Sam Reynolds

Sam Reynolds is a senior reporter based in Asia. Sam was part of the CoinDesk team that won the 2023 Gerald Loeb award in the breaking news category for coverage of FTX's collapse. Prior to CoinDesk, he was a reporter with Blockworks and a semiconductor analyst with IDC.

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Policy

Bipartisan Anti-Crypto Terror Financing Bill Heads to U.S. Senate

Legislation will crack down on terrorist organizations like Hamas by applying sanctions to foreign parties that facilitate financial transactions with terrorists.

Mitt Romney (Wikimedia Commons)

Markets

Matrixport's $45K End of Year Target for Bitcoin Looks to Be Accurate

2023 has been a five-phased bitcoin rally, Matrixport said in a report.

Heading of Bitcoin Whitepaper

Tech

Future of Solana's Hyped Saga Phone Is 'Under Internal Discussion' as Sales Figures Fail to Wow

Yakovenko emphasizes the importance of reaching a user base of 25-50K to sustain the Solana phone's development in an interview with Laura Shin.

The Saga smartphone. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Early Bitcoin Miner Apparently Sent 1,000 ‘Satoshi Era’ BTC to Trading Desks This Week

These bitcoin were mined at the very early stages of the network for an estimated $100, as per CryptoQuant.

A detail of the Satoshi Nakamoto statue in Budapest, Hungary. (Janos Kummer/Getty Images)

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Policy

Binance, SBF, ETH and Gensler Get Mentions at Republican Presidential Debate

Republican leadership contender Vivek Ramaswamy got the first crypto question.

Vivek Ramaswamy co-founded Strive Asset Management (Frederick Munawa)

Markets

Bitcoin Inscriptions Divide BTC Community Amid Network Congestion, but Are 'Unstoppable'

As unconfirmed transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain rise, Luke Dashjr, a prominent developer pledges that Ordinal Inscriptions are a 'bug' that will be fixed.

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Policy

The Most Influential Folks in Crypto Regulations

Recognizing some of the folks involved in crypto policy

U.S. prosecutors with the Southern District of New York (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Markets

SocGen to Introduce EURCV Stablecoin, Picks Flowdesk as Market Maker

The stablecoin, EUR CoinVertible, isn't the first based on the euro, but it does have the backing of Societe Generale, a major European financial institution.

EU considers digital euro (Immo Wegmann/Unsplash)

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Markets

BIGTIME, ORDI Tokens Lead Nearly $250M in Altcoin Liquidations

Altcoins futures took a hit Monday as sudden volatility liquidated both longs and shorts, causing unusually high liquidations on some lesser-known tokens.

(Mohan Murugesan/Unsplash)

Markets

Institutional Traders Split Between Bitcoin, Ether: Bybit Research

Numbers from the exchange show institutional traders largely ignored alternative cryptocurrencies in favor of perceived "safe" assets.

(Hans Eiskonen/Unsplash)