Emily Parker

Emily Parker

Emily Parker is CoinDesk's executive director of global content. Previously, Emily was a member of the Policy Planning staff at the U.S. State Department, where she advised on Internet freedom and digital diplomacy. Emily was a writer/editor at The Wall Street Journal and an editor at The New York Times. She is the co-founder of LongHash, a blockchain startup that focuses on Asian markets. She is the author of "Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices From the Internet Underground" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The book tells the stories of Internet activists in China, Cuba and Russia. Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, called it "a rigorously researched and reported account that reads like a thriller." She was chief strategy officer at Silicon Valley social media startup Parlio, which was acquired by Quora. She has done public speaking all over the world, and is currently represented by the Leigh Bureau. She has been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC and many other television and radio shows. Her book has been assigned at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Tufts, UCSD and other schools. Emily speaks Chinese, Japanese, French and Spanish. She graduated with Honors from Brown University and has a Masters from Harvard in East Asian Studies. She holds Bitcoin, Ether and smaller amounts of other cryptocurrencies.

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Bitcoin Above $27K Following May Jobs Report; Justin Sun Discusses Crypto Regulations in Hong Kong
Bitcoin BTC is rising slightly above 27 000 after 339 000 U S jobs were added in May which was better than economists expectations Coinbase institutional head of research David Duong shares his crypto markets analysis Plus TRON founder and Huobi global advisor Justin Sun joins First Mover to discuss the impact of Hong Kong's [...]
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Bitcoin Starts June Dropping Back Below $27K; State of Crypto in Hong Kong
Bitcoin BTC and the broad cryptocurrency market sold off for the second consecutive day on Thursday with fears over inflation and continued rate hikes resurfacing Todd Groth CFA Coin Desk Indices head of index research shares his crypto markets analysis Plus Invest HK head of financial services and fintech King Leung discusses Hong Kong's state [...]
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Bitcoin Slips Ahead of Debt Ceiling House Vote; Rep. Davidson on Future of U.S. Crypto Regulation
The U S Debt limit deal is approaching a vote after passing a key test in the House rules committee on Tuesday Rep Warren Davidson R Ohio joins First Mover to discuss the potential impact of the deal and the outlook for crypto regulation Plus Coin Routes CEO and co founder Dave Weisberger shares his [...]
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Bitcoin on Pace for First Monthly Loss in 6 Months; NFT Lending Market Share Outlook
Bitcoin BTC still appears on track for its first monthly loss since December This comes as Berenberg notes that Micro Strategy MSTR represents an attractive alternative to Coinbase COIN for investors looking to gain exposure to the cryptocurrency sector Berenberg equity research analyst Mark Palmer shares his analysis Plus Dapp Radar web 3 analyst Sara [...]
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Digital Currency Group Shutters TradeBlock; State of Crypto Hacks in 2023
Digital Currency Group DCG the parent company of Coin Desk is closing down its trade execution and prime brokerage services unit Trade Block citing crypto winter and regulatory uncertainties Gerber Kawasaki Director of Get Invested Brett Sifling shares his crypto markets analysis Plus Columbia Business School adjunct professor Austin Campbell discusses the state of stablecoin [...]
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Do Kwon Will Remain in Detention; Ripple President Addresses SEC Lawsuit
Terraform Labs co founder Do Kwon will remain in detention while he faces charges of falsifying official documents according to a court statement Separately bitcoin BTC falls toward 26 000 as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen issues a new warning about the debt ceiling deadline Nauman Sheikh from Wave Digital Assets shares his crypto markets analysis [...]
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Ledger CEO on Key Recovery Rollout Delay; Bitcoin Poised to Post First Losing Month of 2023
Following scrutiny from the crypto community hardware wallet provider Ledger says it will delay releasing a key recovery feature Ledger CEO and Chairman Pascal Gauthier joins First Mover to discuss why the firm won’t introduce the new feature before releasing the code for it Separately Prometheum Inc founder and co CEO Aaron Kaplan discusses the [...]
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FTX CEO's Legal Billings Hint at Comeback for Crypto Exchange; Bitcoin's Reaction to Debt Ceiling Stalemate
The new CEO of FTX John Ray III billed just over 6 5 hours in his last cycle reviewing and working on what appears to be FTX 2 0 materials Laura Shin The Cryptopians author and Unchained podcast host joins First Mover to discuss Plus LUKSO co founder and chief blockchain architect Fabian Vogelsteller discusses [...]
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Bitcoin Sees Tightest Price Range in Months; Polygon Co-Founder on Web3 Outlook
Glassnode data reveals that bitcoin BTC is settling into the tightest price range it has seen in months despite looming concerns about the stability of U S regional banks and the country's debt ceiling FLUID CEO Ahmed Ismail shares his crypto markets analysis Plus Polygon co founder Sandeep Nailwal discusses launching a Web 3 fellowship [...]
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Ripple Exec Discusses CBDC Platform Rollout; Axie Infinity Game Debuts on Apple App Store in Key Markets
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