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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Финансы

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)

Финансы

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

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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))

Технологии

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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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)

Рынки

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

Финансы

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)

Рынки

Bitcoin pulls back to $64,000 after hitting monthly high as bears take control

Profit-taking after bitcoin hit a $65,500 monthly high combined with fresh Iranian strikes on U.S. bases sent crypto lower, with bears leading price action across most tokens.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk data

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Live updates: Bitcoin holding $64,000 as AI momentum stocks continue to tumble

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT came down heavily on hardware wallets. BTC traded steady near $65,000 after South Korea's rate hike.

Bitcoin's 24 hour performance. (CoinDesk data)

Технологии

Live updates: Bitcoin rises near $65,000 as markets get more good inflation news

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs took in about $181 million on Tuesday, a day after shedding roughly $425 million, per SoSoValue data. Ether ETFs added about $58 million.

Crypto 24-hour performance heatmap. (TradingView)