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.

“One of the reasons this was so shocking is that so few people saw this coming. There were so few warning signs.”