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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Consensus Magazine

Nexo in Court With a Co-Founder Over $12M in Missing Assets

Nexo says its former managing partner left with a hardware wallet full of the company’s crypto.

Antoni Trenchev Co-Founder Nexo (Shutterstock/Coindesk)

Opinion

Why Threads Got 100 Million Users When Other Twitter Rivals Could Not

Network effects and ease-of-use rule the day. And, a lot of people clearly don’t care about decentralization and privacy all that much, says CoinDesk’s Emily Parker.

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Consensus Magazine

An Orb, a Token and Money for Everyone: Worldcoin’s CEO on Crypto’s Most Daring Project

Alex Blania on collaborating with OpenAI's Sam Altman on a universal basic income for eight billion people.

Worldcoin co-founders Alex Blania and Sam Altman (Marc Olivier/Worldcoin)

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Consensus Magazine

CoinDesk Market Index Q2 Review: Quiet Appreciation, Regulatory Uncertainty

On the positive side, the SEC started approving crypto ETF products, buoying markets for bitcoin and ether. On the other: major crypto exchanges were sued by regulators, increasing regulatory uncertainty around the sector.

DACS sector performance Q2 2023 (CoinDesk Indices)

Opinion

The Real Use Case for CBDCs: Dethroning the Dollar

Central bank digital currencies will revolutionize how companies settle international trade and reduce the need for greenbacks in the world economy, says Michael Casey.

Digitally altered photo of a dollar bill (Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, Modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

Threads Is Libra and Meta All Over Again

With his Twitter clone’s decentralized architecture, Mark Zuckerberg is yet again borrowing from crypto’s best ideas. Third time’s the charm?

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies about the Libra (Diem) project before the House Financial Services Committee on October 23, 2019. The hearings helped expose just how shallow Facebook's first claims of "decentralization" were. Now, with Threads, they're trying again. (Getty Images)

Opinion

Thank BlackRock’s Clients for Larry Fink’s Change of Heart

Blackrock's CEO once called Bitcoin an “index of money laundering.” Now he’s changed his tune.

Black rocks (Nick Nice/Unsplash)

Opinion

Towards a More Responsible AI

How to avoid a real-life Skynet.

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