Nelson Wang

Nelson edits features and opinion stories and was previously CoinDesk’s U.S. News Editor for the East Coast. He has also been an editor at Unchained and DL News, and prior to working at CoinDesk, he was the technology stocks editor and consumer stocks editor at TheStreet. He has also held editing positions at Yahoo.com and Condé Nast Portfolio’s website, and was the content director for aMedia, an Asian American media company. Nelson grew up on Long Island, New York and went to Harvard College, earning a degree in Social Studies. He holds BTC, ETH and SOL above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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86% of Stablecoin Issuer Tether Was Controlled by 4 People as of 2018: WSJ

Documents reveal the previously unknown ownership structure of the secretive stablecoin issuer.

(Emily Parker/CoinDesk)

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Facebook Parent Meta’s Metaverse Division Lost $13.7B in 2022

The social media giant reported losing $4.3 billion in the division in the fourth quarter of 2022 on revenues of $727 million.

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO de Meta. (Shutterstock)

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Judge Dismisses Proposed Class-Action Lawsuit Alleging Coinbase Sold Unregistered Securities

The customers also accused Coinbase of failing to register as a broker-dealer.

Brian Armstrong in 2019  (Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)

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Shuttered Crypto Exchange Bitzlato Says It Plans to Resume Operations: Report

The exchange has been charged by U.S. and European authorities with laundering $700 million in funds tied to Russian criminals.

KYC, anti-money laundering images are ineffective. (Getty Images)

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US Senators Press Crypto Bank Silvergate on Ties to FTX: Bloomberg

The lawmakers said in a letter that Silvergate’s previous responses to queries were “evasive and incomplete.”

Senator Elizabeth Warren (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

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Judge Rules Identities of 2 Parties Who Backed Sam Bankman-Fried’s $250M Bond Can Be Revealed

A number of media companies filed to get the court to release the names of the people who co-signed Bankman-Fried’s $250 million bail bond.

El fundador de FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, se declaró “no culpable” de ocho cargos en un tribunal federal. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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Moody’s Developing Scoring System for Stablecoins: Bloomberg

The move comes as the quality of stablecoin reserves continues to receive scrutiny.

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Tesla Did Not Buy or Sell Any Bitcoin in the Fourth Quarter

The company reported $34 million in impairment charges to its bitcoin holdings, however.

Tesla sold over $900 million in bitcoin during its second quarter. (Blomst/Pixabay)

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Crypto Exchange Gemini Cutting Another 10% of Staff: Report

Gemini has been swept up in the problems of crypto lender Genesis Global Capital, with which it partnered on an interest-earning product.

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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New FTX Head Says Crypto Exchange Could Be Revived: Wall Street Journal

John J. Ray III made the comment in his first interview since taking over FTX in November.

FTX CEO John Ray III testifies in the U.S. House Financial Services Committee about the company's collapse. (U.S. House Financial Services Committee)