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

Crypto Storage Firm Censo Offers Institutions Mobile Phone-Enabled Self Custody

Censo is the latest in a crop of inexpensive, open-source options for organizations looking to store digital assets.

Bitcoin wallet app (Getty Images)

Policy

SEC Crypto Crackdown Adds Urgency for U.S. Lawmakers to Produce Regulatory Framework This Year: JPMorgan

Without a more solid legal framework, cryptocurrency activity will probably continue moving outside the U.S. and into decentralized entities, the report said.

(JamesDeMers/Pixabay)

Finance

A16z Chooses London as Destination for First Office Outside U.S.

The venture capital firm plans to use the office, which will open later this year, to fund growth in the crypto and startup ecosystems in the U.K. and Europe.

City of London, England (Shutterstock)

Policy

Binance Nigeria Ordered to Halt 'Illegal' Operations by Securities Watchdog

A spokesperson for Binance, which faces U.S. SEC allegations that include operating an unregistered exchange, said the Nigerian company is not affiliated with the firm.

Lagos, Nigeria (Nupo Deyon Daniel/Unsplash)

Markets

With Ether Options Market Makers 'Long Gamma' at $1.8K, Price Is Likely to Hold

Traders said market makers are holding options with a $1,800 strike price and are likely to influence prices as they try to keep their portfolios direction-neutral.

(geralt/Pixabay)

Policy

Curve Finance CEO Egorov Sued by 3 DeFi-Focused Venture Capital Firms

A complaint filed in San Francisco alleges Egorov defrauded ParaFi Capital, Framework Ventures and 1kx.

French authorities sentenced two men to jail for using crypto to fund terrorism in Syria (Shutterstock)

Markets

Bitcoin Trades at Narrow Discount on Binance.US

News of a possible halt in U.S. dollar withdrawals sparked an increase in bitcoin trading as customers looked to remove their assets from the exchange, one observer said.

(AhmadArdity/Pixabay)

Finance

Hut 8 Says Repairs to Damaged Crypto Mining Equipment Are Taking Longer Than Expected

The delays are impairing the miner's hashrate and bitcoin production.

A Hut 8 mining facility (hut8.io)

Markets

Crypto Exchange OKX Burns $258M of OKB Tokens in Record Move

OKX periodically buys back and burns the tokens to reduce their supply on the open market.

(Jp Valery/Unsplash)

Policy

Cardano Developer Rejects SEC Claim Its ADA Token Is a Security

“Under no circumstances is ADA a security under U.S. securities laws,” IOG said in a release.

Photo of the SEC logo on a building wall