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

Prime Factor Capital Is Shutting Down: Lack of Capital Cited as Prime Factor

The firm became Britain's first FCA-approved crypto hedge fund last July.

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Markets

Boston Fed Wants to Hire a Digital Currency Engineer

The one-year position will work on the Applied Fintech Research team's digital currency experiments.

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Finance

BitGo Now Supports Custody and Staking of Tezos’ XTZ

The addition expands BitGo’s proof-of-stake offerings, first unveiled last October.

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe

Markets

NBA Player Spencer Dinwiddie's Token Sale Hits 10% of $13.5M Goal

Spencer Dinwiddie has sold just nine of 90 shares of his contract, raising $1.4 million instead of the $13.5 million he'd intended.

Brooklyn Nets player Spencer Dinwiddie (Tdorante10/Wikimedia Commons)

Markets

Visa Blog Post Hints at Future Digital Currency Projects

Visa appeared on Wednesday to redouble its efforts to “shape and support” cryptocurrency’s place in the “future of money.”

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Markets

tZERO Plans to Support Trading of Aspencoin Ski Resort Digital Security

Token issuer Aspen Digital raised $18 million selling digital shares of the St. Regis resort in 2018.

Aspen Digital Inc. raised $18 million selling Aspencoin in 2018. (Wolfgang Moroder/Wikimedia Commons)

Policy

Latvian Police Seize Crypto Worth $126K in Bust of Suspected Cybercrime Ring

The “large-scale" money laundering operation ran from 2015 through 2020, police officials allege.

Latvian police (meunierd/Shutterstock)

Markets

Grayscale Moves to List Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin Trusts for OTC Traders

Bitcoin Cash Trust and Litecoin Trust will carry the tickers BCHG and LTCN once they commence OTC trading.

Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein speaks at Consensus: Invest 2018. (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

SEC Commissioner Peirce Blasts Regulator's Action Against Telegram

"Crypto Mom" took no prisoners in her fiery rebuke of the SEC's Telegram action.

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Tech

CipherTrace Says It Can Instantly Flag Shady Transactions With Predictive Risk Scores

The blockchain analytics firm claims its new system respects crypto users’ privacy while also flagging suspect transactions.

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