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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MicroStrategy Buys $250M in Bitcoin, Calling the Crypto 'Superior to Cash'

Digital gold is now the "principal holding" of MicroStrategy's revamped treasury reserve strategy.

MicroStrategy CEO Michael J. Saylor

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Facebook Taps David Marcus to Lead Payments Initiatives

Marcus will continue running Libra's Novi digital wallet as he takes on Facebook Financial.

David Marcus is the co-creator of the Facebook-backed libra stablecoin. (CoinDesk archives)

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Three Crypto Analysis Firms Advance in ‘TechSprint’ RegTech Competition

The fintech showcase has three $50,000 cash prizes for three regtech focus areas.

(Shutterstock)

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Coinbase Snags Lyft Engineering Executive Manish Gupta

Gupta will help Coinbase "through the next phase of company growth."

Coinbase icon

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Federal Reserve Is Rushing to Get Its Instant Payments Offering Ready

COVID-19 proved the need for FedNow, even though the U.S. central bank admits the service is still years away.

Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard (Shutterstock)

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German Regulator Seizes Crypto ATMs

Germany's financial regulator BaFin is seizing bitcoin ATMs run by "Shitcoins Club" months after ordering its operator to cease trading crypto.

A shitcoins.club crypto ATM (shitcoins.club)

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German Police Seize $29M in Bitcoin From Alleged Content Pirate

Prosecutors allege the programmer behind movie2k.to helped distribute 880,000 pirated films over a five-year period that ended in 2015.

(Artem Smus/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Man Accused of Arranging Murder to Avoid Crypto Debt Can’t Escape Jail, Brazilian Court Rules

Crypto businessman Danilo Afonso Pechin remains jailed after Brazil's High Court refused to hear his request for freedom.

Brazil's supreme court (Ricardo/Flickr)

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Nasdaq-Listed MicroStrategy, Wary of Looming Dollar Inflation, Turns to Bitcoin and Gold

“If you have large dollar values and you're hoping for any kind of return on them, that's faded,” said CEO Michael Saylor. “Gold, silver and bitcoin are showing strength.”

helicopter money

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Missouri Man Pleads Guilty to Trying to Buy Chemical Weapons With Bitcoin

The chemicals, though never delivered, would have been potent enough to kill 300 people, prosecutors say.

Richard Bolling Federal Building and Federal Courthouse, Kansas City, Missouri. (Tony Webster/Flickr)