Danny Nelson

Danny is CoinDesk's managing editor for Data & Tokens. He formerly ran investigations for the Tufts Daily. At CoinDesk, his beats include (but are not limited to): federal policy, regulation, securities law, exchanges, the Solana ecosystem, smart money doing dumb things, dumb money doing smart things and tungsten cubes. He owns BTC, ETH and SOL tokens, as well as the LinksDAO NFT.

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Markets

Amazon Preparing to Launch a 'Digital Currency' Project in Mexico

Job postings describe a walled garden-type digital currency that could roll out in emerging economies.

Amazon.com Inc. Introduces Prime To Mexico As Consumer Confidence Rises

Markets

Mastercard Will Let Merchants Accept Payments in Crypto This Year

The payments giant plans to support digital currency transactions directly on network.

Mastercard

Markets

AWS Marketplace Is Selling Origin's Decentralized Ecommerce Service

Origin Protocol's OGN token was up nearly 50% at press time.

AWS

Markets

Jim Cramer Thinks 'Every' Corporate Treasurer Should Be Thinking Bitcoin

The CNBC host said it's almost irresponsible not to include bitcoin on balance sheets following Tesla's buy.

CNBC host Jim Cramer

Markets

Crypto Startup Metal Pay Files for National Bank Charter

Metal Pay's "First Blockchain Bank and Trust" would be FDIC-insured, CEO Marshall Hayner told CoinDesk.

A sign outside the OCC office (CoinDesk)

Markets

Saylor, MicroStrategy Offer Playbook for Corporate Bitcoin Adoption at Annual Summit

Saylor and his MicroStrategists front-ran corporate bitcoin what-abouters at the firm's detail-heavy annual conference.

Michael Saylor, CEO de MicroStrategy.

Markets

NYDIG Expects to Hold $25B in Bitcoin for Institutional Clients by Year End

CEO Stevens said NYDIG's institutional order books are looking bullish for the year.

Stone Ridge CEO Ross Stevens speaks to Michael Saylor at World.Now.

Finance

Bitcoin Startup Casa Raises $4M Led by Fidelity-Linked Avon Ventures

Coinbase Ventures also joined the round.

Casa CTO Jameson Lopp speaks at Consensus 2019.

Markets

California Pension Fund Loaded Up on RIOT Shares During Bitcoin's Q4 Rally

The largest public pension in the U.S. bought more RIOT shares for the first time since 2017.

CalPERS headquarters in Sacramento.