Daniel Kuhn

Deputy Managing Editor for Features and Opinion

Daniel Kuhn was a deputy managing editor for Consensus Magazine, where he helped produce monthly editorial packages and the opinion section. He also wrote a daily news rundown and a twice-weekly column for The Node newsletter. He first appeared in print in Financial Planning, a trade publication magazine. Before journalism, he studied philosophy as an undergrad, English literature in graduate school and business and economic reporting at an NYU professional program. You can connect with him on Twitter and Telegram @danielgkuhn or find him on Urbit as ~dorrys-lonreb.

Daniel Kuhn

Latest from Daniel Kuhn

Calling Out the Sexism in Bitcoin, Crypto

Crypto is for everyone.

Apr 21, 2022

"Martha Scolding Her Vain Sister Mary Magdalene" (Elisabetta Sirani/Smithsonian American Art Museum, modified by CoinDesk)

Elon Musk Shouldn't Lead Twitter

Crypto, the source of so many of Twitter’s problems, also provides a blueprint in advocating for permissionless protocols.

Apr 19, 2022

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Recapturing the 'Revolution' With a Beatles Muse's NFTs

Pattie Boyd will publish a set of her photos from the 60s and 70s as NFTs this Friday.

Apr 14, 2022

(Pattie Boyd, modified by CoinDesk)

Bitcoin and Today’s Wicked Inflation Share a Common Ancestor

In 2010, heterodox Fed member Thomas Hoenig spoke out against the central bank's experimental monetary policy.

Apr 12, 2022

Current and former Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Presidents Esther L. George and Thomas M. Hoenig (Wikimedia Commons)

The Meaning of Miami's Castrated Bitcoin Bull

"[In] Miami we have big balls," Mayor Suarez said on CoinDesk TV, referring to the Bitcoin 2022 statue that lacks that anatomical part.

Apr 8, 2022

(Nelson Wang/CoinDesk, modified)

Vitalik Buterin on Ethereum's 'Roads Not Taken'

The cryptocurrency's co-founder discussed the ETH premine, proof-of-stake and the development of the most-used blockchain in a recent blog.

Mar 31, 2022

Founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin during TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 (John Phillips/Creative Commons/CC2.0, modified by CoinDesk)

If Money Is Speech, CBDCs Should Be Tools for Freedom

Examining the concerns a digital dollar could be used for coercion and censorship.

Mar 30, 2022

(Anthony Garand/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Making MakerDAO Matter Again

Recent governance proposals aim to take DeFi’s once-dominant stablecoin issuer into the “real world.”

Mar 24, 2022

(Eran Menashri/Unsplash)

Ray Dalio, Sigma Males and the New Grindset

Are we in a "post-narrative" age of institutional adoption of crypto?

Mar 23, 2022

(Harry Murphy/Web Summit via Sportsfile, modified by CoinDesk)

Vitalik Buterin's Dad on Ukraine, Censorship and Decentralization

Ukraine war might be the "next big push towards adoption of crypto," he said.

Mar 22, 2022

(Dima Buterin/Bankless, modified by CoinDesk)