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

Whale Alert: $27M From 2016 Bitfinex Hack Is on the Move

The monumental 2016 hack resulted in one of the single-largest losses in bitcoin of all time.

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Markets

Ukraine's Digital Ministry to Trace Suspicious Crypto Using Crystal Blockchain Software

Government officials hope the partnership will fast-track the maturation of Ukrainian crypto markets.

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Finance

Opera's Built-In Crypto Wallets Have 170K Monthly Active Users

The Norwegian browser maker has disclosed its crypto wallet user numbers for the first time.

The longstanding Norwegian browser company has been on a recent crypto streak. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Arca's Flagship Crypto Hedge Fund is Up 77% in 2020

Arca's Digital Assets Fund is beating the S&P, crypto indices and bitcoin’s price.

Arca CEO Rayne Steinberg

Markets

Prime Factor Capital Is Shutting Down: Lack of Capital Cited as Prime Factor

The firm became Britain's first FCA-approved crypto hedge fund last July.

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Markets

Boston Fed Wants to Hire a Digital Currency Engineer

The one-year position will work on the Applied Fintech Research team's digital currency experiments.

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Finance

BitGo Now Supports Custody and Staking of Tezos’ XTZ

The addition expands BitGo’s proof-of-stake offerings, first unveiled last October.

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe

Markets

NBA Player Spencer Dinwiddie's Token Sale Hits 10% of $13.5M Goal

Spencer Dinwiddie has sold just nine of 90 shares of his contract, raising $1.4 million instead of the $13.5 million he'd intended.

Brooklyn Nets player Spencer Dinwiddie (Tdorante10/Wikimedia Commons)

Markets

Visa Blog Post Hints at Future Digital Currency Projects

Visa appeared on Wednesday to redouble its efforts to “shape and support” cryptocurrency’s place in the “future of money.”

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Markets

tZERO Plans to Support Trading of Aspencoin Ski Resort Digital Security

Token issuer Aspen Digital raised $18 million selling digital shares of the St. Regis resort in 2018.

Aspen Digital Inc. raised $18 million selling Aspencoin in 2018. (Wolfgang Moroder/Wikimedia Commons)