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

California DMV Puts 42M Car Titles on the Avalanche Network in Digitization Push

Developed by Oxhead Alpha, the system will let users transfer vehicle titles in minutes and without going to an office versus the two week time frame in the traditional system.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Key Interest Rate Decisions Coming This Week From Fed, BOJ, BOE

The Fed is expected to hold policy steady but indicate a soon-to-come rate cut, while the Bank of England is seen as about a 50/50 bet to ease and the Bank of Japan is likely to either hike rates or signal an imminent move.

(Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images)

Markets

Ether ETFs Saw $340M of Negative Outflows in Their First Week

More than $1.5 billion of exits from Grayscale's high-fee Ethereum Trust more than offset inflows into the other spot products.

outflows (Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Tumbles Below $67K as U.S. Government Moves $2B of 'Silk Road' Tokens

The government is the owner of about $12 billion worth of seized bitcoin, according to Arkham Intelligence.

Bitcoin price on July 29 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Pulls Back Sharply After Touching $70K

The price of bitcoin still appears poised to close out July with sizable gains after plunging below $54,000 earlier in the month.

Bitcoin price 7/29 (CoinDesk)

Markets

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: BCH's 21% Surge Leads Index Gain

Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin lead the charge as the CoinDesk 20 Index climbs 3% since Friday's close.

CoinDesk 20 leaders (CoinDesk Indices)

Markets

Bitcoin to Account for 7% of Global Wealth, Surge in Price to $13M in 21 Years: Michael Saylor

The crypto would require an average annual return of 29% between now and 2045 to reach that level, he said.

MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor (Jason Koerner/Getty Images for Bitcoin Magazine)

Tech

Bitcoin Layer 2 Rootstock Verifies Zero-Knowledge SNARK

Rootstock verified the SNARK using BitVMX, which is Rootstock's modified version of BitVM

16:9 Roots (PDPhotos/Pixabay)

Finance

Ledger Unveils Second New Wallet of 2024

"Ledger Flex", like the Stax wallet which launched in May, incorporates touchscreen technology to "redefine the experience of self-custody," CEO Pascal Gauthier said

Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier at Web Summit 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal. (Harry Murphy/Web Summit via Sportsfile)

Markets

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: RNDR's 12% Gain Leads as Index Rebounds

CoinDesk 20 Index jumped 4.4% fueled by RNDR's 12.6% rise and NEAR's 7.7% advance.

9am CoinDesk 20 Update for 2024-07-26: leaders