Davidzmorris (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

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In 3 months since release, "Stealing the Future," my book about SBF, has been steadily climbing sales rankings. It is now #14 in Corporate Finance on Amazon. Within spitting distance of being a "bestseller." If you've ever been tempted, buy it RIGHT NOW. https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Future-Bankman-Fried-Elite-Techno-Utopia/dp/1917516088/

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In 2019, following on some incredible work by my colleagues Corin Faife and Larry Cermak, I began digging into a network of fraudulent crypto "PR" firms placing fake coverage. Six years later, we now know these shitcoin investment fraudsters were also laundering Jeffrey Epstein's reputation. And one of them was hunting girls for him. https://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/i-found-epstein-i-just-didnt-realize

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Going live on Substack with Daniel Pinchbeck at 2pm ET: https://substack.com/home/post/p-187117136

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My SBF book is gonna end a few of the careers that haven't been already

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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 was a bad day. Bullish, the new owners of my former employer CoinDesk were found to have violated the newsroom's basic editorial independence, and punitively fired three top editors who objected. Sadly I saw this coming when the sale went through last year, because Bullish itself is an extremely suspect firm built in part on a fraudulent securities offering in 2017. I've written a summary of recent events, and of that dark history. Unfortunately, while there are still good people working there, the unavoidable conclusion is that CoinDesk, as it once was, is well and truly dead. https://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/breaking-coindesk-is-dead-heres-who

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We have a split verdict in US v. Roman Storm. Mistrial on Money Laundering and Sanctions charges. Guilty on Section 1960, Money Transmission Busimess, fork C. 5 year max sentence, with Judge Failla acknowledging that the charge has many paths to appeal.

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