Nick Baker

Deputy Editor-in-Chief

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.

Latest from Nick Baker

Policy

Binance.US Not Being Totally Forthcoming, SEC Complains in New Filing

The SEC and Binance.US filed a joint status report detailing ongoing discovery efforts on Tuesday.

Mar 5, 2024

Finance

Bitcoin Soared to an All-Time High. So Why Aren't Miners Blasting Off, Too?

One explanation: Investors are pouring money into spot ETFs while avoiding miners due to risks related to the Bitcoin halving.

Mar 5, 2024

Markets

Bitcoin Soars to a Record – but What's the Price? And What Was the Old All-Time High?

From Coinbase to Reuters and CoinDesk, there's disagreement over BTC's price.

Mar 5, 2024

What's the all-time high for bitcoin's price? (Uday Mittal/Unsplash)

Finance

Bitcoin ETF Giant Grayscale Introduces a Crypto Staking Fund

The Grayscale Dynamic Income Fund initially includes APT, TIA, CBETH, ATOM, NEAR, OSMO, DOT, SEI and SOL.

Mar 5, 2024

Markets

Bitcoin Tumbles 10% After Hitting Record High; Triggers $1B Crypto Liquidations

Bitcoin's new all-time high Tuesday quickly turned into a bloodbath, flushing out overzealous leveraged traders.

Mar 5, 2024

Bitcoin price action on March 5 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Osprey Bitcoin Trust Looking for a Buyer or Possible Merger with Bitcoin ETF

The company said that if this process is unsuccessful, it "intends to liquidate and dissolve the Trust within 180 days from today."

Mar 5, 2024

Finance

Bitcoin ETF Issuer VanEck Has Huge Crypto Growth Goals in Europe

Martijn Rozemuller, the CEO of VanEck Europe, sees crypto eventually matching its other product lines in terms of assets under management.

Mar 5, 2024

VanEck Europe sees its crypto business become equally as important as its other ventures in the future, the Amsterdam-based division of VanEck told CoinDesk in an interview. (Flickr/moonjazz)

Tech

Taiko, an 'Ethereum-Equivalent ZK Rollup,' Raises $15M

The Taiko project, distinguished for its "based sequencing" architecture, is one of several competing for relevance among a deep field of Ethereum layer-2 networks.

Mar 2, 2024

Blockchain "layers" and "rollups" are getting attention from investors in crypto venture-capital circles. (Unsplash)

Policy

Wall Street Journal Accused of Defamation Over 2023 Tether-Bitfinex Article

Christopher Harborne and his aviation fuel broker AML Global were wrongly accused of "committing fraud, laundering money, and financing terrorists," according to the lawsuit.

Mar 1, 2024

Policy

UK Law Enforcement Will Soon Have More Power to Seize Crypto Assets

The ability to take crypto used for crime, including terrorism, looks poised to take effect on April 26.

Mar 1, 2024

A U.K. policeman seen from behind stands in the middle of road

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