Stephen Alpher

Stephen is CoinDesk's managing editor for Markets. He previously served as managing editor at Seeking Alpha. A native of suburban Washington, D.C., Stephen went to the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, majoring in finance. He holds BTC above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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Policy

UK's FCA Seeks Views on Stablecoins, Crypto Custody to Prevent Firm Failures

The country's market regulator's proposed rules are meant to ensure stablecoins maintain their value and seek to reduce the likelihood of stablecoin and crypto custody companies failing.

UK FCA building (FCA)

Finance

Bitcoin Platform Mezo Debuts Mainnet to Build Circular BTC Economy

Mezo is built to be a Bitcoin finance platform that enables its users to unlock practical utility in BTC and thus become their own bank

Heading of Bitcoin Whitepaper

Markets

Bitcoin Pulls Back to $107K, but NYDIG Analysis Suggests Market Far From Overheated

A number of indicators suggested the bull market has more room to run, said NYDIG.

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Finance

New Jersey's Bergen County to Tokenize $240B in Real Estate Deeds on Avalanche Network

The wealthy New York City suburb will migrate 370,000 property deeds — representing about $240 billion worth of real estate — onto an immutable, searchable blockchain ledger.

The Avalanche booth at HBC 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Markets

EToro Adds DOGE, XRP, SHIB and 9 Others in U.S. Crypto Push After Nasdaq Debut

The trading platform now offers 15 tokens in the U.S., expanding access as it settles into life as a public company.

EToro (CoinDesk Archives)

Finance

Conduit Raises $36M to Expand Stablecoin-Based Cross-Border Payments Beyond SWIFT

Stablecoins are one of the fastest-growing sectors in crypto and an increasingly popular tool for global payments, attracting interest from venture capital investments.

U.S. dollar (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Privacy Crypto Dero Targeted With New Self-Spreading Malware

The malware spread like a worm and spawned malicious containers after infecting fresh devices.

A hooded figure sits typing on a laptop in a darkened (Pixabay)

Tech

Square Pilots Real-Time Bitcoin Payments in Vegas, Plans Full Availability to Customers in 2026

The feature would still need regulatory approval in order to be made available to all customers.

Apple Pay image via Wikimedia Commons

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Markets

KindlyMD Acquires 21 Bitcoin Ahead of Merger with Nakamoto

The firm now symbolically owns one millionth of the total bitcoin circulating supply, but its objective is to have one million BTC.

A statue of Satoshi Nakamoto, a presumed pseudonym used by the inventor of Bitcoin, is displayed in Graphisoft Park on September 22, 2021 in Budapest, Hungary. The statue's creators, Reka Gergely and Tamas Gilly, used anonymized facial features, as Nakamoto's true identify remains unconfirmed. (Photo by Janos Kummer/Getty Images)

Markets

Can Bitcoin Break Conference Curse at This Week's Las Vegas Event?

Bitcoin has been on a heater over the past few weeks, but previous years' conferences have proven to be decent selling opportunities.

Bull and bear (Shutterstock)