Crypto Critics' Corner

Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin are joined by Domingo Flores to discuss the Salvadoran Bitcoin Token being developed in partnership with Bitfinex.

Domingo's Website, Patreon, YouTube, and Twitter.

This video was recorded on January 20th, 2022.

Bennett and Cas revisit the Harmony Horizon bridge exploit from last year, discuss why the Lazarus Group is targeting cryptocurrency so much, and go over the billion plus lost on cryptocurrency bridges over the past year.

Special thanks to ZachXBT, who uncovered the movements of Lazarus exploit funds as they were happening.

Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey discuss the raid executed against Nexo, SBF's lies in his Substack, and the unregistered security charges brought against Genesis and Gemini.

Kentucky Cease and desist against Nexo

Protos On SBF's Lies

This video was streamed live on January 12th, 2022.

Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin discuss Silvergate, Signature, Metropolitan, and other cryptocurrency banks in light of their massive deposit outflows and increasing regulatory issues.

American Banker Post about Silvergate using Home Loan bank advances: https://www.americanbanker.com/news/silvergate-bank-loaded-up-on-4-3-billion-in-fhlb-advances

OCC, Federal Reserve, and FDIC statement on risks to crypto banks: https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23002a.pdf

This video was recorded on January 12th, 2022.

Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin are joined by Evan Ratliff to discuss Paul Le Roux, an international criminal who some believe may have been Satoshi Nakamoto.    We also discuss Evan's new podcast Persona, and the similarities between the crimes of Gilbert Chikli and cryptocurrency hacks and scams.

Additional resources:

Persona podcast

The Mastermind

Vanish for one month 

This episode was recorded on October 18th, 2022.

Today Bennett and Cas are recording an IN-PERSON(!!!) episode of CCC together!

We discuss auditors exiting the cryptocurrency industry en masse, what's next for Binance, and how regulators will or won't take on the new global financial industries.

Recorded on Tuesday, December 21, 2022.

Today Bennett and Cas discuss walking the fine line between beneficial and frank skepticism and full-blown conspiracy theorist, and how sometimes the line can get a little blurry.

This episode was recorded on November 4th, before everything spiraled into an utter sh*tshow.

Today Bennett and Cas are talking about the collapse of FTX, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, and its sister trading firm, Alameda Research.

Today Cas and Bennett are joined by law professor at American University Hilary Allen to discuss whether or not web3 and DeFi are shadow banking 2.0, and if they will lead to another 2008 financial crisis.

Hilary's paper available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4038788

Read more: https://cryptocriticscorner.com/2022/10/27/episode-97-defi-as-shadow-banking-2-0-feat-hilary-allen/

This episode was recorded on August 3rd, 2022 and edited by Griffin Davis.

Today Bennett and Cas discuss two recent major cryptocurrency problems: one via Binance Smart Chain, a "DeFi" protocol built by CZ and the Binance team, that suffered a $100 million hack, and Mango Markets, a DeFi marketplace, that suffered a $100 million exploit. Another fun week in cryptocurrency.

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

Unchained Interview with CZ: https://youtu.be/J0XJesFkdl0

Chris Brunet revealing Mango Markets attacker: https://karlstack.substack.com/p/exclusive-the-man-who-may-have-milked

Bennett's newsletter about the BSC hack: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/protos/issues/cz-stopped-bsc-why-it-matters-1408029

This episode was recorded on Wednesday, October 12th and edited by Bennett Tomlin.