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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Markets

Bitcoin Falls After U.S. Sends $240M Worth of Silk Road-Related BTC to Coinbase

About 4k bitcoin had been seized from narcotics trafficker Banmeet Singh at his January 2024 trial.

Risks of a deeper pullback are growing for BTC (mana5280/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Threatens $60K on Mt. Gox News, but Sales Could Be Less Than Feared

At least one analyst believes fewer coins will be distributed than is commonly thought and thus the sell pressure might be less than expected.

Mt. Gox selling pressure could be less than feared (Jason Blackeye/Unsplash)

Tech

Tether to Stop Minting Stablecoin USDT on Algorand and EOS

The circulating supply of the dollar-linked stablecoin on the two blockchains represents only about 0.1% of the total USDT supply.

Tether cited "usage" and "community interest" as factors in its decision to discontinue support for the USDT stablecoin on the EOS and Algorand blockchains. (Creative Commons)

Markets

McKinsey Sees Just $2T of Tokenized RWAs by 2030 in Base Case, With Broad Adoption 'Still Far Away'

Previous reports from Boston Consulting Group and 21Shares forecasted over $10 trillion of tokenized assets by the end of the decade in their optimistic scenarios.

(Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Billionaire Tech CEO Michael Dell Signals Bitcoin Interest Via Michael Saylor Retweet

Dell and Saylor engaged in a short back-and-forth on X over the past day.

AUSTIN, TEXAS - APRIL 25: Michael Dell attends the 12th Annual Mack, Jack & McConaughey Gala at ACL Live on April 25, 2024 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Rick Kern/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin Slumps Under $64K Amid Historic ‘Negative’ Sentiment

Lame price action has apparently caused crowd sentiment to be in negative territory for four straight weeks, a sign that may spell relief for bulls in the near term.

(Barrett Ward/Unsplash)

Markets

Canada's 3iQ Files to List Solana ETP in Toronto

3iQ was a leader in getting some of the first crypto ETFs past the finish line and listed on the TSX

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy Acquires 11.9K More Bitcoin for $786M

The company now holds 226,331 bitcoins worth just shy of $15 billion.

MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

Markets

UNI Advance Led CoinDesk 20 Gainers Last Week: CoinDesk Indices Market Update

Five cryptos in the CoinDesk 20 posted losses greater than 5% over the past week, led by ICP' 19% decline.

CoinDesk 20 leaders (CoinDesk Indices)

Finance

RWA Tokenization Expands to Life Insurance with Infineo Minting $9M of Policies on Provenance Blockchain

This was the first example of transferring tokenized versions of life insurance policies, the company said.

(Shubham Dhage / Unsplash)