Cas Piancey and I are very excited to launch our new long-form investigative show Innovated. This series will take a look at Blockchains LLC and Jeffrey Berns plan to build a blockchain enabled smart city in the desert. It's a wild story involving brothels, lawsuits, sexual harassment, and company towns.
Author: Bennett Tomlin
Episode 55 — Company Towns – Past, Present, and Future (feat: Dr. Ángela Vergara) — Crypto Critics’ Corner
Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin are joined by Dr. Ángela Vergara, author of ‘Company Towns in the Americas’, to discuss company towns, why they’re exploitive, and what happens when they fail.
Episode 54 — Web3 is Wonky (Feat. Molly White) — Crypto Critics’ Corner
Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin are joined by Web3isGoingGreat maintainer Molly White to discuss the many ways that Web3 is not going great.
Episode 53 — The Verification Scam, How it Works, and Why it’s Everywhere — Crypto Critics’ Corner
Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin discuss how compromised verified accounts on Twitter are being used to shill the worst cryptocurrency and NFT projects.
Episode 52 — Inflation, the Federal Reserve, and Bitcoin (feat. Mike Green) — Crypto Critics’ Corner
Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin are joined by Mike Green to discuss Bitcoin, the Federal Reserve, and inflation
Episode 51 — Celebrities Love Cryptocurrencies – and it’s lame (feat. Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman) — Crypto Critics’ Corner
Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin are joined by Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman to discuss end stage casino capitalism and crypto.
Episode 50 — The Return of the Bitfinex Hack: $4.5 billion in Bitcoin is Found and Seized — Crypto Critics’ Corner
Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin return to the Bitfinex as the proceeds have been seized, and two arrested for supposedly trying to launder the funds.
Episode 49 — Oh, a thing called Wormhole ate $320,000,000? Are you surprised? — Crypto Critics’ Corner
as Piancey and Bennett Tomlin discuss one of the largest thefts of all time: the Wormhole hack. During the process we discuss Solana, Jump Crypto, and what is decentralization really?
Is Terra Stable? – The FUD Letter
Is Terra Stable? Is any algorithmic stablecoin?
What is a DAO?
What is a DAO? Supposedly a "Decentralized Autonomous Organization" but more often a Discord server.