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Nelson Wang

U.S. News Editor, East Coast

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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Tech

Coinbase's Much-Hyped New Base Blockchain Draws Modest $10M of Inflows on Launch Day

Nearly $166 million had already flowed to the blockchain ahead of the official launch.

Aug 10, 2023

(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Riot Posts Mixed Q2 Earnings Report, Sees Growing Consolidation in Industry

Riot Platforms reported its second-quarter earnings after the close on Wednesday.

Aug 9, 2023

A close-up of one of Riot's mining rigs. (Riot Blockchain)

Policy

Congresswoman Maxine Waters Says She’s ‘Deeply Concerned’ About PayPal’s New Stablecoin

The top Democrat on the House Financial Service Committee said federal rules should be in place before a company the size of PayPal issues a stablecoin.

Aug 9, 2023

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) (Sarah Morris/Getty Images)

Finance

Marathon Digital Misses Q2 Earnings and Revenue Estimates

The bitcoin miner reported its second-quarter earnings after the close on Tuesday.

Aug 8, 2023

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

Policy

Former FTX Exec Ryan Salame Talking to Prosecutors About Plea Deal: Bloomberg

It was not known whether Salame would cooperate with prosecutors and testify against FTX co-founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.

Aug 8, 2023

FTX Logo (Unsplash)

Policy

Crypto Brokerage Blockchain.com Receives Institution License From Singapore

The company had received an in-principle approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore last year.

Aug 8, 2023

Singapore skyline (Mike Enerio/Unsplash)

Finance

PayPal to Issue Dollar-Pegged Crypto Stablecoin Based on Ethereum

The token will be available first on PayPal and then on Venmo, and can be exchanged for U.S. dollars at any time.

Aug 7, 2023

(CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez to Accept Presidential Campaign Donations in Bitcoin

The move is part of a "process of developing technologies that are going to create democratizing opportunities for wealth creation," Suarez said in an interview on CoinDesk TV on Friday.

Aug 4, 2023

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez will accept bitcoin donations for his presidential campaign. (CoinDesk TV)

Finance

Coinbase Beats Analyst Estimates for Q2, but Transaction Revenue Falls

The crypto exchange beat on both the top and bottom lines, but transaction revenue and total trading volume fell.

Aug 3, 2023

(Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

Policy

SEC Charges 18 Utah Defendants in $50M Crypto Fraud Scheme

The defendants sold unregistered securities they called “node licenses” to unsuspecting investors, the SEC said.

Aug 3, 2023

(Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock)
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