Will Gottsegen

Will Gottsegen was CoinDesk's media and culture reporter. He graduated from Pomona College with a degree in English and has held staff positions at Spin, Billboard, and Decrypt.

Will Gottsegen

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Ads of the ‘Crypto-Bowl’

FTX, Crypto.com and Binance are among the major advertising players at this year’s Super Bowl.

(Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

Opinion

Of Course It’s OK to Out the BAYC Founders

In "doxing" two of the NFT project's creators, BuzzFeed News was simply doing its job.

(Yuga Labs, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Coachella Music Festival to Launch Solana NFTs in Deal With FTX

The storied California music festival is making the jump into NFTs.

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Opinion

NFTs, Celebrities and Perverse Deal-Making

As crypto company MoonPay continues its marketing push, it's unclear whether celebrity enthusiasm for NFTs is real.

(Nicholas R. Andrew/Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

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OpenSea’s Week From Hell

The dominant NFT marketplace remains stubbornly hands-off in its approach to controversy.

(OpenSea/BeFunky, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

JPEGs On Sale, Baby

The crypto market is tanking. Floor prices for premium NFTs have stayed relatively consistent.

(Larva Labs, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

Simpin' Ain't Easy: The Business Sense Behind IreneDAO

Crypto seems poised to magnify existing financial relationships between influencers and their obsessive fans.

(Irene Zhao/IreneDAO, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Twitter Launches NFT Profile Picture Verification

“Right-clickers” begone!

Twitter Picks Crypto Developer Jay Graber to Run Decentralized Social Media Wing 'Bluesky'

Finance

Damien Hirst Launches Chainlink Price Index for NFT Project

Hirst’s NFT collection, “The Currency,” gets its own dedicated price index.

Damien Hirst with some of the works in his "The Currency" collection.

Finance

Crypto Influencer Cooper Turley Removed From FWB Over 2013 Bigoted Tweets

Turley, once an adviser to the influential crypto social club Friends With Benefits, is taking a step back.

Cooper Turley (Leon Bennett/Getty Images)

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