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

ZeroHash applies for national trust bank charter to expand regulated stablecoin services

A charter would allow ZeroHash to operate under a single federal framework, rather than state-by-state rules and offer services aligned with recent legislation.

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Markets

IREN to expand processing capacity by 50%, prepares at-the-market offering

The company ordered more than 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and filed for a potential $6 billion at-the-market share sale, sending the stock lower in pre-market trading.

An engineer sits at a bank of crypto mining rigs.

Tech

The Protocol: New Ethereum scaling plans

Also: OKX and AI agents, Future AI users of blockchain and Bitcoin’s latest governance clash.

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Finance

Billions in crypto are moving in Iran. Analysts can't agree if it's war-time panic or business as usual.

When airstrikes hit Iran on Feb. 28, crypto outflows from Nobitex spiked 873%, suggesting a "digital bank run" was ongoing. The reality may be more complex.

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Finance

Sui’s native stablecoin goes live with promise of Treasury yield going back to the network

Plans for a Sui Dollar, which is issued by stablecoin firm Bridge, were introduced toward the end of last year.

Mysten Labs co-founders (from left to right): George Danezis (Chief Scientist), Sam Blackshear (CTO), Evan Cheng (CEO), Kostas Kryptos Chalkias (Chief Cryptographer), Adeniyi Abiodun (CPO)

Policy

Trump’s crypto adviser rejects Jamie Dimon on treating yield-bearing stablecoins like banks

White House adviser Patrick Witt said yield-bearing stablecoins needn't to face bank rules because the Genius Act bars issuers from lending reserves.

White House. (Credit: Tabrez Syed on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Crypto Daybook Americas

Here's why bitcoin climbed through $71,000

Your day-ahead look for March 4, 2026

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Markets

Bitcoin hits one-month high near $72,000 as haven demand rises

BTC jumped to $71,800 as investors turned to haven assets in light of the escalating Middle East conflict and renewed strength in altcoins.

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Markets

Strategy’s STRC stock signals 1,000 BTC purchase in biggest-one day issuance since debut

Surging trading volume in STRC suggests strong bitcoin buying by the largest publicly traded holder of the cryptocurrency.

Executive Chairman of Strategy Michael Saylor

Markets

Bitcoin jumps above $71,000, building on its resilience to Middle East conflict

Bitcoin climbed above $71,000, gaining more than 6% in 24 hours and leading broad advances in major cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin's price rise. (CoinDesk)