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Dark Markets👁️ Bullish and EOS: “A Fraud in Plain Sight”
The team behind Bullish brutally rugpulled their earliest investors. They'll do the same to public markets.
Dark Markets👁️ The Metaverse is On Its Last Legs
Say goodbye to the Previous Thing. Also: Salesforce gets f*cked by AI, Tesla's Roadster scam, and more.
Dark Markets👁️Not Even Past: Bullish and Ethereum's Shared Origin at Bitcoin Miami 2014
Ages and ages and ages thence
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Naturally, immediately after I got a flood of enthusiasm from all of you new readers, Substack screwed up the weekly email send.
More than half of subscribers didn’t get my archival dig into Jeffrey Epstein’s Putin-linked Reputation Laundering Network.
This email is an attempt to get it out to everyone. My apologies for those of you who are seeing it twice: Unfortunately, Substack doesn’t give me better options.
(And if you have your own newsletter, do not use title tests for the time being. They appear to be severely bugged.)
Welcome to the weekly installment of Dark Markets, a newsletter about technology and financial fraud. I’m David Z. Morris, veteran tech and finance reporter, PhD historian of technology, and author of Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia.
Welcome to all the new subscribers from Left Hook. To celebrate, I’m offering the first discount ever on premium subscriptions - 20% off an annual signup. It will be valid for two weeks. I won’t hard sell you on the value of the subscription this week - there’s just too much to get to.
The thing about investigative journalism is, you can’t win ‘em all.
At least, not right away.
In late 2018, I started work at Breaker Magazine, a small and ultimately short-lived startup publication focused on crypto. It was an incredible time, and I was able to fully unleash my investigative impulses. I collaborated several times with Larry Cermak, then writer at a small newsletter, but now CEO of The Block. Larry and I share both a nose for bullshit, and utter, raging contempt for fakes, liars, and cheats.
It was Larry who first spotted Jeffrey Epstein’s malignant hand. But neither of us knew it at time.
In November of 2018, Larry sent this Tweet, calling out “this obvious pay for play article,” written for the Forbes Contributor Network by a lawyer called Andrew Rossow. Larry was, with the vigor of youth, acting out of instinct. If it wasn’t paid PR, he allowed, it was at least “incredibly lazy journalism.”
Hey @ForbesCrypto and @RossowEsq, how much did you get paid for this obvious pay-for-play article? You copied almost word by word what the PR teams provided to you. If this is not pay-for-play, it's incredibly lazy journalism. forbes.com/sites/andrewro…
8:18 AM · Nov 12, 2018
13 Replies · 19 Reposts · 158 Likes
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Naturally, immediately after I got a flood of enthusiasm from all of you new readers, Substack screwed up the weekly email send.
More than half of subscribers didn’t get my archival dig into Jeffrey Epstein’s Putin-linked Reputation Laundering Network.
This email is an attempt to get it out to everyone. My apologies for those of you who are seeing it twice: Unfortunately, Substack doesn’t give me better options.
(And if you have your own newsletter, do not use title tests for the time being. They appear to be severely bugged.)
Welcome to the weekly installment of Dark Markets, a newsletter about technology and financial fraud. I’m David Z. Morris, veteran tech and finance reporter, PhD historian of technology, and author of Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia.
Welcome to all the new subscribers from Left Hook. To celebrate, I’m offering the first discount ever on premium subscriptions - 20% off an annual signup. It will be valid for two weeks. I won’t hard sell you on the value of the subscription this week - there’s just too much to get to.
The thing about investigative journalism is, you can’t win ‘em all.
At least, not right away.
In late 2018, I started work at Breaker Magazine, a small and ultimately short-lived startup publication focused on crypto. It was an incredible time, and I was able to fully unleash my investigative impulses. I collaborated several times with Larry Cermak, then writer at a small newsletter, but now CEO of The Block. Larry and I share both a nose for bullshit, and utter, raging contempt for fakes, liars, and cheats.
It was Larry who first spotted Jeffrey Epstein’s malignant hand. But neither of us knew it at time.
In November of 2018, Larry sent this Tweet, calling out “this obvious pay for play article,” written for the Forbes Contributor Network by a lawyer called Andrew Rossow. Larry was, with the vigor of youth, acting out of instinct. If it wasn’t paid PR, he allowed, it was at least “incredibly lazy journalism.”
Hey @ForbesCrypto and @RossowEsq, how much did you get paid for this obvious pay-for-play article? You copied almost word by word what the PR teams provided to you. If this is not pay-for-play, it's incredibly lazy journalism. forbes.com/sites/andrewro…
8:18 AM · Nov 12, 2018
13 Replies · 19 Reposts · 158 Likes
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