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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Policy

Binance Says Venezuela Platform Is Being Hit by Access Restrictions

The Venezuelan government has blocked various websites, including the social network X, following allegations of fraud in the July 28 presidential elections.

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Digital Plans $250M Private Note Sale to Fund Bitcoin Buying

The notes will pay interest every six months and mature Sept. 1, 2031.

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel interview at Bitcoin conference in Miami (CoinDesk)

Policy

Gambaryan Family Says Binance Executive Is Being Denied Access to Lawyers, Health Is Deteriorating

Gambaryan was pushed into a Abuja, Nigeria courtroom on July 16th in a wheelchair for his last hearing.

Tigran Gambaryan, Binance's head of crime compliance, is one of two executives detained in Nigeria. (Shutterstock/Consensus)

Policy

Tether to Fight Celsius' $3.3 Billion 'Shakedown' Litigation

On Friday, Celsius asked a U.S. court to order Tether to relinquish a total of 57,428.64 bitcoin.

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Finance

Canto Blockchain Suffers Two-Day Outage Amid Consensus Issue

The Canto team said a fix will be deployed on Monday at 12:00 UTC.

A plug disconnected from its electricity socket.

Markets

First Mover Americas: Crypto Prices Little Changed, XRP Surges

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Aug. 8, 2024.

XRP price, FMA Aug. 8 2024 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Wallet Linked to Nomad Bridge Hack Transfers $36M of Ether to Tornado Cash

The address was funded on Monday, three days before the transfers were made.

Bridge (Charlie Green/Unsplash)

Policy

Japan's Top Regulator Says Crypto-ETF Approvals Need 'Cautious Consideration:' Report

The U.S., Hong Kong and Australia have all recently given green lights to crypto-related ETFs.

Tokyo, Japan (thetalkinglens/Unsplash)

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Finance

Metaplanet Arranges Loan to Buy $6.8M of BTC

The Japanese company announced its plan to adopt bitcoin as a reserve asset to hedge against the volatility of the yen in May.

Tokyo, Japan (Ryo Yoshitake/Unsplash)

Finance

Hong Kong Digital Bank Mox Adds Crypto ETFs, Plans Direct Crypto Investing

The bank becomes one of several offering bitcoin and ether ETFs to Hong Kong customers despite relatively low demand.

Hong Kong harbor skyline view into Kowloon