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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.
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Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey discuss whether or not $TRUMP, the Donald Trump memecoin, constitutes corruption.Additional episodes mentioned:Episode 157 – Donald Trump, Justin Sun, and the grifts we missedEpisode 152 – Justin Sun is probably insolventEpisode 167 – What happened to the SEC? (feat. Corey Frayer)Episode 165 – Elon Musk’s Valentine’s Day MassacreAdditional resources: New York Times coverage"Potentially corrupt"Coverage of HTX being the entity that signed for Justin Sun
Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey are joined by Rohan Grey to discuss his proposal to create a new digital fiscal regime. Rohan's paper can be viewed here. This episode was recorded on March 17th, 2025.
Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey discuss the unlawful actions of the Trump administration, including unlawful deportations. Additional episodes mentioned in this episode:Episode 21 – BitcoinPlaylist of videos about El SalvadorAdditional resources: Reporting on the illegal deportationsThis episode was recorded on March 16th, 2025.
Bennett and Cas discuss when they had their personal realization that Elon Musk was a deceiver.Additional episodes mentioned in this episode: Episode 131 – Elon Musk’s ESG Con (feat. Eric Roesch the ESGHound)Additional resources: Bennett's video about robotaxisQuinn69TV video about Elon liesBonhoeffer's Theory of StupidityThis episode was recorded on February 14th, 2025.
Bennett and Cas are joined by Corey Frayer to discuss Gary Gensler's SEC and the limits of regulation.Additional ResourcesChange in SEC rulesThis episode was recorded on February 8th, 2025.
Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey discuss their fear that Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and DOGE will destroy the dollar by going after Federal Reserve independence.Additional resources: Coverage of Elon Musk imagining problems at Fort KnoxFederal Reserve AuditsAdditional episodes mentioned in this episode: Episode 163 – What the Elon Musk coup means for FinanceEpisode 164 – CFPB RIP 🪦Episode 165 – Elon Musk’s Valentine’s Day MassacreEpisode 55 – Company Towns – Past, Present, and Future (feat. Dr. Ángela Vergara)This episode was recorded on February 19th, 2025.
Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey discuss the gutting of the Southern District of New York by an illegal and unconstitutional order to drop charges against Eric Adams so he can better cooperate with the Trump Administration.Read more hereAdditional resources: Initial MemoDanielle Sassoon's ResponseEmil Bove's response to Danielle Sassoon's resignationHagen Scotten resignationReporting on additional resignationsAdditional episodes mentioned in this episode: Episode 163 – What the Elon Musk coup means for FinanceEpisode 164 – CFPB RIP 🪦Playlist of videos about Sam Bankman-Fried trialThis episode was recorded on February 14th, 2025.
Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey discuss the deteriorating situation in the United States, including the gutting of the CFPB and the attack on the full faith and credit of the United States.Read more here.Previous episodes mentioned in this episode:Episode 160 – CBDCs are Dead; Long Live $TRUMPEpisode 163 – What the Elon Musk coup means for FinanceAdditional Resources:Bloomberg Reporting on the DOGE takeover of CFPBBloomberg reporting on Pam Bondi memoReporting on threat of US defaultThis episode was recorded on February 10th, 2025.
Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey discuss the deteriorating situation in the United States, including the press conference by David Sacks, the destruction of the SEC, the future of crypto legislation, and the ongoing takeover of the federal government by freaks.
Additional resources:
Wired reporting on the names
Reuters reporting on the SEC:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/secs-republican-led-commission-tightens-oversight-probes-sources-say-2025-02-02/
Additional episodes mentioned in this episode:
Episode 161 – Is there one good regulator between the SEC and the CFTC? (feat. Sean Tuffy)
Episode 162 – Humiliate your local billionaire (feat. Ed Zitron)
1Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey are joined again by Ed Zitron to discuss how the media and users can fight back against tech deterioration.
Additional resources:
Better Offline
Where's your Ed at?
Ed's Bluesky
The article by Ed discussed during the episode
This episode was recorded on January 3rd, 2025.
Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey are joined by Sean Tuffy to discuss the theoretical basis of merging the SEC and the CFTC. Sean's BlueskyAdditional episodes mentioned in this episode: Episode 39 – Fuck the SEC, all my friends hate the SECEpisode 157 – Donald Trump, Justin Sun, and the grifts we missedEpisode 158 – How Tether avoids prosecution with this one simple hackEpisode 159 – What Donald Trump’s election means for Bitcoin (feat. Joseph Politano)This episode was recorded on December 2nd, 2024.
Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin discuss the executive order signed by Donald Trump.
You can read the executive order yourself here.
This episode was livestreamed on January 24th, 2024.
Bennett and Cas are joined by Joseph Politano to discuss what Donald Trump's election will mean for cryptocurrency.
This video was recorded on November 26th, 2024.
Read more: https://cryptocriticscorner.com/2025/01/06/episode-159-what-trump-means-for-bitcoin/
Where to find Joseph:
Apricitas
BlueSky
Twitter
Additional resources:
Pence opposes RFK Jr.
Bennett's newsletter about Justin Sun buying tokens
Joey's post from November 2022
Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey discuss Tether's ability to survive and grow, as well as how they have found safety in Donald Trump's future administration.
Read more here.
Additional resources:
Bloomberg reporting on Bank Fraud
Wall Street Journal reporting on Tether sanctions violation
This video was recorded on November 23rd, 2024.
Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey discuss Donald Trump's new project, World Liberty Financial, as well as Justin Sun's shenanigans, the MakerDAO rebrand, and more.
This video was recorded on October 26th, 2024.
Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin are joined by Andrew Bailey, author of Resistance Money, to discuss Tether on Tron and Bitcoin.
This video was recorded on September 9th 2024.
Resistance Money
Patrick McKenzie and Tyler Cowen podcast
Cas Piancey and PJ Vogt podcast
Bennett's newsletter about Craig Wright
Bennett's article about Fei
Bennett's newsletter about Terra-Luna
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 and Cas discuss DJT, which is not Donald Trump's official token, and it seems likely Barron will not even claim this mess that Martin Shkreli embroiled them all in.
Protos Reporting on DJT
Cas' Op-Ed on Pirate Wires
Daniel Kuhn's Article for The Block
This video was recorded on June 22nd, 2024.
Bennett and Cas discuss Justin Sun's empire, and the fact that he does not seem to have enough money.
Additional resources:
Protos coverage of Poloniex and WBTC
Protos coverage of USDD reserves at HTX
Protos coverage of TrueUSD market-cap collapse
Protos coverage of false Diplomatic Immunity
Protos reporting on stUSDT
This episode was recorded on May 1st, 2024.
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Can be good on Crypto otherwise good if you are a left wing Democrat
I cannot rate these two Gents too highly. They have worked in this sector since it was born: they analyse the dark corners of crypto in a professional way, and clearly have built a deep comrehension of this intruiguing / maddening sphere from straightforward work. These guys are not 'crypto dudes' -they are Fraud Investigators, first & foremost..
I cannot rate these two Gents too highly. They have worked in this sector since it was born: they analyse the dark corners of crypto in a professional way, and clearly have built a deep comrehension of this intruiguing / maddening sphere from straightforward work. These guys are not 'crypto dudes' -they are Fraud Investigators, first & foremost.
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Dealing with property rights in 1994 or so web was v different to today.
great to hear Molly talk, been reading her forever. He is kinda right about blogs being dead, blogs 20 years ago were the journal of the time. I was earlier than that and found them weird. Molly is also right re usage but that was not the milieu
Presume everything is a scam in Crypto and be disabused
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best podcast ever. must listen!
Cas's idea that companies can only pay dividends if they are debt free is a bit off. Btw have you guys heard of payment in kind dividends. But you are right that these nft become securities as soon as fhey are paid as dividends.