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## Day 8 — wallstlie

# Scott "Darkside"

## Profile

Scott "Darkside" is the **interviewee** in this episode of 10X Money Talks. He is a former options floor trader from the Philadelphia Options Exchange and the CBOE, who later founded [[entity-dash-financial]] — an agency-only algorithmic execution firm. He became deeply disillusioned with Wall Street after witnessing the 2008 financial crisis from the inside, discovered Bitcoin in 2013, and is now a vocal advocate for self-custody and distributed ledger technology.

## Role in This Vault

Scott is the primary voice and source of nearly every claim, concept, and framework in this vault. His worldview combines hands-on options/derivatives mechanics, insider observation of systemic risk, and a hard-Bitcoin maximalist orientation.

## Attributed Contributions

### Concepts
- [[concept-true-agency]]
- [[concept-counterparty-risk]]
- [[concept-derivatives-wmd]]
- [[concept-volatility-compression]]
- [[concept-bearer-asset]]
- [[concept-self-custody]]
- [[concept-paper-bitcoin]]
- [[concept-wall-street-looting]]
- [[concept-fiat-death-knell]]

### Claims
- [[claim-2008-near-collapse]]
- [[claim-derivatives-wmd]]
- [[claim-next-crisis-foreign]]
- [[claim-paper-bitcoin-failure]]
- [[claim-capital-controls-coming]]

### Frameworks
- [[framework-the-big-long]]
- [[framework-real-estate-bitcoin-hybrid]] (co-developed with [[entity-grant-cardone]])

### Quotes
- [[quote-2008-fear]]
- [[quote-derivatives-wmd]]
- [[quote-be-your-own-bank]]
- [[quote-fiat-death-knell]]

### Contrarian Insights
- [[contrarian-etfs-are-dangerous]]
- [[contrarian-wall-street-looting]]