Nelson Wang

Nelson edits features and opinion stories and was previously CoinDesk’s U.S. News Editor for the East Coast. He has also been an editor at Unchained and DL News, and prior to working at CoinDesk, he was the technology stocks editor and consumer stocks editor at TheStreet. He has also held editing positions at Yahoo.com and Condé Nast Portfolio’s website, and was the content director for aMedia, an Asian American media company. Nelson grew up on Long Island, New York and went to Harvard College, earning a degree in Social Studies. He holds BTC, ETH and SOL above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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Finance

Chipmaker Nvidia’s Crypto Mining Chip Revenue Continues to Fall

Sales of Nvidia’s cryptocurrency mining processor were deemed “nominal” for the second straight quarter.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (BagoGames/Flickr)

Finance

Co-CEO of Crypto Trading Firm Alameda Research Sam Trabucco Steps Down

Trabucco will stay on as an adviser, while Caroline Ellison will become the company’s sole CEO.

Former Alameda Research co-CEO, Sam Trabucco (Alameda Research)

Finance

Crypto Investment Firm Digital Currency Group Registers Executive as Lobbyist

The company's Grayscale unit has sued the SEC for rejecting its spot bitcoin ETF application.

Barry Silbert. CEO y fundador de Digital Currency Group.

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Greenidge Generation Shares Fall as Revenues Miss Estimates

The company said the combination of falling bitcoin prices and high global energy prices presented a “challenging earnings environment.”

A Greenidge mining center (Caleb Parker Photography)

Finance

Crypto Venture Capital Firm Dragonfly Buys Hedge Fund MetaStable Capital

The fund has over $400 million in assets under management, according to Bloomberg.

Dragonfly has acquired MetaStable Capital. (Getty Images)

Finance

Block Beats Q2 Estimates but Bitcoin Revenues Fall

Despite beating projections, the payments company said its overall revenue fell because of a decrease in bitcoin revenue.

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Policy

Ex-Coinbase Product Manager Pleads Not Guilty in Crypto Insider Trading Case: Report

Ishan Wahi and two associates are accused of making as much as $1.5 million from sharing information about the exchange's plans to list new tokens.

(Shutterstock)

Finance

MicroStrategy's Bitcoin Maximalist CEO Saylor Hands Job to Deputy, Takes Executive Chairman Role

Saylor says he plans to focus on buying bitcoin, leaving MicroStrategy's software business in the hands of the new CEO.

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor at the Bitcoin 2022 Conference in Miami (Marco Bello/Getty Images)

Finance

MicroStrategy Reports $918M Impairment Charge on Bitcoin Holdings in Q2

The software firm owns 129,699 bitcoins worth approximately $3 billion.

Executive Chairman MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

Finance

Coinbase Prime Adds Ethereum Staking for US Institutional Clients

The product offers another entry point for financial institutions eager to delve into crypto but unsure of how best to do it.

(Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)