David Z

Morris

David Z Morris

David Z. Morris is CoinDesk's Chief Insights Columnist. He has written about crypto since 2013 for outlets including Fortune, Slate, and Aeon. He is the author of "Bitcoin is Magic," an introduction to Bitcoin's social dynamics. He is a former academic sociologist of technology with a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Iowa. He holds Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and small amounts of other crypto assets.

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The Fed Can't Whip Inflation Alone
The source of high U.S. inflation is pretty clear, and it doesn't have much to do with the money supply.
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Three Arrows Creditors Get Emergency Hearing and GameStop's NFT Marketplace Goes Live
The most valuable crypto stories for Tuesday, July 12, 2022.
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Behind Voyager’s Fall: Crypto Broker Acted Like a Bank, Went Bankrupt
In an industry where counterparties are tightly bound together by a weave of debt and leverage, dominoes can fall fast and hard.
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Satoshi Wept: How Crypto Replayed the 2008 Financial Crisis
It only took 13 years for crypto to recreate the same kind of financial crisis it was designed to prevent. Here’s how it (almost) all went down.
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Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks Face Backlash Over Voyager Digital Partnership
The most valuable crypto stories for Monday, July 11, 2022.
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Celsius Looks Sloppy in New Lawsuit, but So Does the DeFi Legend Suing It
While underscoring Celsius’s disregard for risk and weak controls, KeyFi’s lawsuit also casts new, unflattering light on the crypto whale known as @0x_b1.
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Nic Carter vs. The Bitcoin Maximalists
If maximalism has become nothing but a refusal to think through bitcoin’s actual usefulness, it has become an intellectual dead end. No surprise, then, that the intellectuals are jumping ship.
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From One to Zero: BlockFi’s Fire Sale Shows the Uber Startup Model Is Disastrous for Finance
Peter Thiel’s monopolistic theories about building companies have clearly hit their limit: banking.
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Why the Crypto Unwind Wasn’t Contagious (This Time)
Crypto's interconnection to traditional finance hasn't proven toxic ... yet.
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