Daniel Palmer

Previously one of CoinDesk's longest-tenured contributors, and now one of our news editors, Daniel has authored over 750 stories for the site. When not writing or editing, he likes to make ceramics.

Daniel holds small amounts of BTC and ETH (See: Editorial Policy).

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OneCoin Lawsuit Could Be Thrown Out Over Plaintiff Failings, Warns Judge

A class action against the accused cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme may be dismissed with prejudice unless the plaintiffs up their game.

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Tech

HTC Is Bringing Cryptocurrency Mining to Its Exodus Blockchain Phone

The Taiwan-based tech giant is to allow users of its Exodus 1S to mine monero, but it isn't going to make them rich.

HTC EXODUS image via Nikhilesh De for CoinDesk

Policy

Cryptopia Users Win Victory in Court Case Over Crypto Assets Worth Over $100M

In the fallout from a massive hack of the New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange, users at last have a little good news.

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Policy

Major Crypto Firms Including Binance, Civic, Tron Targeted in Flood of Lawsuits

A flood of class-action lawsuits were filed in New York Friday, taking aim at a number of major cryptocurrency projects over their token sales.

U.S. Southern District Court, New York

Markets

Thousands of Microsoft Servers Infected by Crypto-Mining Botnet Since 2018, Says Report

The attackers have apparently been targeting Microsoft SQL database servers to mine cryptocurrency for two years.

Servers (credit: Shutterstock/Gorodenkoff)

Policy

Steem Fork Faces Legal Threat From Mining Firm Over 'Hive' Name

A new blockchain called Hive is being told it needs to change its name just days after it was created in a fork from Steem.

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Markets

Baidu Employee Jailed for Mining Crypto on 200 Company Servers

The search engine developer downloaded monero mining scripts onto 200 of Baidu's servers.

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Policy

US Woman Gets 13 Years in Jail After Funding ISIS With Cryptocurrency

The woman fraudulently obtained credit card numbers in order to buy $62,000 in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

Protestors with ISIS flag. Credit: Shutterstock/Musaib Mushtaq

Finance

Crypto Payments Firm Halts Operations Citing Singapore's New Regulatory Regime

Singapore-based Coinpip said it has "suspended operations" while it looks at becoming licensed under new AML rules.

Singapore (MOLPIX/Shutterstock)

Markets

Coinbase Moves to Cut Blockchain Load With Bitcoin Batching

The San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange has started grouping multiple bitcoin transactions together to benefit both users and the blockchain.

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