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Crypto Critics' Corner — 175 episodes
The Twisted Relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Cryptocurrency Billionaire Brock Pierce
Are prediction markets a bet against democracy?
Molly White on Trump's Crypto Corruption
Crypto politics (feat. Nitish Pahwa)
Trump v. Powell: The Murder of the Federal Reserve
The Vile Truth of Bitcoin (Feat. Peter Ryan)
Is Elon Musk’s Starbase a good idea?
Is $TRUMP corrupt?
Put Congress on the Blockchain (Feat. Rohan Grey)
Cryptocurrency funded American Fascism
The Realization™ (Elon Musk is a Fraud)
What happened to the SEC? (Feat. Corey Frayer)
End the Fed
Elon Musk's St. Valentine's Day Massacre
CFPB RIP 🪦
What the Elon Musk coup means for Finance
Humiliate your local billionaire (feat. Ed Zitron)
Is there one good regulator between the SEC and the CFTC? (feat. Sean Tuffy)
CBDCs are Dead, Long Live Trump Coin!
What Donald Trump means for Bitcoin (Feat. Joey Politano)
Tether wins, Skeptics lose: the end of an era
Donald Trump, Justin Sun, and the grifts we missed
Is Bitcoin good for the world? (feat. Andrew Bailey)
How to investigate a fraud
Is Venture Capital Good?
DJT: The official Trump Token?
Justin Sun is Insolvent
Is Effective Altruism Evil? (Feat. Vincent Woo)
CZ vs SBF
Regional Banking: It's Over, Bro
Two giant river boys and their missing $1,000,000,000: the Winklevoss Twins (Feat. Ed Zitron)
YUM YUM MONEY TIME: Deltec Bank moved customer funds from FTX to Alameda Research
Binanace and Changpeng Zhao Indicted: End of an Era
Read, Write, Owned: Broken Web3 Promises (Feat. Molly White)
Tether: The $100,000,000,000 Problem in Crypto
Why Crypto Will Never Fix Payments (Feat. Patrick McKenzie)
Sam Bankman-Fried Sent Himself to Prison (Feat. Elizabeth Lopatto)
Wyre: Another crypto payment processor involved in fraud
Sam Bankman-Fried's Trial is Going Great (feat. Molly White)
It's so over: Sam Bankman-Fried testifies (feat. Sam Kessler)
Tweets, Trolls, and Superstars in the Sam Bankman-Fried Trial (Feat. Katie Baker)
Sam Bankman-Fried asked FTX's lawyer to explain away stolen funds (feat. Danny Nelson)
Moonstone Bank: FTX, Deltec, and the Mission to Move Millions
Caroline Ellison Takes the Stand: the Sam Bankman-Fried Trial Week 2 (Feat. Nikhilesh De)
Can crypto companies get bank accounts?
Did Sam Bankman-Fried's Defense Blow It? (Feat. David Z. Morris)
Are NFTs securities?
Elon Musk's ESG Con (Feat. Eric Roesch)
Were SBF's parents in on it? Follow the Money
Circle is losing the stablecoin war to Tether (Feat. Leo Schwartz)
SBF Deserves Human Rights
Let's Talk About Number Go Up with Zeke Faux
All-In? We're Out: Why the All-In Podcast is Bad for America
How to Steal Almost $100 Million: Prime Trust goes Bust
Effective Altruism: Morally Buy An Island Nation
All Hail The Orb: Worldcoin
Justin Sun and TrueUSD... Again
Prime Trust, TrueUSD, and Offshore Finance (Feat. Jonathan Reiter and Patrick Tan)
How to attack Bitcoin (Feat. Micah Warren)
Bennett and Cas at Consensus 2023: How to Spot a Scam
Binance, Coinbase, and the SEC (Featuring Mike Burgersburg of Dirty Bubble Media)
Crypto Critics Cope at Consensus Conference
The FDIC, Infinite Insurance, and Moral Hazards (Feat. Rohan Grey)
The Whistleblower Who Exposed WorldCom (feat. Cynthia Cooper & Daren Firestone)
Binance in Trouble (streamed live on March 27th, 2023)
SEC sues Justin Sun, Coinbase, Celebrities; also Do Kwon arrested (recorded on March 23rd)
Toilet Apes and other NFT Exploitation (Feat. Ed Zitron)
Silvergategate: The Collapse of Silvergate and the Future of Cryptocurrency Banking
Tether Falsified Bank Records
Satire in Cryptocurrency: West Ham (feat. Josh Cincinnati and Laurence [Insert Last Name Here])
The El Salvador Volcano Token (feat. Domingo Flores)
Harmony Horizon Exploit, Lazarus Group, and Cryptocurrency Bridges
Nexo Raided, SBF Lies, and Genesis and Gemini Charged
Cryptocurrency Banks Give Up
Did Satoshi run a drug cartel? The Paul Le Roux Story (Feat. Evan Ratliff)
Auditors, Binance, and Global Regulation
The Skeptic's Guide to Skepticism
FTX and Alameda are dead, long live cryptocurrency
Shadow Banking 2.0 in Web3 and DeFi (Feat. Hilary Allen)
Binance Smart Chain is Dumb and Mango Markets, Too
High Noon at Ooki Corral: CFTC Sues DAO Participants
A Tale of Two Ponzis: Celsius and Luna, Alex Mashinsky and Do Kwon
Saylor's Strategy: a MicroTragedy
Crypto Journalism and Shills (feat. Nikhilesh De)
The Good, the Bad, and the Bukele (Feat. Frank Muci)
Draconian Financial Regulation and the Argument for Tether (Feat. Boaz Sobrado)
Coinbase and Kraken Facing Regulatory Actions
Sex, Lies, and Ponzinomics: Marketing in Cryptocurrency (Feat. Adam Singer)
A Tether Update
The Dogecoin Joke (Feat. Jackson Palmer)
Celsius Network: a Pyramid of Ponzis
Cryptocurrency Criticism in a Bear Market (Feat. Molly White)
Contagions and Cascading Liquidations in Cryptocurrency
NFTs, Frauds, and Algorithmic Stablecoins (Feat. Mark Cuban)
Bitcoin ETFs, the SEC, and Regulatory Clarity (Feat. James Seyffart)
New NFT Usecase Discovered, and it's Insider Trading
Celsius Collapsing: Causes, Concerns, and Catastrophe (Feat. Mike Burgersburg)
Pre-Philanthropic Billionaires and Bitcoin (Feat. Mario Gibney)
Disclosures, Conflicts of Interest, and Diplomacy
El Salvador Revisited: Chivo, KYC/AML, and Nayib Bukele (Feat. Domingo Flores)
Cryptocurrency, Coinbase, and Contagion (Feat. Jim Chanos)
Finding Finex
DeFi and Cryptocurrency Risks and Rewards (Feat. Lily Francus)
We Never Wanted to Discuss Terra and Luna ever Again... and yet
Terra, Luna, and Algorithmic Stablecoins
The Rise and Fall of Reggie Fowler
An Unscripted Chat with the Richest Man in the World* (Feat. Colin Platt)
Evading North Korean Sanctions 101
An Early Skeptic's Telling of "Why be skeptical?" (Feat. David Gerard)
The Career Criminal Conspiracies of Cas Piancey
The ECASH Act (Feat. Rohan Grey)
Metaverse 2: Venture Capitalist Judgement Day (Feat. münecat)
We Need to talk about El Salvador (Feat. Mario Gómez and Oscar Salguero)
Should Money Laundering be a Crime? (Feat. Josh Cincinnati)
Trying to Think like the SEC (Feat. John Reed Stark)
The Foul Financials of Cryptocurrency (Feat. Francine McKenna)
The Many Faces and Citizenships of Justin Sun
Cities and the Blockchain
Ukraine and Russia and What it Means for Cryptocurrency
This Man Murders Scams (Feat. ZachXBT)
Company Towns - Past, Present, and Future (Feat. Dr. Ángela Vergara)
Web3 is Wonky (Feat. Molly White)
The Verification Scam, How it Works, and Why it's Everywhere
Inflation, the Federal Reserve, and Bitcoin (Feat. Michael Green)
Celebrities Love Cryptocurrencies - and it's lame (Feat. Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman)
The Return of the Bitfinex Hack: $4.5 billion in Bitcoin is Found and Seized
Oh, a thing called Wormhole ate $320,000,000? Are you surprised?
The US Dollar, Inflation, and Recession (Feat. Travis Kimmel)
Michael and Omar and 0xSifu, oh my!
The Complex History and Weird Transition of DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations)
Bitcoin's Black Swans (Feat. Doomberg)
Poker's Black Friday (Feat. Jason Bral)
Energy Problem in Kazakhstan is an Energy Problem for Bitcoin
Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos, and the Future of VC (Feat. Elizabeth Lopatto)
Craig Steven Wright is a Crier and a Flawed (individual)
The Silk Road, Bitcoin, and Ross (Feat. Nicholas Weaver)
F*ck the SEC, all my friends hate the SEC
The World is a Ponzi Scheme, You just Live in It
NFTs, the New Short Killer? No. Definitely Not.
The El Salvador Bitcoin - Volcano - Bitcoin City Bond
Stablecoins will Fork your Chain if they Want to Fork
The Tether Papers (feat. David Canellis of Protos)
The President's Working Group and Algo Stablecoin Woes
Tracking Tether and Working on Ethereum Layer 2 (with Daniel Goldman)
Decentralization and Tribalism (featuring Oliver Beige)
Taiwan and Tether (with Sam Reynolds)
The Pandora Papers
Liberty Reserve: the first stablecoin
Evergrande with David Z. Morris
Cryptocurrency Lending is Too Good to Believe
Remembering Fraud: WorldCom
C.R.E.A.M. Cumberland Rules Everything Around Me
Binance: the Tai Chi Document
Blockchain Terminal with Robert Green
Bitcoin
Algorithmic stablecoins and regulation, Part II featuring Frances Coppola
Inflation, deflation, and stablecoins with Frances Coppola (Part I)
Crypto Charity - where you donate to random people making promises and get nothing in return
From Skeptic to Believer: Preston Byrne on the cryptocurrency ecosystem
Stablecoins, CBDCs, and the STABLE Act with Rohan Grey
Revisiting Enron with David Z. Morris
Behold the Brash Bunk from Bitfinex and Binance
BitClout is Bad with David Canellis
Regulatory Capture and Regulatory Arbitrage: Sleeping with your Enemy
El Salvador and Bitcoin
This one weird trick will stop you from ever having a bank run!! (never let anyone redeem)
Shillfluencers (and the unspoken financial epidemic)
Coinbase Media and why Venture Capitalism Hates Journalism
QuadrigaCX: the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange that just won't die
Crypto Capital Corp: the quiet billion dollar cryptocurrency scam
Two Pie Charts and a $60 billion Stablecoin
Zhao Dong: A Summary
Tether Q&A
Tether: A Stable Discussion Part II
Tether: A Stable Discussion