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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Markets

Bitcoin could be the big winner if the U.S.-Iran conflict drags on for months

Macro strategist Mark Connors says war-driven spending, rising debt and lower interest rates could support bitcoin.

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Finance

Global insurance broker Aon tests stablecoin payments with Coinbase, Paxos

The firm used USDC on Ethereum and PayPal USD on Solana for insurance premium payments, testing how stablecoins could reshape settlements.

Close-up of logo for British professional services company AON atop the AON building in downtown Los Angeles, 2019

Policy

U.S. Treasury signals shift on crypto mixers, acknowledges legitimate privacy uses

A congressional report on implementing the Genius Act acknowledges the existence of lawful uses for blockchain privacy tools even as U.S. regulators pursue enforcement cases tied to illicit finance.

The U.S. Treasury Department. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)


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U.S. inflation, Polkadot upgrade, Solstice-Kamino announcement: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting March 9.

Wooden block tiles spell out the word "inflation"

Markets

Bitcoin rises as oil spikes, equities drop

Bitcoin climbed during European trading hours even as U.S. equity futures, gold and silver fell, highlighting its relative resilience to oil shocks and war risks.

Map of Iran. (Tudoran Andrei/Shutterstock)

Finance

Nigel Farage takes 6% stake in UK bitcoin treasury firm Stack BTC

Reform UK leader backs London-listed company chaired by former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng as it expands bitcoin strategy.

Nigel Farage (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons)

Policy

Clarity Act will benefit banks more than crypto, former CFTC chair says

Former CFTC Chair Christopher Giancarlo says banks, more than crypto firms, need the stalled Digital Asset Market Clarity Act.

J. Christopher Giancarlo, Former Chairman, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Willkie Farr & Gallagher (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

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Policy

Coinbase says new U.S. tax-reporting rules for crypto are cluttered, confusing

The IRS’s 1099-DA tax form for reporting digital asset gains comes with a burden of over-reporting, Coinbase's tax experts warned.

Coinbase app on a mobile phone screen (appshunter.io/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

Binance tells Senate probe no accounts sent crypto directly to Iran

Crypto exchange pushed back on $1.7 billion Iran-linked flow allegations and called media reports behind the probe “defamatory.”

Richard Teng, CEO, Binance. (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)