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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Finance

Mahesh Ramakrishnan: The DePIN Cheerleader

Decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) took off bigtime this year, and EV3 Ventures’ Ramakrishnan was at the center of it all.

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Finance

Michael Saylor: The Architect of MicroStrategy’s Huge Bitcoin Bet

Most companies were leery of Saylor’s strategy when he started amassing bitcoin back in 2020. Some are no longer skeptical.

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Tech

Robin Linus: Scaling Crypto’s Premier Network

The developer behind BitVM is facilitating the building of more and more applications atop Bitcoin.

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Tech

Yat Siu: Fighting for Digital Property Rights

The Animoca Brands co-founder, a big investor in NFTs, GameFi and memecoins, wants to make on-chain capitalism secure so that digital democracy can flourish.

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Policy

Patrick McHenry: The Lawmaker Who Built a Foundation for U.S. Crypto Legislation

The outgoing chair of the House Financial Services Committee deserves significant credit for getting the FIT21 market structure bill through the House in 2024.

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Finance

Arthur Hayes: The USDe Visionary and Fiat Skeptic

Ethena (USDe) has been one of Arthur Hayes' family office’s most prolific investments. It's also a great synthesis of Hayes' fiat-skeptic views.

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Policy

Brian Nelson: Leading the Charge Against Tornado Cash

As a U.S. Treasury official, Nelson went after the asset mixing service in a consequential case for the crypto sector that came to a head in 2024.

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Tech

Greg Osuri: Delivering on DePIN

The co-founder of the Akash Network is utilizing DePIN to make computing power more affordable to individual users.

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Finance

Eric Semler: Following MicroStrategy’s Lead

The chairman of Semler Scientific underscored that buying bitcoin was not just for digital asset companies.

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Policy

Julia Leung: Hong Kong’s Crypto Proponent

The CEO of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission is playing a critical role in the region’s bid to establish itself as a global hub for crypto.

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