Nelson Wang

Nelson edits features and opinion stories and was previously CoinDesk’s U.S. News Editor for the East Coast. He has also been an editor at Unchained and DL News, and prior to working at CoinDesk, he was the technology stocks editor and consumer stocks editor at TheStreet. He has also held editing positions at Yahoo.com and Condé Nast Portfolio’s website, and was the content director for aMedia, an Asian American media company. Nelson grew up on Long Island, New York and went to Harvard College, earning a degree in Social Studies. He holds BTC, ETH and SOL above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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FTX in Talks to Buy South Korean Crypto Exchange Bithumb: Report

Bithumb’s parent company is considering either an outright sale or a joint ownership.

Bithumb is one of South Korea's largest crypto exchanges (Shutterstock)

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Tesla Recorded $64M Gain on Bitcoin Sales in Q2

The electric car company also posted an impairment of $170 million on its remaining bitcoin holdings.

A Tesla charging station (Getty Images)

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My Big Coin Founder Convicted of Defrauding Investors of More Than $6M

Randall Crater was found guilty of peddling a cryptocurrency scam.

(Oleksandr Berezko /EyeEm/Getty Images)

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Tesla Sold $936M Worth of Bitcoin in Second Quarter

The price of bitcoin fell about 1.7% following the news but regained its losses after CEO Elon Musk said Tesla was open to boosting its bitcoin exposure in the future.

A Tesla Model S car (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Tesla May Take $460M Impairment Charge on Its Bitcoin Holdings for Q2, Analyst Says

The cryptocurrency's price fell significantly during the quarter.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Hannibal Hanschke-Pool/Getty Images)

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OpenSea Lays Off Roughly 20% of Its Staff

CEO Devin Finzer cited an “unprecedented combination of crypto winter and broad macroeconomic instability.”

OpenSea is preparing for the possibility of an extended crypto downturn. (OpenSea/CoinDesk, modified PhotoMosh and BeFunky)

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US Bankruptcy Court Approves Foreign Administrator for Three Arrows Capital's Debt

The administrator will also be able to subpoena the crypto hedge fund's founders.

Su Zhu of Three Arrows Capital (CoinDesk)

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Sam Bankman-Fried Says He’d Consider Acquiring Troubled Crypto Miners Next

The FTX CEO said helping bail out crypto miners might help mitigate the credit contagion in the crypto sector.

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO de FTX. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Voyager Digital Temporarily Suspends All Trading, Withdrawals and Deposits

Shares of the troubled digital broker plunged more than 26% in U.S. trading on Friday.

The Voyager Digital app (Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

FTX Close to Buying BlockFi for Just $25M

The beleaguered crypto lender was reportedly close to finalizing a down round valuing it at $1 billion earlier this month.

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO de FTX. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)