Sheldon Reback

Sheldon Reback is CoinDesk editorial's Regional Head of Europe. Before joining the company, he spent 26 years as an editor at Bloomberg News, where he worked on beats as diverse as stock markets and the retail industry as well as covering the dot-com bubble of 2000-2002. He managed the Bloomberg Terminal's main news page and also worked on a global project to produce short, chart-based stories across the newsroom. He previously worked as a journalist for a number of technology magazines in Hong Kong. Sheldon has a degree in industrial chemistry and an MBA. He owns ether and bitcoin below CoinDesk's notifiable limit.

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Keep an eye on XRP, Plasma, DOGE as bitcoin drifts

What you need to know for April 16, 2026

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Bitcoin holds near $75,000 as short-term holders look for profit opportunities

Bitcoin is hovering near $75,000 as steady institutional demand meets a wall of supply, while the options market is biased toward downside hedges.

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Beleid

South Korea to test blockchain deposit tokens for government spending in Q4

Token-based payments can be programmed with spending limits and which industries can use them, reducing audits and lowering transaction fees by removing intermediaries.

Major office building in South Korea (Fukuro 0wl/Unsplash)

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Buying coffee with bitcoin is easy, the resulting tax burden is not

A libertarian think tank argues that treating bitcoin as a capital asset for tax purposes makes everyday payments impractical due to the complex reporting requirements.

A mug of black coffee, leather notebook, glasses and pen rest on top of spreadsheet printout.

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Financiën

Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp says it's better to freeze 5.6 million BTC than let hackers have them

Lopp says dormant coins could pose systemic risk if quantum computing gives attackers the ability to grab them, intensifying the growing “freeze or not freeze” debate.

Casa CTO Jameson Lopp (right) speaks at Consensus 2019.

Markten

Allbirds abandons sneakers in pivot to AI computing, shares surge 400%

The footwear brand plans reinvention as Newbird AI with a $50 million convertible in a sign of the broader market shift into GPU infrastructure.

Allbirds logo on a store

Markten

Beyond ‘digital gold,’ Iran conflict forces a rethink of the nature of bitcoin

Bitcoin's 12% gain since the Iran war began isn't a risk-on trade. It's the market repricing bitcoin's role as a neutral settlement layer, Bitwise's CIO argues.

1 kg gold bars set out in ranks.


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Bitcoin pulls back as $75,000 remains 'both the milestone and the ceiling'

Bitcoin is struggling to break and hold above the key $75,000 resistance level while ether, solana decline.

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Technologie

Why this ex-Solana exec is using a Wall Street trick to level the playing field in DeFi

DoubleZero’s private fiber network aims to eliminate latency advantages like Hyperliquid’s Tokyo edge, but exchanges have yet to show an interest.

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