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Podcast: Unchained
Episode: Not Just FTX: One Skeptic’s Take on Why Crypto Is a Scam
Description: James Block, crypto skeptic and author of the Dirty Bubble Media newsletter, rose to prominence with a timely post predicting FTX’s insolvency. The blogger, a doctor by day, explains why he sees crypto as an unregulated morass of would-be securities and outright “Ponzi schemes.” From an early interest in Tether to connecting the dots on Celsius, Block explains why he does what he does and why almost all of crypto is just “regulatory arbitrage.”Show highlights:
how James got into crypto and why he started writing about the space
why James chose "Dirty Bubb...