Nick Baker

Nick Baker is CoinDesk's deputy editor-in-chief. He won a Loeb Award for editing CoinDesk's coverage of FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried, including Ian Allison's scoop that caused SBF's empire to collapse. Before joining in 2022, he worked at Bloomberg News for 16 years as a reporter, editor and manager. Previously, he was a reporter at Dow Jones Newswires, wrote for The Wall Street Journal and earned a journalism degree from Ohio University. He owns more than $1,000 of BTC and SOL.

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Finance

Crypto Trading Legend’s Next Move Is Bringing U.S. Treasurys to Blockchains, With Plans for Corporate Bonds, Too

PV01, which launched last month, is using blockchain technology to target long-standing issues in debt capital markets.

Maxime Boonen, co-founder of B2C2 and PV01 (PV01)

Tech

¿Qué dice ChatGPT sobre los activos digitales?

Todd Groth de CoinDesk Indices preguntó a ChatGPT sobre las criptomonedas y luego exploró cómo esto podría influenciar una opinión de inversión.

(ArtemisDiana/GettyImages)

Tech

What ChatGPT Thinks About Digital Assets

Todd Groth of CoinDesk Indices quizzes ChatGPT about crypto and then explores how that might factor into an investment opinion.

(ArtemisDiana/GettyImages)

Markets

A Technical Analyst’s Take on Crypto

Though derided by some, technical analysis provides a graphical representation of investor behavior and helps traders make unemotional decisions, according to CoinDesk Crypto Markets Analyst Glenn Williams.

(Alistair Berg/GettyImages)

Finance

Winklevoss Twins Lent Their Crypto Platform Gemini $100M: Bloomberg

The brothers had tried to get outside investment, Bloomberg said.

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015 (TechCrunch/Wikimedia)

Markets

Dogecoin Drops After Elon Musk's Twitter Stops Using Its Dog Logo

DOGE surged on April 3 after Elon Musk's social-media company inexplicably removed its blue bird logo, replacing it with dogecoin's mascot.

Dogecoin is surging after Twitter changed its logo to the Shiba Inu image that's a symbol of DOGE. (Twitter)

Markets

Crypto Investors: Why You Need to Understand Layer 1 Protocols

There’s value in crypto, especially layer 1 protocols, even if regulators and politicians don’t dig enough to see it.

(Israel Sebastian/GrettyImages)

Policy

Binance's BNB, Bitcoin Tumble After Crypto Twitter Personality Cobie's Wild Guess

@cobie's encrypted message read: "Interpol Red Notice for CZ," Binance's CEO. After someone cracked the code, the post spooked markets, even though it was just a rumor.

Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, at Consensus Singapore 2018 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Las criptomonedas aumentaron durante el primer trimestre a pesar de las débiles percepciones sobre ellas

Glenn Williams Jr. analiza el confuso primer trimestre que produjo ganancias masivas a los inversores de criptomonedas incluso cuando las perspectivas del sector parecerían haber empeorado.

(Erik Witsoe/Getty Images)

Markets

Cryptos Gained in Q1 Despite Weakened Asset Class Perceptions

Glenn Williams Jr. discusses the confounding first quarter, which delivered massive gains to crypto investors even as the industry’s prospects appeared to worsen.

(Erik Witsoe/Getty Images)