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Danny Nelson

Managing Editor - Data & Tokens

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

Centra Tech Co-Founder Pleads Guilty to Fraud After $25M Token Sale

A co-founder of the celebrity-backed Centra Tech crypto scam has pleaded guilty to his role in the $25 million fraudulent ICO.

Jun 16, 2020

(Shutterstock)

Policy

Canada’s Central Bank Is Serious About Designing a CBDC, Job Posting Reveals

The Bank of Canada is preparing to design its own central bank digital currency (CBDC), detailing its plans in a new job posting.

Jun 16, 2020

Bank of Canada

Markets

US Air Force Gives Blockchain Firm $1.5M to Build Supply Chain Network

SIMBA Chain, a blockchain-as-a-service company, has two years and $1.5 million to further build out its supply chain logistics platform for the United States Air Force.

Jun 15, 2020

SIMBA Chain is setting up a node at Tinker Air Force Base, home to the USAF's 448th Supply Chain Management Wing (Greg L. Davis/U.S. Air Force)

Markets

UK Fintech Bank Revolut Will Give Customers 'Legal' Ownership Over Cryptos – But With a Caveat

UK fintech bank Revolut will give its customers legal ownership over their cryptocurrencies next month, but will limit how they can spend those coins.

Jun 15, 2020

Revolut CEO Nikolay Nikolay Storonsky (Stephen McCarthy/Web Summit via Sportsfile/Flickr)

Markets

Hut 8 Plans $7.5M Offering to Upgrade Bitcoin Mining Rigs

Hut 8 Mining is looking to raise at least $7.5 million to upgrade its fleet of BlockBox bitcoin miners.

Jun 10, 2020

mining farm

Markets

Algorand and Blockstack Are Building a Multi-Chain Smart Contract Language

Clarity, a new open-source programming language, promises to deliver less-buggy smart contracts.

Jun 10, 2020

(Credit: Danny Nelson / CoinDesk)

Tech

Elrond Will Pay You $60,000 to Break Its Blockchain

Elrond is conducting a “trial by fire” exercise on its blockchain protocol, offering big bounties to white-hat hackers who can disrupt the network.

Jun 10, 2020

Chain broken

Markets

US Officials Allege Student Defrauded Apple as Part of SIM Swap Attack

A UC-San Diego student is accused of participating in a SIM-swapping scam that defrauded Apple and stole one victim’s crypto.

Jun 9, 2020

Li and a conspirator tricked an Apple representative into sending them the iPhone 8 they used in their SIM swaps, prosecutors allege. (Credit: Hadrian/Shutterstock)

Finance

Crypto Forensics Firm Chainalysis Adds Tracing Support for Zcash, Dash

The blockchain intelligence firm says it has added zcash and dash to its transaction-tracing products.

Jun 9, 2020

Chainalysis said only 0.9% of zcash transactions are shielded, letting it track the other 99%. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Policy

Saudi Monetary Authority Pumped Some of $13B Bank Infusion Using Blockchain

The central bank claims to have distributed 'part' of a recent $13 billion bank "liquidity enhancement" using blockchain tech.

Jun 9, 2020

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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