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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Asia Morning Briefing: Miners and Whales Dumping BTC Amid Rally May Signal 'Local Top'

BTC’s rally to all-time highs triggered the largest miner sell-off since April, with 16K BTC moved to exchanges.

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Crypto Market Cap Crosses $4T After XRP, ETH Rally

Achievement comes as the CoinDesk 20 crosses all-time high.

Exuberance. (Creative Commons)

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Asia Morning Briefing: The Altcoin Season Ramps Up as BTC Rotation Begins

Analysts at market maker Enflux see the altcoin market heating up as traders take profit from BTC and rotate into ETH.

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Uniswap Labs President Mary-Catherine Lader Steps Down After Four Years

Lader helped steer Uniswap through rising scrutiny toward a more favorable U.S. regulatory climate.

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Polymarket Odds on Jerome Powell's Ouster Jumps as Congresswoman Says It's 'Imminent'

Significant legal challenges would arise from an attempt to remove Fed chair Jerome Powell, but Polymarket bettors are warming to the idea – even if it's still a longshot.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 30, 2022. (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

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Asia Morning Briefing: BTC Pulls Back as Market Isn't 'Invincible', But Google, Meta Lift AI Tokens

PLUS: Maple Finance is now crypto's largest on-chain asset manager.

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Asia Morning Briefing: U.S. Loads Up, Germany Cashes Out as BTC Holds Near $119K

QCP warns of froth as BTC funding rates near 30% and open interest tops $43B, levels last seen before February’s $2B wipeout.

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Trump Collaborator, Bill Zanker, Downplays Wallet Kerfuffle

In an interview with CoinDesk, Zanker said he's still in good graces with the President's family despite receiving a cease-and-desist from them just weeks ago, and also teased an upcoming $TRUMP mobile game.

Bill Zanker, left, and President Donald Trump (Jim Spellman/WireImage/Getty Images)

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Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High Above $120K as U.S. Inflation Data Looms

John Glover, CEO of Ledn said that BTC's rally has legs and prices could rise to $136,000 by the year-end.

Statue of a bull (ianproc64/Pixabay)