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Emily Parker

Executive Director of Global Content,

CoinDesk

  • Executive Director of Global Content at CoinDesk
  • Anchor of CoinDesk's First Mover
  • Previous Writer and Editor at The Wall Street Journal

About Emily

Emily Parker is executive director of global content at CoinDesk. She is a former policy advisor at the US State Department, and a former writer and editor at The Wall Street Journal. Ms. Parker is the author of Now I Know Who My Comrades Are, (FSG) a book about Internet activism in China, Cuba, and Russia. She has lived and worked in Asia, and speaks Chinese and Japanese.

Emily's Videos

In their short history, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone through booms, busts, and internecine wars, reaching a market valuation of more than $2 trillion. Emily Parker interviews Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze, about how she got the inside scoop on the early years of the second-biggest crypto, Ethereum, and uncovered who was behind the most notorious hack in crypto history.