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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Financiën

IoT Devices Can Now Connect to Both Helium Network and Amazon Sidewalk

Amazon Sidewalk is a new nationwide network using Amazon devices like the Echo smart speaker to create a series of mini mesh networks.

(Adi Goldstein/Unsplash)

Financiën

Bitpanda Partners With Coinbase to Help Europe’s Banks Offer Crypto to Customers

Coinbase will use Bitpanda Technology Solutions, a business-to-business infrastructure layer provider, to connect directly into banks and fintechs.

Bitpanda COO Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad (Bitpanda)

Beleid

Black Market for Worldcoin Credentials Pops Up in China

The startup is looking to create a global blockchain-based identification system using iris scans.

(Pixabay)

Financiën

Bitfinex Invests in Chilean Crypto Exchange OrionX to Expand Presence in Latin America

Orionx is planning to move into a number of new countries in hopes of surpassing a million users by next year.

Paolo Ardoino. (Ingrid Weel/Bitfinex)

Web3

Dispersion Capital Opens $40M Fund for Web3 Infrastructure

The fund was founded by Patrick Chang, an active angel investor in the crypto industry.

Beldex raises $25 million with a new DWF Labs partnership (Unsplash)

Financiën

Crypto’s Fentanyl Trade Worth Tens of Millions: Security Researchers

Reports from Chainalysis and Elliptic point to the trade for fentanyl precursors and fentanyl itself being fueled by crypto.

Crypto flows to China-based fentanyl precursor suppliers (Chainalysis)

Beleid

Upstream Data Sues Crusoe Energy Over Waste Gas Mining Patent

The case involves two companies who aim to power mining rigs through the excess natural gas that comes as a result of oil well drilling.

New and old bitcoin mining rigs at CleanSpark's site in Georgia.

Financiën

Num Finance Raises $1.5M, Will Expand Stablecoins in Latin America, Middle East

Decentralized finance protocol Num Finance will offer stablecoins in Brazilian real, Colombian peso, Mexican peso and Bahrain dinar within the next month.

(Shutterstock)

Beleid

U.S. Treasury Sanctions North Korean-Owned Binance Wallets; Says Entities Used Funds to Support WMD Programs

The Binance-hosted wallets received more than $2 million worth of various cryptocurrencies that were then sent on to North Korean entities, OFAC alleged

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

Markten

Bitcoin Jumps to Key Price Resistance as Hong Kong Opens Crypto Trading for Retail Investors

The crypto's short-term outlook also may depend on the ongoing U.S. debt ceiling drama.

(Ellen Qin/Unsplash)