Crypto Critics' Corner

By Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin

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Episodes: 144

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Bennett and Cas discuss historical moments in the cryptocurrency and finance industries, focusing on frauds, hacks, exit scams, and other malfeasance.

Episode Date
YUM YUM MONEY TIME: Deltec Bank moved customer funds from FTX to Alameda Research
Mar 16, 2024
Binanace and Changpeng Zhao Indicted: End of an Era
Feb 26, 2024
Read, Write, Owned: Broken Web3 Promises (Feat. Molly White)
Feb 21, 2024
Tether: The $100,000,000,000 Problem in Crypto
Feb 08, 2024
Why Crypto Will Never Fix Payments (Feat. Patrick McKenzie)
Nov 15, 2023
Sam Bankman-Fried Sent Himself to Prison (Feat. Elizabeth Lopatto)
Nov 10, 2023
Wyre: Another crypto payment processor involved in fraud
Nov 07, 2023
Sam Bankman-Fried's Trial is Going Great (feat. Molly White)
Nov 03, 2023
It's so over: Sam Bankman-Fried testifies (feat. Sam Kessler)
Oct 30, 2023
Tweets, Trolls, and Superstars in the Sam Bankman-Fried Trial (Feat. Katie Baker)
Oct 26, 2023
Sam Bankman-Fried asked FTX's lawyer to explain away stolen funds (feat. Danny Nelson)
Oct 23, 2023
Moonstone Bank: FTX, Deltec, and the Mission to Move Millions
Oct 20, 2023
Caroline Ellison Takes the Stand: the Sam Bankman-Fried Trial Week 2 (Feat. Nikhilesh De)
Oct 17, 2023
Can crypto companies get bank accounts?
Oct 13, 2023
Did Sam Bankman-Fried's Defense Blow It? (Feat. David Z. Morris)
Oct 09, 2023
Are NFTs securities?
Oct 04, 2023
Elon Musk's ESG Con (Feat. Eric Roesch)
Sep 29, 2023
Were SBF's parents in on it? Follow the Money
Sep 22, 2023
Circle is losing the stablecoin war to Tether (Feat. Leo Schwartz)
Sep 20, 2023
SBF Deserves Human Rights
Sep 15, 2023
Let's Talk About Number Go Up with Zeke Faux
Sep 12, 2023
All-In? We're Out: Why the All-In Podcast is Bad for America
Sep 08, 2023
How to Steal Almost $100 Million: Prime Trust goes Bust
Aug 29, 2023
Effective Altruism: Morally Buy An Island Nation
Aug 16, 2023
All Hail The Orb: Worldcoin
Aug 02, 2023
Justin Sun and TrueUSD... Again
Jul 28, 2023
Prime Trust, TrueUSD, and Offshore Finance (Feat. Jonathan Reiter and Patrick Tan)
Jul 01, 2023
How to attack Bitcoin (Feat. Micah Warren)
Jun 16, 2023
Bennett and Cas at Consensus 2023: How to Spot a Scam
Jun 12, 2023
Binance, Coinbase, and the SEC (Featuring Mike Burgersburg of Dirty Bubble Media)
Jun 09, 2023
Crypto Critics Cope at Consensus Conference
May 04, 2023
The FDIC, Infinite Insurance, and Moral Hazards (Feat. Rohan Grey)
Apr 12, 2023
The Whistleblower Who Exposed WorldCom (feat. Cynthia Cooper & Daren Firestone)
Apr 07, 2023
Binance in Trouble (streamed live on March 27th, 2023)
Apr 04, 2023
SEC sues Justin Sun, Coinbase, Celebrities; also Do Kwon arrested (recorded on March 23rd)
Apr 03, 2023
Toilet Apes and other NFT Exploitation (Feat. Ed Zitron)
Mar 16, 2023
Silvergategate: The Collapse of Silvergate and the Future of Cryptocurrency Banking
Mar 09, 2023
Tether Falsified Bank Records
Mar 04, 2023
Satire in Cryptocurrency: West Ham (feat. Josh Cincinnati and Laurence [Insert Last Name Here])
Mar 01, 2023
The El Salvador Volcano Token (feat. Domingo Flores)
Feb 06, 2023
Harmony Horizon Exploit, Lazarus Group, and Cryptocurrency Bridges
Jan 29, 2023
Nexo Raided, SBF Lies, and Genesis and Gemini Charged
Jan 17, 2023
Cryptocurrency Banks Give Up
Jan 17, 2023
Did Satoshi run a drug cartel? The Paul Le Roux Story (Feat. Evan Ratliff)
Jan 02, 2023
Auditors, Binance, and Global Regulation
Dec 21, 2022
The Skeptic's Guide to Skepticism
Nov 21, 2022
FTX and Alameda are dead, long live cryptocurrency
Nov 09, 2022
Shadow Banking 2.0 in Web3 and DeFi (Feat. Hilary Allen)
Oct 27, 2022
Binance Smart Chain is Dumb and Mango Markets, Too
Oct 19, 2022
High Noon at Ooki Corral: CFTC Sues DAO Participants
Oct 07, 2022
A Tale of Two Ponzis: Celsius and Luna, Alex Mashinsky and Do Kwon
Sep 30, 2022
Saylor's Strategy: a MicroTragedy
Sep 23, 2022
Crypto Journalism and Shills (feat. Nikhilesh De)
Sep 16, 2022
The Good, the Bad, and the Bukele (Feat. Frank Muci)
Sep 11, 2022
Draconian Financial Regulation and the Argument for Tether (Feat. Boaz Sobrado)
Sep 01, 2022
Coinbase and Kraken Facing Regulatory Actions
Aug 13, 2022
Sex, Lies, and Ponzinomics: Marketing in Cryptocurrency (Feat. Adam Singer)
Aug 02, 2022
A Tether Update
Jul 25, 2022
The Dogecoin Joke (Feat. Jackson Palmer)
Jul 20, 2022
Celsius Network: a Pyramid of Ponzis
Jul 14, 2022
Cryptocurrency Criticism in a Bear Market (Feat. Molly White)
Jul 08, 2022
Contagions and Cascading Liquidations in Cryptocurrency
Jul 01, 2022
NFTs, Frauds, and Algorithmic Stablecoins (Feat. Mark Cuban)
Jun 23, 2022
Bitcoin ETFs, the SEC, and Regulatory Clarity (Feat. James Seyffart)
Jun 19, 2022
New NFT Usecase Discovered, and it's Insider Trading
Jun 17, 2022
Celsius Collapsing: Causes, Concerns, and Catastrophe (Feat. Mike Burgersburg)
Jun 14, 2022
Pre-Philanthropic Billionaires and Bitcoin (Feat. Mario Gibney)
Jun 09, 2022
Disclosures, Conflicts of Interest, and Diplomacy
Jun 06, 2022
El Salvador Revisited: Chivo, KYC/AML, and Nayib Bukele (Feat. Domingo Flores)
Jun 01, 2022
Cryptocurrency, Coinbase, and Contagion (Feat. Jim Chanos)
May 29, 2022
Finding Finex
May 22, 2022
DeFi and Cryptocurrency Risks and Rewards (Feat. Lily Francus)
May 18, 2022
We Never Wanted to Discuss Terra and Luna ever Again... and yet
May 13, 2022
Terra, Luna, and Algorithmic Stablecoins
May 04, 2022
The Rise and Fall of Reggie Fowler
Apr 30, 2022
An Unscripted Chat with the Richest Man in the World* (Feat. Colin Platt)
Apr 21, 2022
Evading North Korean Sanctions 101
Apr 15, 2022
An Early Skeptic's Telling of "Why be skeptical?" (Feat. David Gerard)
Apr 12, 2022
The Career Criminal Conspiracies of Cas Piancey
Apr 07, 2022
The ECASH Act (Feat. Rohan Grey)
Apr 04, 2022
Metaverse 2: Venture Capitalist Judgement Day (Feat. münecat)
Mar 31, 2022
We Need to talk about El Salvador (Feat. Mario Gómez and Oscar Salguero)
Mar 28, 2022
Should Money Laundering be a Crime? (Feat. Josh Cincinnati)
Mar 23, 2022
Trying to Think like the SEC (Feat. John Reed Stark)
Mar 22, 2022
The Foul Financials of Cryptocurrency (Feat. Francine McKenna)
Mar 17, 2022
The Many Faces and Citizenships of Justin Sun
Mar 14, 2022
Cities and the Blockchain
Mar 09, 2022
Ukraine and Russia and What it Means for Cryptocurrency
Mar 07, 2022
This Man Murders Scams (Feat. ZachXBT)
Mar 04, 2022
Company Towns - Past, Present, and Future (Feat. Dr. Ángela Vergara)
Mar 01, 2022
Web3 is Wonky (Feat. Molly White)
Feb 27, 2022
The Verification Scam, How it Works, and Why it's Everywhere
Feb 24, 2022
Inflation, the Federal Reserve, and Bitcoin (Feat. Michael Green)
Feb 21, 2022
Celebrities Love Cryptocurrencies - and it's lame (Feat. Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman)
Feb 17, 2022
The Return of the Bitfinex Hack: $4.5 billion in Bitcoin is Found and Seized
Feb 12, 2022
Oh, a thing called Wormhole ate $320,000,000? Are you surprised?
Feb 08, 2022
The US Dollar, Inflation, and Recession (Feat. Travis Kimmel)
Feb 03, 2022
Michael and Omar and 0xSifu, oh my!
Jan 29, 2022
The Complex History and Weird Transition of DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations)
Jan 27, 2022
Bitcoin's Black Swans (Feat. Doomberg)
Jan 24, 2022
Poker's Black Friday (Feat. Jason Bral)
Jan 20, 2022
Energy Problem in Kazakhstan is an Energy Problem for Bitcoin
Jan 13, 2022
Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos, and the Future of VC (Feat. Elizabeth Lopatto)
Jan 07, 2022
Craig Steven Wright is a Crier and a Flawed (individual)
Jan 06, 2022
The Silk Road, Bitcoin, and Ross (Feat. Nicholas Weaver)
Dec 30, 2021
F*ck the SEC, all my friends hate the SEC
Dec 23, 2021
The World is a Ponzi Scheme, You just Live in It
Dec 16, 2021
NFTs, the New Short Killer? No. Definitely Not.
Dec 09, 2021
The El Salvador Bitcoin - Volcano - Bitcoin City Bond
Dec 02, 2021
Stablecoins will Fork your Chain if they Want to Fork
Nov 18, 2021
The Tether Papers (feat. David Canellis of Protos)
Nov 11, 2021
The President's Working Group and Algo Stablecoin Woes
Nov 07, 2021
Tracking Tether and Working on Ethereum Layer 2 (with Daniel Goldman)
Oct 30, 2021
Decentralization and Tribalism (featuring Oliver Beige)
Oct 23, 2021
Taiwan and Tether (with Sam Reynolds)
Oct 16, 2021
The Pandora Papers
Oct 09, 2021
Liberty Reserve: the first stablecoin
Oct 03, 2021
Evergrande with David Z. Morris
Sep 27, 2021
Cryptocurrency Lending is Too Good to Believe
Sep 12, 2021
Remembering Fraud: WorldCom
Sep 06, 2021
C.R.E.A.M. Cumberland Rules Everything Around Me
Aug 30, 2021
Binance: the Tai Chi Document
Aug 20, 2021
Blockchain Terminal with Robert Green
Aug 16, 2021
Bitcoin
Aug 08, 2021
Algorithmic stablecoins and regulation, Part II featuring Frances Coppola
Aug 05, 2021
Inflation, deflation, and stablecoins with Frances Coppola (Part I)
Aug 02, 2021
Crypto Charity - where you donate to random people making promises and get nothing in return
Jul 30, 2021
From Skeptic to Believer: Preston Byrne on the cryptocurrency ecosystem
Jul 26, 2021
Stablecoins, CBDCs, and the STABLE Act with Rohan Grey
Jul 21, 2021
Revisiting Enron with David Z. Morris
Jul 19, 2021
Behold the Brash Bunk from Bitfinex and Binance
Jul 12, 2021
BitClout is Bad with David Canellis
Jul 05, 2021
Regulatory Capture and Regulatory Arbitrage: Sleeping with your Enemy
Jun 30, 2021
El Salvador and Bitcoin
Jun 28, 2021
This one weird trick will stop you from ever having a bank run!! (never let anyone redeem)
Jun 21, 2021
Shillfluencers (and the unspoken financial epidemic)
Jun 14, 2021
Coinbase Media and why Venture Capitalism Hates Journalism
Jun 07, 2021
QuadrigaCX: the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange that just won't die
Jun 01, 2021
Crypto Capital Corp: the quiet billion dollar cryptocurrency scam
May 26, 2021
Two Pie Charts and a $60 billion Stablecoin
May 15, 2021
Zhao Dong: A Summary
May 12, 2021
Tether Q&A
Apr 16, 2021
Tether: A Stable Discussion Part II
Mar 08, 2021
Tether: A Stable Discussion
Mar 04, 2021