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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Policy

Coinbase CEO: Trump Administration May 'Rush Out' Burdensome Crypto Wallet Rules

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong publicly voiced concern the outgoing Trump Administration may ram through onerous new data-collection requirements for crypto exchanges.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, left, could be "planning to rush out some new regulation regarding self-hosted crypto wallets before the end of his term," tweeted Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong.

Markets

Galaxy Digital Bitcoin Funds Raise $104M as Institutional Cash Flows In

Galaxy Digital's institutional bitcoin fund raised an average of $1.6 million from its 33 unnamed investors.

Michael Novogratz of Galaxy Digital

Markets

Libra Association Taps Saumya Bhavsar as General Counsel for Payments Subsidiary

Bhavsar joins the Libra Association after 25 years in public- and private-sector banking regulation roles.

Facebook Libra

Markets

Square Agrees to Buy Credit Karma's Tax Preparation Service for $50M

Cash App will make the DIY tax-prep software available for free to its 30 million monthly users.

square

Finance

Crypto.com Takes Steps Toward Financial Licensure in Malta

The Hong Kong-based crypto firm received preliminary approval from the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) for two financial licenses.

Kalkara, Malta

Policy

PayPal CEO Schulman Says He's Bullish on Bitcoin as a Currency

Schulman spoke about the fall of cash, the rise of bitcoin and the institutional traders taking note of both.

PayPal CEO Dan Schulman

Finance

MicroStrategy Wants to Be in the Bitcoin Business, Not Just an Investor

MicroStrategy executives are on the hunt for blockchain experts who could help the publicly traded firm build a suite of bitcoin data services.

MicroStrategy booth at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011

Markets

German Finance Minister Says He Does Not Support Private Cryptos: Report

Olaf Scholz said banks need to adapt for a digital world but seemed to rule out private digital currencies from that future.

German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz

Markets

Texas Financial Regulators Crack Down on 15 Alleged Crypto Scams

Many of the alleged crypto scams had a common tactic: savvy social media posts to draw victims in.

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