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Sheldon Reback

Regional Head of Europe

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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Markets

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MARA Holdings and CleanSpark outperformed BTC, while miners with exposure to high-performance computing, such as Bitdeer, TeraWulf, IREN and Riot Platforms underperformed.

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Crypto Daybook Americas

Crypto Daybook Americas: Bitcoin Drop Deepens as U.S.-China Trade War Escalates

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Gold Soars, Tech Futures Tumble as U.S. Hits China With Higher Tariffs

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GameStop Did It. Now Strive's Matt Cole Wants Intuit to Back Bitcoin Too

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Tether, Circle to Face Intense Competition as TradFi Enters the Arena, Fireblocks Says

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Markets

Stablecoin Market Could Grow to $2T by End-2028: Standard Chartered

The passage of the Genius Act in the U.S., expected in coming months, will further legitimize the stablecoin industry, the report said.

Apr 15, 2025

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