#95 David Morris on Crypto, FTX, SBF (Sam Bankman-Fried), the Trial, and the Fallacy of Effective Altruism. The Brett Johnson Show. from The Brett Johnson Show

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#95 David Morris on Crypto, FTX, SBF (Sam Bankman-Fried), the Trial, and the Fallacy of Effective Altruism. The Brett Johnson Show.

1 hour 21 minutes Posted Oct 30, 2023 at 4:36 pm.

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David Z. Morris is a veteran financial and technology journalist. A former staffer at Fortune Magazine and former lead columnist at CoinDesk, David has spent years covering topics ranging from biotechnology, transportation networks, and electric vehicles to global financial frauds, blockchain and crypto payments, and the growing cancer of the Silicon Valley ideology.

David visits the Brett Johnson the collapse of FTX and the ongoing Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, who "misplaced" $8billion of customer funds. "Misplaced." Kind of a fancy word for paying Tom Brady, Steph Curry, building FTX Arena, buying tens of millions in real estate, committing fraud, etc., etc. etc.Brett and David discuss SBF, the case, the parents, and Sam's philosophy of "Effective Altruism."