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.

Latest from Danny Nelson

Markets

Dole Plans to Use Blockchain Food Tracing in All Divisions by 2025

Pineapple and produce purveyor Dole wants to expand its use of blockchain to track goods from all three business divisions in just five years.

Apr 24, 2020

Markets

SEC Sues Dropil Founders for Fraud After $1.8M Token Sale

The SEC has charged three California residents with defrauding investors of $1.8 million through an unregistered token sale.

Apr 24, 2020

Finance

Italy's Leading Wire Service Is Using Ethereum to Thwart Copycats

Italy's ANSA newswire is trialing an ethereum-based system to track every article it publishes in an effort to prevent impersonators from publishing fake news under its banner.

Apr 22, 2020

ANSA’s blockchain system rolled out earlier this year, but still only accounts for about 80 percent of articles published to its own site. Ultimately, its backers hope it can be used across the internet. (Credit: praszkiewicz / Shutterstock)

Finance

Gemini Clears New Deloitte Audit in Bid to Appeal to Wall Street

Gemini’s exchange and custody services have cleared yet another systems design check.

Apr 22, 2020

Markets

UK’s Tech Bailout Could Help Blockchain Devs Weather COVID-19 Shutdown

Britain’s new “Future Fund” relief package will help tech firms, including blockchain companies like Chainvine.

Apr 22, 2020

Chainvine CEO Oliver Oram said COVID has thrashed his budget. "Everything has to be slashed at the moment because you don't even know where normality will come back.” (Credit: Loveandrock / Shutterstock)

Policy

Dutch Central Bank Wants to Be European Union's CBDC Proving Ground

The Dutch Central Bank is making a bid to become the European Union’s proving ground for a central bank digital currency.

Apr 21, 2020

The Dutch Central Bank cited its nation’s declining use of physical cash as one of the reasons it may do well with a CBDC trial. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Markets

Crypto Payments for Child Porn Grew 32% in 2019: Report

Nearly $1 million in bitcoin and ethereum flowed into child sexual abuse material-linked wallet addresses in 2019.

Apr 21, 2020

Crypto payments for child sexual abuse material is a small, but growing, area. (Credit: Chainalysis)

Markets

Singapore Won't Tax Airdrops or Hard Forks Under New Crypto Guidance

Singapore’s tax authority has clarified how it taxes the transaction of payment, utility and security tokens.

Apr 20, 2020

IRAS asked bitcoin accepting contractors to calculate their tax burden using Coinbase and Binance’s exchange rates. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Markets

$166B Asset Manager Renaissance Eyes Bitcoin Futures for Flagship Fund

Renaissance Technologies’ market-crushing Medallion fund is considering jumping into bitcoin futures, recent regulatory filings show.

Apr 18, 2020

Policy

South Africa Proposes Strict Crypto Regulatory Framework

South Africa’s financial regulators recommended that cryptocurrency be used for domestic payment purposes, but that it not be treated as legal tender or allowed as a settlement tool.

Apr 17, 2020