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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Markets

In 2025, bitcoin showed how spectacularly wrong price forecasts can be

Analysts aimed high. The market declined to follow.

Bitcoin (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Gold, silver outrun bitcoin as 2025's go-to protectors of paper money

Traders expect BTC to regain its mojo next year.

Gld, Silver, Copper, Palladium (TradingView)

Markets

Metaplanet buys 4,279 bitcoin, lifts total holdings to 35,102 BTC

Metaplanet's bitcoin income generation business generated about $55 million in annual revenue for 2024.

Metaplanet (TradingView)

Markets

Institutions are increasingly using the bitcoin options playbook for altcoins: STS Digital

Institutions are increasingly using bitcoin options strategies on altcoins to manage price volatility and enhance returns, STS Digital told CoinDesk.

Playing cards and poker chips. (Michał Parzuchowski/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Markets

Crypto winter looms in 2026, but Cantor sees institutional growth and onchain shifts

Cantor Fitzgerald sees early signs of a new crypto winter, but one that’s less chaotic, more institutional, and increasingly defined by DeFi, tokenization and regulatory clarity.

(Robin Marchant/Getty Images for Cantor Fitzgerald)

Finance

Sberbank issues Russia's first crypto-backed loan to bitcoin miner Intelion Data

Sberbank used its in-house crypto custody tool to back a loan for mining firm Intelion Data, signaling broader interest in crypto lending.

Sberbank branch in Brno (Perituss/Wikimedia Commons)

Finance

South Korean financial group Mirae Asset eyes crypto exchange Korbit acquisition: report

The financial group is in talks to acquire a 92% stake in Korbit for a as much as 140 billion won ($97 million).

Seoul, South Korea (csk/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin reverses early gains, drops below $88,000 as Nasdaq futures wilt

Bitcoin reversed Asian session gains, dropping below $88,000 and affecting major altcoins.

BTCUSD (TradingView)

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Markets

Bitcoin whales have been the main accumulators in the $80,000 range

While large bitcoin holders accumulate, smaller investors are selling.

Chart and heatmap for trend accumulation score by cohort (Glassnode)

Markets

Tokenized silver volumes explode as metal's price rises to record

A sharp jump in tokenized silver trading suggests investors are getting exposure to the metal onchain.

Blocks of silver (Scottsdale Mint)