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

New York Regulator Calls for More Social Media Oversight After Twitter Hack

NYDFS said cybersecurity must be treated as critical infrastructure by governments and corporations alike.

Joseph O’Conner was accused of participating in a Twitter cryptocurrency scam.

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Fidelity Report Says Bitcoin's Market Cap Is 'Drop in the Bucket' of Potential

"In a world where benchmark interest rates globally are near, at, or below zero, the opportunity cost of not allocating to bitcoin is higher," the report said.

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Policy

FSB Recommends Stablecoin (Libra) Safeguards as G7 Continues Blockade

Finance officials never once named libra. But they didn't have to; the proposed stablecoin's shadow still looms large.

Regulators have effectively placed "global stablecoin projects" (read: libra) under siege.

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G7 Warns of Crypto Threat From Tidal Wave of Ransomware Attacks

Paying ransomware hackers to decrypt infected computers doesn't always work, and may even be a crime in some countries.

The WannaCry ransomware attack infected over 200,000 computers in 2017.

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Stone Ridge Calls Its $114M in Bitcoin 'Primary Treasury Reserve Asset'; NYDIG Unit Raises $50M

NYDIG raised the $50 million from FinTech Collective, Bessemer Ventures and Ribbit Capital.

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Policy

Chris Giancarlo's Digital Dollar Project Proposes US CBDC Pilots

The proposal games out CBDC scenarios for fundamentally different potential digital currency end users.

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Numerai Hedge Fund Offers $50M in NMR Tokens for Fresh Stock Market 'Signals'

Numerai said its new signals monetization system will take any data set, from any source.

Richard Craib, Numerai's founder, speaks in New York City, April 2019.

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OECD Preparing Crypto Tax Reporting Framework for World's Largest Economies

The tax framework may address questions surrounding wallet providers and income not derived from crypto sales.

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Finance

Grayscale’s Ethereum Trust Granted SEC Reporting Company Status

Institutional bitcoin investors are looking at "how else they can diversify within the asset class," said Michael Sonnenshein.

Grayscale Investments CEO Michael Sonnenshein

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Robinhood Traders, Including Bitcoin Holders, Left in the Lurch Following Theft: Report

The popular personal investing platform did not do enough to help targeted customers, victims claim.

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