Episode 35 — Stablecoins will Fork your Chain if they Want to Fork — Crypto Critics’ Corner

Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin discuss the outsized influence of stablecoins on crypto

Episode 34 — The Tether Papers (featuring David Canellis of Protos Media) — Crypto Critics’ Corner

Cas Piancey and Bennnett Tomlin are joined by David Canellis to discuss the recently released investigative report on Tether, the Tether Papers.

Goddamn Forking Stablecoins

The economic power of stablecoins makes them the ultimate arbiter in a hard fork for a cryptocurrency.

Episode 33 — The President’s Working Group and Stablecoin Woes — Crypto Critics’ Corner

Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin discuss the impact of the President's Working Group Report on Stablecoins and the outsized influence Tether appeared to have.

Rumination on the President’s Working Group Report on Stablecoins and Tether

I consider the implications of the President's Working Group Report on Stablecoins and how predictable many of the recommendations were.

Episode 32 — Tracking Tether and Working on Ethereum Layer 2 (with Daniel Goldman) — Crypto Critics’ Corner

Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey are joined by Daniel Goldman to discuss Arbitrum, Lightning, Layer-2's, and tracking Tether.

War Magic Guard

The war magic guard is a homebrew Dungeons and Dragons enemy.

Episode 31 — Decentralization and Tribalism (featuring Oliver Beige) — Crypto Critics’ Corner

https://cryptocriticscorner.com/2021/10/24/episode-31-decentralization-and-tribalism-featuring-oliver-beige/ https://anchor.fm/s/4fa795b4/podcast/rss https://youtu.be/C_oQi_tNvwg In this episode Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin are joined by Oliver Beige an industrial engineer turned economist who’s work in understanding the structure of networks helps provide an insight into crypto tribalism and crypto networks. AnchorSpotifyAppleGoogleOvercastRSS Feed

Episode 30 — Taiwan and Tether (with Sam Reynolds) — Crypto Critics’ Corner

https://cryptocriticscorner.com/2021/10/17/episode-30-taiwan-and-tether-with-sam-reynolds/ https://anchor.fm/s/4fa795b4/podcast/rss https://youtu.be/73kQmuGGIt8 In this episode Cas and I are joined by Sam Reynolds of Blockwords to discuss the importance of Taiwan to the Tether story. Taiwan is where Tether originally started and where they originally banked. AnchorSpotifyAppleGoogleOvercastRSS Feed

Episode 29 — The Pandora Papers — Crypto Critics’ Corner

https://cryptocriticscorner.com/2021/10/09/episode-29-the-pandora-papers/ https://anchor.fm/s/4fa795b4/podcast/rss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mEgKTXnTWY In this episode Cas and I discuss the Pandora Papers, why they are important, what has been revealed, and most importantly why this type of journalism is so valuable and so important. AnchorSpotifyAppleGoogleOvercastRSS Feed