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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Policy

Crypto Crime Could Mean Jail for Life in South Korea

The new consumer protection rules will take effect in July 2024.

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Markets

Whales Grab $50M of Chainlink’s LINK as Price Climbs 40% in a Month

LINK is one of the year's top-performing tokens, driven largely by hype around the tokenization of real-world assets.

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Markets

B2C2 Gains Luxembourg Virtual Asset License as EU's Crypto Rules Set to Kick In

The liquidity provider is expanding to Luxembourg in a bid to widen its EU presence six months after gaining a license to operate in France.

Luxembourg (Cedric Letsch, Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin ETFs Mean 'Substitution' From Gold Into BTC Will Continue, Says Cathie Wood

While bitcoin's price is often denominated against fiat currencies, Wood pointed out that even relative to gold, BTC has risen consistently since its early days.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood

Finance

A Crypto Carbon Credits Exchange Is Created in Germany

Neutral and DLT Finance are betting on regulation as the pathway to institutional investor adoption.

carbon offset

Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Could Drop in the Short Term

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

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Markets

Binance to Delist Monero Privacy Token; XMR Slides

The crypto exchange will stop listing the token along with Aragon, Multichain and Vai as of Feb. 20.

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Markets

Bitcoin ETFs Pose Risk for Coinbase Stock, Leverage Shares Says

COIN was one of the best-performing stocks in 2023, but has dropped by almost a third since the start of 2024.

(Alpha Photo/Flickr)

Policy

Ripple Must Share Financial Statements Requested by SEC, Court Rules

The statements will help a judge determine if institutional sales of XRP after the SEC lawsuit was filed in 2020 broke securities law, the SEC said in its request.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse  (Scott Moore/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin ETFs See $700M Net Inflows as BlackRock, Fidelity Gains Offset GBTC Outflows: CoinShares

New U.S. bitcoin ETFs have amassed $7.7 billion in funds since debut, offsetting the $6 billion outflows from incumbents, according to CoinShares data.

Crypto fund flows (CoinShares)