Podcast
Dark Markets
Hosted by David Z. Morris · EN
Bleeding-edge finance and technology analyst David Z. Morris, PhD (CoinDesk, Fortune) is your guide to the squirming underbelly of capitalism, where fraud is rampant, markets are irrational, money is imaginary, and the machines are even stupider than the rest of us.
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"Gangster Style Behavior": Austin Campbell on Gary Gensler's SEC
Apr 2, 202401:07:50Tap to summarizeAustin Campbell is founder of Zero Knowledge Consulting, and a former risk and asset manager for JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Paxos. We sat down to peel back the curtain on who Gary Gensler really is: an ambitious careerist who, as far back as his time at the CFTC, cared more about immediate results than big-picture consequences.Now, Campbell says Gensler’s freewheeling campaign against crypto is opening a Pandora’s Box that threatens the very underpinnings of the U.S. economy. Under his theory of crypto, securities laws could be used to go after not just Pokemon collectors, but U.S. public sector unions, or pretty much anything that a future President doesn’t like.Subscribe to the Dark Markets newsletter at darkmarkets.xyzZero Knowledge Consulting: zeroknowledge.consultingFollow Austin on Twitter at @CampbellJAustinFollow David Z. Morris on Twitter at @davidzmorris The Dark Markets podcast is edited and with production assistance by Eleanor Pahl - @eleanorpahlMusic is by Altus Noumena. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit davidzmorris.substack.com/subscribe
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Mike Dudas: Forward to Glory
Feb 15, 202401:14:35Tap to summarizeMike Dudas is founder of The Block, one of the top cryptocurrency news sites. He’s since launched 6th Man Ventures, a crypto-focused fund, and LinksDAO, a global distributed golf club working towards a decentralized structure.He joins David to discuss legislative attacks on crypto; the end of Bitcoin Maximalism; his harrowing brush with Sam Bankman-Fried; and why 2024 will be a big year for Solana.Mike’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mdudasThe Block: https://www.theblock.co/LinksDAO: https://linksdao.io/6th Man Ventures: https://6thman.ventures/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit davidzmorris.substack.com/subscribe
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Dark Markets Episode 3: Sins of the Mother
Jan 31, 202400:45:02Tap to summarizeShow Notes for Dark Markets, January 31, 2024:Read the original essay “Sins of the Mother” at Dark Markets: https://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/sins-of-the-mother-how-the-8b-ftxSins of the Mother, Part 2: The Theory and Practice of Raising a Criminal: https://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/the-theory-and-practice-of-raisingRead Barbara Fried’s 2013 Essay “Beyond Blame” in the Boston Review: https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/barbara-fried-beyond-blame-moral-responsibility-philosophy-law/Read more: “Rationalism vs. Empiricism” from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/Subscribe to the Dark Markets newsletter: Davidzmorris.substack.comFind more Music by Altus Noumena: https://soundcloud.com/altusnoumenaCopyright David Z. Morris and Altus Noumena, 2024 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit davidzmorris.substack.com/subscribe
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Tiffany Fong is a Better Journalist than Michael Lewis
Jan 15, 202400:58:50Tap to summarizeIn this episode, David interviews Tiffany Fong – an investor activist and independent journalist whose extended post-arrest interviews with Sam Bankman-Fried played a major role in unpacking what happened in the FTX collapse.Tiffany first entered the public eye in 2022 as a victim of the Celcius collapse and alleged fraud, becoming a conduit for leaks from the company. She then interviewed Sam Bankman-Fried for many hours while he was on house arrest in Palo Alto, helping uncover specific crimes – and more importantly, gaining insight into how Sam’s brain worked.We talk about her experience stumbling into journalism, what it was like watching Sam on trial, and why both Sam’s parents and Krissy Mashinsky hate her so damn much.Subscribe to the Dark Markets newsletter at davidzmorris.substack.com.Find Tiffany on Twitter at @tiffanyfong_, on YouTube and Instagram at @TiffanyFong, and on Twitch at @tiffanyfongtv. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit davidzmorris.substack.com/subscribe
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This FTX Victim is Still Fighting
Dec 31, 202301:18:28Tap to summarizeThis is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit davidzmorris.substack.com/subscribe
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