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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Bitcoin Little-Changed Above $57K as Fed Chair Powell Testifies to Congress

Jerome Powell made clear that central bank policymakers are focused on downside risks to the economy as much as they are inflation.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: ICP and ETH Lead Gains as Index Climbs 1.9%

All 20 assets within the CoinDesk 20 are trading higher today.

CoinDesk 20 leaders (CoinDesk Indices)

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Bitcoin Steady Above $57K as Germany Moves 6.3K BTC to Exchanges

The German government entity has moved hundreds of millions worth of BTC to exchanges in the past few weeks, contributing to selling pressure and bearish sentiment.

(Allef Vinicius/Unsplash)

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AI Tokens Outperform CoinDesk 20 Index Tuesday Despite Clouds Forming Over Industry

New research from Goldman Sachs and Sequoia challenges assumptions that Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models can change the world.

(Possessed Photography/Unsplash)

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Crypto Wallet Provider Exodus Aims to Solve Web3's User-Friendly Issue With 'Passkeys Wallet'

The new wallet is able to bypass the need for seed phrases, browser extensions or email verifications to use decentralized apps.

16:9 Wallet (Prasanta Sahoo/PIxabay)

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BlackRock's BUIDL Fund Tops $500M as Tokenized Treasury Market Soars

The overall market of tokenized U.S. Treasury products has reached $1.8 billion, rwa.xyz data shows.

BlackRock's corporate office in New York, New York. (Jim.henderson/Wikimedia Commons)

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Bitcoin Drops as German Government Unloads Over $900M Worth of BTC

Wallets linked to the German government still hold some 23,788 bitcoin, meaning that it has already sold more than half of its seized assets, according to Arkham Intelligence data.

Bitcoin price on Monday (CoinDesk)

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CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: 19 Out of 20 Assets in the Green

FIL and LINK emerged as top performers, driving the CoinDesk 20 index higher by 3.2%.

CoinDesk 20 leaders (CoinDesk Indices)

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Bitcoin Climbs Over $57K, With Some Saying Mt. Gox Sales Already ‘Priced In’

Markets have priced in Mt. Gox’s ongoing repayments and U.S. policies could now start influencing the market, one trading desk said.

Trader looks at lines of support and resistance (Unsplash)

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Bitcoin ETF Investors Bought the Dip on Friday, With Inflows Topping $140M

The price of the world's largest crypto has seen a very modest bounce since tumbling below $54,000 early Friday.

(Getty Images)