The CEO wants him fired, but the head of AML, Robin, believes in him and saves him – though he is demoted to a branch in his tiny hometown of Elba, in upstate New York.

He reunites with a childhood friend, Earl, who owns a failing liquor store, but is a computer genius who stays above water by mining cryptocurrency.

Earl had couriered Marty a memory stick with evidence that Robin is facilitating the entire money laundering scheme at Omnicorp.

[5] Richard Roeper of The Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 stars out of 4, stating that Crypto had enough surprising and "offbeat" moments for a marginal recommendation as a "wonderfully convoluted guilty-pleasure".

[6] In contrast, Noel Murray of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "The characters all feel like they’ve been copied and pasted from hundreds of other movies".