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In the second episode of the .thedotfiles, we speak with David Z Morris, a talented independent journalist who specializes in investigating cryptocurrency and fraud. His recently released debut book, Stealing the Future, is a well-researched overview of the FTX scandal, and how it’s architect Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), was influenced by questionable philosophical and social movements that have become popular among tech-elites. We also discuss the growing concerns of Michael Saylor’s ponzinomics, as well as the groundbreaking Tornado Cash case involving Roman Storm, whose future retrial could have immense cooling effects for free and open source software developers around the world.

In the second episode of the .thedotfiles, we speak with David Z Morris, a talented independent journalist who specializes in investigating cryptocurrency and fraud. His recently released debut book, Stealing the Future, is a well-researched overview of the FTX scandal, and how it’s architect Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), was influenced by questionable philosophical and social movements that have become popular among tech-elites. We also discuss the growing concerns of Michael Saylor’s ponzinomics, as well as the groundbreaking Tornado Cash case involving Roman Storm, whose future retrial could have immense cooling effects for free and open source software developers around the world. If you like the content, please consider subscribing and leaving me a like. I’d really appreciate it.

Links to David’s work:

Read “Deepseek and the AI Murder Cult” at Dark Markets: https://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/deepseek-and-the-ai-murder-cult

davidzmorris.substack.com

Read “Saylor (misses) Moon” at Zero In: https://zero-in.beehiiv.com/p/saylor-misses-moon

zero-in.beehiiv.com

And buy “Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia”: https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Future-Bankman-Fried-Elite-Techno-Utopia/dp/1917516088/

0:00 Introduction

1:14 A rabbit hole of trendy ideologies and early signals of fraud

7:08 UltimateBet and SBF faking his image

11:47 How SBF acted when he takes the stand

21:01 Rationalism and treating life like a solvable math problem

32:40 Earn to give

39:08 What effective altruists donate to, Longtermism, and Anthropic

47:46 Using AI doomerism for marketing and an AI bubble

55:05 SBF’s upbringing, college, and corrupt parents

01:03:08 SBF at Jane Street and beginnings of Alameda and FTX

01:13:10 SBF fraud: Allow Negative, FTT, Deposit accounts

01:20:35 FTX and Alameda crash

01:28:30 Comparing and contrasting SBF and Michael Saylor

01:32:33 The cult of Saylor

01:37:27 The scam of Saylor’s Strategy

01:52:23 Tornado Cash trial recap

02:00:39 Possibility of appeals? South District of New York. And Roman Storm’s stoic behavior

02:05:08 Outro