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

Consensus Magazine

Introducing CoinDesk’s ‘Consensus at Consensus’ Project

Intimate group discussions at Consensus 2023 will seek solutions to the crypto industry’s thorniest challenges.

Apr 25, 2023

At Consensus 2023, CoinDesk is tackling the biggest issues in crypto through intimate conversations with many of the industry's best and brightest (CoinDesk)

Finance

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.

Feb 20, 2023

Opinion

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.

Jan 26, 2023

Sen. Carter Glass and Rep. Henry Steagall, authors of the Depression-era U.S. law that separated investment banking and commercial banking for decades. (Wikimedia Commons)

Consensus Magazine

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.

Dec 5, 2022

Consensus Magazine

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.

Dec 5, 2022

Balaji Srinivasan (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)

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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.

Nov 3, 2022

DENVER, CO - FEBRUARY 18: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin speaks at ETHDenver on February 18, 2022 in Denver, Colorado. ETHDenver is the largest and longest running Ethereum Blockchain event in the world with more than 15,000 cryptocurrency devotees attending the weeklong meetup. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

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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.

Oct 24, 2022

Opinion

Urbit Is Web3, Weird and Wonderful and I Don’t Care Who Made It

Software can have bugs, but it doesn’t have cooties.

Sep 24, 2022

An Urbit "galaxy" can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. (NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)

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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?

Sep 24, 2022

An Urbit ID is known as a planet. (NASA/Getty Images)

Opinion

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.

Sep 12, 2022

New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin at CoinDesk's Invest 2018 (CoinDesk)

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