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

Bitcoin Tops $27K a Week After Death Cross Formation With Fed Likely to Extend Rate Pause

The cryptocurrency is up nearly 8% since the ominous-sounding technical analysis pattern appeared on the daily price chart.

(CoinDesk/Highcharts.com)

Finance

Tether Co-Founder Sizes Up PayPal’s Stablecoin Ambitions

Tether pioneer William Quigley, who was also an early investor in PayPal, said he doubts the payments giant will bring much innovation to the stablecoin space.

Tether co-founder William Quigley (Magnetic)

Markets

Bitcoin Punches Above $27K, but Analysts Have Bearish Price Predictions

Bitcoin shot up to $27,000 in European afternoon hours on Monday, adding over 2% in the past 24 hours.

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Markets

FTX’s Crypto Liquidation Sales Unlikely to Cause Market Shock: Coinbase

The token sales won’t flood the market because liquidations are bound by volume limits, the report said.

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Tech

New Avalanche Dapp Lets Traders Swap Hundreds of Different Tokens in Single Transaction

Multiswap’s code creates a liquidity pool of several different tokens that can be easily traded with each other – making these trades in a single transaction possible.

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Markets

First Mover Americas: Altcoins Lead Gains and Deutsche Bank to Explore Tokenization

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Sept. 15, 2023.

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner F2Pool Returns 19.8 BTC to Paxos After Overpaid Fee

Paxos paid $520,000 for a $2,000 bitcoin transaction earlier this week.

(Sandali Handagama)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Bybit 'Exploring All Options' to Stay in UK: CEO

Companies like Luno and PayPal have halted certain crypto operations in the country in response to regulations set to take effect next month.

Bybit withdraws from France (Mantas Hesthaven / Unsplash)

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Ether Staking Landscape Gets Boost as SSV Mainnet Seeks to Dispel Centralization Concerns

The launch comes as the staking landscape is dominated by centralized staking providers, which together hold more than 70% of the staked ether (ETH) supply.

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Markets

First Mover Americas: BTC Holds $26K; Hedera’s HBAR Jumps

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Sept. 14, 2023.

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