Marc Hochstein

Executive Editor for Consensus

As Deputy Editor-in-Chief for Features, Opinion, Ethics and Standards, Marc oversees CoinDesk's long-form content, sets editorial policies and acts as the ombudsman for our industry-leading newsroom. He is also spearheading our nascent coverage of prediction markets and helps compile The Node, our daily email newsletter rounding up the biggest stories in crypto.

From November 2022 to June 2024 Marc was the Executive Editor of Consensus, CoinDesk's flagship annual event. He joined CoinDesk in 2017 as a managing editor and has steadily added responsibilities over the years.

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.

DISCLOSURE: Marc holds BTC above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000; marginal amounts of ETH, SOL, XMR, ZEC, MATIC and EGIRL; an Urbit planet (~fodrex-malmev); two ENS domain names (MarcHochstein.eth and MarcusHNYC.eth); and NFTs from the Oekaki (pictured), Lil Skribblers, SSRWives, and Gwar collections.

Latest from Marc Hochstein

Finance

Sam Bankman-Fried Scoops Help CoinDesk Win a Loeb Award, a Top Journalism Prize

FTX, an industry titan, ended up in bankruptcy court nine days after a November 2022 scoop from CoinDesk’s Ian Allison.

Sep 29, 2023

CoinDesk's Ian Allison, who broke the award-winning FTX story. (Morgan Brown/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Banking Giants Abuzz About Tokenization of Real-World Assets as DeFi Craves Collateral

JPMorgan, Citi and Franklin Templeton are digitizing traditional assets. Will they end up trading on crypto networks like Ethereum?

Sep 28, 2023

Markets

FTX Bankruptcy Claims Soar in Value in Over-the-Counter Markets as Estate Recovers $7.3B

One top distressed-debt investor describes FTX claims as the “hottest ticket in town.”

Sep 28, 2023

Policy

Here’s How FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s Trial May Play Out

Prosecutors will need a jury to reach a unanimous verdict to convict the FTX founder.

Sep 21, 2023

Policy

The SBF Trial: How Did We Get Here?

Sam Bankman-Fried is two weeks away from trial. His next hope is a sympathetic jury.

Sep 19, 2023

Policy

Binance Is Supposedly Separate From Crypto Custodian Ceffu. The SEC Has Questions

As regulators prepare to square off with one of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges in court, Ceffu has denied any ties to Binance or U.S. operations. The reality is murkier.

Sep 18, 2023

CEO of Binance Changpeng Zhao at Consensus Singapore 2018 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Phishing Attack on Cloud Provider With Fortune 500 Clients Led to $15M Crypto Theft From Fortress Trust

CoinDesk has identified the vendor, previously blamed but not named by Fortress for the theft that helped spur the trust company's deal to sell itself to Ripple.

Sep 13, 2023

Policy

Sam Bankman-Fried, DOJ Propose Jury Questions Ahead of October Trial

The filings come amid a back-and-forth over whether Bankman-Fried should be released from jail to work on his defense.

Sep 12, 2023

Sam Bankman-Fried leaving court on Feb. 16, 2023 (Liz Napolitano/CoinDesk)

Finance

A New Crypto Scam Shows Perils of Elon Musk's Twitter

A purported $25 million giveaway of a token called GBTC – letters better associated with the $13 billion Grayscale Bitcoin Trust – is an obvious fake.

Sep 8, 2023

Markets

Bitcoin Slumps to $25.5K, With Price Now Probing August Low

A modestly softer-than-expected employment report Friday morning failed to provide a positive catalyst.

Aug 31, 2023

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