Stephen Alpher

Co-regional news chief, Americas

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.

Latest from Stephen Alpher

Markets

Seller Exhaustion or a Bottom? Strategy Gains 11% From Session's Worst Levels

Peter Schiff took a victory lap after the company Monday morning announced it had raised $1.44 billion via common stock sales as a reserve to pay preferred dividends for nearly two years.

Dec 1, 2025

Finance

Kalshi Launches Tokenized Event Bets on Solana Blockchain: CNBC

The prediction market is rolling out tokenized contracts on Solana to meet crypto traders where they already are, Kalshi told CNBC.

Dec 1, 2025

Finance

Tom Lee's BitMine Acquires 97K ETH, Eyeing Fusaka Upgrade, Fed Policy as Positive Catalysts

The firm increased the pace of purchases from the previous week despite sitting on large unrealized losses on its ether bet.

Dec 1, 2025

Markets

Strategy Establishes $1.44B Cash Reserve, Slashes 2025 Profit, BTC Yield Targets

Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company also added to its bitcoin holdings last week, bringing its total stack to 650,000 BTC.

Dec 1, 2025

Strategy Executive Chaiman Michael Saylor (Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Gleec Buys Komodo’s Cross-Chain DeFi Stack Valued at $23.5M for Undisclosed Amount

The acquisition brings Komodo’s atomic-swap technology, token ecosystem and core developers under the Gleec umbrella.

Dec 1, 2025

Scattered pile of $1 bills (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Michael Saylor Sunday Change-Up Suggests New Announcement Coming Monday

The executive chairman of bitcoin treasury firm Strategy teased a switch from orange dots to green dots in what's become his routine cheeky Sunday X post.

Nov 30, 2025