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

Live updates: Bitcoin closing out best quarter since 2024, ether its best since 2021

Crypto prices rose early Wednesday after better-than-forecast inflation data, but gave up those gains as interest rates continued to surge.

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Live updates: Bitcoin turns lower as rates rise, consumer confidence plunges

The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index fell to its lowest level in more than a decade in September, with expectations of continued weakening in business and labor market conditions.

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AI agents could drain cheap bank deposits, Apollo's Torsten Slok warns

AI agents could trigger a bank run by automatically moving household cash from low-interest checking accounts to higher-yield alternatives, Slok warns.

The letters "AI" surrounded by thin fibers. (Steve A Johnson/Unsplash)

Finance

Live updates: Bitcoin remains under pressure as Iran denies report of peace progress

The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield is sharply higher again, rising to a new cycle high above 5.27%.

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RedotPay completes financial audit as it presses ahead with U.S. IPO plans

The stablecoin payments company said the audit is part of its preparations to go public, disputing an August report that the listing had been put on hold.

Accounting firm Mazars, which did a "proof-of-reserves" audit for crypto exchange Binance, is pausing its auditing work for crypto clients. (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Circle and Tether step in to freeze hacker wallet after massive Bitget crypto heist

The stablecoin issuer blacklisted a wallet holding about $318,000 in USDT and USDC. Most of the stolen funds sit in ether, which can't be frozen.

Circle and Tether freeze hacker's stablecoin (Etherscan)

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Live updates: Bitcoin moves to $84,000, oil slides on latest report of Middle East progress

Separate reports from Axios and CBS suggest some positive movement in U.S.-Iran negotiations.

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Bitcoin just topped a key long-term moving average. Here's what it might mean

Bitcoin’s return above its one-year average excited chart watchers. AltcoinPro Research says the more important signal is whether it can stay above its 200-day average.

Bitcoin chart Sept. 24. (CoinDesk)

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Finance

Crypto casino Duelbits goes offline after $7 million hot wallet hack

Attackers drained Duelbits' hot wallets across four blockchains; about $6 million in stolen funds now sits in a single Ethereum address.

Duelbits transaction map (Etherscan data)

Finance

European stablecoin issuer Qivalis sees transformation of global trade finance

Jan-Oliver Sell, the CEO of Qivalis, said the entire trade finance supply chain is moving into stablecoins.

Jan-Oliver Sell, CEO of Qivalis (Qivalis)