Helene Braun

Helene is a New York-based news reporter at CoinDesk, covering news about Wall Street, the rise of the spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and updates on crypto exchanges. She is also the co-host of CoinDesk's Markets Daily show on Spotify and Youtube. Helene is a recent graduate of New York University's business and economic reporting program and has appeared on CBS News, YahooFinance and Nasdaq TradeTalks. She holds BTC and ETH.

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Finance

'Bitcoin Is Going to Eat Gold': MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor

MicroStrategy is the owner of 205,000 bitcoin worth nearly $15 billion at the current per token price of $72,000.

MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said bitcoin will be a much more valuable asset than gold in the future. (Photo by Marco Bello/Getty Images)

Markets

BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Nears 200K BTC, Passing Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy

The asset manager's spot fund added just shy of 5,000 bitcoins Friday, bringing total holdings to 195,985 tokens.

BlackRock's IBIT has accumulated more bitcoin than MicroStrategy. (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Record High Would’ve Happened Without ETFs, Just Later, Say Experts

The world's largest crypto has risen about 60% in just the two months since the opening of the spot bitcoin ETFs.

The launch of the spot bitcoin ETFs accelerated bitcoin's new all-time high, experts say. (Marco Verch/ccnull)

Finance

Bitcoin ETF Issuer VanEck Has Huge Crypto Growth Goals in Europe

Martijn Rozemuller, the CEO of VanEck Europe, sees crypto eventually matching its other product lines in terms of assets under management.

VanEck Europe sees its crypto business become equally as important as its other ventures in the future, the Amsterdam-based division of VanEck told CoinDesk in an interview. (Flickr/moonjazz)

Finance

BlackRock's Spot Bitcoin ETF Starts Trading in Brazil

The asset manager's geographic expansion of the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) follows its successful introduction in the U.S. in January.

Brazil (Agustin Diaz Gargiulo / Unsplash)

Finance

Bank of America, Wells Fargo to Offer Spot Bitcoin ETFs to Clients: Bloomberg

CoinDesk reported on Wednesday that another Wall Street giant, Morgan Stanley, might soon offer its clients exposure to the new products as well.

(Chenyu Guan/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin ETF Buying Led by Retail, Hedge Funds, FAs; Larger Players Still to Come: Bitwise CIO

The large U.S. wirehouses have yet to offer the newish funds to their clients, Matt Hougan told CNBC.

Scrabble letters spelling ETF arranged a rack

Finance

Amid Ferocious Bitcoin Rally, a Coinbase Snafu Shows $0 Balances for Customers

Multiple users of Coinbase's U.S. platform said on Wednesday that their account balances were wiped out.

Coinbase (Alpha Photo/Flickr)

Finance

VanEck Starts Digital Asset Management Platform and NFT Marketplace

The platform, called SegMint, aims to streamline the sharing of access and ownership of self-custodied assets.

(Pixabay)