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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Marine Corps Bans Crypto Mining Apps From Government-Issued Mobile Devices

The Tuesday memo does not give a specific reason for the bitcoin mining ban but broadly cited security concerns.

U.S Marines training on government-issued tablets. (Cpl. AaronJames Vinculado/U.S. Marine Corps)

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Marathon Boosting Bitcoin Mining Game With 1,360 More Rigs Arriving in August

The publicly traded firm has bought hundreds of rigs from mining hardware rivals MicroBT and Bitmain.

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605 Days Later: How ArCoins Got the SEC Go-Ahead as an Ethereum-Traded Treasurys Fund

A look inside Arca and TokenSoft’s 605-day crusade to register the first Ethereum blockchain-native ‘40 Act Fund.

TokenSoft's Bay Area office space is just 10 floors above the SEC's West Coast wing. (Mason Borda)

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EU Outlines Tech Specs for Nodes in Its Blockchain Services Testnet

Participating member states can stage their testnet nodes on hardware with specs roughly equivalent to a PC gamer’s tower.

The European Commission's headquarters in Brussels.

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Swiss Exchange Lists World's First Active Bitcoin ETP

FiCAS has listed the world's first actively managed bitcoin ETP on Switzerland's SIX exchange.

SIX Swiss Exchange is based in Zurich.

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P2P Exchange LocalBitcoins Adds Crypto Surveillance Tools From Elliptic

Elliptic's tracing software bolsters the peer-to-peer exchange's anti-money laundering safeguards.

A security camera in downtown Helsinki, where LocalBitcoins is based. (Kekyalyaynen/Shutterstock)

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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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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)

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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