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's Death Cross Is Looming Again

Indicators like the death cross are inherently lagging and offer limited predictive power.

Investors shouldn't let bitcoin's impending death cross put them under pressure. (bboellinger/Pixabay)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Crashes to $50K as 'Perfect Storm' Hits Crypto Market

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Aug 5, 2024.

Bitcoin price on Aug 5 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Defi Giant Aave Rakes in $6M in Revenue as Crypto Market Plunges

Aave shows defiance during the sell-off by profiting off user liquidations.

Money (Alexander Mils/Unsplash)

Markets

Crypto Stocks Slump as Bitcoin, Ether Tumble

Coinbase, MicroStrategy and miners fell as equity markets declined worldwide.

Crypto market's crash sent shares of related companies tumbling. (Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Dips Below $50K as Investors Flee Risk Assets

Ether slumped by the most since May 2021.

Man with his head down on his laptop facing the Agony of Defeat (Getty Images)

Policy

France Opens for MiCA Applications, First Among Biggest EU Economies

The French regulator has in the past welcomed crypto companies to register with it.

(Pourya Gohari / Unsplash)

Finance

Morgan Stanley to Offer Bitcoin ETFs to Wealthy Clients: CNBC

The move will take effect on Wednesday and will be open to clients with a net worth of at least $1.5 million.

Morgan Stanley (Shutterstock)

Markets

Kujira Foundation's Tokens Stung by Its Own Leveraged Positions as Bets Backfire

The developers said the team’s positions were “targeted” and they will create an operational DAO to take ownership of the Kujira Treasury and core protocols.

(Unsplash)

Markets

Risks Are Skewed to a Weaker Nonfarm Payrolls Print, ING Says

A weak report will likely bolster Fed rate-cut expectations and potentially support risk assets, including bitcoin.

The government's jobs report for January was released Friday (David McNew/Getty Images)

Policy

Kamala Harris Can't Cede Crypto to Trump, Could be Difference in Battleground States: Think Tank

"Kamala Harris must lay out her own agenda for cryptoassets or she risks ceding the ground entirely to the Republicans," said the commentary from OMFIF’s Digital Monetary Institute.

Kamala Harris.  (Megan Varner/Getty Images)