Benjamin Schiller

Benjamin Schiller is CoinDesk's managing editor for features and opinion. Previously, he was editor-in-chief at BREAKER Magazine and a staff writer at Fast Company. He holds some ETH, BTC and LINK.

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Opinion

Eventually, We Are All Ethereum

History suggests that, slowly but surely, all layer 2s will migrate to the Ethereum, says EY’s Global Blockchain Leader.

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Opinion

What I Learned Managing a Crypto Fund for Five Years

Jeff Dorman, chief investment officer at Arca, says crypto funds still need to find a balance between adopting professional Wall Street practices and taking advantage of crypto’s unique opportunities.

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Opinion

What Has the Blockchain Association Actually Achieved?

After five years in Washington D.C., crypto’s lobbyists should be humble about their “wins” and learn from their losses.

Blockchain Association CEO Kristin Smith said crypto lobbyists helped beat back disastrous regulations on "unhosted wallets." (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Building Trust in the Bitcoin Network in El Salvador

Jonathan Martin reports from El Salvador on programs to build literacy in Bitcoin. This is his fourth dispatch from the first nation to adopt the cryptocurrency as legal tender.

SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR - NOVEMBER 22: A shoe shiner works outside a shop that accepts Bitcoin for payment on November 22, 2021 in San Salvador, El Salvador. Merchants in El Salvador slowly adopt Bitcoin as a means for payments after more than 2 months of the cryptocurrency being approved as legal tender by the Legislative Assembly (Photo by Camilo Freedman/APHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images)

Opinion

The G20’s Crypto Hand-Wringing Is Not Significant

The G20 can say what it wants on the crypto regulations front. It’s not a threat to the ecosystem, says Noelle Acheson.

Joko Widodo President of Indonesia presents Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India a tree sapling at the G20 on September 10, 2023 (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images).

Opinion

AI Is Killing Crypto Venture Capital Interest

Scandals like FTX drove away VCs, leading to a collapse in venture funding. Now, artificial intelligence is soaking up the capital still available in an uncertain macro environment, says Chris Coll-Beswick, at Transcend Labs, a startup accelerator.

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Consensus Magazine

Tokenization News Roundup: Resource Extraction, Social Media Monetization and Real World Connections

A weekly digest of articles, reports and analyses about tokenized RWAs, the fast-growing financial instruments that merge traditional finance to the blockchain.

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Opinion

Will SBF’s ‘Blame-the-Lawyers’ Strategy Work?

Lawyers tell CoinDesk the tactic could be effective for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense, but it comes with risks.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in March of 2023. He could be returning to jail early if a court decides he has violated conditions of his bail. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)