Sam Reynolds

Sam Reynolds is a senior reporter based in Asia. Sam was part of the CoinDesk team that won the 2023 Gerald Loeb award in the breaking news category for coverage of FTX's collapse. Prior to CoinDesk, he was a reporter with Blockworks and a semiconductor analyst with IDC.

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News Analysis

Kamala Harris Will 'Win' First Debate With Trump, Polymarket Traders Are Betting

Also, there are now prediction market contracts about other prediction market contracts.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN - SEPTEMBER 02: Flanked by labor union leaders, Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to union workers during a campaign event on September 02, 2024 at Northwestern High School in Detroit, Michigan. Harris is scheduled to host another event in Pennsylvania later in the day. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin 'Grossly Undervalued' at Current Prices, Traders Say Ahead of CPI, Trump-Harris Debate Week

The asset and broader crypto market tend to move on the release of U.S. economic figures and political developments.

(16:9 CROP) Bull and Bear (Rawpixel)

Finance

Mt. Gox Wouldn't Have Happened With Modern Tools, Mark Karpeles Says

As the former Mt. Gox CEO launches his new exchange and ‘Ungox’ venture, he reflects on what he wishes he could have done differently a decade ago.

Mark Karpeles (left), Former CEO of Mt. Gox, talking to CoinDesk's Sam Reynolds at Korea Blockchain Week on Sept. 4. (Parikshit Mishra/CoinDesk)

Finance

BitGo CEO Says Wrapped Bitcoin’s Critics Aren’t Being ‘Intellectually Honest’ About Their Concerns

The loudest critics of BitGo’s deal with Justin Sun-affiliated BiT Global also want to see their ‘number go up.’

CEO of BitGo Mike Belshe in a chair on-stage at Consensus 2023

Markets

Polymarket Bettors Miss Out on $270K Due to Pavel Durov's Early Release

Bettors were fairly sure the Telegram CEO would be released in September. His release on Wednesday tossed the market on its head.

(Pavel Durov interviewed by Tucker Carlson for his YouTube channel / Screenshot)

Markets

TON Back Online After Second Outage

TON says its core developer team is looking into why the DOGS token continues to crash the chain.

(Brands&People/Unsplash)

Markets

Institutional Investors Continue to Increase Digital Asset Allocation: Economist Report

The report, commissioned by OKX, shows that a growing number of institutional investors are examining new digital asset products for their portfolio

Wall Street has bitcoin mining mergers on its mind. (Chenyu Guan/Unsplash)

Markets

Toncoin Trims Losses, Beats Bitcoin and Ether, as TON Blockchain Comes Back Online

Toncoin's TON performed better than the CoinDesk 20 as the protocol announced its blockchain had restarted.

Horse race, gallop. (marcelkessler/Pixabay)

Markets

TON Resumes Block Production After Near Six Hour Outage

The network has gone to the DOGS as it struggles to catch up with the popularity of a new TON memcoin.

(Priscilla Du Preez/Unsplash)

Markets

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Could Be Free by October: Polymarket Bettors

A press release from French prosecutors said he could be released Wednesday, but the market isn't confident he'll be out by then.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov (TechCrunch Disrupt Europe/Creative Commons)