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 Charges 3 With Vast 'Crypto Jacking' Computer Fraud Scheme

The officers of Chinese "white hat" firm Chengdu 404 allegedly hit computer networks around the world.

Laptop user

Markets

Tassat Gains CFTC 'No-Action' Relief Ahead of Eventual Bitcoin Swaps Contract Listing

Tassat blamed COVID-19 and leadership changes for its long-delayed bitcoin derivatives contract listing.

Green light

Finance

Bitcoin CEO: MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor Explains His $425M Bet on BTC

How the business analytics chief became Wall Street's boldest bitcoin maximalist.

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor

Markets

Paxful, Citing Regulations and Its Own 'Risk Tolerance,' Exits Venezuela's P2P Bitcoin Market

The exit deprives Venezuela's crypto scene of its second-largest P2P exchange.

(CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Two Charged With Duping Investors Out of $5M With Bogus Bitcoin-Buying Brokerage

The pair allegedly left victim's funds in an escrow service that was actually their money-laundering front.

(imagedb.com/Shutterstock)

Markets

MicroStrategy Tells SEC It 'May Increase' $250M Bitcoin Reserves

MicroStrategy told the SEC it "may increase" its bitcoin (BTC) holdings beyond the $250 million haul purchased in August.

MicroStrategy booth at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011

Markets

Ukraine Leads Global Crypto Adoption, Chainalysis Says in New Report

Ukraine, Russia and Venezuela are the top three countries by crypto adoption in the world, according to Chainalysis.

Map of Eastern European countries

Markets

Brazil's Central Bank Says Nation Might Be Ready for a Digital Currency by 2022

Brazil's fast-digitizing financial infrastructure could set the stage for CBDC in the next two years, said Campos Neto.

Banco Central President Roberto Campos Neto says Brazil will have "all the ingredients" for a digital currency by 2022. (Marcos Oliveira/Agência Senado/Wikimedia Commons)

Markets

US Air Force and Raytheon Are Studying How Distributed Ledgers Could Help Command the Skies

The $500,000 contract continues USAF's recent history of blockchain investments.

A USAF Airman participating in command and control drills near Dyess Air Force Base, Texas.
(Staff Sgt. Kaylee Clark/USAF)

Markets

Stacks Foundation to Spend 'Majority' of STX Token Fortune on Ecosystem Development

Grant ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 will be paid out in dollars. Once Stacks 2.0 goes live, the funding switches over to STX.

Executive Director Brittany Laughlin of the Stacks Open Internet Foundation (Stacks)