Crypto Critics' Corner – Details, episodes & analysis

Bennett and Cas discuss the tools they use to investigate various frauds and scams.

Coverage from Protos of an entity fraudulently pretending to be associated with Tether can be found here.

Here's a list of tools used in this episode:

OpenCorporates

Companies House

EDGAR

FinCEN

Crunchbase

RECAP

PACER

The New York Times

Wayback Machine

BuiltWith

Etherscan

BreadCrumbs

Some other episodes of CCC mentioned can be found here:

Episode 56 – This Man Murders Scams (Feat. ZachXBT)

Episode 100 – A Skeptic’s Guide to Skepticism

Episode 127 - Let's Talk About Number Go Up (Feat. Zeke Faux)

Playlist of videos about Bitfinex and Tether

This episode was recorded on July 11th and 16th, 2024.

Bennett and Cas are joined by Travis Kimmel to discuss the purpose and role of venture capital.

This video was recorded on May 9th, 2024.

Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey are joined by Molly White to discuss Andreessen Horowitz GP Chris Dixon's new book: Read, Write, Own.

Read Molly's review of Dixon's book here and check out her archival cryptocurrency news site here.

Read Protos' article about how a16z gamed the NYT Bestseller List here.

Read Motherboard's article about how many copies of Read, Write, Own were bulk purchased here.

This episode was recorded on February 10th, 2024.

Today Bennett and Cas are joined by the portfolio manager and chief strategist for Simplify Asset Management, Michael Green (on Twitter @profplum99).

In one of our most wide-ranging discussions, we had the opportunity to pick Mike's brain on what inflation means for the U.S. and the world, how the Fed should respond, the Canadian Trucker Convoy / Protest, and what all of it might mean for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general.

Mike specifically mentions The Trades of March 2020, a book by Alex Gurevich, available here: https://www.amazon.com/Trades-March-2020-against-Uncertainty-ebook/dp/B09NX372KG

This episode was recorded on Thursday, February 17th, 2022.

Today Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey are joined by Ben McKenzie (star of Gotham, Southland, and The O.C.) and Jacob Silverman (author of Terms of Service and writer for The New Republic and Slate) who discuss the ideas behind their upcoming book about cryptocurrency, their issues with celebrity shilling of speculative assets, and how it really feels like corporate greed is eating our democracy.

Here are some of the books and movies mentioned during the interview:

Lying for Money by Dan Davies - https://www.amazon.com/Lying-Money-Legendary-Frauds-Workings-ebook/dp/B078WFT5JV

The Future of Money by Eswar Prasad - https://www.amazon.com/Future-Money-Revolution-Transforming-Currencies/dp/0674258444

The China Hustle - https://www.amazon.com/China-Hustle-Dan-David/dp/B07BQH2LQG

This episode was recorded on Monday, February 14th, 2022

Today Bennett and Cas will be talking about how $3.5 billion dollars (of $4.5 billion) worth of Bitcoin stolen 6 years ago was found and seized by the US Department of Justice.

We discuss Ilya Lichtenstein, Heather Reyhan Morgan, what this means for all the Bitfinex tokens, and if it's possible the funds won't be returned to Bitfinex at all.

This episode was record on February 12th, 2022.

Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey talk about the recent incredible hack of the cryptocurrency bridge, aptly named, Wormhole. Did $320,000,000 worth of ETH evaporate? Yes. Did Jump Crypto 100% cover that? Also yes.

Today Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey have the opportunity to chat with THE BEAR LORD - or just Travis, if you prefer - about all things SCARY when it comes to the future of the dollar, yields, cryptocurrency, and the economy as a whole.

Follow Travis on Twitter @coloradotravis

(Recorded on Monday, January 31st, 2022)

Today Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey bring you up to date on an old character in an old story: Michael Patryn - er, should we say Omar Dhanani? Or 0xSifu? It's all up for debate, because on January 27th, 2022, the cofounder of QuadrigaCX, a now defunct Canadian cryptocurrency exchange - reappeared in a big way: by being the chief financial officer and treasurer for one of the biggest decentralized protocols around today.

So now what?

Read the initial thread exposing Michael Patryn here: https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1486591682728673282?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey discuss the long, complex, and fraught history of DAOs (or Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) and try to understand the current hype cycle.