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Sam Reynolds

Senior Reporter, Asia

Sam Reynolds is a senior reporter based in Asia. Sam was part of the CoinDesk team that won the 2023 Gerald Loeb award in the breaking news category for coverage of FTX's collapse. Prior to CoinDesk, he was a reporter with Blockworks and a semiconductor analyst with IDC.

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Markets

Ether Balance on Exchanges Nears All-Time Low

The drop comes as the number of staked ether has surged.

May 26, 2023

Ethereum (ethereum.org)

Markets

Milady NFTs Get Dogecoin Treatment as Prices Retrace Days After Elon Musk Tweet

Top holders of LADYs meme coins are sitting on unrealized profits worth millions of dollars.

May 26, 2023

Milady 8835 last sold for 0.35 ETH (about $1,000) on OpenSea. (Remilia, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Holding Pattern Continues as Lawmakers Make Progress in Debt Limit Negotiations

ALSO: Graphics chip manufacturer Nvidia's powerful GPUs were well-suited for bitcoin mining but they now seem primed to boost the company's sales because of their usefulness in artificial intelligence technology.

May 25, 2023

US Capital building (Matt Anderson/Getty Images)

Policy

Lawyers Challenging U.S. Tornado Cash Sanctions Say Free Speech Is at Stake

Open source software isn’t property, and current sanctions laws are ill-equipped to handle this, lawyers argue.

May 25, 2023

No one knows exactly what the fallout from the Tornado Cash sanctions will look like. (Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin's 'Ichimoku Cloud' Suggests Deeper Drop Toward $24K: Technical Analysis

Ichimoku Cloud, created by Japanese journalist Goichi Hosada in the 1960s, is widely used to gauge momentum and trend strength.

May 25, 2023

(Sandid/Pixabay)

Policy

DeSantis: ‘Bitcoin Represents a Threat to the Current Regime’

Florida’s governor and the Republican Party’s latest leadership candidate talked crypto and central bank digital currencies in a Twitter space with Elon Musk.

May 25, 2023

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ' departure from the presidential campaign field likely means less crypto talk in the 2024 election. (CoinDesk screen grab from governor's office video)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Holds Below $27K Amid Macro Uncertainties

ALSO: Market maker Flowdesk is looking to expand in the U.S., even as a number of major crypto firms, including Coinbase, have lost enthusiasm there because of ongoing regulatory uncertainties.

May 25, 2023

Bitcoin continued its downtrend of recent days. (Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto’s Fentanyl Trade Worth Tens of Millions: Security Researchers

Reports from Chainalysis and Elliptic point to the trade for fentanyl precursors and fentanyl itself being fueled by crypto.

May 24, 2023

Crypto flows to China-based fentanyl precursor suppliers (Chainalysis)

Markets

Bitcoin, Ether Slip as UK Core CPI Reaches Highest Since 1992

The annualized 3-month trend in UK core CPI is running at a whopping 13.6%, per the UK Office of National Statistics.

May 24, 2023

Deutsche Bank's survey of retail investors see bitcoin (BTC) price dropping below $20K by year-end (Meg Boulden/Unsplash)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Crypto’s Narrative of This Season Is No Narrative at All

ALSO: Hong Kong’s proposed crypto exchange rules value TradFi chops over crypto knowledge. What are the key potential changes?

May 24, 2023

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