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

Fake Hong Kong stablecoins start trading as real ones remain absent

Tokens using ‘HKDAP’ and ‘HSBC’ tickers are circulating even as the HKMA says no licensed stablecoins have been issued

Hong Kong view over Victoria Harbour.

Policy

KuCoin EU hires anti-money laundering talent to appease Austrian regulator

KuCoin was ordered by Austria’s FMA to halt business in the EU because of a shortfall in AML and compliance staff.

KuCoin screen on a mobile phone. (Shutterstock)

Markets

There's a social media groundswell predicting bitcoin above $90,000. That might be a problem.

The crowd is heavily leaning bullish, and that's often a contrarian signal, according to Santiment.

Hidden in a crowd.

Finance

Institutional money is coming for bitcoin, but Adam Back says it moves slower than you think

The legendary cryptographer discusses institutional money flows into bitcoin.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back

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Finance

Galaxy Digital delivers first data center tranche to CoreWeave after narrowing Q1 loss

Galaxy secured approval to double its Helios data center power capacity to over 1.6GW, building on its strategic expansion into AI infrastructure.

Data center (Taylor Vick/Unsplash)

Crypto Daybook Americas

Bulls want bitcoin back above $80,000. Macro says not so fast.

What you need to know for April 28, 2026

Bulls and bears (Midjourney/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto traders turn cautious as bitcoin loses steam below $80,000

Bitcoin drops after repeated resistance at $80,000, taking ether with it, while derivatives and macro signals point to reduced risk appetite and subdued volatility.

BTC/USD (TradingView)

Policy

A digital shekel is here: Israel approves its first regulated stablecoin

BILS was developed in collaboration with the Solana network and crypto custodian heavyweights Fireblocks with auditing oversight provided by Big Four consultancy firm EY.

16:9 Shekels (Ri_Ya/Pixabay)

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Finance

Jack Dorsey's Block nears 9,000 bitcoin in treasury after Q1 addition

The firm added 114 BTC to its corporate treasury, for a total of 8,997 BTC, and said it plans to issue regular third-party reports.

Bitcoin price chart on a screen (Behnam Norouzi/Unsplash)

Finance

Bitmine's ether buys are catching up to Strategy's bitcoin accumulation pace

Bitmine bought $234 million of ether in its largest weekly purchase this year, closing in on Strategy's regular bitcoin buys once the firm's STRC-fueled spikes are stripped out.

Tom Lee of Bitmine. (CoinDesk)