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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Markets

Gold and Bitcoin Won't 'Cannibalize' Each Other: Goldman Sachs Analysts

The dueling commodities inhabit different ends of the investor spectrum and can coexist in a portfolio, the analysts said.

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Bank Analysts Clash on Square Price Targets After Q4 Results

Analysts with Royal Bank of Canada and Goldman Sachs gave divergent estimates for the bitcoin-friendly payments firm.

Square And Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Speaks At Empowering Entrepreneurs Event

Markets

MicroStrategy Bets Another $1B on Bitcoin

MicroStrategy turned a veritable mountain of zero-interest debt into its single-largest bitcoin allocation yet.

MicroStrategy CEO Michael J. Saylor

Markets

Shares in Iced-Tea-Maker-Turned-Blockchain-Firm Delisted by SEC

Long Blockchain Corporation's shares have been ejected from U.S. public markets.

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Markets

MoneyGram Puts Relationship With Ripple's XRP on Hold

The money transfer company said it "is not planning for any benefit from Ripple market development fees" in Q1. In last year's Q1, MoneyGram banked $12.1 million in such fees.

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Finance

Bitcoin Brokerage River Financial Raises $17M: SEC Filings

River Financial's equity sale comes as the high-end brokerage embarks on a major hiring push.

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Markets

MicroStrategy Raises $1.05B in Latest Debt-for-Bitcoin Offering

MicroStrategy's business strategy is to buy as much bitcoin as it possibly can.

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Markets

Fidelity's Charity Arm Raised $28M in Crypto Donations Last Year

The 2020 crypto totals beat 2019's tally of $13 million, but the amount fell short of 2018's $30 million.

Fidelity CEO Abigail Johnson at Consenys 2017

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Tesla Tapped Coinbase for $1.5B Bitcoin Buy: Report

Coinbase is emerging as a major player in corporate America's march toward bitcoin.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk