
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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Welcome to Dark Markets, a newlsetter about Silicon Valley ideology, financial fraud, and frontier technology. I’m David Z. Morris, PhD historian of technology, longtime investigative reporter, and author of Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman...
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Welcome to Dark Markets, a weekly newsletter about Silicon Valley ideology, financial fraud, and the irrationality of money. I’m David Z. Morris - fraud investigator, PhD historian of technology, fintech analyst, and author of Stealing the...
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In 1993, the Clinton administration started advocating for something called the Clipper Chip, a pseudo-encryption chipset that secured voice and data transmissions - but included a “back door” key that would led F...
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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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