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

Hive Blockchain Q3 Revenue Jumps Fivefold From Previous Year

The gain was driven by increases in cryptocurrency prices and additional production facilities.

Máquinas de minería de bitcoin (Shutterstock)

Finance

North Korea Used Stolen Crypto to Fund Missile Program: Report

The estimate of $50 million is significantly lower than the $400 million identified by Chainalysis in a report released in January.

WIKIMEDIA: Kim Jong-Un North Korea

Finance

Binance to Reinstate Payments From EU's SEPA Platform: Report

The rollout will start in Belgium and Bulgaria and expand throughout the bloc in coming weeks.

Euros

Finance

Andreessen Horowitz Looks to Raise $4.5B for New Crypto Funds: Report

The $3.5 billion targeted for a crypto venture fund would be the industry's largest.

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Policy

UK Financial Regulator to Limit Crypto Ads to Sophisticated, Wealthy Investors

The FCA also intends to ban incentives such as refer-a-friend and new-joiner rewards.

(Piotr Swat/Shutterstock)

Finance

Crypto Exchange FTX Establishes $2B Fund to Invest in Crypto Startups

The FTX Ventures fund will be one of the industry's largest, the Wall Street Journal said.

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Finance

BIS Names CBDC Expert as Head of Euro Region Innovation Center

Raphael Auer is now an economist in the organization’s innovation and digital economy unit.

Raphael Auer, who becomes the head of the BIS' innovation center for the euro region in February, 2022.

Markets

Cryptocurrencies Approach New Year in Positive Mood

Bitcoin advanced to its highest price in three days, though all of the biggest cryptocurrencies are negative for the week.

(Pexels/Pixabay)

Finance

MicroStrategy Buys Another $94.2M of Bitcoin

As of Dec. 29, the company held about 124,391 bitcoins purchased at an average price of $30,159.

MicroStrategy executive chairman Michael Saylor (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Arsenal FC Fan Token Ads Criticized by UK Regulator

The Advertising Standards Authority said the ads were irresponsible for trivializing investment in crypto assets.

Arsenal stadium