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Coffeezilla

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Coffeezilla
Coffeezilla
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handle@coffeebreak_YT, YouTube: Coffeezilla
roleinvestigator, YouTuber
known forCryptoZoo investigation, SBF interviews, HAWK and LIBRA coverage

Coffeezilla is the YouTube alias of Stephen Findeisen, an investigator whose long form videos on crypto frauds, from SafeMoon to CryptoZoo to HAWK and LIBRA, made him the mainstream face of scam accountability.

Contents
  1. 1 Background
  2. 2 Investigations
  3. 3 Influence
  4. 4 Controversies
  5. 5 References

Coffeezilla is the online alias of Stephen Findeisen, an American YouTuber who investigates online fraud with a focus on crypto. Before Coffeezilla, Findeisen ran a channel called Coffee Break from 2017 to 2020 covering pop science topics, then in 2018 launched a side channel called voidzilla that became Coffeezilla as the focus shifted to scam and MLM investigations. A Texas A&M chemical engineering graduate, he has grown the channel to about 4.69 million subscribers as of July 2026, up from the three million it held in earlier years, producing documentary style exposes, interviewing victims and often confronting the accused on camera from a neon lit studio. Rolling Stone and other profiles credit him with bringing investigative rigor to a beat mainstream media covered slowly, and his videos have repeatedly preceded lawsuits and enforcement actions.

Background

Findeisen has said he was pushed toward fraud investigation after his mother, diagnosed with cancer, was sold unproven products claimed to cure her; she later recovered after surgery. He was born in 1993 or 1994, sold houses for a local builder before turning to YouTube full time, has been married since 2017, and is based in Houston, Texas.

Investigations

His catalog spans the industry's fraud history: the 2021 Save the Kids influencer token collapse, SafeMoon, and a series of interviews with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried conducted after the exchange failed, in which Findeisen extracted admissions about the commingling of customer funds. His best known work is the CryptoZoo investigation published in December 2022, which documented how Logan Paul's NFT game took millions from buyers and never launched. Paul sued Findeisen for defamation in June 2024; the case proceeded toward a 2026 trial while Paul separately promised buybacks for CryptoZoo victims. In October 2024 he clashed publicly with Andrew Tate, blasting Tate's crypto promotions after Tate's shifting stance on them; crypto media largely rallied to Coffeezilla's side, including a crypto.news op ed titled "Andrew Tate is poison." In the memecoin era Coffeezilla turned to the trenches directly: in December 2024 he joined the X Spaces where Haliey Welch's team faced questions over the hawk coin collapse, pressing them on insider allocations as the token fell from a 490 million dollar market cap, per NBC News and Rolling Stone. When the Official Trump token launched in January 2025 he delivered one of the earliest mainstream investigator verdicts on it, calling the launch "80% of Trump Coin for insiders, 100% grift." After the LIBRA scandal in February 2025 he interviewed Hayden Davis, who told him "this isn't like some random f*cking scam" while admitting control of roughly 100 million dollars connected to the project, per crypto.news.

Influence

For the trenches, Coffeezilla functions as the crossover point where trench drama becomes mainstream scandal. He translates pump and dump mechanics, insider sniping, and rug pull anatomy for a general audience, often building on on chain work by figures like ZachXBT and Bubblemaps. His appearance in a story is treated as an escalation: memecoin teams joke nervously about ending up on the channel, and "Coffeezilla video dropped" is shorthand for a project's reputational point of no return.

Controversies

Findeisen's methods have drawn pushback, most prominently Paul's defamation suit, which he has publicly contested. Critics occasionally argue his framing is prosecutorial; supporters respond that his major targets have repeatedly been vindicated as frauds by courts and regulators.

The Paul suit has been slow to resolve. The May 4, 2026 trial date passed without a trial, and as of mid 2026 the case remained in pretrial proceedings in the Western District of Texas in San Antonio, with no verdict, settlement, or dismissal. Coverage of a June 8, 2026 hearing laid out Paul's litigation theory: he claims his advisors Eddie Ibanez and Jake Greenbaum secretly profited from ZOO tokens while Paul himself lost over one million dollars, and he points to his buyback program, with up to 2.3 million dollars pledged and over one million dollars in ETH distributed by March 2024. Findeisen calls the suit groundless and stands by his reporting.

References

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Last updated 2026-08-19