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Sage D. Young

Sage D. Young

Sage D. Young is a tech protocol reporter at CoinDesk. He cares for the Solarpunk Movement and is a recent graduate from Claremont McKenna College, who dual-majored in Economics and Philosophy with a Sequence in Data Science. He owns a few NFTs, gold and silver, as well as BTC, ETH, LINK, AAVE, PEOPLE, DOGE, OS, and HTR.

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Sports
Why Athletes Are Taking Compensation in Bitcoin
From UFC to soccer, sportspeople continue to see the attraction of BTC, despite the faltering market. This piece is part of CoinDesk's Sports Week.
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By Sage D. Young
Jul 29, 2022 at 5:26 p.m. UTC
Jul 29, 2022
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Tech
Valid points
Ethereum’s Rollup Race: What is a ‘True’ zkEVM?
The ZK rollup race between Ethereum layer 2s Scroll, Polygon and Matter Labs may come down to definitions.
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By Sam KesslerSage D. Young
Jul 27, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. UTC
Jul 27, 2022
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BTC is approaching $24,000, and yet the crypto industry continues to suffer as the exchange Zipmex suspended withdrawals (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)
Markets
First mover
First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Nears $24K as Zipmex Suspends Withdrawals
The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for July 20, 2022.
BTC is approaching $24,000, and yet the crypto industry continues to suffer as the exchange Zipmex suspended withdrawals (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)
By Bradley KeounShaurya MalwaSage D. Young
Jul 20, 2022 at 1:44 p.m. UTC
Jul 20, 2022
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Ethereum
What’s in Your Bear Market Backpack?
From existential dread to blissful ignorance — reactions to Ethereum’s market slump vary across the board
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By Sam KesslerMargaux NijkerkSage D. Young
Jul 13, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. UTC
Jul 13, 2022
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Ethereum
Are Block Builders the Key to Solving Ethereum’s MEV Centralization Woes?
Proposer-builder separation is one way Ethereum is implementing modular decentralization.
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By Frederick MunawaSage D. Young
Jul 6, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. UTC
Jul 6, 2022
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Compensation
Future of Work Week
Future of work week
Coordinape Is Decentralizing Compensation Decision-Making
“The future of labor needs to be able to break out of the top-down rigid, hierarchical structures we’re familiar with from the corporate world,” says Coordinape co-founder Tracheopteryx.
Compensation
By Sage D. Young
Jul 5, 2022 at 4:17 p.m. UTC
Jul 5, 2022
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CDCROP: Telescope and Galaxy
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Cosmos
A Major Crypto Exchange Abandons Ethereum: Is the World’s Computer Falling Behind?
By ditching Ethereum for Cosmos, dYdX has sparked claims that it has chosen sovereignty over security.
CDCROP: Telescope and Galaxy
By Sam KesslerSage D. Young
Jun 29, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. UTC
Jun 29, 2022
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Future of Work Week
Jobs
Crypto Jobs: Who’s Cutting and Hiring?
A running reckoning to layoffs and hirings in the cryptocurrency/blockchain industry. This piece is part of CoinDesk's Future of Work week.
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By Sage D. Young
Jun 28, 2022 at 9:01 p.m. UTC
Jun 28, 2022
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Ethereum
Ethereum's Gray Glacier (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Difficulty Bomb)
The delay of Ethereum’s Difficulty Bomb suggests the network’s Merge to proof-of-stake might be a bit further away than hoped.
(Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964); Directed by Stanley Kubrick, distributed by Columbia Pictures)
By Sam KesslerSage D. Young
Jun 22, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. UTC
Jun 22, 2022
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Stablecoins
MakerDAO Cuts Off Its AAVE-DAI Direct Deposit Module
MakerDAO is temporarily stopping DAI from being minted and deposited in Aave’s crypto lending platform.
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By Sage D. Young
Jun 17, 2022 at 10:16 p.m. UTC
Jun 17, 2022
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