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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Finance

FTX's Bitcoin Balance Plunges to Just 1

Roughly 20,000 bitcoin have been pulled from the crypto exchange in the past 24 hours, according to data from Coinglass.

Attackers drained all liquidity from the affected QuickSwap pool. (Shutterstock)

Finance

Santander UK Puts Limits on Payments to Crypto Exchanges

The bank takes note of the risks of investing in crypto and rising crypto fraud.

(Shutterstock)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Stronghold Digital Completes Debt Restructuring

The company over the past 10 weeks has returned 26,200 miners to NYDIG in exchange for the extinguishment of $67.4 million of debt.

Stronghold runs a coal refuse facility in Pennsylvania. (Stronghold Digital Mining)

Policy

El Salvador, Lugano Sign Agreement to Help Spread Bitcoin Adoption and Education

El Salvador also announced it was opening a “bitcoin office” in the southern Swiss city.

Pequeña bandera ondeando en la parte superior del ayuntamiento en la ciudad de Santa Ana, El Salvador. (Getty Images)

Finance

Tether’s Paolo Ardoino Says Bitcoin Adoption in Lugano, Switzerland, Going Well

The bitcoin push is part of the city's "Plan B," which includes hosting a crypto conference this week.

Paolo Ardoino. (Ingrid Weel/Bitfinex)

Finance

Crypto Stocks Soar as Bitcoin Rallies to Retake $20K

Coinbase, MicroStrategy and many of the miners are up by double-digit percentages on Tuesday afternoon.

Bitcoin superó máximos de un mes, pero analistas advierten sobre la volatilidad. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Finance

MakerDAO Community Approves Proposal to Place USDC in Coinbase's Custody Platform

Up to $1.6 billion in USD coin will be held with Coinbase Prime, where it will earn a 1.5% reward.

(CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Goldman's Bullish Dollar Forecast Could Spell More Bad News for Bitcoin

The cryptocurrency has fallen as the U.S. dollar index has gone up.

Goldman Sachs detectó una continua fortaleza del dólar. (Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Binance.US Hires Ex-FBI Agent as First Head of Investigations

BJ Kang led the probes of a number of high-profile Wall Street insider-trading cases.

Binance.US at Bitcoin Miami 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

BNY Mellon Starts Crypto Custody Service

The custodial lender earlier this fall received approval from financial regulators in New York to begin holding bitcoin and ether for certain customers.

Nasdaq está ofreciendo servicios de custodia de criptomonedas. (Tim Evans/Unsplash)