Marc Hochstein

Marc Hochstein

As Executive Editor of Consensus, Marc is responsible for driving the narrative vision and content for CoinDesk's flagship event. He also sets CoinDesk's editorial standards and acts as ombudsman for our industry-leading news team.

Marc is a veteran journalist with more than 25 years' experience, including 17 years at the trade publication American Banker, the last three as editor-in-chief, where he was responsible for some of the earliest mainstream news coverage of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

Marc holds BTC above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000; marginal amounts of ETH, XMR and ZEC; an Urbit planet (~fodrex-malmev); two ENS domain names (MarcHochstein.eth and MarcusHNYC.eth); and two NFTs from the metal band Gwar.

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FTX CEO Says US Is Next Big Target Market
"When you look at FTX US, there's an enormous amount of potential growth in the states," Sam Bankman-Fried said Thursday on CoinDesk TV's "First Mover" program.
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Elon Musk Says SpaceX Holds Bitcoin at 'B Word' Conference
The tech entrepreneur and provocateur said he personally owns bitcoin, ether and, naturally, dogecoin.
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Mastercard to Test USDC for Payments as Stablecoin Scrutiny Intensifies
Mastercard will use the USDC stablecoin as a bridge asset for cardholders who want to pay for goods using cryptocurrencies.
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Money Reimagined: Why the World Still Needs Uncensorable Marketplaces
As commerce moves online, transactions are increasingly subject to vetoes by middlemen who impose their values. Innocent people need alternatives.
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Market Opens Betting That Cardano Won't Release Smart Contracts by Oct. 1
The odds are 63-37 against, according to recent trading levels on Polymarket.
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OpenBazaar Co-Founder Explains Why Web 3’s Answer to eBay Folded Its Tents
The P2P marketplace was backed by powerhouse VCs Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures. Brian Hoffman candidly reflects on where it went wrong.
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Jack Mallers' Strike Rolls Out Bitcoin Buys, Going Head-to-Head With Coinbase
“Your move, Brian Armstrong, come play basketball in my court,” says Strike’s CEO.
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Prediction Markets Put Eric Adams' NYC Mayoral Bid at 50-50 After 'Dummy Ballot' Snafu
Uncertainty following the Board of Elections' removal of 135,000 ballots has sunk Eric Adams' chances on PredictIt and Polymarket.
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US Fed Official Calls Tether a ‘Challenge’ to Financial Stability
Eric Rosengren included the stablecoin among what he termed new disruptors to short-term credit markets.
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Nassim Taleb, Erstwhile Bitcoin Admirer, Publishes Paper Trashing It
Bitcoin "can be neither a long or short term store of value (its expected value is no higher than 0)," writes the "Black Swan" author.
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