Crypto Crooks
Big money. Big names. Big crimes. Cryptocurrency is a radical technology with incredible potential. The kind of potential that fraudsters and criminals can’t resist exploiting. We’re launching “Crypto Crooks” to dig into their schemes, in the hopes of protecting investors from getting taken in. We’ll explore how nefarious actors draw in victims, where their rackets start to unravel – and how their empires crumble, taking investors down with them.
Listen carefully, and maybe you’ll be able to steer clear of Crypto Crooks.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 12
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2023
Consensus 2023 Panel: How to Spot a Scam
Featuring “Crypto Critics’ Corner” hosts Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey, and former Terraform Labs employee Hyungsuk Kang.
The past year saw the collapse of a huge variety of frauds, scams, and deeply…
00:23:01 |
Tue 16 May 2023
Lunacy Episode 5: Between the Moon and Montenegro – Do Kwon Goes to Jail
Time moves faster in crypto. So this week we’re back with a bonus episode on all the lunacy that’s gone down since February.
"Crypto Crooks" is sponsored by Chainalysis.
We’d finished writing and rec…
00:28:47 |
Tue 18 Apr 2023
Lunacy Episode 4: Our Twisted Hero
In the season finale, we look at the man behind the curtain – and tease out just how many crimes he committed.
"Crypto Crooks" is sponsored by Chainalysis.
Do Kwon has evaded, deflected and run away.…
00:53:00 |
Tue 21 Mar 2023
Lunacy Episode 3: Legends of the Fall
This week we delve into the underlying mechanisms of terraUSD and how they incentivized experienced investors to drive the stablecoin into a death spiral.
"Crypto Crooks" is sponsored by Chainalysis.…
00:46:01 |
Tue 14 Mar 2023
Lunacy Episode 2: Confidence Game
This week we delve into terraUSD’s winners, its losers and the rules of the whole twisted game.
"Crypto Crooks" is sponsored by Chainalysis.
TerraUSD and its so-called “ecosystem” were always a game …
00:50:16 |
Tue 07 Mar 2023
Lunacy Episode 1: Death Spiral
This week, we dig into the rise of Do Kwon, the enormous appeal of his almost magical algorithmic stablecoin – and the far less charmed reality underlying his machinations from the very start.
"Crypt…
00:51:24 |
Tue 28 Feb 2023
Season 2: 'Lunacy, the Rise and Fall of Do Kwon' Podcast Trailer
Welcome to “Crypto Crooks” Season 2: ”Lunacy: The Rise and Fall of Do Kwon."
"Crypto Crooks" is sponsored by Chainalysis.
Crypto's biggest names thought Do Kwon and his algorithmic stablecoin would t…
00:02:50 |
Tue 14 Feb 2023
BitConnect Episode 4: Fraud Is a Flat Circle
This week, in the last episode of the season, we look at the methodical, often slow progress of justice, and pull at one final thread: the ominous connections between BitConnect and India’s ruling pa…
00:27:57 |
Tue 31 Jan 2023
BitConnect Episode 3: Technically, You Kind of Lost Your Money
This week, we meet the online influencers who enticed victims into the BitConnect farce, and the pyramid-scheme model that allowed them to make millions doing it.
"Crypto Crooks" is sponsored by Cha…
00:32:26 |
Tue 24 Jan 2023
BitConnect Episode 2: Where Is Madeline Bigatton?
This week, we explore the intricate interplay of events that led to BitConnect’s dramatic decline, and the case of the missing woman just left of center of the scheme.
"Crypto Crooks" is sponsored b…
00:36:06 |
Tue 17 Jan 2023
BitConnect Episode 1: The Gujarati Connection
This week, we dig into the rise of BitConnect, the strange kidnapping case that ultimately helped unravel the scheme and an important Texas Securities Commission cease and desist order.
"Crypto Crook…
00:31:58 |
Tue 10 Jan 2023
Season 1: BitConnect Podcast Trailer
$2.4 billion lost. Thousands of victims. Mysterious deaths. Untold misery worldwide. You know the name. You know the memes. But do you know the real story? Welcome to “Crypto Crooks” Season 1: BitCon…
00:01:36 |
Mon 19 Dec 2022
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