BREAKDOWN: Audit Firms Don’t Want to Work With Crypto Companies, and That’s a Problem
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Mazars and Armanino are getting out of the crypto audit game after a wave of negative PR.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.
On today’s episode, NLW catches up on the latest in the crypto industry, including:
- Sam Bankman-Fried changes his tune on extradition
- DCG-owned coins on the move
- Audit firms ceasing crypto operations
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| 0:49.6 | To the extent that crypto has to interact with the rest of the financial world, there are two |
| 0:53.9 | ways in which they can lose their access to key infrastructure such as auditors and banking. |
| 0:58.6 | One is regulatory for rules to change in such a way that crypto companies just can't get |
| 1:03.1 | banked or can't get audited. |
| 1:04.8 | But then there's also the free market way, which is exactly what we're seeing here, where |
| 1:08.5 | the risk dramatically outweighs the reward, and those |
| 1:11.0 | independent parties aren't willing to do the work on behalf of crypto clients. |
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