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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Policy

El Salvador, Lugano Sign Agreement to Help Spread Bitcoin Adoption and Education

El Salvador also announced it was opening a “bitcoin office” in the southern Swiss city.

Pequeña bandera ondeando en la parte superior del ayuntamiento en la ciudad de Santa Ana, El Salvador. (Getty Images)

Finance

Tether’s Paolo Ardoino Says Bitcoin Adoption in Lugano, Switzerland, Going Well

The bitcoin push is part of the city's "Plan B," which includes hosting a crypto conference this week.

Paolo Ardoino. (Ingrid Weel/Bitfinex)

Finance

Crypto Stocks Soar as Bitcoin Rallies to Retake $20K

Coinbase, MicroStrategy and many of the miners are up by double-digit percentages on Tuesday afternoon.

Bitcoin superó máximos de un mes, pero analistas advierten sobre la volatilidad. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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.

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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)

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)

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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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