Danny Nelson

Danny Nelson

Danny is CoinDesk's deputy business editor. 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, as well as the LinksDAO NFT.

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Galaxy Digital Bitcoin Funds Raise $104M as Institutional Cash Flows In
Galaxy Digital's institutional bitcoin fund raised an average of $1.6 million from its 33 unnamed investors.
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Libra Association Taps Saumya Bhavsar as General Counsel for Payments Subsidiary
Bhavsar joins the Libra Association after 25 years in public- and private-sector banking regulation roles.
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Square Agrees to Buy Credit Karma's Tax Preparation Service for $50M
Cash App will make the DIY tax-prep software available for free to its 30 million monthly users.
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Crypto.com Takes Steps Toward Financial Licensure in Malta
The Hong Kong-based crypto firm received preliminary approval from the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) for two financial licenses.
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PayPal CEO Schulman Says He's Bullish on Bitcoin as a Currency
Schulman spoke about the fall of cash, the rise of bitcoin and the institutional traders taking note of both.
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MicroStrategy Wants to Be in the Bitcoin Business, Not Just an Investor
MicroStrategy executives are on the hunt for blockchain experts who could help the publicly traded firm build a suite of bitcoin data services.
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German Finance Minister Says He Does Not Support Private Cryptos: Report
Olaf Scholz said banks need to adapt for a digital world but seemed to rule out private digital currencies from that future.
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Texas Financial Regulators Crack Down on 15 Alleged Crypto Scams
Many of the alleged crypto scams had a common tactic: savvy social media posts to draw victims in.
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Travel Tech Firm Monaker Group Eyes Regulated Thai ICO Market
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US Is Debating Risk vs. Liability for New Crypto Tax Rules
U.S. Treasury department officials are wrangling with how to focus a coming set of crypto tax rules.
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