Good 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.