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

US Is Debating Risk vs. Liability for New Crypto Tax Rules

U.S. Treasury department officials are wrangling with how to focus a coming set of crypto tax rules.

tax

Markets

Helium Wireless Network Approves New Hard Cap for HNT Token Emissions

Adding a token hard-cap and introducing "halvenings" will make HNT tokenomics easier to understand, say project contributors.

Helium team, left to right: Pierre Defebvre, Andrew Allen, Rahul Garg, Brian Bussiere.

Policy

SEC's Clayton Says Payment Inefficiencies Are Boosting Bitcoin's Rise

Clayton sounded more bullish on bitcoin than he's been in years in his Thursday interview with CNBC.

SEC Chairman Jay Clayton

Markets

Promoters of Rapper TI's 2017 ICO Ordered to Pay $103K Penalty

The associates are also barred from selling digital securities for five years.

Rapper T.I.

Markets

Binance Sues Forbes for Defamation Over ‘Tai Chi’ Document Leak

Binance sued Forbes for defamation Wednesday over a story last month that purported to reveal regulatory evasion tactics.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao

Markets

'Not My Cup of Tea': Jamie Dimon Is Still Not a Bitcoin Fan

The JPMorgan Chase CEO said it's only a matter of time before the government moves to regulate bitcoin.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon

Finance

ConsenSys Acquires Blockchain Developer Toolmaker Truffle Suite

ConsenSys is adding dapp development platform Truffle Suite back to its lineup of wholly owned Ethereum tools.

Truffle's Wes McVay (left) and Tim Coulter (right) speak at TruffleCon 2018

Markets

Robinhood Gearing Up for Potential IPO in Early 2021: Report

Robinhood is looking for a banking team to partner in an IPO that could come next year.

Robinhood

Markets

This $29B Asset Advisory Is Giving Wealth Managers and Clients a Bitcoin On-Ramp

Mariner Wealth Advisors has tapped crypto firm Eaglebrook for its new bitcoin allocation engine.

stockbroker

Markets

Scaramucci's $9.2B SkyBridge 'May Seek Exposure to Digital Assets'

SkyBridge Capital is giving itself an opening to indirectly invest in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

SkyBridge Capital. founder Anthony Scaramucci