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

Coinbase, Robinhood earnings, U.S. jobs report: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting Feb. 9.

Some coins piled on top of a $100 note.

Markets

Story co-founder defends token unlock delay, says project needs ‘more time’

In an interview with CoinDesk, S.Y. Lee pointed to Worldcoin’s extended lockups as precedent for longer runways.

PIP Labs CEO and Story Protocol Co-Founder SY Lee (Provided)

Policy

Bithumb $44 billion bitcoin blunder puts South Korea regulators on alert over local crypto exchanges

The Financial Supervisory Service said it plans to build tools that automatically extract suspicious trading patterns by the second and minute.

South Korea (Photo by Daniel Bernard on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Odds of Jesus Christ appearing in 2026 double, beating return on bitcoin

The Polymarket bet is a reminder that the weirdest corners of crypto are sometimes the only ones going up.

(Christian Dubovan/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Finance

Block weighs cutting up to 10% of jobs: Bloomberg

The company has told hundreds of employees their jobs are at risk as part of a broader overhaul.

Block CEO Jack Dorsey (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Markets

Record breaking stats from bitcoin’s Thursday capitulation signal a bottom is near

Extreme capitulation metrics are now matching levels seen only at major cycle lows.

Computer monitors and a laptop screen show trading charts on a desk overlooking an expanse of water at sunset. (sergeitokmakov/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Metaplanet commits to bitcoin accumulation even as shares decline

Metaplanet, Asia's largest publicly traded holder of bitcoin, is currently deep in the red, with its average acquisition cost per bitcoin at roughly $107,000.

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Crypto Daybook Americas

Recovering bitcoin still faces macro risks

Your day-ahead look for Feb. 6, 2026

Ship on turbulent waters. (Pixabay)

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Markets

Crypto market brightens after selloff that sent bitcoin to lowest since October 2024

A brutal crypto selloff erased $2.6 billion in leveraged bets, sent bitcoin to $60,000 and left markets deeply oversold.

Trading screen. (Yashowardhan Singh/Unsplash)

Markets

U.S. job losses at 17-year high raise positive signals for bitcoin bulls

Unofficial economic indicators suggest the Fed may need to ease policy, boosting riskier assets.

Graphic showing the word "Layoffs" (geralt/Pixabay)