The people behind The Daily Coins

James Nakamoto

MARKETS REPORTER · BITCOIN

James Nakamoto leads our Bitcoin and markets coverage, focused on spot ETF flows, miner economics, and the macro overlay that drives BTC price discovery. He brings a structural lens to every report: liquidity, positioning, and supply mechanics first, narrative second. James reads every BlackRock/Bitwise/Fidelity 13F filing the day it lands and frames what it means for the next 90 days of price action. His reporting principle: name the source, link the filing, show the data. When analyst targets shift, James publishes the diff — what changed, who changed it, and what would have to happen for the new target to be right.

David Park

SENIOR ANALYST · MINING & ON-CHAIN DATA

David Park is our on-chain analyst. His daily work: read Glassnode, Coin Metrics, and exchange-flow data, then write the report a portfolio manager would actually use. He covers Bitcoin spot ETF flows, miner economics (hashrate trends, miner net position, MPI), and the kind of stablecoin movement metrics that lead price by 48 hours. David's discipline: every chart in his work cites the source. Every claim links to the underlying dataset. If he can't reproduce a number, he doesn't publish it.

Marcus Webb

EDITOR · DEFI & STABLECOINS

Marcus Webb edits our DeFi and stablecoins coverage. He came to crypto from a decade in traditional credit analysis, and brings that lens to protocols: who's lending, against what collateral, at what duration, with what liquidation buffer. He's spent more time reading audit reports than he cares to admit. Marcus's red lines: no protocol is too important to fail, governance tokens are not equity, and any claim of 'risk-free yield' gets a footnote attached. He commissions every analyst piece against a single test — would a credit committee approve this exposure today?

Ana Volkova

DEFI & LAYER 2 ANALYST

Ana Volkova covers DeFi protocols and Layer 2 scaling — Optimism, Arbitrum, Base, zkSync, Starknet, and whichever new rollup gets traction next quarter. She reads governance forums, follows protocol revenue, and treats TVL as a starting input rather than the conclusion. Her editorial standard: a protocol's revenue, fee accrual, and treasury runway matter more than its narrative. Ana's reports are the ones that survive a market rotation because they were built on accruals, not vibes.

Naomi Brooks

REGULATION & POLICY REPORTER

Naomi Brooks covers crypto regulation across the SEC, CFTC, OCC, FinCEN, and the international landscape (FCA, MiCA, MAS, JFSA). Her training is in securities law and her instinct is to read the actual filing rather than the press release. When an ETF approval drops, the staff letter, the 19b-4, and the prospectus get the same scrutiny as the price reaction. Naomi's editorial principle: regulators say what they say, not what the market wishes they had said. She covers what's actually written, then translates it for readers without losing the qualifications that matter.

Sofia Petrov

STABLECOINS & PAYMENTS REPORTER

Sofia Petrov covers stablecoins, cross-border payments, and the slow-motion convergence of TradFi settlement rails with on-chain dollar issuance. Her beat sits where two worlds meet: a Goldman tokenized fund, a Circle reserve attestation, a SWIFT pilot using a permissioned stablecoin. She reads payments earnings calls so readers don't have to. Sofia's editorial principle: stablecoins are a financial product first and a crypto thing second. She covers them with credit-analyst rigor — reserve composition, counterparty risk, redemption mechanics, regulatory posture by jurisdiction.

Priya Sharma

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS LEAD

Priya Sharma is our technical analysis lead. She built her trading approach over years on the desk — classical chart structure, volume profile, market microstructure — then layered on-chain metrics once Glassnode made them tractable. She covers BTC, ETH, and large-cap altcoin price action with a single goal: tell readers what the chart says without overclaiming. Priya's first rule: every setup is wrong sometimes. Her second rule: write the invalidation level before you write the target. Her articles always disclose both.

Diego Alvarez

REPORTER · LATAM & EMERGING MARKETS

Diego Alvarez reports from Buenos Aires on crypto adoption in inflation-prone Latin American economies. His beat is the gap between English-language crypto coverage and how people in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela actually use the technology: P2P USDT, payroll dollarization, remittance corridors, and stablecoin liquidity at local exchanges. Diego's editorial principle: cover the user, not the protocol. The story of crypto in LATAM is told in CER-adjusted savings rates, local exchange spreads, and the queue at a P2P merchant — not in TVL charts.