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

Robinhood Crypto Trading Falling 29% in February Amid Market Carnage Likely Warning for Coinbase

The decline in retail trading might have affected other exchanges including Coinbase.

A Macbook Pro opened to Robinhood's website. (PiggyBank/Unsplash)

Tech

Bitcoin Ordinals Project Taproot Wizards Plans Long-Awaited Sale of Signature NFTs

The Wizards were inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain two years ago and are now being made available for sale

TaprootWizards.com NFT (ordinals.com)

Finance

U.S. Residents Missed as Much as $2.6B in Potential Revenue From Geoblocked Airdrops

The U.S. government lost as much as $1.4 billion in potential tax revenue, a report from Dragonfly found.

Chart showing range of airdrop values, U.S. residents' shares.

Tech

Ethereum’s Holesky Hits Finality After 2 Weeks as Pectra Testing Continues

The Pectra upgrade went live Feb. 24, but finality was delayed due to a configuration bug in the client software.

FastNews (CoinDesk)

Markets

Solana’s SOL Slips Below Key Price Level for the First Time in 3 Years

The token's realized price, the average cost basis of all coins last moved, has dropped below $134 for the first time since May 2022.

Two scuba divers underwater

Markets

Trump’s First Inflation Report Due as Risk investors Seek Signs of Cooling

Slower inflation could raise the chance of interest-rate cuts that might boost riskier assets such as cryptocurrencies.

February U.S. CPI report is due Wednesday. (geralt/Pixabay)

Finance

Coinbase Plans India Comeback After Securing Regulatory Registration With FIU

The crypto exchange started withdrawing from the country in 2022 due to regulatory pressure.

Coinbase CEO, Brian Armstrong, at Consensus 2019 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Short-Term Futures Slip Into Discount on Deribit in Sign of Weak Demand

Futures expiring on Friday have slipped into a discount, reflecting demand weakness.

FastNews (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Crumbles Below $80K as Crypto Sell-Off Goes From Bad to Worse

The price action came as the Nasdaq and S&P 500 stock indexes fell sharply early Monday as Trump failed to quell worries about a recession.

Bear (mana5280/Unsplash)