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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Politiche

U.S. Lawmakers Seek to Overturn SEC's Crypto Accounting Policy

Sen. Lummis and members of the House are pushing to repeal the SEC's Staff Accounting Bulletin 121, an effort that makes it harder for companies to custody crypto.

SEC Chair Gary Gensler in Washington on Oct. 25, 2023 (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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OPNX, the Exchange Built by Founders of Doomed Hedge Fund Three Arrows, Is Shutting Down

Customers were advised to settle their positions by Feb. 7 and withdraw their money by Feb. 14.

Kyle Davies (left) and Su Zhu (middle). (Kyle Davies/X)

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Binance Is Facing Regulatory Headwinds as It Tries to Re-Enter UK Market: Bloomberg

The largest crypto exchange in the world stopped offering its services to U.K. customers in October after it failed to comply with a rule change made by regulators last year.

UK United Kingdom British England Flag (Unsplash)

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Larry David Calls Himself an 'Idiot' for Doing Infamous FTX Super Bowl Ad

Sam Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency exchange infamously collapsed months after the commercial.

Larry David on Super Bowl ad for Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX: 'Like an Idiot, I Did It' (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

Mercati

JUP Token Soars After Massive $700M Jupiter Airdrop to Solana Wallets

Validators called the airdrop a success. "Surprisingly, nothing notable" broke, one operator said.

Arbitrum airdrop goes live. (Pexel/Pixabay)

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Tether Reports Record $2.85B Profit as Biggest Stablecoin Nears $100B Market Cap

The stablecoin issuer held over $5.4 billion in excess reserves as of 2023 year-end, according to its latest attestation.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Tether)

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Solana Startup Dialect Builds 'Conversational' Telegram Trading Bot

Chat is the "ideal human-computer interface," said CEO Chris Osborn.

Dialect Operator's interface (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Is Grayscale Takeover Bait Amid Bitcoin ETF Battle?

Experts said newcomers in the bitcoin investing game could be enticed by Grayscale, the incumbent with a huge lead.

Michael Sonnenshein (CoinDesk)

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FTX Sold About $1B of Grayscale's Bitcoin ETF, Explaining Much of Outflow: Sources

BTC's price has fallen since bitcoin ETFs were approved. In theory, now that FTX is done selling its substantial holdings, the selling pressure could ease since a bankruptcy estate liquidating holdings is a relatively unique event.

FTX logo (Adobe Firefly)

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He Exposed Harvard President's Plagiarism, Then Lost Money Betting on the Story

Are prediction markets the future of investigative journalism? Maybe, says Chris Brunet, whose reporting led to Claudine Gay's resignation – though he's yet to profit from his scoops.

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 05: (L-R) Dr. Claudine Gay, President of Harvard University, Liz Magill, President of University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Pamela Nadell, Professor of History and Jewish Studies at American University, and Dr. Sally Kornbluth, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, testify before the House Education and Workforce Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 05, 2023 in Washington, DC. The Committee held a hearing to investigate antisemitism on college campuses. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)