Nikhilesh De

Nikhilesh De is CoinDesk's managing editor for global policy and regulation, covering regulators, lawmakers and institutions. He owns < $50 in BTC and < $20 in ETH. He won a Gerald Loeb award in the beat reporting category as part of CoinDesk's blockbuster FTX coverage in 2023, and was named the Association of Cryptocurrency Journalists and Researchers' Journalist of the Year in 2020.

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Markets

Obama, Biden, Netanyahu, Musk: Here's a List of Every Hacked Twitter Account

Twitter got hacked. Prominent users are shilling sketchy crypto addresses. Here's a list of victims.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (U.S. House of Representatives)

Policy

Even the IRS Admits Some Crypto Tax Regulations Are 'Not Ideal'

Have questions about filing your crypto taxes? CoinDesk dives into what we know (and what we don’t) about how the IRS is approaching the asset class.

The IRS plans to publish additional guidance around cryptocurrencies, with the next document addressing information reporting. (Shutterstock, modified by CoinDesk using PhotoMosh)

Markets

Circle Confirms Freezing $100K in USDC at Law Enforcement's Request

CENTRE froze $100,000 in USDC in response to a request from law enforcement, the group said Wednesday.

Circle founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire

Finance

ConsenSys, Polychain, Tron, CipherTrace: Blockchain Startups Got $30M+ in US 'PPP' Bailout Loans

At least 45 crypto and blockchain startups, ranging from Bittrex to the Electric Coin Company, received U.S. Paycheck Protection Program loans, new filings show.

Administrator Jovita Carranza took over the SBA this year. (Tia Dufour/White House/Small Business Administration)

Markets

IOTA Foundation Enters Base Layer Race With '2.0' Testnet

IOTA's new testnet addresses the technical feature that nuked the blockchain-like network for nearly two weeks earlier this year.

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Markets

Senate Banking Committee Remains Open to Idea of Digital Dollar in Tuesday's Hearing

While not every lawmaker was on board with the idea of a central bank digital currency during a Senate Banking Committee hearing Tuesday, no one explicitly rejected it either.

U.S. Senator Mike Crapo discussed stablecoins in his opening remarks during a hearing on digitizing money Tuesday. (Chief Mass Communication Specialist F. Julian Carroll/Wikimedia Commons)

Policy

Witnesses Will Vouch for Stablecoins, Digital Dollars in US Senate Hearing Tuesday

Witnesses will discuss stablecoins and tokenized dollars during Tuesday's Senate Banking hearing on the digitization of money.

Christopher Giancarlo (CoinDesk archives)

Policy

Mapping the Future of the SEC (There's a Nonzero Chance Hester Peirce Takes Over)

The future of the U.S.’s federal securities regulator, and perhaps the direction of cryptocurrency policy, is up in the air. We game out the scenarios.

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Markets

AML Bitcoin Founder Claims DC Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, US Government Are 'Extorting' Him

AML Bitcoin's Marcus Andrade claims he is being extorted by the U.S. government in a response to Thursday's charges by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Markets

DOJ Indicts Founder of Anti-Money Laundering Bitcoin Project for Money Laundering

Rowland Marcus Andrade, the founder of AML Bitcoin, was indicted on wire fraud and money laundering charges related in part to an initial coin offering conducted in 2017 and 2018.

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