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

Bitcoin Miner Bitfarms Leases 2,000 Rigs From BlockFills, Has Option for Up to 7,000 More

Bitfarms boost its mining power by 360 PH with the new lease, set to run for 24 months.

Cryptocurrency mining machines

Markets

CIA's New Research Lab to Study Blockchain

CIA Labs will give officers an outlet to patent and profit from their tech inventions.

The cryptographic puzzle/statue "Kryptos" at CIA headquarters.

Policy

Stripe to Pay $120,000 in PlexCoin ICO Settlement With Massachusetts Attorney General

The payments processor facilitated millions of dollars of PlexCoin investments before shuttering accounts in September 2017.

Suffolk County Superior Court in Boston.

Markets

NVIDIA Lawyers Dismiss Investors' Crypto Mining Doc Requests: Report

Investors accuse NVIDIA of bungling the chipmaker's response to 2017's mining hardware boom.

(Shutterstock)

Markets

German Lawmakers Vote 'Nein' on Blockchain for Transparency on Megaprojects

The bill sought to renew Germans' trust in their government's ability to keep megaproject spending under control.

Berlin Brandenburg Airport in 2012. The long-delayed megaproject is tentatively set to open this October. (Muns/Wikimedia commons)

Markets

Binance-Backed Travala.com Enters China's Fast-Recovering Travel Market

"In China, the recovery is happening now and very fast,” said Travala.com CEO Juan Otero.

China's domestic flights are back to pre-pandemic levels, and hotel bookings are surging, too. (Göran Höglund/Flickr)

Markets

US Homeland Security Challenges Freelancers to Design It a Digital Wallet

DHS officials are putting up $25,000 in cash prizes to designers who win the month-long competition.

(Shutterstock)

Markets

Prosecutors Detail Russians' Crypto Phishing Scheme in Forfeiture Suit

The alleged hackers also manipulated NEO's Gas market with a $5 million crypto infusion.

Danil Potekhin and Dimitrii Karasavidi face a growing list of U.S. legal troubles. 
(wk1003mike/Shutterstock)

Markets

Wyoming Bank Regulator Taps Chainalysis to Boost Crypto Tracing Efforts

The Wyoming Division of Banking will receive training and two software licenses from blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis.

The Wyoming Division of Banking just granted its first crypto-friendly bank charter Wednesday. (Shutterstock)

Markets

US Sanctions Two Russians Accused of Using Fraud to Steal Millions in Crypto

The pair is accused of having stolen $16.8 million from customers of three different crypto exchanges, including two in the U.S.

Russian flag behind fence (Shutterstock)