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

Digital Payments Platform Flexa Launches Crypto Point-of-Sale Tool

Flexa Components will allow retailers to accept crypto payments like USDC at the point of sale.

(Simon Kadula/Unsplash)

Finance

Justin Sun Bets on Memecoins With Tron-Based Token Generator

Memecoins have become a key component of the recent crypto bull market.

Consensus 2019 Justin Sun CEO TRON (CoinDesk)

Policy

Stablecoin Regulations Could Pose Problems for Tether, JPMorgan Says; USDT Issuer Claims Sour Grapes

Stablecoin issuer Tether has attracted regulatory scrutiny in the past due to its lack of transparency about the composition of its reserves, the JPMorgan report said.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Tether)

Finance

Latin American Exchange Bitso Taps Coincover for Security Services

Bitso will use Coincover’s non-custodial disaster recovery service and its risk engine to monitor outgoing transactions in real time.

ddos (Shutterstock)

Markets

Bitcoin Mining Was Less Profitable in July Than June, Jefferies Says

U.S.-listed mining companies produced a larger share of bitcoin in July than the previous month as they brought on new capacity faster than the network hashrate rose, the report said.

Bitcoin miners (Shutterstock)

Policy

Binance Completes Registration With India's Financial Intelligence Unit Months After Being Fined

The registration was provisionally approved in May, subject to the crypto exchange paying a fine of about $2.2 million.

(Vadim Artyukhin/Unsplash)

Finance

BitGo Reiterates Autonomy From Justin Sun, Tron as MakerDAO Decides to Dump WBTC

Critics of Sun's involvement don't understand the operational mechanics, the crypto custodian's CEO, Mike Belshe, said during an X Space discussion.

Justin Sun (CoinDeskTV)

Finance

Digital Assets Infrastructure Provider Parfin Raises $10M in Series A Funding

The company plans to reach $16 million by the end of a second closing.

Parfin co-founders (left to right): Alex Buelau, Marcos Viriato and Cristian Bohn (Parfin)

Markets

Hut 8 Upgraded to Buy, Risk Reward Is to the Upside: H.C. Wainwright

The company has the capital and the infrastructure to buy and deploy the latest generation of mining rigs at a favourable time, the report said.

A Hut 8 mining facility (hut8.io)