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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Finance

Don't Tell Anyone, but Private Blockchains Handle Over $1.5T of Securities Financing a Month

Permission-based repo ledgers are among the most successful applications of blockchain technology.

(Shutterstock)

Markets

Mt. Gox to Begin Repayments in July; BTC Slides Under $61K

The defunct crypto exchange is supposed to return over 140,000 bitcoin to victims of the 2014 hack.

Mt. Gox Creditor Kolin Burges confronts Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles (CoinDesk)

Tech

Cosmos DAO Osmosis to Adopt Fee-Free Bitcoin Bridge

Osmosis is achieving this through a revenue-share proposal with Bitcoin bridge Nomic.

Ethan Buchman (left), co-founder of Cosmos, speaks about Bitcoin with Osmosis Labs co-founder Sunny Aggarwal, at Consensus 2024 in Austin, Texas. (CoinDesk)

Markets

Meme Coin Liquidity Hits Record High Even as Bid-Ask Spread Spotlights Risk

Generally, increased liquidity leads to a tighter bid-ask spread, but that's not the case with meme coins.

Higher liquidity in meme coins isn't being reflected in risk assessments. (ataribravo99/Pixabay)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Falls Below $64K Following $900M in ETF Outflows

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for June 21, 2024.

BTC price, FMA June 21 2024 (CoinDesk)

Policy

U.S. Lawmakers Visit Detained Binance Exec in Nigeria, Call for Release

The two House members said Tigran Gambaryan is being wrongfully detained and should be freed.

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

Finance

Crypto Custody Firm Fireblocks Adds ‘One-Click’ Audits, Tax Reporting

Software from Web3 accounting company Tres works with a wide range of digital asset networks, and can be integrated with accounting software such as QuickBooks, Xero and NetSuite.

Fireblocks sign at Miami airport during Bitcoin Miami conference 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

UK Regulator FCA Arrests Two People Associated With 1B-Pound Illegal Crypto Business

The two suspects were interviewed under caution by the FCA and then released on bail.

(FCA)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Crypto Assets Rally With BTC Returning to $66K

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for June 20, 2024.

BTC price, FMA June 20 2024 (CoinDesk)

Policy

Italy to Increase Surveillance of Crypto Market With Fines as High as 5M Euros: Reuters

A draft document reviewed by Reuters is due to be approved by the cabinet later Thursday.

(Tom S/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)