Danny Nelson

Danny is 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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Finance

Ex-Pantera Partner's New Crypto Fund Is 'Not for the Faint of Heart'

Paul Brodsky is helming a new crypto investment firm called PostModern Partners that bets on volatile digital assets, not bitcoin.

Paul Brodsky

Markets

Valentus Capital Plans $50M Token Raise for Credit Fund: Report

The yet-to-be-registered asset manager hopes to launch its VAL1 token later this year.

New York

Markets

0x, Kraken and Stellar Awarded Board Seats at Top Crypto Lobbying Association

The new board members represent decentralized finance and institutional crypto alike.

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Markets

Facebook's Libra Co-Founder Morgan Beller Departs to Return to VC

Beller, 27, will become a general partner at NFX. She'd worked at a16z before joining Facebook.

Morgan Beller, general partner at NFX

Markets

Silk Road Programmer Pleads Guilty to Making False Statements

Michael Weigand faces a five-year maximum sentence for hiding his role with Silk Road from investigators.

Alert placed on the Silk Road 2.0's homepage following its seizure by the U.S. government and European law enforcement.

Markets

Bitcoin Miner Bitfarms Leases 2,000 Rigs From BlockFills, Has Option for Up to 7,000 More

Bitfarms boost its mining power by 360 PH with the new lease, set to run for 24 months.

Cryptocurrency mining machines

Markets

CIA's New Research Lab to Study Blockchain

CIA Labs will give officers an outlet to patent and profit from their tech inventions.

The cryptographic puzzle/statue "Kryptos" at CIA headquarters.

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Policy

Stripe to Pay $120,000 in PlexCoin ICO Settlement With Massachusetts Attorney General

The payments processor facilitated millions of dollars of PlexCoin investments before shuttering accounts in September 2017.

Suffolk County Superior Court in Boston.

Markets

NVIDIA Lawyers Dismiss Investors' Crypto Mining Doc Requests: Report

Investors accuse NVIDIA of bungling the chipmaker's response to 2017's mining hardware boom.

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