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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Markets

Bitcoin Tumbles Below $104K as Israel Strikes Iran

Israel said it launched a “precise, preemptive strike” to neutralize the country's nuclear program.

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Markets

Ethereum Treasury Firm SharpLink Gaming Plunges 70% – But There May Be a Twist

The company earlier raised $450 million in a private placement round from investors to pursue an ETH reserve strategy.

Joseph Lubin, a co-founder of Ethereum and the CEO of ConsenSys, speaks at SXSW 2019.

Markets

Asia Morning Briefing: Institutional Buying Makes $3K ETH Likely, While AI Agents Seek Crypto Rails

ETH is building institutional momentum despite macro jitters, now accounting for 45% of perpetual futures volume, surpassing BTC.

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Markets

Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse Says Circle IPO Signals U.S. Stablecoin Regulation Ahead

Garlinghouse says he's "bullish on stablecoins."

Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, speaks at Consensus 2024. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

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Tech

Bitcoin Core 30 to Increase OP_RETURN Data Limit After Developer Debate Concludes

Bitcoin Core 30 is scheduled to be implemented in October.

Source code from the master branch of open-source Bitcoin Core code repository on GitHub. (GitHub, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Asia Morning Briefing: BTC Slips Below $110K as 'Signs of Fatigue' Emerging

PLUS: Institutional Ethereum staking might drive ETH’s next rally.

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Markets

Asia Morning Briefing: Michael Saylor Downplays BTC's Quantum Threat

The Bitcoin network will eventually do a software upgrade that will nullify the quantum threat to BTC, Strategy's Michael Saylor recently said on CNBC.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor standing. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk))

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Policy

Hashed Research CEO Appointed Chief Policy Officer at Korea's Presidential Office

Hashed's Kim Yong-beom was the former Vice Minister at Korea's Ministry of Economy and Finance.

South Korea flag (Planet Volumes / Unsplash)

Markets

Uber Is Once Again Considering Crypto Payments, Years After Mulling BTC as Payment Method

Uber also made these claims in September 2021 and February 2022

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