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

Policy

SEC's Clayton Says Payment Inefficiencies Are Boosting Bitcoin's Rise

Clayton sounded more bullish on bitcoin than he's been in years in his Thursday interview with CNBC.

Nov 19, 2020

Markets

Coinbase Goes Down as Bitcoin Nears $17K

Coinbase has suffered a number of outages during busy trading periods this year including most recently on Oct. 27.

Nov 16, 2020

Markets

Bridgewater's Dalio Sees Governments Banning Bitcoin Should It Become 'Material'

The founder of the world's largest hedge fund said he sees three main problems with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Nov 11, 2020

Markets

Crypto Custodian Anchorage Gets SOC 1 Security Certification With Big 4 Auditor EY

Crypto services provider Anchorage said it received a third-party SOC 1 Type 1 certification from auditor EY.

Nov 10, 2020

Markets

Privacy Coin GRIN Is Victim of 51% Attack

A 51% attack occurs when a miner (or miners) acquires more than 50% of the network's mining hash power and takes control of the network.

Nov 8, 2020

Markets

US Seized More Than $1B in Silk Road–Linked Bitcoins, Seeks Forfeiture

The seizure on Tuesday, tied to the Silk Road marketplace, is reported to be the largest the U.S. has ever done.

Nov 5, 2020

Markets

US Seizes $24M in Crypto as Part of Brazilian Probe Into $200M Fraud Scheme

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday the seizure of $24 million in cryptocurrency after a request from Brazilian police.

Nov 4, 2020

Policy

Court Enters $900K Judgment Against Crypto Ponzi Scammer on Behalf of CFTC

Venture Capital Investments Ltd. raised $534,829 from 72 victims, falsely promising to invest funds in bitcoin and other assets.

Nov 4, 2020

Markets

ErisX Unit Gets CFTC 'OK' to Clear Fully Collateralized Swaps

The clearing arm of ErisX got CFTC approval to diversify beyond digital currencies.

Nov 4, 2020

Markets

FTC Sending More Than $470K to People Duped by My7Network, 'Bitcoin Funding Team' Scams

The FTC is sending PayPal payments totaling more than $470,000 to people who lost money to two pyramid schemes involving cryptocurrencies.

Nov 4, 2020

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