Stephen Alpher

Stephen is CoinDesk's managing editor for Markets. He previously served as managing editor at Seeking Alpha. A native of suburban Washington, D.C., Stephen went to the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, majoring in finance. He holds BTC above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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Finance

OANDA Opens FCA-Registered Crypto Trading Platform in the UK

OANDA Crypto is the summation of last year’s acquisition of a majority stake in FCA-registered crypto firm Coinpass, and will offer trading in over 63 cryptocurrency pairs, including bitcoin, ether, and XRP.

Crypto lobbying groups are arguing the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority should rethink some of their ideas for regulating stablecoins. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Tech

Satoshi Anticipated Bitcoin Energy Debate in Email Thread With Early Collaborators

The Bitcoin creator saw an irony in the debate between economic liberty and conservation in an email thread with an early collaborator Martii 'Sirius' Malmi.

"Skull Of Satoshi" (VonWong Productions)

Markets

Bitcoin ETF Price/Flow Correlation Is Declining: JPMorgan

The correlation reached as high as 0.84 in January, based on estimates from JPMorgan, but it has since slowed.

road through forest forking, seen from above

Markets

BNB Price Climbs to Highest Since FTX Crash Amid Airdrop Frenzy, Easing Binance Worries

BNB holders transferred over $400 million worth of BNB tokens in 24 hours to benefit from cross-chain gaming project Portal's upcoming airdrop, Arkham Intelligence noted.

BNB price on Feb. 22 (CoinDesk)

Tech

Bitcoin Miner Marathon to Start 'Slipstream' to Make Complex BTC Transactions Faster

Marathon will be the first publicly traded miner to offer such a service by utilizing its own mining pool.

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

Markets

Worldcoin Gains 40%, Hits Record High as AI Tokens Surge on Nvidia

The sector was up as Nvidia's earnings results spurred broader optimism surrounding artificial intelligence.

Worldcoin price 2/22/24 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin ETF Net Inflows Slow to a Trickle as Price Flattens

The 10 spot funds attracted only 500 bitcoin on Wednesday, the least since Feb. 6.

Scrabble letters spelling ETF arranged a rack

Finance

DeFi Startup Euler Finance Bounces Back with Revamped Lending Vaults

Euler v2, slated to go live in Q2, combines the Euler Vault Kit (EVK) to build customized lending markets, with an Ethereum Vault Connector (EVC), which enables vaults to be used as collateral for other vaults.

(Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin Could Hit $150K This Year, Says Fundstrat's Tom Lee

Lee took note of fresh demand via the new spot bitcoin ETFs, the halving and expected monetary policy easing as being catalysts for higher prices.

Bitcoin price on Feb. 21 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Michael Saylor Not Interested in Selling: ‘Bitcoin Is the Exit Strategy'

MicroStrategy is up billions on its bitcoin bet, but Executive Chairman Michael Saylor told Bloomberg TV there’s no reason to sell the cryptocurrency.

MicroStrategy Executive Director Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)