Frederick Munawa

Frederick Munawa was a Technology Reporter for Coindesk. He covered blockchain protocols with a specific focus on bitcoin and bitcoin-adjacent networks.

Prior to his work in the blockchain space, he worked at the Royal Bank of Canada, Fidelity Investments, and several other global financial institutions. He has a background in Finance and Law, with an emphasis on technology, investments, and securities regulation.

Frederick owns units of the CI Bitcoin ETF fund above Coindesk’s $1,000 disclosure threshold.

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Bitcoin após a fusão do Ethereum : especialistas avaliam

O impacto imediato da fusão no Bitcoin provavelmente será mínimo.

How will the Ethereum Merge affect Bitcoin? (MirageC/Getty Images)

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Bitcoin после слияния Ethereum : мнение экспертов

Непосредственное влияние слияния на Bitcoin, вероятно, будет минимальным.

How will the Ethereum Merge affect Bitcoin? (MirageC/Getty Images)

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Bitcoin після злиття Ethereum : думки експертів

Безпосередній вплив злиття на Bitcoin, ймовірно, буде мінімальним.

How will the Ethereum Merge affect Bitcoin? (MirageC/Getty Images)

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Bitcoin After the Ethereum Merge: Experts Weigh In

The immediate impact of the Merge on Bitcoin will probably be minimal.

How will the Ethereum Merge affect Bitcoin? (MirageC/Getty Images)

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Suggestions That Bitcoin Halving Might Come Sooner Are Mostly Wrong

Bitcoin’s hashrate is reaching all-time highs, and it’s causing confusion about “the halvening” on Twitter.

(Andrii Yalanskyi/Getty Images)

Policy

The Conservative Party of Canada Elects Pro-Bitcoin Leader Pierre Poilievre as Party Head

Pierre Poilievre won the leadership race by a landslide and plans to make Canada the “blockchain capital of the world.”

Canada's Parliament (Flickr/Reading Tom)

Policy

Crypto Investor Paradigm Argues Infrastructure Providers Should Not Be Subject to US Treasury Sanctions

The firm laid out a legal argument against Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions targeting base layer participants such as miners and validators.

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Can Privacy-Focused Bitcoin Projects Avoid OFAC Sanctions?

Bitcoin that’s been sent through privacy-preserving mixers could be vulnerable to censorship. But there are some workarounds in progress.

Bitcoin transactions that have been through a mixer stand out from the rest. But that could change. (Getty Images)

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Inside the $3B DeFi Exploit of Acala's Crypto Platform

The exploit of one of Acala's liquidity pools demonstrates how easily billions of dollars can be siphoned from DeFi platforms, potentially wreaking havoc on an entire industry in a matter of minutes.

(Pankaj Patel/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Monero’s Privacy-Focused Crypto Protocol Upgrade Is Now Live

The change to the protocol, a collaborative effort involving 71 developers, has been successfully implemented.

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