James Block (a.k.a., Dirty Bubble Media) is a physician who writes about financial fraud in his spare time at dirtybubblemedia.substack.com. Born in the rural Midwest, he attended Hillsdale College for his undergraduate degree in biology and biochemistry. After working as an EMT for a year, he completed his medical and graduate research training at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, earning a combined MD/Ph.D. degree. His research work focused on mechanisms of metastatic progression in breast cancer. After completing his graduate training, he started his psychiatry residency at the University of Michigan.
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Episode 287
James Block
How Much of Crypto Is a Criminal Conspiracy? | James Block
James Block (a.k.a., Dirty Bubble Media) is a physician who writes about financial fraud in his spare time at dirtybubblemedia.substack.com. Born in the rural Midwest, he attended Hillsdale College for his undergraduate degree in biology and biochemistry. After working as an EMT for a year, he completed his medical and graduate research training at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, earning a combined MD/Ph.D. degree. His research work focused on mechanisms of metastatic progression in breast cancer. After completing his graduate training, he started his psychiatry residency at the University of Michigan.
In Episode 287 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with James Block. James is the author of Dirty Bubble Media, a popular substack account that publishes critical thought pieces about the crypto industry and which was recently featured in an Atlantic magazine article titled, “Crypto Was Always Smoke and Mirrors.”
In this conversation, Demetri and James discuss what they believe is a multi-billion dollar criminal conspiracy that involves money laundering, tax evasion, sanctions evasion, and other forms of illicit activity that sits at the very heart of the crypto ecosystem.
One of the challenges that comes with trying to cover the seedy underbelly of crypto is that you are forced to wade through an almost infinite amount of evidence, much of which is circumstantial. The bankruptcy of FTX however, has produced new, critical pieces of information that investigators are using to sketch out the contours of this organization, the players involved, and the extent of conspiracy in ways that had previously proven difficult or impossible.
It is a story that we have not heard discussed anywhere else, at least not in the framework that you are going to learn about today. It is precisely this framework that Demetri believes will help you better understand what is actually going on here.
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James Block (a.k.a., Dirty Bubble Media) is a physician who writes about financial fraud in his spare time at dirtybubblemedia.substack.com. Born in the rural Midwest, he attended Hillsdale College for his undergraduate degree in biology and biochemistry. After working as an EMT for a year, he completed his medical and graduate research training at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, earning a combined MD/Ph.D. degree. His research work focused on mechanisms of metastatic progression in breast cancer. After completing his graduate training, he started his psychiatry residency at the University of Michigan.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
