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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Finance

For Universal’s NFT Band, Music Is Second to Brand Identity

Kingship is a little like Gorillaz, but without the musicians.

(10:22/Universal)

Finance

At Least 77% of NFT Art Sales Going to Male Creators: Study

Gender disparities still run deep in crypto.

Beeple's "Everydays"

Finance

Not Everything Needs to Be ‘on the Blockchain’

Please ignore Crypto Twitter’s snake oil peddlers.

(Michal Matlon/Unsplash)

Tech

Enter the Margaritaverse: My Week at NFT.NYC

The daytime event felt like a pretext for the lavish after-parties.

Credit: Nicole Goodkind

Tech

The Metaverse We Didn’t Ask For

Does anyone want Facebook’s take on this old-new idea?

(Richard Horvath/Unsplash)

Finance

Sfermion Raises $100M NFT Fund as Facebook Stokes Metaverse Mania

The NFT investment firm will focus on the “experiential infrastructure that involves the NFT space.”

(Richard Horvath/Unsplash)

Policy

A Crypto Whisperer on How Regulators Toss Retail Into the Deep End

Industry commentator Maya Zehavi shares her views on capital controls, overregulation and crypto’s broken promises.

(Joe Calata/Unsplash)

Tech

NFTs and the Patronage Model

What PleasrDAO’s Wu-Tang experiment says about crypto and ownership.

(Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Policy

Some NFTs Are Probably Illegal. Does the SEC Care?

Commissioner Hester Peirce has words of advice for NFT makers and platforms.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Tech

Martin Shkreli’s Wu-Tang Clan Album Now Belongs to a DAO

PleasrDAO, a crypto investment collective, bought the one-of-one album for $4 million in July.

Rap group Wu-Tang Clan poses for a portrait on May 8, 1993 on Staten Island. (Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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