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

'Long Big Tech' Remains the Most Crowded Trade, BofA Fund Manager Survey Shows

This has repercussions for the crypto market, not necessarily good ones, one observer said.

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Policy

SEC Likely to Approve Spot Bitcoin ETF in Next Few Months: JPMorgan

Approval is likely before Jan. 10, which is the final deadline for the Ark 21Shares applications, the report said.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has postponed spot bitcoin ETF responses for two applicants.  (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

Spot Bitcoin ETF Excitement Hits Main Street, Google Search Indicates

Many market participants expect the SEC to greenlight the first U.S.-based spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund early next year.

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Finance

Global Bitcoin ATM Numbers Sink to Lowest Level Since 2021

Since the end of last year, the number installed worldwide has dropped 7,000, or 17%.

Cajero automático de bitcoin. (Ivan Radic/Flickr)

Finance

Bitcoin Could Rise to Between $42K and $56K if BlackRock ETF Is Approved: Matrixport

The prediction is based on potential inflows of as much as $24 billion.

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Finance

Bitcoin Asset Manager Onramp Unveils Multisig Platform, Adds BitGo to Custodians

With multisig security, several custodians control the private keys to the bitcoin being held. BitGo will perform this role alongside Coincover and Kingdom Trust.

hand holding a pen to sign a document

Markets

First Mover Americas: New York AG Sues Gemini, DCG, Genesis

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Oct. 19, 2023.

Genesis (Spencer Wing/Pixabay)

Policy

Gemini, Genesis, DCG Sued by New York AG for Allegedly Defrauding Investors of $1B

The lawsuit alleges Gemini knew Genesis’ loans were undersecured and, at one point, highly concentrated with Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research but did not reveal this information to investors.

Barry Silbert. CEO & Founder Digital Currency Group (DCG)

Markets

Bitcoin ETF Rumor Had a Silver Lining and It's Apparent in the Crypto Options Market

The bitcoin options market has flipped bullish across different timeframes since Monday's erroneous ETF report.

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Policy

Do Kwon’s SEC Case May Hinge on Role of Jump Trading, Court Documents Show

Kwon has been accused of misleading investors about the terraUSD stablecoin, whose 2022 collapse ricocheted around the crypto world.

Do Kwon, whose TerraUSD and Luna tokens collapsed in 2022, fueling the crypto winter (Terra)