Consensus Conversations 2022: Wrap Up
A third episode as a follow-up recap of CoinDesk’s big event in Austin.
ABOUT
This is “Consensus Conversations 2022” a week later, moderated by Michele Musso, producer at CoinDesk, with a speaker panel of Features & Opinion Managing Editor Ben Schiller, Chief Insights Columnist David Z. Morris and Deputy Editor-in-Chief Zack Seward.
They discuss their sessions at Consensus 2022, and what has happened since the big event wrapped up in mid-June.
This show is produced, announced and moderated by Michele Musso. Executive Producer is Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is by Elison.
HOSTS
Michele Musso is a Senior Producer and Audio Editor. She joined the CoinDesk team in 2020. Michele loves NFTs, is Bullish on Women Who Web3, and holds BTC and ETH.

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.

Ben Schiller is a senior adviser at Miden, a privacy-focused blockchain. He was a CoinDesk managing editor from 2019 to 2025, and, before that, a staff writer at Fast Company.

David Z. Morris was CoinDesk's Chief Insights Columnist. He has written about crypto since 2013 for outlets including Fortune, Slate, and Aeon. He is the author of "Bitcoin is Magic," an introduction to Bitcoin's social dynamics. He is a former academic sociologist of technology with a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Iowa. He holds Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and small amounts of other crypto assets.

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