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

Bitcoin Bridge OrdiZK Suffers Apparent $1.4M Rug Pull, Token Crashes to Zero: CertiK

The OrdiZK website and social media accounts are also offline.

OrdiZK appears to have suffered a rug pull. (Clint Patterson/Unsplash)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Price Eyes Record This Week

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for March 5, 2024.

A user examines prices on a mobile phone while looking at a graph on a laptop

Policy

Terra’s Do Kwon Wins Extradition Appeal in Montenegro as Case Heads for Retrial

Kwon is facing fraud charges in the U.S. around his role in Terra's collapse.

Terra co-founders Daniel Shin and Do Kwon (Terraform Labs)

Finance

WIF Rebounds on Binance Listing Plan as Other Meme Coins Run Out of Steam

Dogwifhat jumped by more than 25% after the crypto exchange said it will list the token.

The dogwifhat meme (Know your meme)

Markets

Bitcoin's Price Rally May Add to Inflation. Here's Why

The so-called wealth effect from unrealized crypto-market gains, which is estimated to be stronger than stocks, could boost consumer spending and inject demand-pull inflation into the U.S. economy.

(stevepb/Pixabay)

Finance

Fantom Seeks Money Back From Multichain’s $200M Exploit

The move aims to enable victims to “partially recover” assets lost in one of the biggest exploits in 2023.

Crypto hacks, scams and exploits netted some $2 billion this year. (fikry anshor/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Payments Specialist Baanx Raises $20M Funding Round

The Series A investment round included Ledger, Tezos Foundation, Chiron and British Business Bank.

Group photo of the Baanx team

Finance

Bitcoin Miners Need to Be Proactive to Hold Their Positions After Halving: Fidelity Digital Assets

As the protocol evolves, new layers could emerge bringing new use cases and more users, the report said.

Bitmain Antminer mining rigs (Christie Harkin/CoinDesk)

Markets

Tether's USDT Stablecoin Touches $100B Market Cap, Benefiting From Crypto Trading Frenzy

Despite years-long scrutiny over Tether's stability, USDT saw a rapid resurgence in 2023 benefiting from its close competitors' troubles.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Tether)

Policy

Nigerian Parliamentary Committee Summons Binance CEO Teng: Report

Two executives of the exchange were detained last week on arrival in the country.

Lagos, Nigeria (Nupo Deyon Daniel/Unsplash)