"There's no end to fraud or finance scams or strange movements of money and trying to get to the bottom of it, and that's the best part of journalism. Trying to dig through the weeds and find these crazy stories."
OUTLINE
- 0:00 Intro
- 1:37 Down the rabbit hole after Bitfinex’ed
- 3:51 Openly criticizing the crypto industry and communities in it
- 7:30 Different media outlets cover crypto differently
- 14:18 On Protos and critiquing the crypto industry
- 17:20 Diving into Tether and Bitfinex
- 20:49 Being a journalist in today’s media landscape
- 26:13 Newsroom conflicts – being a hard-hitting reporter vs legal issues
- 28:42 Legacy media has an issue
- 30:31 Are VC funded media outlets serving as mouth pieces?
- 33:24 The role of journalism
- 38:20 “The beauty in being an investigative journalist in crypto” – The 2 investigating Can will never forget
- 45:04 About standards and how the cryptocurrency community constantly shot itself in the foot
- 53:01 Cas Piancey’s book recommendations
Podcast Host
Pedro is a Chilean freelance journalist who has been covering the crypto space since 2019. Along with his Latin American finance newsletter called La Cadena, Pedro is currently writing for TheDefiant and has written for Decrypt, Bitcoin Magazine, Finder, Sin Permiso, El Mostrador, and a variety of other publications.
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Podcast
Beyond The Beat
Telling the stories of the people covering crypto
