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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Freed From Prison, Binance Founder CZ Gets Ovation in Dubai and Talks New Educational Venture

Changpeng Zhao, who stepped down as the crypto exchange's CEO last year amid a multi-billion-dollar settlement with the U.S., spoke at a conference in front of a standing-room-only crowd.

Changpeng Zhao makes first public appearance since prison release (Nik De/CoinDesk)

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Privacy as a Fundamental Human Right

Is the Tornado Cash case a policy discussion or a legal one?

Miller Whitehouse-Levine, Michele Korver, Allison Behuniak and Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos (DC Privacy Summit)

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Tether's Paolo Ardoino: 'If the U.S. Government Wanted to Kill Us, They Can Press a Button'

But the leading stablecoin issuer is comfortable holding its T-bills at a U.S. institution because it respects international sanctions, CEO Ardoino said in an interview.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Tether)

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FTX's $228M Settlement With Bybit Brings Conclusion of Epic Liquidation Closer

The FTX bankruptcy nears its finish line, with recoveries higher than what was in accounts when it collapsed – though those assets missed out on the market recovery since 2022.

John J Ray III took over as FTX CEO in November 2022 (House Committee on Financial Services)

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Prediction Market Kalshi to Supply Price Data for Crypto Oracle Stork

Separately, Kalshi has also begun accepting deposits of the USDC stablecoin, Fortune reported.

Stork Labs founder Meredith Pitkoff (Stork Labs)

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Netherlands Starts Consulting on Crypto Tax Reporting Bill

The bill would require crypto services to share their users data with tax authorities.

The Netherlands' flag (Unsplash / Chris Robert)

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Microsoft Urges Shareholders to Vote Against a Proposal to Assess Bitcoin as a Diversification Investment: Filing

The proposal from the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank, argues that bitcoin is an “excellent, if not the best, hedge against inflation.”

Microsoft Offices, Mountain View, Ca. (Getty/David Pu'u)

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Activist Group Says Kalshi’s Election Market Should Be Shut Due to 'Manipulative' Whales

Better Markets is using Polymarket's "French connection" as ammo against the prediction market's regulated competitor.

Los Angeles, CA - March 05: A poll worker moves a ballot box as voters to arrive and cast ballots inside the cavernous lobby of the Metro Headquarters Building on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

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Citibank Debanked Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse Due to Crypto, Exec Says

The chief of Ripple, Brad Garlinghouse, recounted his own brush with the U.S. government's pressure on banks to be wary of digital assets, saying Citi dumped him.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Who's Afraid of Gary Gensler? Not Don Wilson, the Trader Who Beat the Regulator Once Before

Gensler's SEC has been vague about how crypto firms can register to legally trade digital assets in the U.S. Chicago-based markets giant Don Wilson thinks that’s a strategy, not an accident.

DRW's Don Wilson (DRW)