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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Policy

Crypto.com Sues SEC, Chair Gary Gensler After Receiving Wells Notice

The case seeks to prevent the SEC from "unlawfully expanding its jurisdiction" to cover secondary-market sales of certain network tokens sold on the exchange.

Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek during a 2022 interview (Crypto.com)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Drops as China's Stimulus Plans Disappoint

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Oct. 8, 2024.

BTC price, FMA Oct. 8 2024 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Ether ETFs See Zero Flows for Second Time as Bitcoin ETFs Post Biggest Inflows in 6 Days

Bitcoin ETFs enjoyed their highest net inflows since Sept. 27, with FBTC and IBIT leading the way.

Ether spot ETFs to see same sources of demand as bitcoin versions but on lower scale: Bernstein. (Rob Mitchell/CoinDesk)

Policy

UN Agency Recommends Criminalization of Unlicensed VASPs in Southeast Asia to Counter Cyber Fraud

Some service providers are facilitating transactions for fraud outfits and high-risk gambling sites, the report said.

United Nations building, New York (Nils Huenerfuerst/Unsplash)

Markets

Polymarket Bettors Shuffle Odds of Bitcoin's Creator Reveal Ahead of HBO Documentary

New information over the weekend shattered the consensus on who Satoshi Nakamoto might be.

"Skull Of Satoshi" (VonWong Productions)

Finance

Crypto Custody Firm Copper’s CEO Dmitry Tokarev Plans to Step Down

Tokarev helped found the digital-assets custody firm in 2018.

Copper CEO Dmitry Tokarev (Copper)

Markets

Bitget Token Tumbles 52% on 'Market Sluggishness,' Exchange Says, While Promising Compensation

The BGB token slumped to as low as $0.54 before recovering.

BGB plummeted to as low as $0.54 from $1.14 in 15 minutes at around 02:30 UTC, data on TradingView shows. (TradingView)

Markets

The Notion of Aggressively Dovish Fed Fades as U.S. Inflation Report Looms

Bitcoin is struggling to gain upside traction as a hawkish rethink of Fed interest-rate policy raises Treasury yields and strengthens the dollar.

(Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Japan's Metaplanet Buys Another $6.7M Worth of Bitcoin

Metaplanet bought around 108.8 BTC at an average price of just under 9.2 million yen per coin

Tokyo, Japan (Ryo Yoshitake/Unsplash)

Markets

Trump Leads Harris on Polymarket After Musk Endorsement, but Trails in This Key State

Elon Musk says prediction markets are more accurate than polls.

Eric, Donald and Donald Trump Jr. (Desiree Navarro/WireImage)