ioRadio - The Technology and Ethics Podcast

This is a special release of a live Twitter spaces debate between Adam and a pro-crypto representative from the Crypto Critics Corner podcast community. Our last episode apparently "triggered" Bennett and Cas and they went on a rampage blocking everybody and talking smack behind their backs. We were accused of "attacking" and trying to "cancel" them because we had the audacity to ask some basic qu...

Sal discusses an investigative piece he's published on questions and concerns over crypto news entity, "Protos" and the "Crypto Critics Corner", Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancy who are on their payroll. Are some of the most prominent "crypto critics" in media double agents? Pretending to be critical of crypto when instead they're lap dogs for the industry? Sal chronicles an interesting turn of event...

As a result of court action, the SEC recently voted on whether to approve spot Bitcoin ETPs and in a 3/2 vote, allowed them. We look into what these ETPs/ETFs are and discuss one of the SEC chair's rather incendiary letter of dissent. Watch: https://youtu.be/fHSMyga-eKU Visit our web site for more: https://ioRadio.org Please be sure to subscribe to our YouTube at: https://youtube.com/americanscrea...

In this episode we tackle one of our biggest tech pet peeves: Comparing crypto and blockchain to the "early Internet" as a way to suggest blockchain has the same potential as the Internet did, but merely "takes time" to become accepted as something essential and useful. This is a flat out delusion. And we discuss the details of how and why it's a dreadful false equivalence to suggest crypto is in...

In this special extended episode of ioRadio, Adam and Sal, in an effort to establish peace and solidarity with a strange new alien race, unknowingly travel to the planet... CRYPTO BRO... Originally thought to be residents of planet Earth, the real world, they discover they are not in the same place. Follow us on this strange journey, where the "specific" is strangely "abstract." Where "permanence"...

In this episode, Adam and Sal discuss one of the most popular and prevalent crypto talking points: "decentralization." Does decentralizing something really make it better? And how decentralized is crypto and blockchain really? Watch: https://youtu.be/_awPvUrJwZY Visit our web site for more: https://ioRadio.org Please be sure to subscribe to our YouTube at: https://youtube.com/americanscreamvideo?s...

Dr. Peter Howson is a professor of International Development and a researcher who's worked around the world on projects related to environmental sustainability in the global south. We recently sat down with him to discuss his new book, "Let Them Eat Crypto." When he first heard about blockchain through his NGO partners, he bought into the hype that the technology could help solve some of the probl...

"When cryptocurrency’s malign influence on the software industry began to be felt in 2019, an engineer working in finance took notice. After seeing first hand how public permissionless blockchains could be used to pervert incentives and undermine common interests, Stephen Diehl’s views on the decade old tech changed. What he had previously dismissed, he now saw as dangerous, and Stephen began to w...

A conversation with Investigative journalist Zeke Faux, author of "Number Go UP: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall." Full video available here: https://youtu.be/fAFLT7_yte8 Please be sure to subscribe to our YouTube at: https://youtube.com/americanscreamvideo?sub_confirmation=1

As crypto-critics, we're often accused of living in an "echo chamber" being unwilling to entertain other points of view. As part of our ongoing efforts to try and discuss issues with the people who are in the industry, we present another interview/casual conversation with a 20-something year old Ethereum developer from Switzerland by the name of "Louis." We get his points of view about what proble...

We found a funny clip online of a crypto bro who called into the Majority Report with Sam Seder trying to convince him he is wrong about crypto. We react to the caller and the people on The Majority Report as they take a side of the argument that is rather unorthodox. Full video available here: https://youtu.be/dBaZDopX2-M

We interview YouTube game reviewer "Jauwn" - whose channel specializes in the sadistic process of wading through all the "web3" NFT games trying to find out if any of them are even remotely playable. Sal and I perform a sanity check on the guy to see what made him want to do such a thing. Full video available here: https://youtu.be/bL_HuH_JrLU

In this episode, we interview one of the cryptocurrency industry's earliest and most staunch critic, Berkely Computer Science Professor Doctor Nicholas Weaver, who has authored various articles and presentations on how and why Bitcoin and crypto are unsuitable for any of the applications they claim, if not downright, in his own words, "criminally negligent" technology. Full video version here: ht...

Adam and I have a casual conversation about what's been happening in the world of social media. A lot has been going on and major social media sites are unraveling before our eyes. From Elon Musk's rabid attempt to progressively make Twitter more "functional", to Reddit sacrificing the golden goose of loyal moderators and content creating users upon the alter of corporate profits, no platform see...

AmericanScream and I react to RFK Jr.'s Bitcoin 2023 keynote rantings in Miami. Kennedy equates public health measures during COVID to totalitarian oppression and argues that Bitcoin is important because it protects civil liberties from governmental repression. In IO Radio #11 we discuss the democratic presidential candidate's COVID obsession and anti-vaxxer status. Were the Canadian truckers free...

Adam and Sal discuss the latest happenings on Reddit, including censorship of /r/buttcoin (gasp!), Reddit's love of crypto, and the eternal sunshine that private for profit corporations bestow upon the world. By the way, did you know the SEC is going after Binance? Join us for IO Radio #10 and listen to two grown men cry about how Admins have taken away their favourite toys because they're big mea...

Adam and I react to the "Biggest Bitcoin Ballers" panel discussion at Bitcoin 2023 in Miami. Watch Saint Adam Back, joined by fellow cultists Jack Mallers and Matt Odell, preach the gospel of FOMO and evangelize the sacred tenant of HODL. How much fiat are you donating to the church of crypto? It might be time to sell your worldly possessions and become a Bitcoin monk, while some might pray, the...

One of the largest Bitcoin conferences has started in Miami this weekend and we're peeking into the livestream presentations and commenting "” adding a bit of FACT CHECKING and logic, reason and evidence into the constant stream of marketing propaganda about crypto and bitcoin. Tune in to IO Radio #8 and see just how insulated this bubble really is. Coolly observe or recoil with horror as you witn...

This is a leading question often asked of crypto skeptics. The implication is that our dislike of the technology is based on emotion rather than on facts and evidence. In IO Radio #7 American Scream and I discuss the motivations behind our crypto criticism. Let us know what your reasons are for being skeptical of the future of finance. Did you or someone you know get scammed? Or are you crypto cri...

There appears to be a sizable amount of resources being pumped into producing these pro-Bitcoin propaganda films. This one was released recently, making some serious claims about Senator Elizabeth Warren and whether Bitcoin is in fact good for energy production instead of being criminally wasteful. Now you can see both sides as we react to this new video. My apologies if the audio levels are a bit...

An odd post on the /r/Buttcoin subreddit led us to look into FileCoin and the man making serious allegations about the file storage crypto project. We talk to Kevin Mauro, creator of the website dukedupe.com, to find out why he's willing to go so far as to drive a van around Duke University to call attention to their endowment's supposed connection to FileCoin. Is crypto incentivizing the distribu...

Silicon Valley. Signature. Silvergate. What's up with the collapse of banks that start with the letter S? We discuss the latest piece of financial news being used by Bitcoin & crypto proponents to pump their scams. Full video version here: https://youtu.be/VH_BTx3LemE