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

Bank of England Says Crypto Has Grown to Twice the Size of Subprime Debt in 2008

The BoE’s deputy governor of financial stability said that crypto now potentially poses a risk to the global financial system.

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Finance

Hashmasks Is Behind New NFTs by Notorious Art Forger Wolfgang Beltracchi

The NFT collective says it’s giving access to an artist who would otherwise have no way to exhibit his work.

Wolfgang Beltracchi at work in his studio. (Alberto Venzago/Hashmasks)

Policy

South Korea Opposition Party Trying to Make Changes to Crypto Tax: Report

The bill would delay the legislation coming into effect from the currently planned Jan. 1, 2022, to the beginning of 2023.

South Korea

Policy

South Korea’s 20% Tax on Crypto Gains Will Take Effect in 2022: Report

NFTs appear to be exempt from the crypto taxes for now because South Korea does not classify them as “virtual assets.”

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Finance

Twitter Exec Shares ‘Sneak Peek’ of NFT Profile Verification

Users’ avatars would get a check mark similar to the blue check mark given to verified Twitter users.

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Finance

Fintech App Titan Adds Algorand, Chainlink and Uniswap to Actively Managed Crypto Portfolio

The company believes the three cryptos will outperform others as they become more widely adopted.

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Finance

FTX Moves Headquarters From Hong Kong to Bahamas

The move comes as regulators around the world are stepping up their scrutiny of cryptocurrencies.

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Finance

Institutional Investors Preferring Ether Over Bitcoin Now: JPMorgan

The spread between futures prices and spot prices for the two cryptos is telling, analysts wrote.

JPMorgan

Finance

BlockFi Gets Another Extension From NJ Regulators on New Interest Accounts Ban

An order prohibiting the crypto lender from creating new interest-bearing accounts has now been postponed for the third time to Dec. 1.

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Policy

Crypto Markets Need More Scrutiny From SEC, Investor Groups Say

The advocacy groups called the crypto industry “a Wild West” in a letter to SEC Chair Gary Gensler.  

SEC Chairman Gary Gensler