Sage D. Young

Sage D. Young was a tech protocol reporter at CoinDesk. He cares for the Solarpunk Movement and is a recent graduate from Claremont McKenna College, who dual-majored in Economics and Philosophy with a Sequence in Data Science. He owns a few NFTs, gold and silver, as well as BTC, ETH, LINK, AAVE, ARB, PEOPLE, DOGE, OS, and HTR.

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Tech

Goerli Is Coming: Ethereum’s Last Rehearsal Before the Merge

The Prater upgrade, the first component of the upcoming Goerli testnet merge, is happening this week.

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Why Athletes Are Taking Compensation in Bitcoin

From UFC to soccer, sportspeople continue to see the attraction of BTC, despite the faltering market. This piece is part of CoinDesk's Sports Week.

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Ethereum’s Rollup Race: What is a ‘True’ zkEVM?

The ZK rollup race between Ethereum layer 2s Scroll, Polygon and Matter Labs may come down to definitions.

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First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Nears $24K as Zipmex Suspends Withdrawals

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for July 20, 2022.

BTC is approaching $24,000, and yet the crypto industry continues to suffer as the exchange Zipmex suspended withdrawals (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

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What’s in Your Bear Market Backpack?

From existential dread to blissful ignorance — reactions to Ethereum’s market slump vary across the board

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Are Block Builders the Key to Solving Ethereum’s MEV Centralization Woes?

Proposer-builder separation is one way Ethereum is implementing modular decentralization.

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Coordinape Is Decentralizing Compensation Decision-Making

“The future of labor needs to be able to break out of the top-down rigid, hierarchical structures we’re familiar with from the corporate world,” says Coordinape co-founder Tracheopteryx.

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A Major Crypto Exchange Abandons Ethereum: Is the World’s Computer Falling Behind?

By ditching Ethereum for Cosmos, dYdX has sparked claims that it has chosen sovereignty over security.

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Crypto Jobs: Who’s Cutting and Hiring?

A running reckoning to layoffs and hirings in the cryptocurrency/blockchain industry. This piece is part of CoinDesk's Future of Work week.

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Ethereum's Gray Glacier (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Difficulty Bomb)

The delay of Ethereum’s Difficulty Bomb suggests the network’s Merge to proof-of-stake might be a bit further away than hoped.

"Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964), directed by Stanley Kubrick, distributed by Columbia Pictures