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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Markets

Even as Inflation Risk Fades, Bitcoin Remains Stuck Below $31K

Wednesday's CPI report showed sizable decelerations in both overall and core U.S. inflation, which one might've thought would drive BTC's price higher.

(JESHOOTS.COM/Unspalsh)

Policy

Digitex Founder Ordered to Pay $16M to Resolve CFTC Action, Banned From Trading

The CFTC’s 2022 case – its first against a crypto futures exchange for operating illegally – ended in a default judgment against founder Adam Todd.

(Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Analysts Can Learn Something From Baseball

Searching for crypto’s future stars among young prospects.

(Chris Chow/Unsplash)

Finance

Can Crypto Match the Internet and Hit 5B Users?

While early growth in both spaces has been eerily similar, don’t get too excited about crypto’s future.

(Markus Spiske/Unsplash)

Finance

Coinbase Adds Messaging Function to Crypto Wallet

The new messaging feature will let any two Ethereum addresses talk to each other.

(Pradamas Gifarry/Unsplash)

Finance

BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Application Takes Surveillance to the Next Level

An Information-Sharing Agreement, which appears to be absent from public spot Bitcoin ETF filings, compels a crypto exchange to share trading data up to and including personal information such as a customer’s name and address.

BlackRock HQ

Finance

Crypto Startup Arkham Has Apparently Been Doxxing Users for Months

The company had already angered the crypto community Monday with a service that unmasks anonymous crypto users. Then came allegations it used an easy-to-decipher method for hiding customers’ email addresses.

(Jason Dent/Unsplash)

Learn

"What Is ActivityPub?" Understanding the Social-Media Protocol Meta’s Threads Plans to Use

Meta’s launch of Threads has brought new interest in ActivityPub and how the social network protocol and the associated fediverse – including the Twitter-like Mastodon – work.

Twitter and Threads logos are displayed on a cell phone (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Finance

Three Arrows Capital Liquidator May Try to Claw Back About $1.2B From DCG, BlockFi

A July 7 report from Teneo, the hedge fund’s liquidator, described the potential claims.

Three Arrows (QuinceCreative/Pixabay)

Finance

Centralization Comes to DeFi as Group Behind MIM, SPELL Tokens Mull Legal Shakeup

A project leader called for adding lawyers, jurisdictions and trustees for Abracadabra DAO, the entity overseeing Magic Internet Money (MIM) and SPELL tokens.

The MIM stablecoin has a $700 million market cap (Abracadabra DAO)