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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Finance

Bitcoin ATMs to Invade Circle K Convenience Stores

Crypto kiosk company Bitcoin Depot plans to hit “thousands” of locations, with 700 units already installed.

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Finance

BlockFi Faces Crackdown by a Third US State, Texas

The Lone Star state’s proposed cease-and-desist order would bar BlockFi from offering interest accounts without registering with the state’s securities regulator.

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Markets

JPMorgan's Retail Customers Can Now Tap Crypto – Just Not Directly

JPMorgan will let wealth management clients invest in Grayscale and Osprey crypto trusts.

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Finance

Coinbase Commerce Adds Support for Dogecoin Payments

The memecoin is only the sixth crypto to be integrated with Coinbase’s e-commerce platform.

Dogecoin Joke Is Turning Serious In Latest Crypto Binge

Finance

NJ Regulators Give BlockFi 1 Week Before Blocking New Interest Accounts

The state’s securities regulator contends BlockFi is selling an “unregistered security” to its customers.

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Finance

S&P Crypto Index Has 243 Coins. DOGE Is Not One of Them

The index company's Broad Digital Market tracker dives deep – very deep – into the digital asset universe, CoinDesk found.

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Markets

Senate to Investigate Crypto’s Role in Cybercrime

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is adding another front in lawmakers’ crypto probe.

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Finance

CoinFund Targets ‘Early Mainstream Adoption’ With $83M Venture Fund

The six-year-old crypto VC firm has headlined seven fundraising rounds so far this year.

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Finance

NFT Marketplace OpenSea Valued at $1.5B in $100M Funding Round Led by A16z

The NFT venue has crossed into the rarefied air of crypto unicorns.

OpenSea's Devin Finzer speaking at NFT.NYC in 2019.

Policy

US Senators Ask Team USA to Boycott China’s Digital Yuan at 2022 Olympics

“We cannot allow America’s athletes to be used as a Trojan horse to increase the Chinese Communist Party’s ability to spy on the United States,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis.

Beijing is hosting the Winter Olympics in 2022.