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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Financiën

Kraken’s Derivatives Arm Joins Copper’s Crypto Settlement Network

Copper’s ClearLoop provides institutions with connectivity to OKX, Bybit, Deribit, BIT, Gate.io, Bitfinex, Bitget and PowerTrade, with Bitstamp and Bitmart soon to go live.

(l-r) Zodia Custody CEO Julian Sawyer, Kraken MTF CEO Mark Jennings, Komainu COO Suzanne Hubble (AIM Summit)

Markten

First Mover Americas: Mt. Gox Repayments Worsen BTC Woes

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for June 24, 2024.

BTC price, FMA June 21 2024 (CoinDesk)

Markten

Bitcoin Mining Sector Is Attracting Growing Investor Interest Following Core Scientific Deal: JPMorgan

Iris Energy is best positioned to take advantage of the high-performance computing/AI opportunity, the report said.

(Shutterstock)

Financiën

Don't Tell Anyone, but Private Blockchains Handle Over $1.5T of Securities Financing a Month

Permission-based repo ledgers are among the most successful applications of blockchain technology.

(Shutterstock)

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Markten

Mt. Gox to Begin Repayments in July; BTC Slides Under $61K

The defunct crypto exchange is supposed to return over 140,000 bitcoin to victims of the 2014 hack.

Mt. Gox Creditor Kolin Burges confronts Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles (CoinDesk)

Technologie

Cosmos DAO Osmosis to Adopt Fee-Free Bitcoin Bridge

Osmosis is achieving this through a revenue-share proposal with Bitcoin bridge Nomic.

Ethan Buchman (left), co-founder of Cosmos, speaks about Bitcoin with Osmosis Labs co-founder Sunny Aggarwal, at Consensus 2024 in Austin, Texas. (CoinDesk)

Markten

Meme Coin Liquidity Hits Record High Even as Bid-Ask Spread Spotlights Risk

Generally, increased liquidity leads to a tighter bid-ask spread, but that's not the case with meme coins.

Higher liquidity in meme coins isn't being reflected in risk assessments. (ataribravo99/Pixabay)

Markten

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Falls Below $64K Following $900M in ETF Outflows

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for June 21, 2024.

BTC price, FMA June 21 2024 (CoinDesk)

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Beleid

U.S. Lawmakers Visit Detained Binance Exec in Nigeria, Call for Release

The two House members said Tigran Gambaryan is being wrongfully detained and should be freed.

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

Financiën

Crypto Custody Firm Fireblocks Adds ‘One-Click’ Audits, Tax Reporting

Software from Web3 accounting company Tres works with a wide range of digital asset networks, and can be integrated with accounting software such as QuickBooks, Xero and NetSuite.

Fireblocks sign at Miami airport during Bitcoin Miami conference 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)