Jesse Hamilton

Jesse Hamilton

Jesse Hamilton is CoinDesk's deputy managing editor on the Global Policy and Regulation team, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining CoinDesk in 2022, he worked for more than a decade covering Wall Street regulation at Bloomberg News and Businessweek, writing about the early whisperings among federal agencies trying to decide what to do about crypto. He’s won several national honors in his reporting career, including from his time as a war correspondent in Iraq and as a police reporter for newspapers. Jesse is a graduate of Western Washington University, where he studied journalism and history. He has no crypto holdings.

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The IRS has issued guidance on how it intends to tax crypto staking rewards. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
IRS: Crypto Staking Rewards Taxable Once Investor Gets Hands on Tokens
The latest tax guidance from the Internal Revenue Service outlines how and when staking rewards are taxed.
The IRS has issued guidance on how it intends to tax crypto staking rewards. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. (Florida State Government)
DeSantis Accuses Biden of 'War on Bitcoin,' Vows to Stop It if Elected President
DeSantis is likely referring to the recent action by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against multiple crypto exchanges.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. (Florida State Government)
U.S. Capitol Building (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
U.S. Stablecoin Bill Takes Big Step Despite Fight From Democrats, White House
A long-awaited stablecoin bill graduated from a House committee in a Republican push, leaving the chair of the House Financial Services Committee lamenting that a bipartisan d...
U.S. Capitol Building (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
The U.S. Capitol (buschap/Flickr)
White House Derailed Negotiation on U.S. House Stablecoin Bill: McHenry
A bipartisan agreement on stablecoin legislation was in reach, according to the chair of the House Financial Services Committee, but the ranking Democrat said McHenry halted t...
The U.S. Capitol (buschap/Flickr)
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
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.
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)
A Second Round of the Lummis-Gillibrand Crypto Bill Elevates CFTC, Defines DeFi
Last year’s prominent U.S. crypto legislation from a bipartisan pair of senators is back for a reboot that imagines a less prominent role for the SEC than Chair Gary Gensler h...
U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)
Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao (CoinDesk, modified by PhotoMosh)
Binance Feels Strain of World’s Regulators Leaping Into Action
This week’s Australian probe, which sought out Binance employees outside the office, is only one of a growing list of legal entanglements facing the world’s biggest crypto exc...
Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao (CoinDesk, modified by PhotoMosh)
(David Merrett/Flickr)
Big Banks, NY Fed’s Innovation Group See Merit in Digital Ledgers for Global Payments
NY Fed’s innovation center worked with Citi, HSBC and other banks on the concept of a network for wholesale payments on a shared ledger, finding the idea has potential benefit...
(David Merrett/Flickr)
Prometheum founder and co-CEO Aaron Kaplan went on CoinDesk TV to discuss is Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) broker-dealer license approval. (CoinDesk)
The Crypto Industry’s New Favorite Punching Bag – Prometheum – Asks for a Chance
Its SEC-praising co-CEO insists he’s pro-crypto and just needs a little time to prove his company can trade digital assets, even if the token issuers would rather it didn’t.
Prometheum founder and co-CEO Aaron Kaplan went on CoinDesk TV to discuss is Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) broker-dealer license approval. (CoinDesk)
Sam Bankman-Fried leaves a federal court in Manhattan (Elizabeth Napolitano / CoinDesk)
FTX Bankruptcy Team Says the Exchange Owed Customers $8.7B
Commingling and misuse of customer funds occurred from the start at FTX, says current CEO John J. Ray III, and senior executives knew of the shortfall as early as August 2022.
Sam Bankman-Fried leaves a federal court in Manhattan (Elizabeth Napolitano / CoinDesk)