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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Beleid

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)

Markten

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)

Beleid

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)

Financiën

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)

Technologie

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.

(John Noonan/Unsplash)

Financiën

Terra Website Compromised; Developers Warn Against Phishing Scam

Terra warned its users to avoid using its website after being targeted by a phishing attack.

(NASA/Unsplash)

Markten

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Trades Flat; Vitalik Transfers $1M Ether to Coinbase

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for August 21, 2023.

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Markten

Crypto Analysts Split on Why Ether Outperformed Bitcoin During Last Week's Slide

The ether-bitcoin ratio rose more than 2% past week. The gain is inconsistent with its record of taking losses during bouts of risk aversion.

road through forest forking, seen from above

Financiën

Crypto Miners Are Attempting to Diversify Into Other Business Areas: JPMorgan

Miners are now offering high performance computing services to the rapidly evolving artificial intelligence market, the report said.

(Sandali Handagama)

Beleid

Crypto Exchange Bitget to Tighten ID Requirements as Regulators Cite Fraud Concerns

Existing customers have until Oct. 1 to complete the process, after which time they will only be able to withdraw, cancel orders or close trading positions.

(Ronlug/Shutterstock)