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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Markets

Bitcoin Halving Is Not a Volatility Event, Analyst Says as Implied Volatility Rises

Options implied volatility is overpricing the event, Amberdata's Greg Magadini said.

Halving (Shutterstock)

Markets

Crypto Stocks Gain as Bitcoin Tops $72K for First Time Since March

Crypto-related companies looked set to start the week on a positive note.

Price rising charts markets indices (Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Tops $71K, Ordinals Bets Rise Ahead of Halving

Broader crypto markets remained little changed over the weekend, but some Ordinal ecosystems saw gains as a proxy for BTC.

(John Angel/Unsplash)

Finance

DWS, Galaxy Digital List Exchange-Traded Commodities Offering BTC, ETH Exposure in Germany

The products, which track the performance of the two largest cryptocurrencies by market value, carry a fee of 0.35% and were listed on the Deutsche Boerse on Thursday.

Frankfurt, Germany (Sinan Erg/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin’s Acceptance as 'Digital Gold' May Spur Demand From New Investors: Coinbase

Gold has outperformed after the Federal Reserve expressed a cautious stance on the pace of future interest-rate cuts, the report said.

Graph on a blackboard showing the relationship between supply and demand.

Markets

Warning for Altcoin Bulls: The Ether-Bitcoin Ratio Is About to Flash Death Cross

A death cross occurs when a short-term moving average drops below the long-term moving average, signaling a potential long-term bearish shift in momentum.

Yellow caution tape in front of archery targets.

Markets

Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Has Larger, More Diversified Business Model Following USBTC Merger: Canaccord

The broker cut its price target to $14 from $17.50 while maintaining its buy rating.

A Hut 8 mining facility (hut8.io)

Policy

EU Watchdog Says Reordering Blockchain Transactions Might Be Market Abuse. Industry Says It's Not

Maximum extractable value (MEV), in which blockchain operators reorder transactions to squeeze out additional profits, usually at the expense of whoever is sending the transactions, is not inherently bad, some policy experts point out.

EU regulators are exploring the boundaries of MiCA regulation. (Pixabay)

Policy

Google Takes Legal Action Against Alleged Crypto Scammers for Uploading Fraudulent Apps

The defendants are said to have committed hundreds of acts of wire fraud, "causing harm to Google and at least approximately 100,000 Google users."

Google logo on the front of a building

Markets

Bitcoin Cash Spikes 10% After Halving, Bitcoin Hovers Above $66K

Analysts said BTC traders are probably waiting for macroeconomic signals before making a move, referring to the current market lull.

Bull and Bear (nosheep/Pixabay)