Danny Nelson

Danny was 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

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.

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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.

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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.

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Finance

Blockchain-Based Lender Figure Technologies Applies for US National Bank Charter

If granted, the charter would replace the blockchain-based lender's hodgepodge of state licenses with a single nationwide regulator.

Figure Markets CEO Mike Cagney (Figure)

Markets

Canada Tax Collector Seeks to Force Crypto Exchange Coinsquare to Fork Over Client Records

The demand mimics a play tax enforcers at the IRS deployed against Coinbase.

Toronto

Markets

Fidelity Digital Assets Is Hiring More Crypto Engineers

Fidelity said it wants to improve bitcoin custody and executive services and build products to "support the ecosystem."

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Markets

SEC Finalizes Rule Change That Could (One Day) Juice Token Sales

Companies can now raise more money under three key securities exemptions without having to register with SEC.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton