CoinDesk

Most Influential 2023: The People Who Defined the Year in Crypto

Every year, CoinDesk puts together the Most Influential list memorializing the people, themes, and stories that made an impact — positive or negative — on crypto, blockchain a...

By CoinDesk Staff

Dec 4, 2023 at 3:12 p.m. UTC

Dec 4, 2023

BlockchainCoinDeskCryptocdtvFM ClipWeb3Ben SchillerMost Influential 2023

CoinDesk's Ian Allison (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

Features

Ian Allison's Giant Sam Bankman-Fried Scoop Won Accolades in 2023

The CoinDesk reporter belongs in the Journalism Hall of Fame since there's little, if any, precedent for the waves his story on Alameda Research and FTX stirred up.

By Nick Baker

Dec 4, 2023 at 1:23 p.m. UTC

Dec 4, 2023

FeaturesMost Influential 2023Sam Bankman-FriedFTX CollapseFTXCoinDeskno-livewire

Video

Coindesk

OpenAI's Ex-CEO Sam Altman Joins Microsoft; Bullish Completes Purchase of CoinDesk: WSJ

"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the hottest crypto headlines today, including the latest developments after OpenAI's board suddenly ousted CEO Sam Altman la...

By CoinDesk Staff

Nov 20, 2023 at 4:24 p.m. UTC

Nov 20, 2023

CoinDeskcdtvTetherSam AltmanBullishOpen aiCdd

Finance

Coindesk

Crypto Exchange Bullish Completes Purchase of CoinDesk: WSJ

Bullish, which is run by former NYSE President Tom Farley, bought 100% of CoinDesk from crypto-focused investor DCG in an all-cash deal

By Jamie Crawley

Nov 20, 2023 at 1:23 p.m. UTC

Nov 20, 2023

CoinDeskDCGBullishAcquisitions

Finance

Coindesk

Sam Bankman-Fried Scoops Help CoinDesk Win a Loeb Award, a Top Journalism Prize

FTX, an industry titan, ended up in bankruptcy court nine days after a November 2022 scoop from CoinDesk’s Ian Allison.

By CoinDesk Staff

Sep 29, 2023 at 1:11 a.m. UTC

Sep 29, 2023

CoinDeskJournalismAwardsFTX

Consensus Magazine

Opinion

Things in Crypto We're Freaking Out About

With a nod to Sam Bankman-Fried, CoinDesk staff crowdsource their fears, anxieties and disappointments — for your enjoyment!

By Daniel Kuhn

Aug 18, 2023 at 6:48 p.m. UTC

Aug 18, 2023

OpinionCoinDeskMediaSam Bankman-FriedCaroline ellison

Podcasts

Coindesk

SPECIAL REPORT: Elon Musk's New ChatGPT Competitor Boosts AI-Related Crypto Tokens

The debut of Elon's new AI company, xAI.

By CoinDesk Staff

Jul 12, 2023 at 6:28 p.m. UTC

Jul 12, 2023

CoinDeskElon MuskAI

Consensus Magazine

Opinion

CoinDesk Turns 10: What We Learned From Reporting a Decade of Crypto History

Our month-long series looking back at 10 years of CoinDesk features a lot of failures. But, in most cases, what seemed like disasters at the time have actually allowed the ind...

By Michael J. Casey

May 4, 2023 at 3:13 p.m. UTC

May 4, 2023

OpinionCoinDesk

Consensus Magazine

Opinion

Centralized Stablecoins Are Problematic. Is a Decentralized Alternative on the Way?

USDC and USDT both have issues that truly decentralized, blockchain-based protocols are designed to solve.

By Riyad Carey

Apr 17, 2023 at 1:10 p.m. UTC

Apr 17, 2023

OpinionKaikoUSDCBUSDCoinDeskStablecoinsRegulationTransparency

Consensus Magazine

Quantum computing

BTQ Prepares Today to Defend Against Tomorrow’s Quantum-Computing Threat

Blockchains face existential peril from super-fast computers that can break the encryption protocols on which crypto depends. Quantum computers aren’t here yet, but if develop...

By Sam Reynolds

Apr 17, 2023 at 12:15 p.m. UTC

Apr 17, 2023

quantum computingBlockchainCoinDeskCrypto projects 23