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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Finance

Stablecoins, bitcoin could reshape finance, Stanley Druckenmiller says

The billionaire investor said stablecoins could become the whole payment system in 10-15 years, and reiterated that crypto might replace the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency.

Stanley Druckenmiller in 2016

Finance

U.S. sanctions 6 people, 2 companies that laundered $800 million in crypto for North Korea

The Treasury Department said North Korea infiltrated IT workers into U.S. businesses and channeled their wages back to the country to fund weapons of mass destruction programs.

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

Markets

Bitcoin outperforms stocks, tops $72,000 even as dollar strengthens

BTC climbed 2% to break through $72,000 while U.S. equity futures slipped and the dollar strengthened, as altcoins and AI tokens joined a broader crypto rally.

A matador faces a bull

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Markets

Bitcoin holds above $71,000, defying rising dollar, oil and U.S. bond yields

Stronger dollar, rising Treasury yields, and tech equities treading water contrast with bitcoin’s resilience amid geopolitical tensions.

North Sea oil rig.

Finance

Eightco shares jump on $125 million funding commitment, investment in OpenAI, Beast Industries

Eightco holds a digital asset treasury that includes some 277 million WLD tokens and 11,000 ether.

Stock market price charts (Anne Nygård/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto accounting firm Cryptio raises $45 million as institutional demand accelerates

The company's platform tracks digital assets, storage locations and crypto loans, enabling financial institutions and corporations to produce accounting records and financial reports.

Stacks of 100 dollar bills (Dmytro Glazunov/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)


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Markets

Bitcoin steady near $70,000 as rising open interest hints at cautious, bearish positioning

Bitcoin traded around $69,800 as open interest rose to $102 billion, suggesting defensive, bearish bets while altcoins outperformed in a risk-off macro backdrop.

Bear. (Photo by Sean Benesh on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

Crypto-friendly fintech Revolut gains full UK banking license

The move is a major step in Revolut's goal to become a global digital bank. Services like crypto and stock trading remain separate.

A Revolut card (Kay/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)