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

Payza Founders Sentenced in $250M Money Laundering Case

Canadian brothers Firoz and Ferhan Patel are headed to prison after admitting their payments company had broken the law.

US jail

Markets

Mike Novogratz's Galaxy Digital Nets $44.3M in Q3

Galaxy Digital was trading slightly higher on the news.

Michael Novogratz of Galaxy Digital

Markets

Bank of England Official Balks at Shielding Banks Against Digital Currencies: Report

Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe says protecting bank business models is not BoE's responsibility.

Bank of England

Markets

Trump's Post-Election Purge Reaches US Cybersecurity Agency

CISA Director Krebs expects to be fired, Reuters reports. Hours earlier, his deputy resigned under pressure.

Christopher C. Krebs, director of the Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Markets

Chainalysis Wants to Help the Feds Sell Millions in Forfeited Bitcoin

The new service launch comes just one week after U.S. federal agents announced the seizure of over $1 billion in bitcoin.

chainalysis, branding

Markets

US Representatives Rip OCC, Brooks for 'Excessive Focus' on Crypto

Congressional Democrats blasted the OCC and Acting Comptroller Brooks for spending time on crypto during a pandemic.

 Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Rep. Stephen Lynch wrote the sharp criticism of OCC chief Brian Brooks.

Finance

MicroStrategy CEO Explains Why Bitcoin Is 'a Million Times Better' Than 'Antiquated' Gold

Even if they don’t know it yet, Michael Saylor thinks gold investors will eagerly dump the commodity for what he calls a superior store of value – bitcoin.

MicroStrategy booth at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011

Markets

Lebanon Preparing Central Bank Digital Currency for 2021 Rollout

Central bankers hope the CBDC will help restore confidence in Lebanon's shaky banking sector.

banque du liban

Policy

Texture Capital Awarded FINRA License to Trade Security Tokens

Texture is the latest tokenization firm to eye the $1.5 trillion private securities market.

FINRA

Markets

Billionaire Hedge Fund Investor Druckenmiller Says He Owns Bitcoin in CNBC Interview

The Wall Street legend still owns far more gold, but said if gold does well, bitcoin will do better.

druckenmiller