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

SK Square to Demand Metaverse Presence for Portfolio Companies: Report

The requirement marks a move into a new environment compared with the traditional investments of South Korea’s largest industry groups.

Seoul

Finance

MicroStrategy Says It Bought 1,434 Bitcoins Since Nov. 29

The company held about 122,478 bitcoins as of Dec. 8, for a value of about $6 billion.

MicroStrategy executive chairman Michael Saylor (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Argo, Celsius End Mining-Services Pact as They Settle US Court Case

Argo will pay $6.3 million to cover its outstanding bill, and Celsius will give an unspecified amount of bitcoin to the miner.

Crypto mining machines

Finance

Axie Infinity Plot Sells for $2.5M

The sale follows a $3.2 million purchase of virtual real estate in Decentraland earlier this week.

Axies from the play-to-earn game Axie Infinity.

Finance

FC Barcelona Joins NFT Rush With Moments From 122 Years of History

The world’s second-most valuable soccer club plans to auction NFTs through the Ownix marketplace.

FC Barcelona fans. Credit: Shutterstock/Christian Bertrand

Finance

Sphere 3D, Gryphon Sign Hosting Services Deal With Core Scientific

The agreement covers as many as 71,000 bitcoin mining machines.

Core Scientific's mining facility in Calvert City, Ky. (CoinDesk archives)

Juridique

Bank of England Says Crypto Regulation Needed as Risks Grow

The bank has taken a stronger line than in July, when it warned of a “spillover” into traditional markets.

The Bank of England (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Juridique

National Bank of Georgia to Test CBDC Next Year

The pilot program will initially focus on retail payments.

Tbilisi, Georgia's capital

Finance

Upbit to Tighten Restrictions on Non-Verified Customers in South Korea

Restrictions will kick in on Wednesday to meet the country’s anti-money laundering laws.

Korean won

Finance

Bitfarms’ Bitcoin Production Increases on New Mining Equipment

The company mined 1,050 bitcoins in the third quarter, up 38% from the second quarter.

Technicians monitor cryptocurrency mining rigs at a Bitfarms facility in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada, on Thursday, July 26, 2018. Bitcoin has rallied more than 30 percent in July, shrugging off security and regulatory concerns that have plagued the virtual currency for much of this year. Photographer: James MacDonald/Bloomberg via Getty Images