Jesse Hamilton

Jesse Hamilton is CoinDesk's deputy managing editor on the Global Policy and Regulation team, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining CoinDesk in 2022, he worked for more than a decade covering Wall Street regulation at Bloomberg News and Businessweek, writing about the early whisperings among federal agencies trying to decide what to do about crypto. He’s won several national honors in his reporting career, including from his time as a war correspondent in Iraq and as a police reporter for newspapers. Jesse is a graduate of Western Washington University, where he studied journalism and history. He has no crypto holdings.

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Binance in Talks to Pay More Than $4B to End U.S. Criminal Case; CZ Could Still Face Charges: Bloomberg

A resolution could come as soon as the end of this month, Bloomberg reports.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)

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California, Texas Among States Accusing GS Partners of Misleading Crypto Investors

Offers of a tokenized Dubai skyscraper and assets in the metaverse were fraudulent and unregistered, state regulators say, and boosted by celebrities such as boxer Floyd Mayweather.

Ex-boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. is among celebrity promoters who have been tied to GS Partners, which has been accused by state regulators of committing crypto fraud.  (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

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FBI Arrests Trio Accused of Bilking Banks Out of $10M, Converting Funds to Crypto

Three men allegedly used foreign crypto exchanges to launder the proceeds of a scheme that targeted nearly a dozen financial institutions in the New York metro area.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested three men accused in a complicated scheme to steal $10 million from banks and swap it for crypto. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Ramaswamy Shares Crypto Plan, Making Him the Only GOP Candidate Who Has One

The 2024 U.S. presidential candidate would fire most of the SEC, direct the government to back off crypto software developers and ease a path for digital assets as commodities.

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has shared his plan for how he'd deal with crypto. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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Crypto-Friendly Lawmakers Ask Biden, Yellen to Quantify Hamas' Digital Asset Fundraising

Lawmakers want to know to what extent Hamas may actually be raising crypto funds to finance terrorism, and what role the U.S. has had in seizing those funds.

Rep. Tom Emmer

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CFTC Chief: Nothing Changed After FTX Meltdown to Empower Agency to Prevent Repeat

U.S. CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam says his agency is still awaiting new authorities from Congress to get supervision power over the crypto markets.

Rostin Behnam

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'Mutant Ape Planet' NFT Developer Pleaded Guilty in $3M Fraud

French developer Aurelien Michel pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court and agreed to pay $1.4M, according to prosecutors.

One of the developers behind the "Mutant Ape Planet" rug pull has pleaded guilty to fraud. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk modified by Photomosh.com)

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Crypto Tax Proposal Open for Revision, IRS Officials' Questions Suggest

Federal officials heard Monday from the industry on the mayhem the U.S. crypto tax proposal could cause, but the most valuable revelations may have been what they asked about.

Marisa Coppel, senior counsel at the Blockchain Association, advised Internal Revenue Service officials to narrow their crypto tax proposal. (Courtesy of the Blockchain Association)

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IRS 'Raided' by Crypto Investors as Industry Puts Up Fight Against U.S. Tax Proposal

The proposal to establish a U.S. tax regime for digital assets has drawn a stunning 120,000 comments and will be the focus of an IRS hearing today.

The U.S. is weighing crypto tax rules, and a hearing today will hear from industry representatives worried about the government going too far. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk.)

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U.S. House's Spending Bill Aims to Hamstring SEC's Gensler Amid His Crypto Crackdown

Lawmakers agreed to an amendment from Tom Emmer, a senior House member and vocal crypto supporter, to insert an SEC-blocking provision in their government spending plan.

U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)