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PodcastUnchainedOctober 1, 2026

Is Hunter Biden's $LAPTOP Coin a Scam? He Says the Wallets Prove It Isn't

Hunter Biden says $LAPTOP's fully transparent, low-insider-allocation tokenomics—unlike a scam—explain a market-maker liquidity error, not fraud.

  • $317B phantom market cap: $LAPTOP briefly spiked to a $317 billion market cap within a minute of launch after a market maker seeded only $5,000-$6 of real liquidity against 15 million tokens, instead of the planned ~25% liquidity allocation.
  • Tokenomics pitched as anti-Trump: Hunter says $LAPTOP allocates 50% to community and 30% to insiders (vs. what he calls 80% insider allocation on $TRUMP), with a 6-month cliff and 18-month linear vesting on founder tokens.

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