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 Traders Warn of Pullback as U.S. Inflation Data Looms; Dogecoin Leads Majors Slide

Crypto markets are expected to remain shaky ahead of Friday’s U.S. inflation report, one trading desk said.

A bear waving. (Hans-Jurgen Mager/Unsplash)

Policy

U.S. Treasury Describes NFTs as 'Highly Susceptible to Use in Fraud and Scams'

"Illicit actors can use NFTs to launder proceeds from predicate crimes, often in combination with other methods to obfuscate the illicit source of proceeds of crime," the Treasury found.

U.S. Treasury Building (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

TradFi Rushes In: Goldman Sachs Digital Assets Lead Mathew McDermott on the Institutional Embrace of Tokenization

The financial industry veteran discusses ETFs, tokenization and future banking blockchain opportunities.

Mathew McDermott, Global Head of Digital Assets for Goldman Sachs speaks at Consensus 2024. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Cathie Wood Says Ether ETF Filings Were Approved Because Crypto Is an Election Issue

Wood said the proposed ether ETFs weren't approved in a regular way.

Cathie Wood, CEO of ARK Invest, at Consensus 2024 by CoinDesk (Suzanne Cordiero)

Finance

Bitfarms Says Riot Bid 'Significantly Undervalues' Crypto Miner, Is Exploring Options

Bitfarms said it had received additional expressions of interests from other parties.

New and old bitcoin mining rigs at CleanSpark's site in Georgia.

Finance

Fetch.ai, SingularityNET, Ocean Protocol Set Date for Artificial Superintelligence Alliance Token Merger

The three AI platforms will complete the token merger on June 13, and FET will be renamed ASI two days before.

(Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Policy

Israel to Start Digital Shekel Challenge to Develop Payment Use Cases

The Bank of Israel has not decided on issuing a digital shekel, even as it continues its yearslong effort to explore its issuance.

(Eduardo Castro/Pixabay)

Markets

First Mover Americas: BTC Consolidates Around $68K as IBIT Overtakes GBTC

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for May 29, 2024.

BTC price, FMA May 29 2024 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin, Ether Prices Ease as SHIB Drives Gains in Meme Tokens

A rally in meme tokens such as dogecoin and shiba inu is primarily driven by Asian traders in response to bullish sentiment around ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs), one trader said.

Bull and Bear (nosheep/Pixabay)

Finance

Crypto Prime Broker FalconX Starts FX Desk With Hires From BCB Group

The offering will provide crypto trading firms, exchanges and brokers with access to 20 FX pairs.

FalconX CEO Raghu Yarlagadda (FalconX)