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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Markets

Robinhood Falls in Trading Debut

Shares of the popular zero-commission trading app opened down as much as 10% on Thursday before closing the day down 8.4%.

Robinhood

Markets

BlockFi Gets More Time From NJ Regulators Before New Interest Accounts Are Banned

An order by the New Jersey Bureau of Securities had already been delayed once.

BlockFi app

Tech

Shopify to Allow Merchants to Sell NFTs Directly Through Their Stores

One of the first Shopify merchants to offer NFTs will be the NBA’s Chicago Bulls.

Shopify President Harley Finkelstein

Markets

IRS Tweaks Crypto Question Language on 2021 1040 Draft Form

The revised question asking taxpayers about crypto assets is much simpler and clearer.

The IRS has released a draft version of the 2021 1040 form.

Policy

Solidus Hires Ex-Head of CFPB to Be Top Regulatory Official

The addition of Kathy Kraninger is the latest hiring of a former Trump official by a cryptocurrency company.

Ex-CFPB director Kathy Kraninger will become Solidus Labs' head of regulatory affairs.

Markets

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Holds Bitcoin at 'B Word' Conference

The tech entrepreneur and provocateur said he personally owns bitcoin, ether and, naturally, dogecoin.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk

Markets

New York Giants Star Saquon Barkley Will Take All Future Endorsement Money in Bitcoin

The running back said he heeded some advice from Strike CEO Jack Mallers in making his decision.

New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley.