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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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Starbucks to Launch NFT-Based Loyalty Program; Industry Reacts to White House Crypto Mining Report

Starbucks is set to offer a non-fungible token-based (NFT) loyalty program with the blockchain technology provided by Polygon. Plus, a closer look at how industry advocates and critics are reacting to the Biden administration’s bitcoin (BTC) mining environmental impact report.

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Bitcoin Soars Above $21K as Investors Await US CPI Report; FTX Ventures to Take 30% Stake in SkyBridge Capital

“The Hash” hosts discuss today’s top stories, including bitcoin’s (BTC) biggest single day gains in two months, and FTX Ventures’ investment in Anthony Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital.

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US Government Recovers $30M From Crypto Game Axie Infinity Hack; 3 Executives Said to Be Leaving BlockFi

“The Hash” hosts discuss today’s top stories, including how the crypto analytics firm Chainalysis helped the U.S. government recover $30 million stolen from Axie Infinity earlier this year, and the personnel shakeup at embattled crypto lender BlockFi ahead of a possible FTX acquisition.

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Digital Euro to Focus on Personal Use, How USDC Could Benefit From Getting Booted From Binance

“The Hash” hosts discuss today’s top stories, including EU regulators’ stance on the usage of a central bank digital currency and Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire explaining how USDC could benefit from leaving Binance as the crypto exchange ended its support of a slew of stablecoins.

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Ethereum Merge Imminent, Nigeria Plans to Partner With Binance to Create a Virtual Free Zone

“The Hash” hosts discuss today’s top stories, including Ethereum’s final countdown to the Merge, which will likely be completed some time around Sept. 13-16 and Nigeria doubling down on blockchain and digital economy with a plan to launch a virtual free zone.

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