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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Finance

China’s Digital Yuan Experiment Expands to Insurance, Fund Management: Report

State-owned banks are exploring the use of the central bank digital currency in higher-value payments

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Tech

Microsoft Is Awarded US Patent for Crypto Token-Creation Service

The patent describes a ledger-independent system for helping users to create and manage tokens across different networks.

Microsoft office, Redmond.

Finance

Argo Blockchain Files for Nasdaq Share Listing

Details of the proposed offering, such as the price range and number of shares on offer, have yet to be determined.

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Markets

Hive Blockchain Boosts Capacity With 1,800 Antminer Order

The Antminer S19j Pro machines will be delivered in stages during the first half of next year.

Bitmain Antminer

Finance

Hut 8 Second-Quarter Revenue Climbs Fourfold

The company predicted it will mine as many as 22 bitcoins a day in the fourth quarter as new machines are deployed.

Crypto mining machines

Markets

Bitcoin Revenue in April Represents $3B a Year, ETC Group Says

ETC's first industry report also shows second-quarter Ethereum transaction volume increased more than 2,000%.

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Markets

US Senate Passes $3.5T Budget Plan

Senators voted along party lines to support a blueprint for President Joe Biden's agenda.

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Policy

Binance to Wind Down Hong Kong Derivatives Trading in Switch to 'Proactive' Compliance Stance

Regulators worldwide have said the exchange isn't authorized to conduct regulated activities in their countries.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao

Markets

US Considers Banking Regulator Who's Wary of Crypto: Report

Saule Omarova is a professor of banking law and could be nominated in the next few months, the New York Times said.

Cornell University

Finance

Crypto User Numbers Double in 6 Months

Research carried out by Crypto.com identified more than 220 million users of crypto by the end of June.

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