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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Finance

Crypto Exchange Ripio Reveals $100M Crypto Treasury, Second Largest in Latin America

The company's holdings, which include bitcoin and ether, have been managed through trading and hedging strategies since 2017.

CoinDesk

Markets

Ray Dalio Still Owns Bitcoin, but Says Traceability and Quantum Threat Are Concerns

The billionaire founder of hedge fund Bridgewater believes Bitcoin faces major hurdles before it can become a global reserve currency.

Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater. (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Bitcoin's Nvidia-Led Gains Prove Short-Lived, With Price Slumping Back to $88K

U.S. stocks are also giving up a major early advance, with the Nasdaq now ahead just 0.3%.

Bitcoin (BTC) price on Nov. 20 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Tether Invests in LatAm Crypto Infrastructure Firm Parfin to Boost USDT Among Institutions

The investment is part of Tether’s broader push to expand stablecoin settlement and tokenization tools among institutions across Latin America, the firm said.

Tether

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Finance

Ether Treasury Firm FG Nexus Unloads Nearly 11K ETH to Fund Share Buyback

The action comes just a couple of weeks after fellow ETH treasury firm ETHZilla sold $40 million of tokens to fund its own share buybacks.

Ethereum News

Markets

Cipher Mining Inks New 10-Year HPC Deal With Fluidstack; Shares Rise 13%

The expansion adds 56 MW at Barber Lake and secures $830 million in contracted revenue, reinforced by increased Google backing.

CIFR (TradingView)

Markets

U.S. Added Stronger Than Forecast 119K Jobs in September, but Unemployment Rate Rose to 4.4%

The September jobs report typically would have been published in the first week of October, but was delayed till now due to the government shutdown.

Sign saying "Now Hiring" sits on a lawn.

Markets

Nvidia Earnings Beat, Strong Outlook Calm Jittery Markets; Bitcoin Re-Takes $90K

"Blackwell sales are off the charts, and cloud GPUs are sold out," said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

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Markets

Fed Rate-Cut Odds Plunge Further on Jobs Data Delays

Traders slash chances of a December cut to 33% as the Fed loses a key data point ahead of its final 2025 meeting.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell

Markets

Crypto Leverage Hits Record High in Q3 as DeFi Dominance Reshapes Market Structure: Galaxy

Onchain lending drove crypto-collateralized debt to a new peak in last quarter, but the leverage underpinning the market is now better collateralized than during the previous cycle.

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