Zack Seward

Zack Seward is CoinDesk’s contributing editor-at-large. Up until July 2022, he served as CoinDesk’s deputy editor-in-chief. Prior to joining CoinDesk in November 2018, he was the editor-in-chief of Technical.ly, a news site focused on local tech communities on the U.S. East Coast. Before that, Seward worked as a reporter covering business and technology for a pair of NPR member stations, WHYY in Philadelphia and WXXI in Rochester, New York. Seward originally hails from San Francisco and went to college at the University of Chicago. He worked at the PBS NewsHour in Washington, D.C., before attending Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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Videos

Paying With Bitcoin Becomes More Mainstream, Cybercrime Joker Cashes Out as Bitcoin Billionaire, and More

The Hash team tackles today’s hot topics: MicroStrategy wants to capitalize on bitcoin “Saylormania”; cybercriminal Joker’s Stash retires a bitcoin billionaire; payments with bitcoin just got more mainstream; small investors get burned big with GameStop frenzy; and will at-home crypto mining become a thing again?

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Let the ‘Crypto Hub’ Battles Begin, Jack and Jay-Z’s Bitcoin Adventure, and More

The Hash tackle’s today’s hot topics: Andrew Yang is pitching NYC to be the nation’s crypto capitol; Arrests in a $100M SIM swap hack; Tweets as NFTs is a growing business; Will other states beyond Maryland start taxing Big Tech on the profits they make on your data? Plus, why Jay-Z and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey are teaming up and donating 500 bitcoin.

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Videos

BNY Mellon Moves Into Crypto Custody, Twitter Caves in India, and More

The Hash team tackle today’s hot topics: BNY Mellon’s move into crypto custody; Mastercard jumps into the crypto payments bandwagon; Twitter’s stuck between a rock and a hard place in India; a bug causes the Avalanche network to come to a near halt. Plus, what do Minecraft and rapper Post Malone have in common?

The Hash

Videos

Will Twitter Be Next to Buy Bitcoin? Plus, Elon Musk Vs. Freewallet, and More

The Hash team tackle today’s hot topics: Will Tesla’s bitcoin buy trigger other companies like Twitter to follow? Elon Musk claps back at Freewallet. And more celebrities are endorsing crypto.

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Videos

Trump’s Impeachment Trial & Social Media; The Meme Economy, and More

The Hash team tackles today’s hot topics: Trump’s second impeachment trial; North Korean hackers steal hundreds of millions in crypto; Elon Musk and the meme economy; is Reddit really worth $6 billion?

The Hash

Finance

Nic Carter's Castle Island Ventures Closes $50M Investment Fund

The early-stage VC will continue to invest around its primary thesis, that public blockchains are changing the world.

Castle Island Ventures' Nic Carter (CoinDesk archives)

Videos

Tesla’s Big Bet on Bitcoin, Reddit’s Super Bowl Debut and More

The Hash team takes a deep dive into today’s hot topics: Tesla’s $1.5B bitcoin buy, Apple’s new privacy changes, and why the U.S. is losing to hackers.

The Hash

Markets

Binance Drops Defamation Lawsuit Against Forbes Over ‘Tai Chi’ Document

The exchange did not say in its latest filing why it withdrew the case for now.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao speaks during Consensus.

Finance

$72M Crypto Fund Backed by Paul Tudor Jones and LL Cool J Comes Out of Stealth

Led by Glenn Hutchins, the new fund has already invested in Dapper Labs and other crypto projects.

LL Cool J

Finance

The Block Founder Mike Dudas Takes Stablecoin Role at Paxos

The serial entrepreneur, payments veteran and pugnacious tweeter will focus on building Paxos' white-labeled stablecoin business.

Paxos