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.

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Binance's CZ Will Spend Less Than a Year in Prison, Polymarket Traders Bet

Also, the CFTC wants to bar Americans from betting on elections – even though it's already illegal in most U.S. states.

Binance ex-CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao leaves the U.S. District Court in Seattle on Nov. 21, 2023. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

Finanzas

Stripe Brings Back Crypto Payments Via USDC Stablecoin

The payments firm stopped taking crypto payments in 2018 due to bitcoin’s high volatility.

Stripe co-founder and President John Collison said, "crypto is finding real utility," in a keynote on Thursday. (Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images)

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Kara Swisher Downplays Crypto's Significance: 'It's Not the Center of Everything'

The author of "Burn Book" says argued that the cryptocurrency sector has been caught up in a "huge hype cycle" with a considerable amount of "scammery" involved.

Kara Swisher (CoinDesk)

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Do Kwon's Huge Fine Shows the SEC Is Ratcheting Up Penalties Against Crypto Firms

Suggested fines the securities watchdog suggested for Terraform Labs and Ripple are out-of-line with what it has collected from crypto firms in the past.

A U.S. jury began deliberating in the civil trial against Do Kwon and the company he co-founded, accused of fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission. (CoinDesk TV and Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Tether's Stablecoin Dominance May Wane Following Proposed U.S. Rules: S&P

The new regulations could offer banks a competitive edge by limiting institutions without a banking license to a maximum stablecoin issuance of $10 billion, the report said.

Stop sign (Krišjānis Kazaks/Unsplash)

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Bitcoin Payments App Strike Launches for European Customers

The app, which has been available in the U.S. since 2020, also recently expanded its services to Africa.

Strike CEO Jack Mallers speaking at the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami Beach, Florida (Frederick Munawa)

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Do Kwon, Terraform Labs Should Get $5.3B Fine, SEC Tells Court

The massive sum is a “conservative measure” of Terraform Labs and Do Kwon’s ill-gotten gains, according to the SEC.

A U.S. jury began deliberating in the civil trial against Do Kwon and the company he co-founded, accused of fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission. (CoinDesk TV and Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Ether ETFs Are Unlikely to Be Approved in May: Standard Chartered

The bank reiterated its year-end bitcoin and ether targets of $150,000 and $8,000, respectively.

SEC headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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NYSE Asks Market Participants About 24/7 Trading for Stocks

Round-the-clock trading became popular with the rise of cryptocurrencies and an increase in retail investor activity during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The New York Stock Exchange (Tomas Eidsvold/Unsplash)

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Shiba Inu Fetches $12M Investment in a Token Sale to Build Privacy-Focused Blockchain

The new network will be built on top of layer-2 network Shibarium and offer enhanced privacy for users.

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