Stephen Alpher

Stephen is CoinDesk's managing editor for Markets. He previously served as managing editor at Seeking Alpha. A native of suburban Washington, D.C., Stephen went to the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, majoring in finance. He holds BTC above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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Bitcoin Holds $28K as Stocks Buckle Under Interest Rate Concerns

Also, there's a growing consensus that SEC approval of a spot bitcoin ETF is surely in the cards.

(Getty Images)

Политика

U.S. Treasury Targets Gaza Crypto Business in Sanctions to Squeeze Hamas

The Treasury Department issued a list of sanctions that included a business providing money transfers and digital assets exchange services in Gaza.

The U.S. Treasury Department's financial crimes arm reported on the use of bitcoin in human trafficking and other global crimes. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin Financial Services Firm Unchained Looks to Attract Wealthy Clients With New Advisory Service

Sound Advisory will offer a network of "bitcoin-competent" financial planners to help HNWIs build distribution and utilization strategies and address potential tax and inheritance issues.

Unchained Capital co-founders Dhruv Bansal (left) and Joe Kelly (Unchained)

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Investment Manager Methodic Unveils Ether Staking Fund Offering Exposure to ETH Price and Yield

The fund uses the CoinDesk Ether Total Return Index and BitGo will custody and stake the fund's assets.

Ethereum (Unsplash)

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Bitcoin 'Bollinger Bandwidth' Signals Wild Price Swings Ahead

The widely-tracked technical analysis gauge recently tanked to levels that have historically presaged a return of volatility to the crypto market.

(Gustavo Rezende/Pixabay)

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Reddit-Based Tokens Plunge on Report of Wind Down of Community Points

MOON, BRICK and DONUT tokens prices are each lower by 60%-90%.

Reddit has submitted a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to go public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “RDDT.” (Brett Jordan/Unsplash)

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Tokenized RWAs Could Grow to a $10T Market by 2030 as Crypto Converges to TradFi: Report

Digital dollars, also known as stablecoins pegged to the U.S. dollar, represent the "first successful tokenization implementation," 21.co analysts said.

Crypto adoption is in a "turning point" as it converges to the existing financial system (21.co)

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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Seeing Client Demand for Crypto 'Around The World'

Rumors about spot bitcoin ETF approvals aside, Fink called the recent rally a “flight to quality.”.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink (Getty Images)

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What’s Next for Grayscale, Spot Bitcoin ETF After SEC Declines to Appeal Court Loss?

One analyst believes SEC Chair Gary Gensler has little choice but to soon approve the long-awaited vehicle.

Grayscale ad (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Политика

SEC Deadline on Grayscale's Bitcoin ETF Dispute Approaching at Midnight

The agency has hours left to seek an appeal of the court order to erase its rejection of Grayscale’s trust-to-ETF conversion application.

SEC head Gary Gensler (SEC, modified by CoinDesk)