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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Crypto Long & Short: The Trouble With Ticker Symbols
Investors are apt to get confused when multiple projects can claim the same ticker without an industry standard for exchanges to assign identifiers.
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Crypto Long & Short: The End of Extreme Leverage
Lower systemwide leverage suggests the crypto markets, famous for their wild swings, might become a touch tamer.
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Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari
Minneapolis Fed President Kashkari on Crypto Market: 'Thousands of Garbage Coins'
"I've not seen any use case other than funding illicit activities like drugs and prostitution," the central banker said.
Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), right, speaks with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), at the Capitol on Saturday.
Against the US Senate’s Heavy-Handed Crypto Provision
The bill as written has the potential to thrust every single transaction by U.S. crypto users into an invasive dragnet.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), right, speaks with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), at the Capitol on Saturday.
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Crypto Long & Short: How Do You Measure Relative Value in Crypto?
Until recently, the manipulable “market cap” was nearly all investors had to go on when measuring the relative value of digital assets. More sophisticated yardsticks are emerg...
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Foundry, based in Rochester, N.Y., provides services to crypto miners such as equipment financing and pooling.
Open-Source Blockchain Explorer Scores Foundry Development Grant
While small in dollar terms, the grant represents an investment in the further decentralization of the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Foundry, based in Rochester, N.Y., provides services to crypto miners such as equipment financing and pooling.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (center)
Coinbase Agrees to Buy Zabo, the 'Plaid of Crypto,' for Undisclosed Sum
The crypto account aggregator emphasized that this is a proper acquisition, not an acqui-hire.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (center)
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos may have been to outer space, but don't count on Amazon to send bitcoin to the moon.
Amazon: No, We Have No Plans to Accept Bitcoin Payments
"The speculation that has ensued around our specific plans for cryptocurrencies is not true," a spokesperson said.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos may have been to outer space, but don't count on Amazon to send bitcoin to the moon.
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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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SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk
Elon Musk Says SpaceX Holds Bitcoin at 'B Word' Conference
The tech entrepreneur and provocateur said he personally owns bitcoin, ether and, naturally, dogecoin.
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk