Sheldon Reback

Editor, EU News

Sheldon Reback is CoinDesk's European news editor. 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 subsequently managed the Bloomberg Terminal's main news page before becoming the European editor for a global project to produce short, chart-based stories across the newsroom. His previous work as a journalist took him to Hong Kong, where he reported and edited for several technology magazines. Sheldon has a degree in industrial chemistry and an MBA. He owns ether and bitcoin below CoinDesk's notifiable limit.

LATEST FROM SHELDON REBACK

Policy

JPEX Drama Shows Need for Crypto Regime, Hong Kong Leader Says

The territory’s leader urged investors to use licensed platforms and promised more education about crypto risks.

Sep 19, 2023

Spot bitcoin ETFs could soon be coming to Hong Kong (Allan Watt/Flickr)

Finance

Citigroup Unveils Token Services for Institutional Clients

In a pilot, Citi used smart contracts to serve the same purpose as bank guarantees and letters of credit working with shipping company Maersk and a canal authority.

Sep 19, 2023

Finance

Binance Staked Ether Experiences $573M in Inflows This Month

Two days of inflows fueled a more than fourfold increase in Binance staked ether's total value locked.

Sep 19, 2023

Finance

Crypto VC Firm Blockchain Capital Raises $580M for 2 New Funds

Most of the firm's limited partners are traditional institutional investors, including university endowments, private foundations, financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds and U.S. pension plans

Sep 18, 2023

Blockchain Capital Co-Founders Bart Stephens and Brad Stephens (Blockchain Capital)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Friend.tech Drives Up Coinbase’s Base Blockchain Activity

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Sept. 18, 2023.

Sep 18, 2023

Base's daily transaction hit record high (IntoTheBlock)

Markets

Bitcoin Tops $27K a Week After Death Cross Formation With Fed Likely to Extend Rate Pause

The cryptocurrency is up nearly 8% since the ominous-sounding technical analysis pattern appeared on the daily price chart.

Sep 18, 2023

Finance

Tether Co-Founder Sizes Up PayPal’s Stablecoin Ambitions

Tether pioneer William Quigley, who was also an early investor in PayPal, said he doubts the payments giant will bring much innovation to the stablecoin space.

Sep 18, 2023

Tether co-founder William Quigley (Magnetic)

Markets

Bitcoin Punches Above $27K, but Analysts Have Bearish Price Predictions

Bitcoin shot up to $27,000 in European afternoon hours on Monday, adding over 2% in the past 24 hours.

Sep 18, 2023

Markets

FTX’s Crypto Liquidation Sales Unlikely to Cause Market Shock: Coinbase

The token sales won’t flood the market because liquidations are bound by volume limits, the report said.

Sep 18, 2023

Tech

New Avalanche Dapp Lets Traders Swap Hundreds of Different Tokens in Single Transaction

Multiswap’s code creates a liquidity pool of several different tokens that can be easily traded with each other – making these trades in a single transaction possible.

Sep 18, 2023