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

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Drops as Traders Take Profits

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Aug. 27, 2024.

BTC price, FMA Aug. 27 2024 (CoinDesk)

Policy

Telegram CEO's Arrest Is Unlikely to Be the Last: Galaxy

Telegram and Pavel Durov were probably resisting takedown or information requests from Europe or France, the report said.

Toncoin rises amid potential Telegram IPO (Christian Wiediger/Unsplash)

Policy

Jailed Binance Exec's Nigeria Case to Be Heard a Month Early

The trial is set to resume next week after Tigran Gambaryan's defense lawyers requested that the case be heard sooner than the planned date in October.

Tigran Gambaryan, Binance's head of crime compliance, is one of two executives detained in Nigeria. (Shutterstock/Consensus)

Markets

Bitcoin Drops Below $63K on Profit Taking as SafePal’s SPF Gets Points Boost

QCP Capital noted an increase in call spread buying with the selling of calls marked for the $100,000 per bitcoin level. The strategy suggesting a generally bullish mood, but not an explosive move higher in the short term.

(Shutterstock)

Finance

Tokenization Pioneer Centrifuge Unveils Lending Market With Morpho, Coinbase

The institutional real-world asset lending market combines Coinbase’s layer-2 network, Base, and Morpho Vaults using three varieties of tokenized Treasury bills.

Lucas Vogelsang (left) and Base creator Jesse Pollak at the 2023 RWA Summit in New York City. (Centrifuge)

Finance

Celsius' Bankruptcy Plan Administrator Pays Out Over $2.5B

The distributions were made in liquid cryptocurrency and cash at Jan. 16 prices to roughly two-thirds of all eligible creditors by number and 93% by value.

Money (Alexander Mils/Unsplash)

Finance

WazirX to Phase In Indian Rupee Withdrawals Starting Aug. 26

Users of the Indian crypto exchange will be able to take out up to 66% of their rupee funds in two phases following a suspension instituted after last month's $230 million dollar hack.

WazirX CEO Nischal Shetty (WazirX)

Markets

Bitcoin Mining Opportunity Is Worth About $74B, JPMorgan Says

The Wall Street bank lowered its price targets for some miners to account for second-quarter results and changes in the bitcoin price and the network hashrate.

(Shutterstock)

Finance

Donald Trump Teases 'The DeFiant Ones' Crypto Project on Truth Social

“It’s time we take a stand – together,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account with a Telegram group link to the unreleased decentralized finance platform.

Donald J. Trump at a rally (Gerd Altmann, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

DeFi Summer Is Making a Comeback, Steno Research Says

Total value locked across the crypto ecosystem is expected to reach an all-time high in the first half of next year, the report said.

Decentralized finance activity is starting to pick up. (Alina Grubnyak/Unsplash)