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Speaker · Proof of Talk 2026
Ben Schiller
Head of Communications & Senior Adviser, Miden
A former CoinDesk managing editor working in communications and an advisory capacity at Miden.
The Significance
Why the room needs them.
Schiller brings documented experience in digital-asset journalism and editorial leadership to discussions of blockchain privacy and institutional digital assets.
The Timeline
Years of shipping.
2019
Began a CoinDesk managing-editor tenure that CoinDesk records as running from 2019 to 2025.
2024
Wrote and produced “Happenstance”, staged at the Kraine Theater in New York from 23 to 26 October.
2025
Completed the managing-editor tenure at CoinDesk recorded in the publication’s author biography.
2026
Was listed as an associate on ACJR’s 2026 board and moderated a Proof of Talk Paris panel on digital cash.
The Body of Work
What they have built, written, and backed.
Built
- CoinDesk features and opinion coverageOversaw features, opinion and special projects in senior editorial roles documented by CoinDesk.
- HappenstanceWrote and produced a play about a Bitcoin coder facing prison, staged in New York in October 2024.
The next Proof of Talk is in Abu Dhabi.
Louvre Abu Dhabi, 3–4 December 2026. Admission is by application, and the room is capped at 2,000.
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