Bradley Keoun

Managing Editor, Tech & Protocols

Bradley Keoun is CoinDesk's managing editor of tech & protocols, where he oversees a team of reporters covering blockchain technology, and previously ran the global crypto markets team. A two-time Loeb Awards finalist, he previously was chief global finance and economic correspondent for TheStreet and before that worked as an editor and reporter for Bloomberg News in New York and Mexico City, reporting on Wall Street, emerging markets and the energy industry. He started out as a police-beat reporter for the Gainesville Sun in Florida and later worked as a general-assignment reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana, he double-majored in electrical engineering and classical studies as an undergraduate at Duke University and later obtained a master's in journalism from the University of Florida. He is currently based in Austin, Texas, and in his spare time plays guitar, sings in a choir and hikes in the Texas Hill Country. He owns less than $1,000 each of several cryptocurrencies.

Latest from Bradley Keoun

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Bitcoin Falls to 1-Month Low as Fed Minutes Reveal Talks to Shrink Balance Sheet

A reduction in the balance sheet might undermine bitcoin’s appeal as an inflation hedge.

Jan 5, 2022

Bitcoin's hourly price chart showed steep drop in the hour after the Fed meetings were released. (TradingView)

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Market Wrap Year-End Review: Bitcoin Peaks as Coinbase Goes Public

Tesla’s bitcoin acceptance helped to send the BTC price to an all-time high near $65,000 in April, almost unthinkable just a few months earlier. Coinbase’s direct stock listing marked the exact date of the market top.

Dec 22, 2021

The peak of the bitcoin market in April 2021 perfectly coincided with the elevated hype surrounding the Coinbase direct stock listing. (William Henry Jackson/Art Institute of Chicago, modified by CoinDesk)

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Market Wrap Year-End Review: Musk Pumps Bitcoin and Dogecoin

Dogecoin pumped along with bitcoin thanks to some high profile tweets.

Dec 21, 2021

Image posted on Feb. 4, 2021, by Elon Musk's Twitter account. (@elonmusk/Twitter, modified by CoinDesk)

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Market Wrap Year-End Review: Bitcoin Starts Off in a Frenzy

In this first episode of Market Wrap’s review of crypto markets in 2021, we recall the powerful rally that ushered in the new year. Retail traders piled in, even as some institutional investors sounded warnings about rampant speculation.

Dec 20, 2021

Chicago Board of Trade traders, 1949 (Stanley Kubrick via Wikimedia Commons)

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Bitcoin Slides Toward $46K, Dropping Alongside US Stock Market

Bitcoin’s hopes for a powerful year-end rally toward $100,000 are fading.

Dec 17, 2021

Bitcoin price chart over the past week. (CoinDesk)

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Fed Speeds Up Stimulus Withdrawal, and Bitcoin Jumps

The Fed will reduce its bond purchases by $30 billion every month to wind them down early next year, doubling from the current pace of withdrawal of $15 billion every month.

Dec 15, 2021

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks Wednesday at a press conference. (Federal Reserve, modified by CoinDesk)

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Market Wrap: US Inflation at 39-Year High Fails to Buoy Bitcoin

The consumer price index surged to 6.8% in November, but traders may hold off on investing in risky assets the rest of the year.

Dec 10, 2021

Bitcoin dominance ratio (Damanick Dantes/CoinDesk, TradingView)

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Bitcoin Turns Lower as Fed Chair Suggests Inflation No Longer ‘Transitory’

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s turnabout suggests the U.S. central bank might move more quickly to tighten monetary policy – potentially a negative for speculative assets including bitcoin.

Nov 30, 2021

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifies Tuesday before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee. (C-Span)

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First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Continues Drift Below $60K as Investors Eye Shoppers’ Inflation Response, Biden Fed Chair Pick

Trading activity could be light in the coming week because of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday; ether holds steady above $4,300.

Nov 21, 2021

Bitcoin's price chart over the past week shows the gravitation toward the $60,000 level. (CoinDesk)

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First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Drops Below $60K Amid Broad Sell-Off in Crypto Markets

Traders could not definitively explain bitcoin’s decline; ether falls under $4,000 for the first time since late October.

Nov 18, 2021

Longer-term bitcoin price chart shows this week's big dropoff. See the red candle on the right. (CoinDesk)