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

Global Standard Setters to Deliver Global Crypto Policy Roadmap

The Financial Stability Board and the International Monetary Fund are set to deliver a paper calling for global coordination on crypto policy at this weekend's G20 summit.

Sep 5, 2023

Finance

Blockchain Developer Cronos Labs Kicks Off Search for Participants in $100M Accelerator Program

Cronos Labs has signed up Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and blockchain security specialists PeckShield and Certik as mentors for the program.

Sep 5, 2023

Finance

Crypto Casino Stake Targeted in Reported $40M Exploit

Cyvers' platform describes the exploit as being related to a "private key leak."

Sep 4, 2023

Crypto casino Stake hit by $45 million exploit. (Carl Raw/Unsplash)

Policy

Singapore's New President, a Former Central Bank Chairman, Has Called Crypto 'Slightly Crazy'

The 66-year-old garnered more than 70% of the vote to take over a largely ceremonial role.

Sep 4, 2023

Tharman Shanmugaratnam and his wife Jane Yumiko Ittogi in 2017.

Policy

Australia Senate Committee Rejects Crypto Bill From Opposition Senator Andrew Bragg

Bragg said the Labor government had put regulating crypto in the slow lane.

Sep 4, 2023

Australia's government is taking a deliberate approach toward creating crypto laws. (Unsplash)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Hovers Below $26K; Stellar’s XLM Rallies

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Sept 4, 2023.

Sep 4, 2023

Markets

Crypto ETF Opportunity Doesn't Stop at Bitcoin, Extends Into Multiple Digital Assets: Bernstein

The industry push for an ether spot ETF will follow immediately after a bitcoin ETF approval since ETH has a similar market structure of a traded CME futures market and a spot market, the report said.

Sep 4, 2023

Sign saying fee area ahead on a background of desert shrubland

Policy

Larry David’s Super Bowl Ad Casts Doubt on FTX.US Separation, DOJ Says

Sam Bankman-Fried says the FTX exchange’s bankruptcy isn’t relevant ahead of his October fraud trial.

Sep 4, 2023

Larry David's FTX Super Bowl ad has been brought up ahead of Sam Bankman-Fried's criminal trial. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin's Use as Margin Collateral in Crypto Futures Trading Is Growing

Using BTC as collateral for a derivative is effectively a double whammy, according to analysts.

Sep 4, 2023

Markets

Traders Are Paying 2,000% to Buy CYBER as Social Network's Tokens Soar

The price of the tokens has more than doubled on some exchanges in the past week in an otherwise little-changed market.

Sep 1, 2023

image of a crypto trader aka degen (Anjo Clacino/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)