Sheldon Reback

Sheldon Reback is CoinDesk editorial's Regional Head of Europe. Before joining the company, he spent 26 years as an editor at Bloomberg News, where he worked on beats as diverse as stock markets and the retail industry as well as covering the dot-com bubble of 2000-2002. He managed the Bloomberg Terminal's main news page and also worked on a global project to produce short, chart-based stories across the newsroom. He previously worked as a journalist for a number of technology magazines in Hong Kong. Sheldon has a degree in industrial chemistry and an MBA. He owns ether and bitcoin below CoinDesk's notifiable limit.

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Finance

Robinhood’s Acquisition of Bitstamp Expands Its Global Reach: Architect Partners

Crypto is becoming an increasingly important part of Robinhood’s business, accounting for 20% of total revenue in the first quarter, the report said.

Robinhood app on a smartphone (Shutterstock)

Markets

Payrolls-Led Bitcoin, Ether Price Swoon Is 'Buy the Dip' Opportunity, Crypto Trading Firm Says

Markets will increasingly price in at least one Fed interest-rate cut for 2024, QCP Capital said.

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Finance

Iggy Azalea Says MOTHER Tokens Can Soon Be Used to Buy Phones

Monthly plans on the purported mobile service provider cost from $20 to $80 as of Monday.

Iggy Azalea in concert (Getty Images)

Finance

Customers Bank Said to Debank Some Digital Asset Hedge Funds

The move is not a widespread debanking of hedge-fund clients, but rather the offboarding of inactive accounts, one person said.

A Customers Bank poster at Consensus 2022.

Markets

RoaringKitty a GameStop Billionaire by Friday? Crypto Traders Are Placing 50% Odds

A new market on betting application Polymarket has seen over $120,000 in trader placed on Keith Gill making ten figures on his GameStop equity and options holdings.

Keith Gill, a.k.a Roaring Kitty, returned to Youtube (Youtube)

Finance

Coinbase Wallet Adds Crypto Trading Alerts From Notifi

"If you're not constantly monitoring what's happening on-chain it's impossible to keep up," said Notifi CEO Paul Kim.

A look at the new Coinbase Wallet (Coinbase)

Finance

Franklin Templeton Weighs New Crypto Fund Investing in Tokens Beyond Bitcoin, Ether: Report

The private fund would offer exposure to a range of cryptocurrencies and potentially provide staking rewards, The Information reported.

Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton President and CEO, speaks at Consensus 2024. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Policy

U.S. Crypto Regulations Are Moving Against a CBDC and Non-Compliant Stablecoins Like Tether: JPMorgan

Out of four recent crypto regulatory initiatives, the stablecoin bill has the highest chance of being passed before the U.S. presidential election, the report said.

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Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Fluctuates Around $71K, Consolidating This Week's Rally

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for June 6, 2024.

BTC price, FMA June  2024 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Meme Coin Institutional Holdings Surged Since January, Led by DOGE, SHIB, PEPE

Institutional investors on crypto exchange Bybit increased meme coin allocations to a high of $300 million in April from $63 million at the start of the year.

DOGE Meme shiba inu (Atsuko Sato)