Kevin Reynolds

Editor-in-Chief

Kevin Reynolds is editor-in-chief at CoinDesk. Prior to joining the company in mid-2020, Reynolds spent 23 years at Bloomberg, where he won two CEO awards for moving the needle for the entire company and established himself as one of the world's leading experts in real-time financial news. In addition to having done almost every job in the newsroom, Reynolds built, scaled and ran products for every asset class, including First Word, a 250-person global news/analysis service for professional clients, as well as Bloomberg's Speed Desk and the training program that all Bloomberg News hires worldwide are required to take. He also turned around several other operations, including the company's flash headlines desk and was instrumental in the turnaround of Bloomberg's BGOV unit. He shares a patent for a content management system he helped design, is a Certified Scrum Master, and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He owns bitcoin, ether, polygon and solana.

Latest from Kevin Reynolds

Markets

BitGo to Pay $93K to US Treasury to Settle 183 'Apparent' Sanctions Violations

BitGo failed to stop people in Cuba, Iran and Syria, among other sanctioned places, from using its non-custodial wallet service, the U.S. said.

Dec 30, 2020

Markets

Binance US Says It Will Delist XRP on Jan. 13

Binance becomes latest crypto exchange to delist Ripple's XRP.

Dec 30, 2020

Markets

Bitcoin Sets New All-Time High Above $28.5K; Bulls Back in the Driver's Seat

Institutional investors are perceived to be driving this record-setting run.

Dec 30, 2020

Markets

Coinbase Underpaid Women, Black Employees, NY Times Reports

The N.Y. Times' data included pay details for most of Coinbase’s roughly 830 employees at the end of 2018.

Dec 29, 2020

Markets

Crypto.com to Delist, Suspend XRP in the US After SEC's Ripple Suit

The announcement came hours after Coinbase and OKCoin took similar actions.

Dec 29, 2020

Markets

eToro Said to Be in Talks With Goldman About Possible $5B IPO: Report

The crypto trading platform is also considering the possibility of a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, according to Israeli newspaper Calcalist.

Dec 29, 2020

Policy

SEC Obtains Emergency Asset Freeze Against Virgil Capital

Stefan Qin, the 23-year-old founder of Virgil Capital, has been accused by the SEC of “fabricated records” for failing to redeem $3.5 million in investments and attempting to withdraw $1.7 million in investor funds to pay off Chinese loan sharks.

Dec 28, 2020

Markets

Cover Protocol Attack Perpetrated by 'White Hat,' Funds Returned, Hacker Claims

The exploiter has cashed out over $4 million including about 1,400 ether, one million DAI and 90 WBTC.

Dec 28, 2020

Markets

Marathon Patent Agrees to Buy 70K ASIC Miners From Bitmain for $170M

The announcement comes after a holiday weekend in which the price of bitcoin hit a succession of new all-time highs.

Dec 28, 2020

Markets

Institutions Will Start Buying Ether in 2021, Messari Analyst Says

CME Group's announcement that it will launch ether (ETH) futures on Feb. 8, 2021, could spur heightened institutional interest.

Dec 27, 2020

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