Mark Zuckerberg Testing NFTs on Instagram; What Impact Will Crypto Markets Slide Have on Coinbase?
The most valuable crypto stories for Monday, May 9, 2022.
ABOUT
“The Hash” panel discusses Meta testing NFTs on Instagram, the Bankless crypto channel banned and then reinstated by YouTube and what impact today’s crypto crash will have on Coinbase’s latest earnings report.
See also:
Coinbase Faces Q1 Earnings Challenge as Crypto Markets Weaken
Mark Zuckerberg Says Instagram Will Test NFTs Starting This Week
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This episode has been edited by Michele Musso. Our Executive Producer is Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “Neon Beach.”
HOSTS
Will Foxley is the host of The Mining Pod and publisher at Blockspace Media. A former co-host of CoinDesk's The Hash, Will was the director of content at Compass Mining and a tech reporter at CoinDesk.

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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