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

La comunidad MakerDAO aprueba la propuesta de custodia de USDC de Coinbase

Hasta US$1600 millones en USD Coin serán custodiados con Coinbase Prime, donde se obtendrá una recompensa de 1,5%.

Exchange cripto Coinbase guardará hasta US$1600 millones de USDC para MakerDAO.

Finance

MakerDAO Community Approves Proposal to Place USDC in Coinbase's Custody Platform

Up to $1.6 billion in USD coin will be held with Coinbase Prime, where it will earn a 1.5% reward.

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Markets

La caída de bitcoin podría continuar si la fortaleza del dólar se mantiene en los próximos trimestres, según Goldman Sachs

La fortaleza relativa de la economía estadounidense y la postura de la Fed han contribuido a llevar al dólar a un máximo de dos décadas.

Goldman Sachs detectó una continua fortaleza del dólar. (Getty Images)

Markets

Goldman's Bullish Dollar Forecast Could Spell More Bad News for Bitcoin

The cryptocurrency has fallen as the U.S. dollar index has gone up.

Goldman Sachs detectó una continua fortaleza del dólar. (Getty Images)

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Finance

Crypto Exchange Binance.US Hires Ex-FBI Agent as First Head of Investigations

BJ Kang led the probes of a number of high-profile Wall Street insider-trading cases.

Binance.US at Bitcoin Miami 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

BNY Mellon Starts Crypto Custody Service

The custodial lender earlier this fall received approval from financial regulators in New York to begin holding bitcoin and ether for certain customers.

Nasdaq está ofreciendo servicios de custodia de criptomonedas. (Tim Evans/Unsplash)

Finance

Binance CEO Zhao Taking Different Acquisition Tack Than FTX's Bankman-Fried

Both have said they're willing to spend $1 billion in deals this year.

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Finance

Elon Musk Proposes to Proceed With Twitter Acquisition

Alongside a spike in Twitter shares, Musk crypto favorite dogecoin has moved higher.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Christian Marquardt - Pool/Getty Images)

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Finance

Compute North Files for Bankruptcy as Crypto-Mining Data Center Owes up to $500M

The company's CEO stepped down earlier this month and its COO will serve as the president.

Compass' Wolf Hollow site in Granbury, Texas (Compute North)

Finance

First Guilty Plea in Coinbase-Related Insider Trading Charges

The brother of a former Coinbase product manager, Nikhil Wahi, in late July was arrested for trading on confidential information.

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