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

Strategy Resumes Bitcoin Purchases, Takes Holdings to 478,740 BTC

Executive Chairman Michael Saylor Announces a Bitcoin Purchase of $742.4 million

MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

U.S. Endowments Are Leaning Into Crypto: FT

U.S. endowment funds are looking at crypto investments as bitcoin soars and Donald Trump draws attention to the industry.

Austin, Texas (Mitchell Kmetz/ Unsplash)

Markets

Ether May Be Ready for a Bull Run as Price Action Mirrors August Bottom

Ether's price action mirrors the August bottom amid signs of strong dip demand for the second-largest cryptocurrency.

Crypto market breadth improves. (ArtTower/Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin Tops $100K After U.S. Added Fewer Than Forecast Jobs in January

The unemployment rate fell to 4%, rather than holding steady at 4.1%.

The U.S. released January jobs numbers Friday morning (Ernie Journeys/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Activity Hits 1-Year Low, but These Metrics Point to Bullish Moves: CryptoQuant

A dip in activity was marked by a sharp decline in the number of transactions and a spike in demand from long-term holders may underpin the bitcoin price.

BULL IN A CHINA SHOP: Ricardo Salinas Pliego became the latest billionaire to come out in support of bitcoin.

Finance

ConsenSys Twice Hit by Operation Chokepoint, CEO Lubin Credits Bank for Fighting Back

The MetaMask creator survived by having redundant backup accounts, said Lubin, who was also personally targeted.

ConsenSys CEO Joseph Lubin (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Growing Demand for Bitcoin $80K and $90K Puts Signals Caution Ahead of Jobs Data

The demand for puts shows persistent caution ahead of the nonfarm payrolls report.

Computer screens show a security's price graph (PIX1861/Pixabay)

Policy

Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev Released From Jail to Prepare for Appeal

Last May, Pertsev was sentenced to 64 months in prison for money laundering.

(Jack Schickler/CoinDesk)