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 Miners Offload $129M BTC in Day, Sending Reserves to the Lowest Point Since May

A slump in miner reserves indicates potential selling pressure, according to CryptoQuant.

Alta Novella's turbine room with 40 ASIC bitcoin miners.

Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Set to Ring in the New Year Up Nearly 160%

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Dec. 29, 2023.

Bitcoin 2023 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Privacy Tokens DASH, ZCH, XMR Take Hit as OKX Says It Will Suspend Trading

More than 20 trading pairs will be delisted next week as they no longer meet the crypto exchange's listing criteria.

(Nghia Do Thanh/Unsplash)

Markets

Avalanche Foundation to Purchase Meme Coins as Part of Culture Drive

“These coins, often inspired by internet culture and humor, go beyond mere utility assets,” the foundation said.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Binance User Base Grew 30% This Year, Expanding Even After U.S. Legal Settlements

The largest cryptocurrency trading venue added 40 million accounts to 170 million.

Richard Teng (Binance)

Policy

Argentina's Milei Proposes Incentives for Declaring Domestic, Foreign Crypto Holdings in Draft Bill

Crypto is captured in an asset-regularization regime included in a wide-ranging bill that's facing mounting backlash from citizens.

President of Argentina Javier Milei (Photo by Tomas Cuesta/Getty Images)

Markets

First Mover Americas: MicroStrategy Buys More BTC and ARK Invest Buys BITO

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Dec. 28, 2023.

MicroStrategy Executive Director Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

Markets

A Record $11B Crypto Options Expiry Looms as BTC Shows Little Volatility

The expiry is Deribit's largest so far and a record of almost $5 billion of options will expire in the money.

(Jason Leung/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Blast Hits $1.1B in Deposits More Than a Month Before It's Due to Go Live

Depositors will receive an airdrop that can be redeemed in May 2024.

Blast total value locked (DefiLlama)

Finance

Cathie Wood's ARK Invests in ProShares Bitcoin ETF After Dumping Grayscale Holdings

The investment fund bought $9.2 million worth of BITO shares and also sold $27.6 million worth of Coinbase stock.

New York Stock Exchange with banner flagging ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF on the day it started trading.