Sheldon Reback

Sheldon Reback is CoinDesk editorial's Regional Head of Europe. Before joining the company, he spent 26 years as an editor at Bloomberg News, where he worked on beats as diverse as stock markets and the retail industry as well as covering the dot-com bubble of 2000-2002. He managed the Bloomberg Terminal's main news page and also worked on a global project to produce short, chart-based stories across the newsroom. He previously worked as a journalist for a number of technology magazines in Hong Kong. Sheldon has a degree in industrial chemistry and an MBA. He owns ether and bitcoin below CoinDesk's notifiable limit.

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Markets

Bitcoin leads crypto rebound to $71,000 as $550 million in shorts liquidated

BTC climbs despite escalating Middle East tensions, outperforming gold as altcoins rally and derivatives data signals cautious but improving market sentiment.

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Finance

Fund services giant Apex to tokenize Bitcoin mining note on Coinbase’s Base platform

Apex will tokenize the Omnes Mining Note “OMN,” an institutional-grade structured note backed by Bitcoin hashrate.

Bitcoin hash rate has surged in 2024 (Hashage)

Finance

BlackRock is betting billions that tokenized funds will do for Wall Street what the internet did to mail

In his annual letter, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink argues that digital wallets and tokenized assets could modernize markets and expand investor access.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink

Markets

H100 eyes Europe’s largest bitcoin treasury with 3,500 BTC in proposed acquistions

Proposed bitcoin-for-bitcoin acquisition of Moonshot and Never Say Die would triple the company's holdings and expand institutional scale.

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Policy

Brazil’s finance minister delays divisive crypto tax plan

The proposed tax would classify some crypto transactions as foreign exchange operations, subject to rates ranging to as high as 3.5%.

Brazil's flag (Rafaela Biazi/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin surges above $71,000 as Trump postpones Iran strikes for 5 days

Trump said that the two countries held "very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East."

U.S. President Donald Trump  (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin retreats to $68,000, leaving CME gap as traders eye $70,000 rebound

BTC slipped back into February's range after Donald Trump threatened to attack Iran's power plants, sparking a selloff and shifting flows toward commodities.

Bitcoin CME futures (TradingView)

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Markets

Bitcoin's momentum indicator is flashing a signal that should worry bulls

A key momentum indicator that has been accurate at calling price selloffs since October just triggered.

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Markets

Fed's Miran speaks, Bitgo earnings, Casper hard fork: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting March 23.

Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran speaks onstage during the Semafor World Economy Summit