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Dark Markets is a newsletter about technology fraud - not just financial chicanery, but also ideological manipulation and misleading technical hype. Author David Z. Morris is a longtime financial fraud investigator and crypto pioneer. In 2013 while writing for Fortune, he became one of the first reporters to ever cover cryptocurrency in a mainstream publication.

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👁️ China’s Most Shameless: The Story 🍌🍌 of Justin Sun and Tron

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👁️ Donald Trump Stole $122m from Justin Sun

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👁️ Bullish and EOS: “A Fraud in Plain Sight”

Welcome back to Dark Markets, a newsletter about technology fraud. I’m David Z. Morris, a longtime tech and finance reporter. This week we dive into Bullish, the crypto exchange that recently went public at a $10 billion valuation. Much of that value derives from fundraising for EOS, a blockchain project announced nearly a decade ago. Read on for the mind-boggling story of how they got away with their billion-dollar shell game. *** The crypto exchange Bullish went public in an IPO earlier thi...

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👁️Not Even Past: Tron's Justin Sun “Doesn’t Have a Technical Bone in His Body”

Welcome to Dark Markets, a newsletter about technology fraud. I’m David Z. Morris, a veteran fraud investigator and Phd historian of technology. This week we dive back into the archives to look at Tron’s 2018 acquisition of BitTorrent, which one former BitTorrent leader characterized as fundamentally fraudulent - which is also his assessment of Justin Sun as a human being. Dark Markets is a reader-supported publication. To receive all new posts, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Subscribe ...

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The GPT Suicides and the Delusion of Alignment

Welcome to your weekly Dark Markets technology fraud roundup, pushed back one day for Labor Day. Don’t forget to catch up on our weekend deep dive into Bullish, the recent IPO hit with an incredibly sketchy backstory.👁️ Bullish and EOS: A Very Long GriftDavid Z. Morris · Aug 31 Read full storyStealing the Future Preorder SaleFrom today until September 5th, Barnes and Noble is running a sale on all book pre-orders - including mine. Save 25% on Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fra...

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👁️Not Even Past: Bullish and Ethereum's Shared Origin at Bitcoin Miami 2014

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." - William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun Tomorrow, I’ll be publishing a deep dive on the background of Bullish, a cryptocurrency exchange that recently went public at a $10 billion+ valuation. As a preview, and for context, I’m republishing here one of the very first things I ever wrote about cryptocurrency: a report published in Fortune in 2014 from the North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami. With barely over 1,000 attendees, it was the lar...