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

Chainalysis Report Shows Healthy Crypto Usage in Venezuela

The Venezuelan government's push to create a cryptocurrency-centric economy appears to be working, but perhaps not in the way officials had hoped.

Traffic in Caracas (luisana zerpa/Unsplash)

Markets

NASA Is Bankrolling a Blockchain for Quadcopter Communications

The space agency has awarded $124,800 in funding to Orbit Logic and Fraunhofer Labs' blockchain system proposal, called SCRAMBL.

NASA has been conducting tests on quadcopter swarms for at least a year. (NASA)

Markets

Fidelity's Chief Strategist Starts Bitcoin Index Fund

The fund is the latest example of Wall Street veterans cozying up to bitcoin in their rhetoric and capital allocations.

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Markets

IRS, Ignoring Its Own Watchdog, Sends Letters About Crypto Taxes Once Again

Less than a year has passed since the IRS first sent taxpayers cryptocurrency "soft letters."

The IRS's Taxpayer Advocate Service says a group of letters the agency sent to taxpayers last year may have violated its own code. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Coinbase Taps Marcus Hughes as New Eurozone Chief

Hughes had taken over Coinbase's international legal operations earlier this month.

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Markets

Brazilian Lawmaker Proposes Crypto Regulations for a Country Devoid of Any

Brazil's crypto scene has been unbanked, unregulated and awash in legal uncertain for its entire history.

Senator Soraya Thronicke. (Michel Jesus/Câmara dos Deputados/Wikimedia Commons)

Markets

Wave of Bitcoin-Seeking Bomb Threats Sparks Probe by Austrian Police

Police say "numerous" Austrian companies got $20,000 bitcoin ultimatums in the mass extortion campaign.

(Flickr)

Markets

Binance.US Expands Into Florida, Eyeing Millions of Potential New Traders

Florida's financial regulators granted Binance.US a money transmitters license in July.

Binance.US CEO Catherine Coley

Markets

Brazil's Central Bank Tasks Group With Laying Out Road Map to Digital Currency Issuance

The 12-member team will submit their findings – and propose a CBDC issuance model – to the central bank in 180 days.

(Jo Galvao/Shutterstock)

Policy

Hong Kong Regulator Gives Crypto Exchange OSL Tentative Licensure Approval

OSL Digital Securities was the first crypto exchange to apply for the SFC's opt-in license last November.

Hong Kong