Danny Nelson

Danny was CoinDesk's managing editor for Data & Tokens. He formerly ran investigations for the Tufts Daily. At CoinDesk, his beats include (but are not limited to): federal policy, regulation, securities law, exchanges, the Solana ecosystem, smart money doing dumb things, dumb money doing smart things and tungsten cubes. He owns BTC, ETH and SOL tokens, as well as the LinksDAO NFT.

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Markets

Binance Sues Forbes for Defamation Over ‘Tai Chi’ Document Leak

Binance sued Forbes for defamation Wednesday over a story last month that purported to reveal regulatory evasion tactics.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao

Markets

'Not My Cup of Tea': Jamie Dimon Is Still Not a Bitcoin Fan

The JPMorgan Chase CEO said it's only a matter of time before the government moves to regulate bitcoin.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon

Finance

ConsenSys Acquires Blockchain Developer Toolmaker Truffle Suite

ConsenSys is adding dapp development platform Truffle Suite back to its lineup of wholly owned Ethereum tools.

Truffle's Wes McVay (left) and Tim Coulter (right) speak at TruffleCon 2018

Markets

Robinhood Gearing Up for Potential IPO in Early 2021: Report

Robinhood is looking for a banking team to partner in an IPO that could come next year.

Robinhood

Markets

This $29B Asset Advisory Is Giving Wealth Managers and Clients a Bitcoin On-Ramp

Mariner Wealth Advisors has tapped crypto firm Eaglebrook for its new bitcoin allocation engine.

stockbroker

Markets

Scaramucci's $9.2B SkyBridge 'May Seek Exposure to Digital Assets'

SkyBridge Capital is giving itself an opening to indirectly invest in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

SkyBridge Capital. founder Anthony Scaramucci

Markets

Payza Founders Sentenced in $250M Money Laundering Case

Canadian brothers Firoz and Ferhan Patel are headed to prison after admitting their payments company had broken the law.

US jail

Markets

Mike Novogratz's Galaxy Digital Nets $44.3M in Q3

Galaxy Digital was trading slightly higher on the news.

Michael Novogratz of Galaxy Digital

Markets

Bank of England Official Balks at Shielding Banks Against Digital Currencies: Report

Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe says protecting bank business models is not BoE's responsibility.

Bank of England

Markets

Trump's Post-Election Purge Reaches US Cybersecurity Agency

CISA Director Krebs expects to be fired, Reuters reports. Hours earlier, his deputy resigned under pressure.

Christopher C. Krebs, director of the Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.