Substackers Against Nazis

A collective letter to Substack leadership.

Issue 46 – Checkmate, crypto

Cheating chess-players, cursed mansions, and more defi centralization.

Issue 45 – I'm the director now

Rising bitcoin prices bring echoes of the crypto mania from years past, and an ambitious hacker decides to manifest a new job for themselves.

Effective obfuscation

Silicon Valley's "effective altruism" and "effective accelerationism" only give a thin philosophical veneer to the industry's same old impulses.

Issue 44 – Four

The Justice Department's interest in Binance isn't just "FUD" anymore.

The stones left unturned in the Sam Bankman-Fried trial

From billions of mysterious Tethers to the apparent identity theft of Thai sex workers, many questions remain about what happened at Bankman-Fried's crypto empire.

Issue 43 – Laser eyes

Two crypto firms emerge from bankruptcy, and a Bored Ape party turns out even worse than it sounds.

New York Times: Crypto's fragile foundations

My article in the New York Times describes the common practice throughout the cryptocurrency industry that can lead to death spirals like the one at FTX.

Sam Bankman-Fried: guilty on all charges

Jurors spent less than five hours deliberating before returning the verdict.

The FTX trial, days 15–16: Sam Bankman-Fried doesn't recall

Bankman-Fried comes off as sullen and cagey in his cross-examination in front of the jury.

The FTX trial, day fourteen: Same events, new stories

Taking the stand before the jury for the first time, Sam Bankman-Fried recounts familiar events we've heard described by previous witnesses, but gives a very different version of those stories.

The FTX trial, day thirteen: Sam Bankman-Fried gets a dress rehearsal

After a few other brief witnesses, it was time for the main event — or, at least, a preview of it.