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

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Hovers Below $26K

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for August 23, 2023.

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Markets

Ether-Bitcoin Ratio Uptick Fails to Inspire Bullish Positioning in ETH Options

Options skew remains in favor of ether puts across different timeframes despite the past week's increase in the ETH/BTC ratio.

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Finance

FBI Says North Korean Hackers May Try to Sell $40M of Bitcoin

The FBI released six wallets linked to North Korean hackers Lazarus Group and APT38.

FBI tracks $40 million of North Korea-linked bitcoin. (David Trinks/Unsplash)

Finance

MoonPay Offers Binance.US a Solution to Crypto Payments Suspension

The U.S. exchange's customers now have the option of buying stablecoin USDT using their debit or credit cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay and converting it into crypto tokens.

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Finance

Crypto Exchange EDX Markets Taps Anchorage as Custody Provider

The exchange, which is backed by several Wall Street firms, differs from its peers because it doesn’t hold customers’ digital assets.

Anchorage President Diogo Monica speaking in the Bahamas (Danny Nelson)

Policy

Sam Bankman-Fried Pleads Not Guilty to Latest Indictment

Bankman-Fried's attorney later deplored Bankman-Fried's lack of vegan options in prison, saying he was "subsisting on a diet of bread and water" during the hearing.

Sam Bankman-Fried outside a courthouse in July 2023. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Settles in Below $26K as Altcoins Lead Crypto Declines

In the absence of any positive catalyst, cryptocurrencies took the path of least resistance.

Bitcoin settles in below $26K (CoinDesk)

Policy

Nomura-Backed Crypto Custody Firm Komainu Wins Operating License in Dubai

The company can now offer its full range of digital asset custody services to clients in the emirate, including institutional staking and collateral management.

Dubai (Wael Hneini/Unsplash)

Finance

Indian Crypto Exchange CoinDCX Is Cutting 12% of Jobs as Bear Market, Taxes Take Their Toll

The number of employees losing their jobs is 71 out of some 590.

From left: Sumit Gupta (Co-founder & CEO), Neeraj Khandelwal (Co-founder), Gaurav Arora (Sr. Vice President), Vivek Gupta (EVP Engineering). (CoinDCX)

Tech

Social Platform Friend.tech Gains 100K Users in Days Even in Depths of a Bear Market

The growth correlates with the more than $25 million in revenue generated by the platform since its Aug. 10 launch.

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