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 holds some ETH, BTC and LINK.

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Opinion

Fatemeh Fannizadeh on Crypto Law, Switzerland and How KYC Is Failing

Fannizadeh, a Swiss lawyer and strategic advisor specializing in the crypto industry, is a speaker at this year’s Consensus festival, May 29-31, in Austin, Texas.

(Fatemeh Fannizadeh)

Opinion

How the U.S. Should Regulate Stablecoins

To properly regulate stablecoins in the U.S., look at e-money abroad, says Marcelo Prates, a speaker at Consensus 2024.

A U.S. dollar coin balances on top of rocks

Opinion

Will Biden Get the Final Say Over a Controversial Crypto Accounting Rule?

Critics of SAB 121, introduced in March 2022, have called the rule “obscure,” a “diktat” and a “pernicious weed.”

(White House, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

The FCC’s Net Neutrality Ruling Is Good News for Web3 Startups

The principle of an open internet underpinned the growth of the early Web and is just as necessary now. If only the SEC could back innovation in a similar way, says Sarah Aberg, General Counsel at Nova Labs, the company behind Helium Mobile.

(Mike Petrucci/Unsplash)

Opinion

Restaking Is Hot in Ethereum and Entering Solana. Should We Worry?

The Lehman Brothers-driven global financial crisis of 2008 showed the danger of spreading money around too much.

(Cindy Tang/Unsplash)

Opinion

Stablecoin Surge: Tether's Headroom for Growth

The stablecoin already enjoys a dominant position in stablecoins and its integration with the TON (Telegram) network could boost it further, says Sylvia To, head of partnerships and token research at Bullish.

(Sander Weeteling/Unsplash)

Markets

What Technical Analysis Tells Us About the Bitcoin Market

The recent downturn in BTC may have some way to travel, according to Katie Stockton, Managing Partner of Fairlead Strategies.

(Saul Macias/Unsplash)

Consensus Magazine

MoMA’s Madeleine Pierpont: NFTs Are Already Part of Art History

“Yes, there has been a hyper-financialization in the NFT space, but money is not a dirty word in art,” says the Consensus 2024 speaker.

MoMA’s Madeleine Pierpont brings Web3 experiences to the New York modern art mainstay. (Gen C podcast/CoinDesk)

Opinion

What Visa’s ‘Organic’ Stablecoin Report Misses

A new metric co-developed by the payments giant says only 10% of stablecoin transactions in April were “real” or “organic.” But the methodology appears to leave out some key use cases.

Visa headquarters in Foster City, California. (Wonderlane/Creative Commons)

Opinion

The U.S. Government’s Hypocritical Case Against Tornado Cash

You would think the government would be against an online privacy service facilitating money laundering. But it actually created one of the best, says attorney Alexandra Damsker.

(Thomas Evans/Unsplash)