David Z. Morris

Sep 18, 2024 | fortune.com | David Z. Morris

BioAge Labs Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing therapies for obesity and metabolic disease, is seeking to raise as much as $157.5 million in its initial public offering and a private placement. The company is offering 7.5 million shares for $17 to $19 apiece, according to a filing Wednesday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Aug 11, 2023 | coindesk.com | David Z. Morris

Sam Bankman-Fried spent 2021 and much of 2022 talking himself into the role of a cryptocurrency mogul. A court hearing today will decide whether he has now talked himself from cushy house arrest back into a concrete and steel jail cell. The immediate trigger for today’s hearing in the courtroom of District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan was Bankman-Fried’s sharing of the private diary of Caroline Ellison, who Bankman-Fried installed as nominal CEO of FTX and later allegedly ordered to engage in fraud.

Aug 9, 2023 | markets.businessinsider.com | David Z. Morris

CoinDesk Aug. 9, 2023, 10:33 AM The news this week that PayPal will issue a U.S. dollar stablecoin on the Ethereum network has understandably lit up the crypto world, even setting off a minor rally in other tokens. Optimists see it as a watershed moment of validation for blockchain and smart contracts, from a very serious fintech player.

Aug 4, 2023 | coindesk.com | David Z. Morris

We seemingly have an answer to one of crypto’s most enduring mysteries. Ilya Lichtenstein, husband of criminal rapper Razzlekhan (aka Heather Morgan), confessed yesterday to the 2016 hacking theft of 112,000 bitcoins from offshore crypto exchange Bitfinex. But the circumstances of that confession are frankly bizarre – and one of America’s most notorious reformed hackers isn’t buying it. “Ilya is a f***ing idiot,” argues Brett Johnson.

Aug 3, 2023 | coindesk.com | David Z. Morris

I first got interested in Bitcoin, going on a decade ago now, thanks to some of its more extreme political affiliations. In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, investor interest in gold skyrocketed, particularly among survivalists and “preppers.” These “gold bugs” were often extremely libertarian (with hints of what we’d now call the far-right), and it was through talking to them that I started thinking really seriously about Bitcoin.