Daniel Kuhn

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.

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Blockchain Bites: $187M Blockchain Bond, $522M BTC Mining Revenue and 'Ethereum-First' Institutional Investors

Singapore is funding blockchain R&D. Germany's second-largest stock exchange's crypto app saw $1.21 billion in trading volumes this year. Grayscale is seeing a growing number of "Ethereum-first" institutional buyers.

sonnenshein, grayscale

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Blockchain Bites: Price Point! Bitcoin at $50K? $60K? $318K?

Traders have begun unwrapping tokenized bitcoins. The U.S. Treasury Department will keep a vigilant eye on digital innovations. And trading volumes on OKEx have plummeted.

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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin's Edge as a Hedge and Crypto's Reaction to the STABLE Act

Crypto Twitter, like the U.S. Congress, is usually divided. A proposed law to strengthen stablecoin oversight has brought crypto together.

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Blockchain Bites: Record-Breaking 'Active' Bitcoin Users as Wall Street Ponders Mass Adoption

There are now more active bitcoin users than ever before, as CEOs of both PayPal and BlackRock think about the future of finance.

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Blockchain Bites: Ethereum 2.0 Beacon Chain Ships, Libra Rebrands, 'Bitcoin' Google Searches Up

Ethereum 2.0 charts new territory with the launch of its proof-of-stake backbone as retail interest in Bitcoin spikes, Google search data suggests.

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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin All-Time High Puts It on Pace for Highest Monthly Close

PLUS: Anonymous developers have forked a seemingly dead project to launch DeFi’s latest stablecoin.

Phases of the moon.

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Bilateral Saudi, UAE Digital Currency Experiment Shows Benefits of Distributed Ledgers, Central Banks Say

A joint Saudi and UAE CBDC pilot found that a distributed payment system offers “significant improvement over centralized payment systems.”

Nabawi Mosque, Madina, Saudi Arabia

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Ripple Is Cashing Out a Third of Its Stake in Surging MoneyGram

It is Ripple's first sale of MoneyGram stock since the startup invested in the remittance giant in 2019.

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Curve Finance Votes to Disperse $3M in Fees to Governance Token Holders

The community vote was an exercise in decentralized governance for a protocol not unfamiliar with meeting community demands.

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NYT Reveals Claims of 'Racist or Discriminatory' Treatment of Employees at Coinbase

The New York Times' critique of Coinbase’s internal diversity policies quotes former employees who complain of “racist or discriminatory” treatment.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong