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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Bitcoin Network Hashrate Hit Record High in October, JPMorgan Says

The monthly average network hashrate, a proxy for competition in the industry and mining difficulty, rose 5% to 1,082 EH/s.

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Crypto Markets Today: BTC Wilts After First Red October Since 2018

Charts indicate growing risk of a deeper decline to $100,000 or below, with consistent bias for put options in the options market.

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Zcash Overtaking Monero Market Cap Points to Privacy-Coin Power Shift

Zcash's market cap rose to as high as $7.2 billion, while Monero's held around $6.3 billion.

Privacy (Shutterstock, modified by CoinDesk)


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Berachain Halts Network to Contain Balancer-Linked Exploit, Conduct ‘Emergency Hard Fork’

The pause allows developers to roll out an emergency hard fork aimed at isolating compromised contracts and recovering affected assets before resuming operations.

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HIVE Digital's Mining Capacity Hits 23 EH/s as Bitcoin Output Funds AI Shift

The company is converting parts of its mining footprint into AI-ready data centers, including a site in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, that could support 25,000 GPUs.

Data center servers (Taylor Vick/Unsplash)

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Miners, Robinhood Earnings and Interest-Rate Decisions: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting Nov. 3.

An engineer sits at a bank of crypto mining rigs.

Markets

Wall Street Divided on Coinbase’s Path Forward After Q3 Earnings Beat

Transaction revenue hit $1.05 billion, but price targets range from $266 to $510 as Wall Street debates whether growth can outpace rising costs.

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H.C. Wainwright Turns Bullish on Coinbase, Double Upgrades to Buy With $425 Target

The investment bank reversed its bearish call on Coinbase, citing renewed crypto momentum and potential U.S. regulatory breakthroughs.

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Unveiling GoDark: Crypto’s New Institutional Dark Pool Backed by Copper, GSR, Others

There is no real institutional dark pool in crypto, according to the builder of GoDark.

Denis Dariotis, founder and CEO of GoQuant