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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Celsius Bankruptcy Reorganization Plan Approved by Court; Implementation by Early 2024

The order marks Celsius' exit from bankruptcy, filed in July last year, a process that also saw it make a $4.7 billion settlement with the U.S. over fraud allegations.

Ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky, right, near a federal courthouse in Manhattan on Oct. 3, 2023 (Victor Chen/CoinDesk)

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Poloniex Hot Wallets Hacked With $114M Seemingly Stolen: On-Chain Data

Poloniex investor Justin Sun confirmed the exploit, saying the exchange will reimburse affected users and offering a "white hat bounty" to the hacker.

Hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

Finanza

JPMorgan Adds Programmable Payments to JPM Coin

Previously clients would need to set standing orders for payments to take place at a particular time; now they can program them to kick in when the relevant criteria are met.

(Shutterstock)

Mercati

Was Ether's Bitcoin-Beating Surge a One-Off, or Has The Tide Really Turned?

Key options market gauge suggests ether could continue to see more action than bitcoin in the coming weeks.

Candle chart with moving average lines

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Michael Saylor’s Massive Bitcoin Bet Crosses $1B in Unrealized Profit

Saylor’s business software company, MicroStrategy, held more than 158,000 bitcoins as of Friday.

MicroStrategy Executive Director Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

Politiche

EU Parliament Approves Data Act With Smart-Contract Kill Switch Provision

The final version of the bill's text, reviewed by CoinDesk in July, revealed that it contained a smart-contract kill switch clause.

European regulators will focus more on banks' exposure to crypto-linked entities. (Christian Lue/Unsplash)

Mercati

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Tops $37K

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Nov. 9, 2023.

(CoinDesk)

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Polygon Labs Commences $85M Grant Program to Draw Builders to Its Ecosystem

Polygon Labs is offering 110 million of its native token, MATIC, to projects in DeFi, gaming and social media, among others.

Polygon co-founders Sandeep Nailwal, Jordi Baylina and Antoni Martin (Polygon)

Politiche

India's Controversial Crypto Tax Should Be Cut After Failing to Achieve Aims, Think Tank Urges

The government lost $420 million in potential revenue and failed to improve transparency because the tax regime prompted as many as 5 million crypto users to shift transactions offshore, a new study found.

New Delhi, India (Unsplash)

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U.S. Crypto Stocks Ride BTC Momentum in Pre-Market Trading

COIN, MSTR, HOOD and mining stocks all showed upward movement in pre-market trading after bitcoin rose to its highest level in 18 months.

(Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)