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); an Oekaki NFT (pictured); and two NFTs from the metal band Gwar.

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Consensus conversation
Introducing CoinDesk’s ‘Consensus at Consensus’ Project
Intimate group discussions at Consensus 2023 will seek solutions to the crypto industry’s thorniest challenges.
Consensus conversation
CoinDesk reporters win 2022 George Polk Award (CoinDesk)
CoinDesk Wins a Polk Award, One of Journalism's Top Prizes, for Explosive FTX Coverage
Three stories were honored, including Ian Allison’s scoop that led to Sam Bankman-Fried’s $32 billion crypto empire collapsing in days.
CoinDesk reporters win 2022 George Polk Award (CoinDesk)
Sen. Carter Glass and Rep. Henry Steagall (Wikimedia Commons)
You Want Crypto Regulation? I’ll Give You Crypto Regulation
Maybe Congress should separate custody from exchange, the way it severed Wall Street from commercial banking nearly a century ago. This piece is part of CoinDesk’s Policy Week.
Sen. Carter Glass and Rep. Henry Steagall (Wikimedia Commons)
CDCrop Miladys MI2022 (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)
Miladys NFT Community Is the Counterculture to Cancel Culture
The uncanny, anime-inspired, profile pictures invite conversations about whether the sins of the creator are laid upon the creation. That’s why the Miladys NFT community is one of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022.
CDCrop Miladys MI2022 (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)
CDCrop Balaji Srinivasan MI2022 (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)
Pinning the Idea of ‘Network States’ on the Map
Balaji Srinivasan's thesis of forming countries online underpins a thought-provoking bestseller and maybe a new asset class – earning him a spot on CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022 list.
CDCrop Balaji Srinivasan MI2022 (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)
CDCROP: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin speaks at ETHDenver on February 18, 2022 (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)
Vitalik Buterin's 'Proof of Stake': The CoinDesk Megareview
What a decade of essays – covering everything from Soulbound tokens to superrational DAOs – says about Ethereum and crypto.
CDCROP: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin speaks at ETHDenver on February 18, 2022 (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)
(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)
The Art of Trading Without Trading
Dollar-cost averaging may be better for your crypto portfolio – and your soul – than active trading. This article is part of CoinDesk’s Trading Week.
(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)
CDCROP: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Releases First Images (NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)
Urbit Is Web3, Weird and Wonderful and I Don’t Care Who Made It
Software can have bugs, but it doesn’t have cooties.
CDCROP: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Releases First Images (NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)
CDCROP: Majestic Space View (NASA/Getty Images)
Urbit Courts DAOs, Crypto Teams in Quest to Make Internet P2P Again
A wildly ambitious project to reinvent the entire internet computing stack is finally shipping usable apps after a decade-plus of laying groundwork. Can it overcome a “janky” UX?
CDCROP: Majestic Space View (NASA/Getty Images)
CDCROP: New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin at CoinDesk's Invest 2018 (CoinDesk)
Bitcoiners Owe Andrew Ross Sorkin a Big Thank You
By successfully campaigning to further politicize the payments system, The New York Times columnist just made value-neutral cryptocurrency networks more valuable in the long term.
CDCROP: New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin at CoinDesk's Invest 2018 (CoinDesk)