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Danny Nelson

Managing Editor - Data & Tokens

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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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 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

Stack of bitcoin miners

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

Policy

Lithuania Is Trialing a CBDC No One Can Use – And That’s by Design

The Bank of Lithuania's LBCoin digital collectible may be a gimmick, but its ambitions for blockchain tech are very, very real.

Jun 8, 2020

The Bank of Lithuania's LBCoin digital collectible may be a gimmick, but its ambitions for blockchain tech are very, very real. (Credit: Bank of Lithuania)

Markets

Securitize Debuts On-Chain Royalty Payouts for Lottery.com Security Token

Securitize, a registered transfer agent, has facilitated the payout of royalties from blockchain-based securities for the first time.

Jun 8, 2020

"This is the first time that a blockchain-based transfer agent" has disbursed a security token payout, said CEO Carlos Domingo. Credit: CoinDesk archives

Markets

Coinbase Offers US Feds New Crypto Surveillance Tools

Coinbase Analytics vaults the massive crypto exchange into a crowded field of blockchain tracing companies all vying for millions of federal dollars.

Jun 5, 2020

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
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