Nelson Wang

U.S. News Editor, East Coast

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.

Latest from Nelson Wang

Finance

Marathon Digital Misses Q2 Earnings and Revenue Estimates

The bitcoin miner reported its second-quarter earnings after the close on Tuesday.

Aug 8, 2023

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

Policy

Former FTX Exec Ryan Salame Talking to Prosecutors About Plea Deal: Bloomberg

It was not known whether Salame would cooperate with prosecutors and testify against FTX co-founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.

Aug 8, 2023

Policy

Crypto Brokerage Blockchain.com Receives Institution License From Singapore

The company had received an in-principle approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore last year.

Aug 8, 2023

Singapore skyline (Mike Enerio/Unsplash)

Finance

PayPal to Issue Dollar-Pegged Crypto Stablecoin Based on Ethereum

The token will be available first on PayPal and then on Venmo, and can be exchanged for U.S. dollars at any time.

Aug 7, 2023

Finance

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez to Accept Presidential Campaign Donations in Bitcoin

The move is part of a "process of developing technologies that are going to create democratizing opportunities for wealth creation," Suarez said in an interview on CoinDesk TV on Friday.

Aug 4, 2023

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez will accept bitcoin donations for his presidential campaign. (CoinDesk TV)

Finance

Coinbase Beats Analyst Estimates for Q2, but Transaction Revenue Falls

The crypto exchange beat on both the top and bottom lines, but transaction revenue and total trading volume fell.

Aug 3, 2023

Policy

SEC Charges 18 Utah Defendants in $50M Crypto Fraud Scheme

The defendants sold unregistered securities they called “node licenses” to unsuspecting investors, the SEC said.

Aug 3, 2023

Finance

Crypto Custody Firm BitGo Hires Ex-Genesis Exec Matthew Ballensweig to Lead Go Network

Ballensweig, who was also co-head of trading and lending at Genesis, will head up BitGo's newly launched platform.

Aug 3, 2023

Policy

TradFi Giant Direxion Joins Crypto ETF Race by Filing for Combined Bitcoin and Ether Futures Fund

The move comes the same week that six other companies filed to launch ether futures ETFs.

Aug 2, 2023

Finance

Robinhood Crypto Revenue Fell 18% Sequentially to $31M in Q2

In June, the trading platform ended support for all tokens named as securities in the SEC lawsuits against crypto exchanges Binance and Coinbase.

Aug 2, 2023

A Robinhood pop-up kiosk (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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