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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Patakaran

'Is Daddy on the Airplane?' Jailed Binance Exec Gambaryan Family’s Ordeal in New Podcast

U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick, the congressman from Gambaryan’s district, alleged in the “Designated” podcast that Nigeria is holding him as a “hostage” and argued that all of America’s cards “should be on the table.”

(Shutterstock)

Merkado

Bitcoin Mining Profitability Fell for Third Straight Month in September: JPMorgan

Daily block reward gross profit fell to the lowest "on recent record" last month, the report said.

(Shutterstock)

Merkado

Open Interest in XRP Zooms to $1B as Ripple Tests RLUSD Stablecoin

Recent activities include minting significant amounts of RLUSD, suggesting the testing phase might be wrapping up or moving into a more active phase of development.

The ability to transfer all PYUSD user funds into PayPal may leave crypto natives hesitant to adopt the stablecoin. Oliver Buchmann/Unsplash)

Merkado

Bitcoin Retail Inflows Hold Steady as Whales Pile In at Start of Historically Bullish October

Data from crypto exchanges OKX and Binance, popular with retail traders, show subdued activity relative to the bull markets of 2021 and 2022 and less even than the 2019-2020 bear market.

Trading (Pixabay)

Pananalapi

FTX Dotcom Creditors Vote Massively in Favor of Reorganizing Plan

The plan promises to return 118% of claims in cash to most creditors, who represent about $6.83 billion in claims by value.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (MIT Bitcoin Club/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Merkado

Memecoin Launchpad GraFun Crosses $250M in Volume on BNB Chain Release

Memecoin-related tools are helping the crypto industry cater to more mainstream users than other crypto uses, according to B, a Floki core developer.

(GraFun)

Pananalapi

Banking Platform OpenPayd Hires Two Senior Execs From Crypto Prime Broker FalconX

Lux Thiagarajah and Richard Usher will start at the business in London on Oct. 1.

Lux Thiagarajah, OpenPayd's director of growth (OpenPayd)

Merkado

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Drops 3%, Still on Track for Best September Since 2013

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Sept. 30, 2024.

BTC price, FMA Sept. 30 2024 (CoinDesk)

Merkado

'Overbought' Bitcoin Drops Below $64K as ISM Manufacturing Data Looms: 10x Research

The U.S. data, due Tuesday, has triggered 10% price drops in the first week of the past three months, 10x Research said.

BTC's price dropped through a support level on Monday. (TradingView/CoinDesk)