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

Peter Schiff Calls Bitcoin a 'Giant Cult,' Doubles Down on Gold

Appearing at the Bitcoin 2025 conference, the famed gold bug and no-coiner called bitcoin is a “memecoin” and not real wealth, drawing laughs — and ire.

Peter Schiff

Markets

Ether Outperforms DeFi Market in May, Bouncing From Woeful Start to the Year

ETH is beginning to wrangle back control with rival layer-1 blockchains like Solana.

ETH price (CoinDesk data)

Finance

Bitcoin Treasury Firm Twenty One Capital Brings Total Fundraise to $685M

The fresh fundraising comes ahead the firm's merger with Nasdaq-listed Cantor Equity Partners to become a publicly-traded bitcoin treasury company.

Strike CEO Jack Mallers speaks at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Square Flies the Flag for the Lightning Network With 9.7% Yield on Bitcoin Holdings

Block's Miles Suter said that the firm is earning "real BTC returns from our corporate holdings...by efficiently routing real payments across Lightning"

16:9 Lightning (Nordseher/Pixabay)

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Markets

CANTO Rises From the Ashes, Spiking 250% Before Crashing Back Down

The project has not posted on X since September despite claiming it would release a new roadmap.

CoinDesk

Markets

Telegram Raises $1.7B Via Convertible Bonds: Bloomberg

The messaging app, with over 1 billion users, plans to use $955 million to buy back existing bonds and the remaining $745 million for growth.

Telegram app on a smartphone (Christian Wiediger/Unsplash)

Markets

TON Under Pressure After Telegram's Pavel Durov Confirms No xAI Deal Was Signed

"No deal was signed" said Elon Musk, the xAI CEO, in response to an announcement earlier on Wednesday by Telegram's Pavel Durov

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov (TechCrunch Disrupt Europe/Creative Commons)

Markets

Nvidia's Earnings Beat May Help AI-Linked Tokens

The company reported a 69% increase in revenue in the first quarter compared to a year ago.

Nvidia (CoinDesk Archives)

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Policy

UK's FCA Seeks Views on Stablecoins, Crypto Custody to Prevent Firm Failures

The country's market regulator's proposed rules are meant to ensure stablecoins maintain their value and seek to reduce the likelihood of stablecoin and crypto custody companies failing.

UK FCA building (FCA)

Finance

Bitcoin Platform Mezo Debuts Mainnet to Build Circular BTC Economy

Mezo is built to be a Bitcoin finance platform that enables its users to unlock practical utility in BTC and thus become their own bank

Heading of Bitcoin Whitepaper