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 and collapse. He managed the Bloomberg Terminal's main news page and worked on a global project to produce short, chart-based stories across the newsroom. Before that, he worked 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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Pananalapi

Base Network Suffers 1st Downtime Since 2023, Halts Operations for 29 Minutes

The Coinbase-backed layer-2 blockchain went offline due to a block production issue, marking its first service disruption since 2023.

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Merkado

A Year Ago Today, Bitcoin Hit $49K on Yen Carry Trade Unwind, Now It's Up 130%

From panic to accumulation, long-term holders are strengthening their positions while bond yields and equities jump alongside bitcoin.

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Merkado

BNB Tops $760 Amid Corporate Adoption and New Binance Features

BNB's price rose nearly 2% to top $760, driven by a surge in volume and coordinated buying that pushed through technical resistance levels.

BNB price chart (CoinDesk Data)

Merkado

Missing Satoshi Nakamoto Statue Is Recovered in Lugano

The layers of disappearing stripes creating the illusion of Satoshi, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, that fade into code when viewed head-on had stood on the site since late 2024.

The statue of Satoshi viewed head-on, showing the parkland behind.

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Pananalapi

Crypto Firm Bullish Seeks to Raise Up to $629M in New York Share Sale

At the top end of the $28-$31 price range, the company would have a valuation of about $4.2 billion.

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Merkado

Coinbase's Weak Q2 Is a Blip, Not a Breakdown, Says Benchmark

Weakness in Coinbase stock is a buying opportunity, according to the broker.

Coinbase app on a mobile phone screen.

Pananalapi

DeFi Protocol CrediX Taken Offline After $4.5M Exploit

CertiK said all the stolen funds were bridged to Ethereum from Sonic.

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Crypto Daybook Americas

Bitcoin Tests Support Before Aiming Higher: Crypto Daybook Americas

Your day-ahead look for Aug. 4, 2025

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Patakaran

French MPs Float Plan to Mine Bitcoin With Surplus Nuclear Energy

The proposal aims to take advantage of surplus energy generated by nuclear power plants, with one MP describing it as a "secure and extremely profitable solution".

Nuclear power plant (Lukáš Lehotský/Unsplash)

Merkado

Metaplanet Doubles Down on Bitcoin as Shares Slide, Buys Another $54M

The Japanese company's purchase takes its total holdings to more than $1.78 billion in value.

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