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.

Nelson Wang

Latest from Nelson Wang


Finance

Amazon Not Close to Accepting Crypto as Payment in Retail Business, CEO Says

Still, Andy Jassy said the company may sell NFTs in the future.

(Getty Images)

Finance

Bitstamp to Offer White-Label Version of Its Crypto Trading Services in US

The long-running crypto exchange has been providing what it calls “Bitstamp-as-a-Service” to European financial institutions for several years.

The Bitstamp executive team (Bitstamp)

Finance

Michael Saylor: Biden’s Executive Order Akin to POTUS Giving ‘Green Light to Bitcoin’

The longtime bitcoin maximalist was as optimistic as ever about the cryptocurrency in a conversation with Ark’s Cathie Wood at Bitcoin 2022 in Miami.

Michael Saylor and Cathie Wood speak at Bitcoin 2022 in Miami. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Tezos Deploys Major ‘Tenderbake’ Upgrade

The proof-of-stake blockchain has changed its consensus algorithm in order to lower block times and improve performance.

Tezos logo

Finance

Axie Infinity Delays Launch of ‘Origin’ Game Following Massive Hack

The new “Axie Infinity: Origin” was originally supposed to debut on March 30.

Axie Infinity land

Finance

Stronghold Digital's Stock Tanks as Q4 Results Miss Estimates

The bitcoin miner said it no longer believes its original target of 8.0 exahash per second in computing power by the end of 2022 is achievable.

Stronghold Digital Mining Raises $105M to Turn Waste Coal Into Bitcoin

Finance

El Salvador Postpones Bitcoin Bond: Report

The country's finance minister said the offering may come as late as September, according to Reuters.

El Salvador flag (Getty Images)

Finance

Mark Zuckerberg Says NFTs Are Coming Soon to Instagram

The Meta CEO’s comments at South by Southwest confirmed earlier reports that Instagram was preparing to make such a move.

CoinDesk placeholder image

Policy

Treasury Department Issues Guidance on Using Crypto to Evade Sanctions

The Biden administration said earlier in the day that such guidance would be forthcoming.

(Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Policy

Justice Department Will Prosecute Banks, Crypto Exchanges That Help Russians Hide Assets: Report

A new task force has been created to freeze or take the assets of Russians that have been sanctioned following the invasion of Ukraine.

DOJ