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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Markets

Coinbase Ending Support for Bitcoin SV

The crypto exchange de-listed Bitcoin SV (BSV) in 2021. Now, it's completely removing support for the token.

Craig Wright

Consensus Magazine

Post-FTX, Bitcoin Is Ready for its Next Chapter

One year after the exchange's collapse, bitcoin is up nearly 70%. CoinDesk spoke to market watchers to find out what comes next.

Bitcoin sculpture made from scrap metal outside the BitCluster mining farm in Norilsk, Russia.

Finance

Roger Ver Seeks Winding Up of Matrixport in Seychelles Lawsuit

The investor launched a suit last year in Seychelles against Matrixport subsidiary Smart Vega, which runs Bit.com, for confiscating $8 million, which he says is being kept because Matrixport's Jihan Wu blames him for the collapse of CoinFLEX.

ver roger

Markets

SOL Drops 5% as FTX Estate Transfers Tokens to Binance, Kraken

The $30 million transfer takes the total SOL moved to exchanges to $102 million, the most out of any liquid asset, while the token's price is near the highest in a year.

Then-CEO of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried and CEO of Solana Labs Anatoly Yakovenko (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

The Simpsons Take a Dig at NFTs, Crypto in 'Treehouse of Horror' Episode

"Remember how we were always saying we wish Bart was less fungible," Homer asks Marge after he puts his son on-chain.

(The Simpsons)

Policy

Hong Kong Now Considering Spot Crypto ETFs for Retail Investors: Bloomberg

The move comes a month after authorities in the City updated financial regulations to allow for retail investors to buy spot crypto ETFs.

Hong Kong (Ruslan Bardash / Unsplash)

Policy

SEC Asks Court for Summary Judgement Against Do Kwon, Terraform

The request follows a move by Kwon's defense team to do the same.

SEC Chair Gary Gensler (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Policy

Crypto at the Center of $300M Fraud Case in China

21 people were sentenced in a case involving converting 'dirty' USDT to RMB.

China renminbi bills (Moerschy/Pixabay)

Markets

Frax Finance Says its Domain Name Hijacking Has Been Resolved

Frax's founder Sam Kazemian says the Frax websites are safe to use, and the domain registrar is investigating what happened.

A hacker (Azamat E/Unsplash)

Markets

Unibot Exploiter Swaps Stolen Crypto for Ether Via Tornado Cash

Unibot confirmed on X that it had suffered a token approval exploit in its new order router.

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