Emily Parker

Executive Director of Global Content

Emily Parker was CoinDesk's executive director of global content. Previously, Emily was a member of the Policy Planning staff at the U.S. State Department, where she advised on Internet freedom and digital diplomacy. Emily was a writer/editor at The Wall Street Journal and an editor at The New York Times. She is the co-founder of LongHash, a blockchain startup that focuses on Asian markets.

She is the author of "Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices From the Internet Underground" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The book tells the stories of Internet activists in China, Cuba and Russia. Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, called it "a rigorously researched and reported account that reads like a thriller." She was chief strategy officer at Silicon Valley social media startup Parlio, which was acquired by Quora.

She has done public speaking all over the world, and is currently represented by the Leigh Bureau. She has been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC and many other television and radio shows. Her book has been assigned at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Tufts, UCSD and other schools.

Emily speaks Chinese, Japanese, French and Spanish. She graduated with Honors from Brown University and has a Masters from Harvard in East Asian Studies. She holds Bitcoin, Ether and smaller amounts of other cryptocurrencies.

Latest from Emily Parker

Videos

Rep. Torres Calls on SEC to Rethink its 'Regulatory Assault' on Crypto; Bitcoin Price Predictions

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) discusses the future of crypto regulation as the lawmaker calls out the SEC in the wake of the Ripple court ruling. Brown Rudnick partner Preston Byrne argues why the split decision from SEC v. Ripple Labs throws U.S. crypto-token regulation into disarray. And, ProChain Capital president David Tawil shares his crypto markets analysis.

Jul 19, 2023

Videos

Coinbase CEO Will Reportedly Meet With House Democrats; Bitcoin Outlook After Hitting June Low

Bloomberg reports Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong will meet with House Democrats Wednesday morning. Needham & Company senior research analyst John Todaro shares his outlook on Coinbase (COIN)'s stock performance. Aku creator and former MLB player Micah Johnson discusses teaming up with Starbucks. Caleb & Brown director Jake Boyle shares his crypto markets analysis. And, John Oliver from PwC weighs in on how traditional hedge funds view investing in crypto assets.

Jul 18, 2023

Videos

XRP Surges After Court Ruling; Ex-Celsius CEO Mashinsky's Bail Set at $40M

XRP’s price has skyrocketed, after a U.S. judge ruled the sale of XRP tokens on exchanges did not constitute investment contracts. Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Counsel Michael Selig and attorney Alex Damsker share their respective legal opinions on Ripple's partial victory in its fight with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). CoinRoutes CEO and co-founder Dave Weisberger discusses his crypto markets analysis. And, Arkham founder and CEO Miguel Morel addresses concerns from privacy-focused crypto advocates after announcing a new crypto data marketplace.

Jul 14, 2023

Videos

Coinbase Heads to Court Against the SEC; Threads Hits 100M Users in Less Than a Week

Coinbase and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are slated to meet in court Thursday in a pre-motion hearing. Former SEC enforcement branch chief and Bragança Law attorney Lisa Bragança shares her expectations. Threads is gaining traction against rival Twitter, after hitting 100 million users in less than a week. Bitcoin (BTC) has failed twice this week to breakout above $31,000. Forex.com global head of research Matt Weller shares his crypto markets analysis.

Jul 13, 2023

Videos

Bitcoin Nears $31K as Inflation Rose Less Than Expected; Crypto Oversight Bill Re-Launch

The U.S. inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) slipped to 3.0% on a year-over-year basis in June from 4.0% in May. Unchained CEO and co-founder Joe Kelly shares his outlook on bitcoin. Timothy Massad, former CFTC chairman and current director of the Digital Assets Policy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School discusses crypto legislation being re-launched by Sens. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.). And, Alliance DAO senior researcher Will Robinson weighs in on the future of Web3 gaming.

Jul 12, 2023

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.

Jul 11, 2023

Opinion

Por que o Threads conseguiu 100 milhões de usuários quando outros rivais do Twitter não conseguiram

Os efeitos de rede e a facilidade de uso dominam o dia. E muitas pessoas claramente T se importam muito com descentralização e Política de Privacidade , diz Emily Parker, da CoinDesk.

Jul 11, 2023

Opinion

Por qué Threads consiguió 100 millones de usuarios cuando otros rivales de Twitter no pudieron

Los efectos de red y la facilidad de uso dominan el día. Y claramente a mucha gente no le importa mucho la descentralización y la Privacidad , dice Emily Parker de CoinDesk.

Jul 11, 2023

Opinion

Perché i thread hanno ottenuto 100 milioni di utenti quando altri rivali di Twitter non ci sono riusciti

Gli effetti di rete e la facilità d'uso dominano la giornata. E molte persone chiaramente T si preoccupano più di tanto della decentralizzazione e Privacy , afferma Emily Parker di CoinDesk.

Jul 11, 2023

Videos

Justin Sun on State of Crypto Regulation; EU's Metaverse Strategy

TRON founder and Huobi global advisor Justin Sun joins "First Mover" to discuss the state of crypto regulation, outlook on Hong Kong, and much more. Bitcoin (BTC) is holding firm above $30,000. GSR Markets co-founder and president Rich Rosenblum gives his crypto markets analysis. And, the European Commission's metaverse strategy is slated to be released later today. Metaverse EU editor Patrick Grady shares his expectations.

Jul 11, 2023

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