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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Markets

Metaplanet Picks Up Record 620 Bitcoin as XRP Leads Market Slide

The purchase did little to buoy sentiment for bitcoin, which recorded its first seven-day loss since early November.

Bull and bear (Shutterstock)

Markets

HyperLiquid Sees Record $60M in USDC Flee as North Korea Said to Be Probing Perpetuals Exchange

North Korea-linked addresses, said to be possibly testing the exchange for weaknesses, have accrued losses exceeding $700,000, according to one observer.

USDC net flows on HyperLiquid. (Hashed Official/Dune)

Markets

What Happened to Bitcoin's Santa Rally?

Historically, the fourth quarter is the bitcoin's best; this year it's underperforming.

Santa Claus (Pixabay)

Markets

Long-Term Bitcoin Holders Have Sold 1M BTC Since September: Van Straten

Bitcoin is at the biggest discount to its record high since the U.S. election.

BTC: LTH Supply Change (Glassnode)

Finance

More Than Half of Crypto Tokens Debuted in 2024 Were Malicious: Blockaid

As much as $1.4 billion was lost to crypto scams and fraud in 2024, said the security firm.

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Policy

Craig Wright Receives Suspended Jail Sentence for Contempt of Court

Wright's suit for intellectual property rights related to bitcoin violated a court order imposed after his claim to be bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto was ruled to be false.

Craig Wright heading to COPA trial on March 1  (Camomile Shumba/CoinDesk)

Markets

Trump-Backed World Liberty Financial Swaps Its cbBTC for WBTC After Sun Joins as Adviser

The swap took place Wednesday, the same day BiT Global lost a court case seeking to prevent Coinbase delisting WBTC.

Justin Sun banana

Tech

Kraken’s Ink Layer-2 Goes Live

The team had originally planned for Ink to go live in early 2025, so the launch of the main network is ahead of schedule.

Kraken CEO Jesse Powell