Ex-OpenSea Staffer Charged in First NFT Insider Trading Case and Chipotle Taps Flexa for Crypto Payments

The most valuable crypto stories for Thursday, June 2, 2022.

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ABOUT

“The Hash” team discusses the first NFT insider trading case in the history of crypto, Gemini’s first massive layoffs since 2014 and Chipotle’s partnership with Flexa for crypto payments.

Winklevoss-Led Gemini Cuts 10% of Staff, Citing ‘Turbulent’ Crypto Market

Chipotle Now Accepting Cryptocurrency Payments at US Locations

This episode has been edited by Michele Musso. Our Executive Producer is Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “Neon Beach.”

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HOSTS

William Foxley

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

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.