Nick Baker

Nick Baker is CoinDesk's deputy editor-in-chief. He won a Loeb Award for editing CoinDesk's coverage of FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried, including Ian Allison's scoop that caused SBF's empire to collapse. Before joining in 2022, he worked at Bloomberg News for 16 years as a reporter, editor and manager. Previously, he was a reporter at Dow Jones Newswires, wrote for The Wall Street Journal and earned a journalism degree from Ohio University. He owns more than $1,000 of BTC and SOL.

Nick Baker

Dernières de Nick Baker


Juridique

Crypto-Friendly Bank Ordered by Fed to Limit Risks From Digital Asset Clients

Customers Bank has agreed to tackle the regulator's concerns that it's strayed from proper compliance with its digital assets clients.

A Customers Bank poster at Consensus 2022.

Marchés

Bitcoin Prices See Wild Trading as Trump Plans to Establish BTC as U.S. Strategic Asset

Over $24 million in bitcoin longs were liquidated in the past hour, data shows, amid Trump's speech at Bitcoin 2024.

Donald Trump (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Juridique

Senator Lummis Proposes the U.S. Buy 1M Bitcoin to Reduce National Debt

The Wyoming senator brought a copy of her legislation to the stage at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville.

Senator Cynthia Lummis on stage in Nashville with a copy of her bitcoin reserve bill (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Juridique

Trump Backs U.S. Bitcoin Reserve and Says Democrat Win Will Be Disaster for Crypto: 'Every One of You Will Be Gone'

Thousands of bitcoiners camped out for hours to see crypto's self-declared candidate on Saturday at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville.

Bitcoin price could be tied to the outcome of the U.S. election, Jefferies said. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Juridique

Democratic Crypto Supporters Call for Crypto-Friendly Party Platform

Crypto advocates in the U.S. House want their party to adopt a "forward-looking approach" to digital assets.

Key U.S. lawmakers met Thursday to talk about how to advance stablecoin legislation. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Trump Speaks Saturday at the Bitcoin Conference. Here's What Attendees Like 'The Crypto Patriot' Hope He Says.

“I want to hear [Trump] give a bold statement on the future of crypto and spark up what we all want," one person said.

Donald Trump (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Juridique

Jersey City to Invest in Bitcoin ETFs, the Latest Pension to Dive Into Crypto

“The question on whether Crypto/Bitcoin is here to stay is largely over + crypto/Bitcoin won,” said Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop in a tweet.

Jersey City, New Jersey (Zoshua Colah/Unsplash)

Marchés

VanEck Sees Bitcoin Hitting $2.9M by 2050 – but a Lot Has to Happen First

Bitcoin is benefiting from massive economic imbalances, rising distrust in institutions, fiscal recklessness and mounting debt burden, VanEck's Matthew Sigel said in an interview.

Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper on Halloween Day in 2008. (Jonathan Borba/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Analyse de Nouvelles

Staking in Ethereum ETFs Might Be a Question of When, Not If

The eight spot ether exchange-traded funds had a largely successful launch on Tuesday, despite the missing staking feature that many investors had hoped to profit from.

Staking (Shutterstock)

Finance

$GREED 2.0: A New Lesson in Crypto Avarice That Might Also Enrich the People It Dupes

The first iteration of the $GREED project tricked people into tweeting an embarrassing message. This time, their money is frozen – but earning money.

GREED logo (Voshy/Medium)