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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Tech

OpenClaw developers targeted in GitHub phishing scam offering fake token airdrops

Security researchers said attackers are impersonating OpenClaw on GitHub, luring developers with bogus CLAW token giveaways that trick users into connecting their crypto wallets.

Hackers and scammers. (Credit: Max Bender/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

ECB seeks experts to help integrate digital euro into ATMs, card payment terminals

The European Central Bank is preparing the ground should legislators enable the issuance of a digital currency and the bank's governing council approve issuing it.

The EU seeks to put savings caps on the digital euro.

Markets

Bitcoin’s biggest DeFi drawback under attack as OpNet unlocks smart contracts on mainnet

Bitcoin’s biggest limitation is being challenged as OpNet brings native, yield-generating DeFi directly to the Bitcoin mainnet.

Abstract blockchain networks illustration with glowing cubes representing digital assets


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Markets

Bitcoin slips below $70,000 as oil surge, Fed pause weigh on risk assets

BTC dipped below $70,000 as energy prices spiked and the Fed held interest rates, pressuring crypto and equities.

Oil rig operating during the sunset (Maria Lupan/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin, unusually, outperforms gold as hawkish Fed, oil price fuel risk-off sentiment

Bitcoin fell 2% while gold and silver saw sharper declines as oil prices surged and the Fed flashed hawkish signals.

BTCUSD/Gold (TradingView)

Finance

Crypto exchange Kraken freezes multibillion-dollar IPO plan due to difficult market conditions

Kraken's parent company filed a draft S-1 registration statement with the SEC in November regarding the proposed initial public offering of its common stock.

Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Semafor)

Finance

Bank of Korea adds two banks to digital won trials as real-world testing begins

Korea's central bank and nine commercial lenders started real-world testing of deposit tokens, including subsidy payments and peer-to-peer transfers.

Bank of Korea. (Credit: By Neoalpha-Wikimedia Commons/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Finance

RedotPay executive turnover clouds crypto payments firm's $4 billion U.S. IPO ambition

The company's internal strain, including reports of required long working hours, is overshadowing its push for a U.S. listing.

Contactless payment via a mobile phone (Jonas Lupe/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

UK lawmakers urge ‘immediate moratorium’ on crypto political donations

The committee highlighted that the fast payment traits of crypto, along with tools like mixers, tumblers, and AI-assisted splitting of payments below the £500 reporting threshold.

UK Parliament Building and Big Ben, London, England (Ugur Akdemir/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)