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Coffeezilla is the online alias of Stephen Findeisen, an American YouTuber who investigates online fraud with a focus on crypto. A Texas A&M chemical engineering graduate, he built a channel of more than three million subscribers 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.

## 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 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. 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.

## References

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffeezilla
- https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/coffeezilla-youtube-busting-crypto-scam-1234711515/
- https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/hawk-tuah-meme-coin-haliey-welch-crypto-1235213606/
- https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/hawk-tuah-girl-haliey-welchs-crypto-launch-scrutiny-rcna183098
- https://crypto.news/this-isnt-some-random-fcking-scam-hayden-mark-davis-mastermind-behind-crashed-libra-crypto-scam/
- https://beincrypto.com/learn/who-is-coffeezilla/
- https://www.youtube.com/@Coffeezilla

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