Crypto’s 2023 Starts With a BONK
Ben Schiller and Danny Nelson kick off the new year with the latest crypto news and predictions for the year ahead.
Jan 5, 2023
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ABOUT
On “Carpe Consensus,” hosts Ben Schiller and Danny Nelson kick off the new year with the latest crypto news and predictions for the year ahead.
- [2:32] Inside the Desk: Shiba inu-themed Bonk token fires up Solana community and non-fungible tokens (NFT) meet tax-loss harvesting
- [8:31] Consensus Magazine’s Crypto 2023 predicts a year of regulation, NFTs and disaggregation
- [19:13] Danny’s Dungeon: The Mango Markets exploiter was arrested. So, decentralized autonomous organizations can’t promise legal immunity?
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“Carpe Consensus” is executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced and edited by Eleanor Pahl.
HOSTS
Dan Ilett
Dan Ilett writes on tech, money and energy. He advises business on digital strategy and technology messaging for large deals. He is founder of Erbut - an advisory company - and Greenbang - a smart technology research company.
Danny Nelson
Danny was CoinDesk's managing editor for Data & Tokens. He formerly ran investigations for the Tufts Daily. At CoinDesk, his beats include (but are not limited to): federal policy, regulation, securities law, exchanges, the Solana ecosystem, smart money doing dumb things, dumb money doing smart things and tungsten cubes. He owns BTC, ETH and SOL tokens, as well as the LinksDAO NFT.
Benjamin Schiller
Benjamin Schiller is CoinDesk's managing editor for features and opinion. Previously, he was editor-in-chief at BREAKER Magazine and a staff writer at Fast Company. He has covered crypto since 2013 and lives in New York.
Danny Bradbury
Danny Bradbury has been a professional writer since 1989, and has worked freelance since 1994. He covers technology for publications such as the Guardian.
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