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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Russia, With Bitcoin Playing Bit Part, Tried to Hack 2016 US Election, Senate Report Finds

Bitcoin may have been the salacious pretext to Marina Butina's fling with Patrick Byrne.

The U.S. infrastructure bill's tax provisions could affect the price of ether.

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Binance Credited With Helping Take Down Ukraine Crypto Laundering Group

Binance began pouring more resources into its data analysis and laundering detection capabilities earlier this year.

(Ukraine Cyber Police)

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Elliptic Adds Monitoring Support for Binance Chain and BNB

Ellipitc is only the second crypto analysis company to support Binance's namesake blockchain.

Elliptical shadows (Shutterstock)

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Capital One Files Patent for AI That Would Slice, Dice Social Media to Find Crypto Trading Picks

“It would be impossible for human traders to track” crypto's 24/7 informational onslaught on their own, Capital One said.

"Unlike many other markets, cryptocurrencies trade 24/7, thereby requiring traders to make decisions at all times throughout the day," Capital One wrote in its filing. (Shutterstock)

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Grayscale's Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin Trusts Begin Trading Publicly

Grayscale now has six publicly traded crypto investment vehicles, all trusts.

sonnenshein, grayscale

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Epic Games Blasts Apple's 'Anti-Competitive' Payments Practices in Lawsuit

The Fortnite developer says in-app bitcoin and crypto payments could flourish if not for Apple's payments monopoly.

(Shutterstock)

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US Postal Service Envisions Blockchain-Backed Mail-In Voting

Whether the USPS intends to experiment with its mail-in voting system was unclear Thursday.

The USPS has not disclosed if it actually intends to roll out its novel voting technique. (CoinDesk archives)

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Sequoia-Backed Band Protocol Token Starts Trading on Coinbase

BAND surged to 24-hour trading highs shortly after news of the listing broke.

The Band Protocol team in 2019.

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Anchorage Is Streamlining Custody of Tokensoft's ERC-1404 Security Tokens

The new partnership will add direct custodial support for Arcoin and INX, the upcoming INX Limited security token.

(CoinDesk archives)

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New Jersey Man Accused of Paying $20K in Bitcoin to Have Sex Crimes Victim Killed

A New Jersey sex offender is now accused of paying a hitman in bitcoin to murder his 14-year-old victim.

The murder-for-hire never went through. (Shutterstock)