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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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Survey
More Than Half of Financial Advisors Want Better Regulation Before Investing in Crypto
More than half of financial advisors are too spooked by regulatory uncertainty to initiate or expand their cryptocurrency investments, a new study by Bitwise Asset Management...
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By Danny Nelson
Jan 14, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. UTC
Jan 14, 2020
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Markets
Securitize
Securitize Opens IRAs to Digital Securities Investors With Partnership
Digital asset issuer Securitize has facilitated what it says is the first direct IRA investment in security token offerings.
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By Danny Nelson
Jan 14, 2020 at 1:03 p.m. UTC
Jan 14, 2020
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Tech
Factom
Off-Blocks Launches US Government-Tested Digital Signature Service in Beta
Digital signature platform Off-Blocks is bringing its Department of Homeland Security-tested file verification tool to the public.
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By Danny Nelson
Jan 14, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. UTC
Jan 14, 2020
FactomDigital SignatureOff -Blocks
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Policy
Crime
US Lawmakers Call on Communications Regulator to Tackle SIM-Swapping Crime
Democrat lawmakers are demanding that the FCC takes action to tackle the rise in SIM swapping attacks.
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By Danny Nelson
Jan 10, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. UTC
Jan 10, 2020
CrimeRegulationFCCSIM SwappingSherrod BrownAjit Pai
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Markets
Facebook
Facebook's Zuckerberg Highlights Digital Commerce, but Not Libra, in 2030 Vision
Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook wants to build commerce tools for small businesses which use the social media giant's apps, but noticeably avoided mentioning the Libra stablecoi...
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By Danny Nelson
Jan 9, 2020 at 8:45 p.m. UTC
Jan 9, 2020
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Policy
Illinois
Illinois Legalizes Blockchain Contracts
With the new year Illinois became the latest state to recognize smart contracts and other blockchain-based records as legal instruments.
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By Danny Nelson
Jan 9, 2020 at 7:31 p.m. UTC
Jan 9, 2020
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Markets
Sec
SEC Charges Man Behind Alleged Crypto Mining Scam
The SEC claims Donald Blakstad bilked investors of $3.5 million. One scheme involved a non-existent crypto mining operation.
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By Danny Nelson
Jan 9, 2020 at 6:11 p.m. UTC
Jan 9, 2020
SECESIDonald Blakstad
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Tech
Hacking
AT&T's Cybersecurity Branch Breaks Down Crypto Miner Threat to Email Servers
A new technical analysis from AT&T Alien Labs offers an inside look at how a pernicious form of monero mining malware infiltrates email networks.
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By Danny Nelson
Jan 9, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. UTC
Jan 9, 2020
HackingMonero
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Finance
Youtube
YouTube Calls Crypto Purge a Mistake but Many Videos Still Missing
YouTube shut down dozens of crypto videos in a move that it admits was a mistake.
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By Danny Nelson
Dec 26, 2019 at 7:53 p.m. UTC
Dec 26, 2019
YouTube
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Markets
E-commerce
Holiday Spending Jumps as E-Commerce Beats Brick-and-Mortar
Holiday spending rose this year as e-commerce overtook brick-and-mortar sales again this year.
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By John BiggsDanny Nelson
Dec 26, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. UTC
Dec 26, 2019
E-CommerceSales