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.

Latest from Danny Nelson

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

Markets

CFTC Charges Florida Resident With Defrauding Crypto Investors Out of $1.6M

The CFTC alleged Florida resident Alan Friedland defrauded investors out of $1.6 million, promising returns through his “Compcoin” token and an algorithmic trading software which never materialized.

Apr 16, 2020

Compcoin brought in $1.6 million, the CFTC claimed, and even managed to get listed – temporarily – on digital asset exchanges during its sale from 2016 through 2018. (CFTC Chair Heath Tarbert image via CoinDesk archives)

Markets

US Agencies Publish List of North Korea's Alleged Crypto Crimes

The US government urged countermeasures to stymie North Korea's billion-dollar cybercrime campaigns.

Apr 15, 2020

Kim Jong-un, Supreme Leader of North Korea

Markets

Algorand Foundation Sets Aside $50M in Tokens to Spur Development

The Algorand Foundation has earmarked 250 million ALGO for a grant program that aims to spur development of the Algorand ecosystem.

Apr 14, 2020

The Grants Program will allocate 2.5 percent of tokens minted at genesis. (Silvio Michali image credit: CoinDesk archives)