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

SEC Rejects VanEck’s Spot Bitcoin ETF Proposal

The decision did not come as a surprise given SEC chair Gary Gensler’s preference for a bitcoin futures ETF.

Bitcoin Climbs Above $60K After Report SEC Won’t Block Futures ETF

Finance

Binance Is Investigating Squid Game Token, Considers It a Scam

The crypto exchange is considering blacklisting wallet addresses tied to the token’s developers.

Squid Game (Flickr/Tigerfish Rain)

Finance

FTX Leads $150M Funding Round in African Payments Firm Chipper Cash

The cross-border payments company is now valued at roughly $2 billion.

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Finance

NFL Star Aaron Rodgers Gives Ringing Endorsement of Bitcoin

The Green Bay Packers quarterback will be taking a part of his salary in bitcoin and is also giving away $1 million of the crypto as part of a promotion with payments provider Square.

GLENDALE, ARIZONA - OCTOBER 28: Aaron Rodgers #12 of the Green Bay Packers leaves the field following a game against the Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium on October 28, 2021 in Glendale, Arizona. The Packers defeated the Cardinals 24-21. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Finance

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor’s 17,732 BTC Holdings Now Worth $1.1B

The vocal bitcoin proponent has made a gain of more than 500% on his holdings over the past year.

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor speaks at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention

Finance

Coinbase Experiencing Extended Outages, Including for Credit Card

The company said it is actively working on the issue and plans to post an update soon.

What Coinbase's Rate on USDC Reveals About Crypto Credit Risk

Finance

Facebook to Break Out Results for Augmented/Virtual Reality Division Starting in Q4

The social network’s move reflects how important it considers the metaverse to its future.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Shutterstock)

Finance

Robinhood’s Waitlist for Crypto Wallet Has More Than 1M Customers: Report

The feature is in high demand by clients of the popular zero-commission trading app.

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest Buys 1.3M Robinhood Shares on Nasdaq Debut

Finance

Grayscale Files With SEC to Convert Its Bitcoin Trust Into an ETF

The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust is the largest bitcoin investment vehicle in the world.

sonnenshein, grayscale

Finance

ProShares Bitcoin Futures ETF ‘BITO’ Rises in Debut

The long-awaited investment vehicle opened trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF's NYSE Debut (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk)