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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Markets

Bitcoin rally faces key test at $68,000 as 'summer slumber' grips crypto, analysts say

BTC has rebounded 15% from the July lows, but some analysts cautioned that the next move hinges on clearing a level where many recent buyers may look to sell.

Bitcoin price chart (TradingView)

Finance

Jack Mallers steps down as XXI Capital CEO as Tether's plans to merge three bitcoin firms falls

The proposed three-way merger between Twenty One Capital, Mallers' Strike, and Elektron Energy has been abandoned.

Jack Mallers (CoinDesk TV)

Finance

Live markets: Bitcoin pulls back from five-week high on new Trump threats over Iran

Bitcoin ETFs have pulled in roughly $727 million over the past week, the most sustained stretch of buying since the record outflows of June.

BTC $66K

Finance

Exodus to cut 25% of global workforce in payments shift

This restructuring is part of a strategy to build a full-stack payments platform following the company's acquisitions of Monavate and Baanx.

Two individuals leaving an office (The Jopwell Collection/Unsplash)

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Finance

Tom Lee's Bitmine slowed ether purchases as it bought back $86 million in stock

The company added just 7,430 ETH, worth about $14 million, last week as it nears its goal to corner 5% of Ethereum's supply.

Tom Lee on the Mainstage at Consensus Miami 2026

Finance

Saylor's Strategy raises cash reserves to $3.2 billion, leaving bitcoin holdings unchanged

For the second consecutive week, the firm kept bitcoin holdings steady, choosing to use the raised capital to boost cash for paying dividends on its preferred stock.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor standing. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk))

Tech

Live updates: Bitcoin rises to one-month high of $65,700 before pulling back with stocks

Equity markets await second-quarter earnings reports from key tech firms, which begin this week.

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Markets

Bitcoin faces fresh headwinds as China’s Kimi beats Claude, GPT in coding benchmark

Moonshot's Kimi K3 took the top spot in frontend coding away from Claude and OpenAI, and it's free. Semiconductor stocks fell, and crypto fell with them.

A wall of code. (Pexels/Pixabay)

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Markets

Live markets: Bitcoin returns to $63,000 as Nasdaq trims large early loss

A deepening global selloff in chipmakers dragged risk assets lower, pulling bitcoin back from the $65,000 level it reached on this week's soft inflation print.

Ether, XRP flat as chip stocks steady on Samsung's 250-fold pr

Finance

Stripe’s $53 billion PayPal bid is a high-stakes play to own the future of digital payments

If Stripe acquires PayPal, the real prize could be consumer wallets, stablecoin issuance or the infrastructure powering the next generation of digital payments.

Paypal headquarters in the Silicon Valley, San Jose, California. (Getty Images)