Davidzmorris
@davidzmorris
👁Dark Markets Newsletter - Fraud and Crime
'Hardcore' - NYMag
"SBF and the Tech Utopians," Fall '25
Crypto OG. X-CoinDesk, Fortune.
@WestHamgc. PhD UIowa
So why exactly did Farcaster do a big "we're not a social media platform anymore" when literally everything is exactly the same
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Today, I wrote about one of the most bizarre connective webs in recent history:
The lineage from Evril LeBaron, the mass-murdering “Mormon Manson,” and Hayden Davis, the memecoin scammer behind $Libra, which nearly led to the impeachment of Argentinian President Javier Milei.
Evril LeBaron was Davis’ great-grandfathe...
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Thanks to Adam Lowenstein for his great and perceptive review in the American Prospect, and this even more pithy and succinct summation:It’s all about power. It has always been about power.
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Thank you to everyone who has reviewed "Stealing the Future" on Amazon! After a couple of (possibly inorganic) early negative reviews, we've hit 4 stars, and back to climbing the ranks..
"One of the most important books of the year" - American Prospect
Stealing the Future is "Among the Most Important Books of the Year" - The American Prospect
I'm basically going to be posting this every day for ... the next year? The rest of my life? We'll see.
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The American Prospect calls Stealing the Future "One of the most important books of the year."
"Morris’s account of Bankman-Fried’s rise and fall is riveting. But the book is even more compelling for exposing the hollowness of the myths cultivated by 'techno-utopians' [and] enablers who cash in on their hype and look ...
My book on Sam Bankman-Fried and the honestly mostly equally hilarious FTX fraud comes out in four days.
If you enjoyed this thread, please pre-order!
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I shitposted my way through Sam Bankman-Fried's recent appeal hearing.
It will cleanse your fucking soul to read about just how badly this massive dumbass embarrassed both himself and his 'elite' apellate lawyer
davidzmorris.substack.com/p/sam-bankma...?
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Today is Sam Bankman-Fried's appeal. It barely matters. But last week his mother Barbara Fried published a lengthy argument for her son's innocence - it's at least inteteresting.
Like all SBF defenses, it shows a massive, wilful blind spot. I broke down some highlights (or lowlights) for Dark Markets.
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The "Free SBF" crowd (which historically includes @nytimes) wants to normalize two things:
1) Illiquid venture investments are morally the same as cash in a vault.
2) Sometimes venture investments go to zero overnight for no reason and it's nobody's fault.
Think about that for a second
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Question for self-employed/SMB people:
Have you experimented with setting aside a single day for any and all "admin" work? How did it go?
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Trump is doing the Joker thing where he lets all the annoying little supervillians out of Arkham so Batman is distracted
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Six weeks ago, I was on the verge of not being able to pay rent. Now, I'm sitting here in a pretty substantial state of shock, which is where I've been for most of the past 3 weeks.
OctantApp Epoch 9 has closed, and I've managed to secure our allocation for a Tornado Cash audio documentary, without a catastrophic scre...
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For our presentation on the final day of Octant allocations, we made a compilation reel of highlights from our previous project, Crypto Crooks. Made in 2013, it was two seasons covering BitConnect and Do Kwon/Luna.
I think most Farcaster users specifically are going to enjoy this. (Keep in mind the video is just a qui...
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It's Octant Demo Day! Join to watch TORNADO presented in just a few minutes.
