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 has covered crypto since 2013 and lives in New York.

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Opinion

NFTs Aren’t Dead Just Yet (But the MSM Might Be)

The success of a recent post from Rolling Stone calling NFTs worthless struck a nerve. But the reality is more complicated and more hopeful.

Bored Ape Yacht Club #3001 (OpenSea, modified by CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

Is Crypto-AI Really a Match Made in Heaven?

There’s lots of talk these days about how blockchains can make AI safe for human consumption. But is the idea, widely touted in the crypto community, workable in practice? Jeff Wilser takes a critical look.

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Opinion

The Sam Bankman-Fried Trial Is a Family Affair

For “SBF Trial,” read Sam, Bankman and Fried. As prosecutors attempt to claw back “misappropriated funds” from FTX, they say SBF’s parents, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, played a key role in siphoning off assets and directing operations.

Sam Bankman-Fried, right, and his parents, Joe Bankman and Barbara Fried (Victor Chen/CoinDesk)

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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 is leaving the group to join a new Solana organization. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

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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).