Benjamin Schiller

Ben Schiller is a senior adviser at Miden, a privacy-focused blockchain. He was a CoinDesk managing editor from 2019 to 2025, and, before that, a staff writer at Fast Company.

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Bitcoin Has Gifts This Holiday Season

Historical data helps us understand what to expect as crypto markets once again head upwards, says Todd Groth, head of research at CoinDesk Indices.

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A Difficult Truth: The Unspoken Mismatch of Web3 and Generative AI

Generative AI workloads are designed to be computationally intensive, running on highly parallelizable GPUs. What role does that leave for blockchain? Jesus Rodriguez, of IntoTheBlock, explores one possible solution.

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Why Are People Spreading Falsehoods About Bitcoin’s Water Use?

No, despite what you might have heard recently, Bitcoin transactions do not consume a swimming pool of water. Noelle Acheson dives into the fallacy, and points out that poor research is not the only culprit here.

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Most Influential 2023

How CoinDesk chose 50 people who defined the year in crypto.

Rhett Mankind's depiction of Casey Rodarmor, creator of "Ordinals" on Bitcoin, for CoinDesk's Most Influential 2023.

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Stani Kulechov Defied Crypto Winter

With upgrades to the Aave lending/borrowing protocol and Lens, an open-source social media protocol, the Estonian native kept BUIDLing in a down-market.

Stani Kulechov (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)

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Elizabeth Warren: D.C.'s Crypto Critic-in-Chief

The U.S. Senator from Massachusetts is skeptical of crypto. It's a position she leaned into in 2023.

The artist Die with the most likes's rendering of Elizabeth Warren for Most Influential 2023.

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Hayden Adams: From Ethereum Idealist to Business Realist at Uniswap

Uniswap, the first decentralized crypto exchange of its kind, was Adams’ first and greatest contribution to Ethereum. The latest V4, inviting praise and criticism, earns him a spot on the Most Influential 2023.

Uniswap's Hayden Adams (portrait by Mason Webb for CoinDesk)

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Ogle Catches the Crypto Crooks

Hacks happen a lot in crypto. So, Ogle has professionalized asset recovery for the victims. He's pretty good at it.

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The Year of Decentralized Social Media

Farcaster, Friend.tech and Lens showed how much can change in a year — but is Web3 networking ready for primetime?

EFDOT's image of Racer, the co-founder of Friend.tech, for Most Influential 2023.