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

Metaplanet Spends Another $26M Buying Bitcoin, Lifting Holdings Above 2K BTC

The Tokyo-based company said it spent an average of 14.8 million yen per bitcoin.

Skyscrapers in Tokyo

Markets

U.S. Crypto Task Force to Focus on Delivering National Bitcoin Reserve: Bernstein

The Federal Reserve could issue debt or sell some of its gold reserves to fund purchases of BTC, the report said.

Every state should have a strategic bitcoin reserve.

Policy

Argentina Opposition Threatens Milei With Impeachment Over LIBRA Token Tweet: Reuters

An opposition lawmaker said the president should be impeached after promoting and then withdrawing his support for the token.

Argentina's President Javier Milei at Donald Trump's inauguration in 2025 (Getty Images)

Markets

Japanese Energy Firm Remixpoint Boosts Crypto Holdings More Than 8,000% in 9 Months

The firm’s shares surged after Donald Trump’s election victory as a result of the positive outlook for cryptocurrency regulation.

View over Tokyo (Ryo Yoshitake/Unsplash)

Policy

Crypto Scam Revenue From ‘Pig Butchering,’ AI Schemes Likely Grew in 2024, Chainalysis Reports

Fraudsters raked in at least $9.9 billion and possibly as much as $12.4 billion with their methods becoming more “professionalized.”

Photo of hands on a keyboard in a darkened room. (Unsplash)

Markets

Tether May Have to Sell Some Bitcoin to Comply With U.S. Stablecoin Rules: JPMorgan

Company data suggests that Tether's reserves are 66% compliant under the STABLE Act and 83% under the GENIUS Act, the report said.

JPMorgan (Shutterstock)

Markets

U.S. January PPI Rose a Faster Than Expected 0.4%; Annual Pace Jumped to 3.5%

Under pressure this morning ahead of a coming Trump tariff announcement, the price of bitcoin didn't immediately react to the data.

(Getty Images)

Finance

Tokenization Platform Midas Expands Yield-Bearing Tokens With DeFi-Fund-Linked Offerings

The new Liquid Yield Tokens (LYT) offer a floating value based on DeFi funds, starting with Edge Capital, RE7 Capital, and MEV Capital.

Midas CEO Dennis Dinkelmeyer (Midas)

Finance

PancakeSwap's CAKE, BNB Lead Market as Bitcoin Range Tightens

The move comes as bitcoin has stuttered around $96,000.

(Mae Mu/Unsplash)