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

Markets Today: Crypto Prices Hold Steady While Derivatives Show Long Positions Unwinding

Bitcoin and ether revisited recent lows before rebounding and altcoin prices were even more lackluster.

A trader stands examining a large trading graph in front of him.

Finance

Ripple Extends $75M Credit Facility to Gemini as Exchange Pursues IPO

Gemini's S-1 IPO filing revealed a lending deal with Ripple and a widening first-half loss as the company endeavors to become the third crypto exchange to go public in the U.S.

A montage of Ripple-related brands (Ripple)

Markets

ICP Loses Key Support as Token Falls 7% in Heavy Institutional Selling

ICP breaks below $5.48 support with volumes nearly doubling, signaling large-scale institutional selling

ICP-USD, Aug. 18 2025 (CoinDesk)

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Markets

Insurance Against Price Slides in BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Now Costliest Since April Crash

Protection against price drops in BlackRock's spot bitcoin (BTC) ETF, IBIT, is now at its priciest since the early April market slide.

FastNews (CoinDesk)

Finance

BTCS to Pay First-Ever Ether Dividend, Loyalty Bonus to Discourage Short Selling

Shareholders can opt for a $0.05 per share in ETH or cash dividend plus a $0.35 reward for moving shares to book entry for at least 120 days.

Digitally rendered Ethereum logo (Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Network Hashrate Rose 4% in First Two Weeks of August: JPMorgan

The combined hashrate of the 13 U.S.-listed miners the bank tracks now accounts for a record high 33.6% of the global network.

Rows dedicated to miners at the Bitcoin 2022 Conference in Miami. (Aoyon Ashraf/CoinDesk)

Markets

Solo Bitcoin Miner Bags $360K in Rare BTC Block Win

The miner ran roughly 9 petahashes per second of computing power, giving them just a one-in-800 chance of landing a block on any given day.

Bitcoin mining USB devices on a large USB hub.