David Pan

David Pan was a news reporter at CoinDesk. He previously worked at Fund Intelligence, and interned at the Money Desk of USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. He does not hold investments in cryptocurrency.

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Policy

Chinese Crypto Miners Face Unstable Regulatory Environment

Tightening regulations have unnerved some crypto miners in China.

Crypto miners in China took advantage of low energy rates and a lax regulatory environment, but this may be changing.

Policy

Huobi Asset Management Raises $50M for Crypto 'Tracker' Funds

The four funds will buy bitcoin, ether and equity in crypto or mining firms.

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Markets

Binance's Tesla Stock Token May Have Raised Regulatory Red Flags: Report

Binance may need a license to market security tokens to the Hong Kong public.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao

Policy

US Policy Adviser Rebuts Peter Thiel: Bitcoin Won't Undermine USD

One policy maker says China is unlikely to use bitcoin as a financial weapon against the U.S. dollar.

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.

Finance

Chinese Lottery Firm Furthers Crypto Pivot by Buying Bitcoin Miner Maker for $100M

The acquisition of mining equipment maker Bee Computing comes amid the lottery-turned-crypto-mining firm’s shopping spree.

Cryptocurrency mining equipment

Policy

Fed Chair Powell: Digital Dollar Would Need Stronger Privacy Than Digital Yuan

“The lack of privacy in the Chinese system is just not something we could do here,” Powell told a House committee.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell

Policy

How China’s Digital Yuan Could Go Global

China has been quietly testing platforms where the digital yuan can be freely traded with other fiat currencies.

yuan and usd

Policy

Weibo Suspends Huobi, Binance, OKEx Accounts After Bitcoin Surge

Chinese social media app Weibo suspended the official accounts of four major crypto exchanges: Huobi, Binance, OKEx and MXC.

(Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitmain Accused of Illegally Hiring Engineering Talent in Taiwan

Prosecutors claim more than 100 engineers were poached by the bitcoin mining company.

bitmain

Finance

Controversial Dapps Test Binance Smart Chain’s Decentralization

Developers built politically sensitive applications on Binance Smart Chain as a way of showing the increasingly popular blockchain platform is not as decentralized as Ethereum. The dapps remain online.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao