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

Next Bitcoin Halving Event Could Be a Stress Test for Miners: JPMorgan

The next halving will see a reduction in miners’ revenues and an increase in bitcoin production costs at the same time, the report said.

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Finance

XRP Gets Binance.US Listing as Exchange Joins Rivals’ Embrace

Binance.US joins rival crypto exchanges including Coinbase, Kraken, Bitstamp in listing XRP for trading.

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Finance

FTX, Celsius Bankruptcy Claims Can Now Be Sold on OPNX

Users will be able to convert their FTX or Celsius claims into the platform's reborn OX (reOX) or oUSD tokens.

Kyle Davies (left) and Su Zhu (middle). (Kyle Davies/X)

Markets

Bitcoin's Crypto Market Dominance Slides by Most in 13 Months as XRP Court Ruling Spurs 'Alt Season' Talk

Bitcoin's share of the crypto market tanked on Thursday while altcoins rallied after a U.S. court threw a spanner in the SEC's plans to regulate digital assets.

Bitcoin's dominance rate. (TradingView)

Finance

Recently Exploited Crypto Bridge Shuts, Says China Detained CEO and His Sister

Multichain said it has been forced to take this action "due to lack of alternative sources of information and corresponding operational funds."

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Markets

Coinbase Rally on the Back of XRP Court Ruling Is Overdone: Berenberg

The surge in the crypto exchange’s share price was driven largely by investors who saw the decision as a representing a rejection of the SEC’s argument in the lawsuit it filed against Coinbase in June, the report said.

Coinbase sticker on a Macintosh laptop

Markets

Argentina's First Bitcoin Futures Contract Officially Goes Live

The product was approved by the South American country’s National Securities Commission in April.

Argentina flag (Unsplash)

Finance

Hedge Funds' Long-Term Crypto Interest Remains Robust Even as Proportion Investing Drops: PwC

The percentage of funds with crypto exposure fell to 29% from 37% last year, though no traditional hedge funds plans to decrease their exposure in 2023.

PwC logo on the side of a building

Tech

Zero-Knowledge Rollup ZKM Sets Out to Make Ethereum 'Universal Settlement Layer'

With funding from the foundation that oversees development of the Metis layer-2 Ethereum protocol, ZKM is developing a hybrid rollup that combines an Optmistic rollup and Zero-Knowledge rollup into one.

Rollup (Bru-nO/Pixabay)

Markets

Coinbase Cut to Underweight Ahead of Earnings by Barclays

The bank said it sees few positive drivers for the crypto exchange’s share price in the near term.

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