Dark Markets

Jun 17 2024 10 ep. 67 mins 8
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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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Why Was Alameda Tether's Biggest Client? w/Crypto Critics Corner

Jun 17 2024 74 mins  
Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin are investigative reporters for Protos.com and cohosts of the venerable Crypto Critics Corner podcast. They join David Z. Morris to discuss evidence that Alameda Research was arbitraging the stablecoin Tether to users in Asia, at huge scale, and possibly in service of illegal activity.We also dig into the deeper connections between the FTX group and T

Secret Network: From "Privacy Coins" to Confidential On-Chain Computing, w/ Secret Labs CEO Alex Zaidelson

Jun 04 2024 60 mins  
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit davidzmorris.substack.comI sat down with my old friend Alex Zaidelson to talk about his current work as CEO of Secret Labs. He and his team, along with other related projects, are working to shift the conversation about on-chain privacy to focus on what they call “confidential computing.” While “privacy coins” li

What is West Ham? w/ 0xKitsune

May 16 2024 66 mins  
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit davidzmorris.substack.comI sat down with notorious foxboy and international currency expert 0xKitsune to talk stablecoins, community, and crypto risk. Kits is pseudonymous and appears here as an avatar. Premium Subscribers listening through the Substack App will get a bonus 15 minute segment on the philosophy and mindset

Are Eigenlayer and Ethena Time Bombs ... or is it just Post-Terra Trauma? w/ Bloq CSO Zane Huffman

Apr 22 2024 58 mins  
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit davidzmorris.substack.comIn today's show, we dive into the risks of two major new DeFi products: The restaking protocol Eigenlayer and the yield-producing stablecoin Ethena.We get insights from a top-tier degen: Bloq CSO Zane Huffman. Huffman walks us through the time a restaking protocol blew up on BNB, and its conseque

Could TikTok Be Banned? w/Dexter Thomas

Apr 14 2024 88 mins  
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit davidzmorris.substack.comDexter Thomas is a Pulitzer- and Emmy-winning journalist who has worked for the L.A. Times, and is the former anchor and correspondent for Vice News Tonight. He is also a PhD social scientist who met host David Z. Morris through their shared research and writing on Japanese Hip-Hop. In this episo

"Gangster Style Behavior": Austin Campbell on Gary Gensler's SEC

Apr 02 2024 67 mins  
Austin 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 agai

Mike Dudas: Forward to Glory

Feb 15 2024 74 mins  
Mike 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 b

Dark Markets Episode 3: Sins of the Mother

Jan 31 2024 45 mins  
Show 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 th

Tiffany Fong is a Better Journalist than Michael Lewis

Jan 15 2024 58 mins  
In 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 i

This FTX Victim is Still Fighting

Dec 31 2023 78 mins  
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