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

Bitcoin Favored Over Ether Even as Trump Widens Lead Over Harris

Ether traders display a stronger inclination to mitigate potential downside risks than bitcoin,

(Kevin Ku/Unsplash)

Finance

OKX Goes Live in UAE, Targeting TradFi Institutions, Retail Market

The exchange is the first to go live with dirham banking integration and a dirham-denominated order book, Rifad Mahasneh, general manager for the Middle East, told CoinDesk.

OKX CMO Haider Rafique, Middle East General Manager Rifad Mahasneh and President Hong Fang at a press conference in Dubai. (Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk)

Finance

Ripple Expands Custody Business to Offer 'Bank-Grade' Service to Crypto Firms

The new features could allow companies to tokenize and manage real-world assets as well as other cryptocurrencies on XRPL.

Ripple (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Returns to $61K Ahead of September CPI Report

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Oct. 10, 2024.

BTC price, FMA Oct. 10 2024 (CoinDesk)

Policy

Dubai's VARA Fines, Issues Cease-and-Desist Orders Against 7 Crypto Entities

The action is rare for a region attempting to project itself as a global crypto hub.

Skyscrapers in Dubai (Kent Tupas/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin, Ether Nurse Losses as Dollar Strengthens Ahead of U.S. Inflation Report

A hotter-than-expected inflation report would weaken the case for Fed interest-rate cuts.

BTC, ETH drop as the dollar index rallies. (TradingView/CoinDesk)

Policy

India's Crypto Discussion Paper on Hold Due to Other Priorities

Financial authorities have had to prioritize matters such as the nation's budget during an election year, meetings with other nations and the impending World Bank annual meetings.

Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India (left) and Nirmala Sitharaman, Indian Finance Minister at the G20 Annual Meetings, in Washington DC in October 2022. (Indian Ministry of Finance)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Crypto Market Muted After HBO Satoshi Reveal Falls Flat

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Oct. 9, 2024.

BTC price, FMA Oct. 9 2024 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Whale Alert: $1M BTC Trade Bets on Volatility Expansion Outside $53K-$87K Range

A long straddle involving the November expiry $66,000 call and put options crossed the tape on Deribit early Wednesday.

(Enlightening_Images/Pixabay)

Markets

Cathie Wood's ARK Invest Buys $2.2M of Coinbase Shares

ARK added 12,994 COIN shares to its Fintech Innovation ETF in its first purchase of Coinbase stock since Sept. 11.

Cathie Wood, CEO of ARK Invest, at Consensus 2024 by CoinDesk (Suzanne Cordiero)