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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SEC Seeking 'Smart Contract' Tracing Tool That Can Spot Security Vulnerabilities

The federal securities watchdog has taken an interest in DeFi's most basic building block.

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NetWalker Ransomware Gang Is Storing $7M in Bitcoin in SegWit Cold Storage

The organization that’s encrypting computers and extorting companies has taken to SegWit addresses, according to McAfee and CipherTrace.

(Ilya Pavlov/Unsplash)

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Ripple Snaps XRP Sales Slump With $33M of the Crypto Sold in Q2

XRP sales had slumped ever since Ripple paused programmatic sales during Q3 2019.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse. (Christopher Michel/Wikimedia Commons)

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Travala.com Adds Agoda Hotels, Posts Record July Revenue as Crypto Payments Soar

The Binance-backed travel agency brought in $400,000 in July, a 100% increase from the month before.

(Shutterstock)

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Inside a Crypto 'Ponzi': How the $6.5M Banana.Fund Fraud Unravelled

U.S. authorities are trying to return $6.5 million in bitcoin and tether to the victims of an alleged Ponzi scheme.

(Anthony Easton/Flickr)

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Officials Arrest 3 Allegedly Behind Twitter Hack

A Florida teenager suspected of spearheading the massive Twitter hack and subsequent high-profile bitcoin scam is in custody.

The 17-year-old hacker suspect faces 30 felony charges. (Twitter.com)

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Coinbase Considering 19 Additional Cryptos for Exchange Listing

The popular trading platform isonce considering expanding its list of crypto assets.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong speaks at Consensus 2019.

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SEC Wants to Start Scrutinizing Binance Chain Transactions

Company executives anticipated regulators might one day take an interest in Binance Chain

Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao

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Coda Protocol Touts User Growth One Year Into Testnet

The O(1) Labs project thinks recursive zk-SNARKs are the key to more manageable blockchains.

(Ricardo Gomez Angel/Unsplash)

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Paxful Chips Away at LocalBitcoins' Russian P2P Market Dominance

Paxful’s year-old foray into Russian crypto markets is paying off for the peer-to-peer exchange.

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