Surgery Manual (CC-BY 4.0) Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY 4.0) Timecrawler 82 - Infinity (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Help support Wetwired and get more episodes like this one. For $5 a month, get extra subscriber only episodes every month and get access to all of our past premium episodes. https://patreon.com/wetwired Catch up with us on the Wetwired Discord. https://discord.gg/fr62mpUy5c Follow us: Twitter at https://twitter.com/wetwiredpod Instagram at https://instagram.com/wetwiredpod Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.social