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 NFTs from the Oekaki (pictured), SSRWives and Gwar collections.

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Don't Use a Blockchain Unless You Really Need One
Blockchains are inefficient, and worth the cost only when censorship-resistance is required. For money, it clearly is; for identity, it just might be.
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Kraken Exchange Is Back Online After Troublesome System Upgrade
The cryptocurrency exchange has resumed services after a scheduled maintenance that was supposed to take two hours but instead took two days.
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Most Influential in Blockchain 2017 #2: Jamie Dimon
"Bitcoin is a fraud." Four small words ignited a maelstrom when JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon took the stage at a conference in September. The blockchain world was never quite the...
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Most Influential in Blockchain 2017 #4: Naval Ravikant
If crypto assets really are the "Craziest Bubble Ever," then Naval Ravikant is the movement's elder statesman. The founder of AngelList, Ravikant didn't talk much about startu...
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Buyer Beware? Credit Creeps Into Crypto
An influx of get-rich-quick types could encourage the sort of behavior that bitcoin was designed to escape.
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Bitcoin Takes All? Enterprise Blockchains Need Time, Too
This is not the kind of technology where you "move fast and break things." Financial market infrastructure is too big to bet on a buzzword.
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Vanguard Taps Symbiont's Private Blockchain for Index Fund Data
The partners say the blockchain technology speeds up data delivery from the index provider, removes the need for manual intervention and lowers risk.
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One Marshmallow Now, or Two Bitcoins in 15 Minutes?
Bitcoin has taught its early adopters the value of delayed gratification, giving the lie to the old saw that cryptocurrency serves no social purpose.
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Bitfinex Hires Law Firm to Challenge Critics
Bitfinex has hired white-shoe law firm Steptoe & Johnson and said it may sue a pseudonymous blogger who has accused the bitcoin exchange of fraud.
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Bitfinex and Tether Break Silence, Go on Media Blitz
One of the world's largest bitcoin exchanges is pushing back against allegations its business is engaging in improper market practices.
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