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

Ether Spot ETFs to Attract $15B of Net Inflows in First 18 Months: Bitwise

Investors are likely to allocate funds to ETFs in proportion to the relative market caps of bitcoin and ether, the report said.

Ether spot ETFs likely to attract $15 billion of net inflows in first 18 months: Bitwise. (CoinDesk)

Policy

Hydrogen Technology Execs Jailed for HYDRO Price Manipulation

CEO Michael Kane and Shane Hampton, head of financial engineering, were sentenced to a total of more than six years in prison.

Department of Justice (Shutterstock)

Markets

PoliFi Tokens Return to Business After Proof of DJT-Trump Link Fails to Materialize

Many PoliFi tokens fell more than 10% after claims emerged that the Trump campaign was behind the DJT token.

Trump poster for 2024 election. (Jon Tyson/Unsplash)

Finance

Bitcoin Payments App Strike Enters UK as Global Expansion Rolls Out

The payments firm now operates in over 100 countries and territories globally.

Strike CEO Jack Mallers speaking at the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami Beach, Florida (Frederick Munawa)

Markets

Mt. Gox Effect? Bitcoin Dominance Drops Most in 5 Months

BTC's dominance tanked Monday as news of Mt. Gox repayments bolstered concerns of supply overhang entering the market.

BTC's dominance rate (TradingView/CoinDesk).

Finance

Hut 8 Receives $150M Investment as Thirst for Energy Brings AI Firms to Bitcoin Miners

The funding came from Coatue Management, which is also an investor in CoreWeave, a cloud-computing firm looking to take over miner Core Scientific.

robot hand holding dollar bills

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Riot Platforms Ditches Bitfarms Takeover Bid, Seeks to Overhaul Board

Riot is Bitfarms' largest shareholder, owning 14.9% of the firm.

(Arisa Chattasa, Unsplash)

Finance

Kraken’s Derivatives Arm Joins Copper’s Crypto Settlement Network

Copper’s ClearLoop provides institutions with connectivity to OKX, Bybit, Deribit, BIT, Gate.io, Bitfinex, Bitget and PowerTrade, with Bitstamp and Bitmart soon to go live.

(l-r) Zodia Custody CEO Julian Sawyer, Kraken MTF CEO Mark Jennings, Komainu COO Suzanne Hubble (AIM Summit)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Mt. Gox Repayments Worsen BTC Woes

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for June 24, 2024.

BTC price, FMA June 21 2024 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Mining Sector Is Attracting Growing Investor Interest Following Core Scientific Deal: JPMorgan

Iris Energy is best positioned to take advantage of the high-performance computing/AI opportunity, the report said.

(Shutterstock)