Dark Markets is the Newsletter for Fringe Finance. David Z. Morris, PhD (CoinDesk, Fortune) is your guide to the squirming underbelly of capitalism, where markets are irrational, money is imaginary, and the machines are even stupider than the rest of us.
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Ex-Fortune, CoinDesk. Author of "Stealing the Future." Tech and finance fraudbuster: Trevor Milton, Sam Bankman-Fried, Do Kwon. Bitcoin class of 2014. Social Scientist: PhD, History of Technology, University of Iowa.
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