Crypto Critics' Corner

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 robotaxis

Quinn69TV video about Elon lies

Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity

This 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 Resources

Change in SEC rules

This 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 Knox

Federal Reserve Audits

Additional episodes mentioned in this episode:

Episode 163 – What the Elon Musk coup means for Finance

Episode 164 – CFPB RIP 🪦

Episode 165 – Elon Musk’s Valentine’s Day Massacre

Episode 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 here

Additional resources:

Initial Memo

Danielle Sassoon's Response

Emil Bove's response to Danielle Sassoon's resignation

Hagen Scotten resignation

Reporting on additional resignations

Additional episodes mentioned in this episode:

Episode 163 – What the Elon Musk coup means for Finance

Episode 164 – CFPB RIP 🪦

Playlist of videos about Sam Bankman-Fried trial

This 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 $TRUMP

Episode 163 – What the Elon Musk coup means for Finance

Additional Resources:

Bloomberg Reporting on the DOGE takeover of CFPB

Bloomberg reporting on Pam Bondi memo

Reporting on threat of US default

This 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)

Bennett 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 Bluesky

Additional episodes mentioned in this episode:

Episode 39 – Fuck the SEC, all my friends hate the SEC

Episode 157 – Donald Trump, Justin Sun, and the grifts we missed

Episode 158 – How Tether avoids prosecution with this one simple hack

Episode 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.

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