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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Strategy Tumbles to 4-Month Low as Crypto Stocks, Digital Asset Treasuries Sink

Galaxy, SharpLink, BitMine were among the names that plunged nearly 10% as risk appetite faded and bitcoin sunk to $113,000.

Executive Chairman of MSTR, Michael Saylor (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin Drops Below $114K, Ether Loses $4.2K as Jackson Hole Speech Might Bring Hawkish Surprise

The bubble in crypto treasury strategy companies deflated even further on Tuesday.

Bitcoin plunges below $40K (Eva Blue/Unsplash)

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KindlyMD/NAKA Expands Bitcoin Treasury with $679M Acquisition

The company's first purchase since the Nakamoto merger boosts total holdings to 5,764.91 bitcoin.

bull sitting, lying (Walter Frehner/Unsplash+)

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Crypto Bull Market Could Run Till 2027, With Major Upside for HOOD, COIN, CRCL: Bernstein

Bernstein reiterated its outperform rating on Robinhood and lifted its price target on the stock to $160 from $105.

Crypto market breadth improves. (ArtTower/Pixabay)

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KindlyMD Closes $200M Convertible Note Funding for More Bitcoin

Shares are lower by 11% on Monday with an analyst noting NAKA's convertible note terms were somewhat more stringent than those afforded to Michael Saylor's Strategy.

A statue of Satoshi Nakamoto, a presumed pseudonym used by the inventor of Bitcoin, is displayed in Graphisoft Park on September 22, 2021 in Budapest, Hungary. The statue's creators, Reka Gergely and Tamas Gilly, used anonymized facial features, as Nakamoto's true identify remains unconfirmed. (Photo by Janos Kummer/Getty Images)

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Circle Acquires Malachite to Power Its Upcoming Arc Blockchain

The USDC stablecoin issuer last week said it is building its own blockchain focused on stablecoin finances.

(Sandali Handagama/ CoinDesk)

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Core Scientific Faces Valuation Disconnect; PT Hiked to $22: Jefferies

The bank reiterated its buy rating on CORZ and raised its price target for the bitcoin miner to $22 from $16 to reflect the CoreWeave acquisition.

Celsius and Core Scientific hope to raise millions via mining rig vouchers (alvarez/Getty Images)

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Top Crypto Traders Flip Bearish on BTC, ETH in Major Sentiment Shift

Once-bullish crypto traders are warning of billions in potential ether liquidations and fresh downside risks for bitcoin.

(Daniel Mirlea/Unsplash)

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BitMine Immersion's Ether Holdings Top $6.6B, Stock Slides 7% Alongside ETH's Tumble

The Tom Lee-led firm increased its ether stash to 1.5 million tokens last week, up from 1.15 million.

Screenshot of Tom Lee on CoinDesk TV (CoinDesk)

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TeraWulf Adds Another 10% as Google Lifts Stake

The news comes alongside Fluidstack exercising its option to expand at WULF's Lake Mariner data center campus.

Máquinas de minería de bitcoin (Shutterstock)