Sheldon Reback

Regional Head of Europe

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.

Latest from Sheldon Reback

Policy

Coinbase Blocked in Kazakhstan for Breaking New Digital Assets Law: Report

Issuance, circulation, and offering trading of "unsecured digital assets" is prohibited outside the country's financial center under laws that came into effect earlier this year.

Nov 7, 2023

Markets

SHIB, DOGE Top Open Futures Rankings as Bitcoin Rally Spurs Risk-Taking

SHIB and DOGE have seen highest percentage growth in futures open interest since Nov. 1, outshining bitcoin and ether in a sign of increased investor risk appetite in the crypto market.

Nov 7, 2023

Finance

FTX Relaunch Effort Includes Celsius Winner Proof Group, Sources Say

Plans to bring Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange back to life include the Silicon Valley investment firm Proof Group, which was part of the Fahrenheit consortium that successfully bid for bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius.

Nov 6, 2023

FTX former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. (MIT Bitcoin Club, Mercatus Center, Cointelegraph/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Smart Contract Platform Llama Raises $6M From Investors Including Polygon, Aave Founders

The firm aims to allow blockchain governance protocols to encode role-based functionality.

Nov 6, 2023

Llama co-founders Austin Green and Shreyas Hariharan (Llama)

Markets

First Mover Americas: FTX Wants to Sell Its GBTC

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Nov. 6, 2023.

Nov 6, 2023

Markets

SOL Drops 5% as FTX Estate Transfers Tokens to Binance, Kraken

The $30 million transfer takes the total SOL moved to exchanges to $102 million, the most out of any liquid asset, while the token's price is near the highest in a year.

Nov 6, 2023