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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Markets

First Mover Americas: BTC Hit All-Time High as Trump Closed In on Victory

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Nov. 6, 2024.

BTC price, Nov. 6 2024 (CoinDesk)

Policy

Crypto Friendly SEC and Senate Banking Committee Expected Under Trump: Bernstein

Stablecoin and market structure bills may now both see faster progress, the report said.

Donald Trump's remarks at BTC 2024 have inspired Forida's chief financial official to put pension money into bitcoin. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto Equities Surge More Than 10% as U.S. Political Uncertainty Diminishes With Trump Victory

MicroStrategy and Coinbase both added 12%, with bitcoin miners also gaining more than 10% in pre-market trading.

(Shutterstock)

Markets

Dogecoin Golden Cross Appears as Price Probes Key Fibonacci Hurdle

Trump's return to the White House has powered DOGE higher by 15%.

Dogecoin jumps into a golden cross. (
brixiv/Pixabay)

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Markets

Bitcoin, Solana Hit New Cycle Highs Against Ether as Trump Edges Closer to U.S. Presidency

Bitcoin dominance approached 61% with Solana dominance also primed to touch record high.

BTC-ETH Market Spread (TradingView)

Tech

Chainlink, UBS Asset Management, Swift Complete Pilot to Extract Cash From Tokenized Funds

The pilot was run as part of the Monetary Authority of Singapore's Project Guardian.

(Swift)

Finance

Memecoin Creators Hop on U.S. Election Mania With Thousands of New Tokens

More than 1,000 memecoins related to the U.S. presidential election have been issued on Solana in the past 24 hours.

New meme coin narrative emerges (Darren Halstead/Unsplash)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Crypto Market Little Changed as U.S. Votes

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Nov. 5, 2024.

BTC price, FMA Nov. 5 2024 (CoinDesk)

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Markets

Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Tops 100T for First Time, Piling Pressure on Small Miners

The Bitcoin hashrate, on a seven-day moving average, hit a record high of 755 EH/s last week.

BTC: Miner percent mined supply spent (Glassnode)

Markets

Metaplanet Gains First Index Listing With Inclusion on CoinShares' BLOCK Index

The company's stock is the best-performing Japanese equity this year, having gained nearly 840%, according to Investing.com.

Tokyo, Japan (Ryo Yoshitake/Unsplash)