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

Pepe Coin Spikes on Coinbase International Plan to List Perpetual Futures

The crypto exchange's off-shore arm will open perpetuals market for the popular meme coin on April 18.

PEPE moves higher (Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin Rebounds to $70K, Shrugging Off Hot U.S. Inflation Print

Major U.S. equity indices closed the day lower after disappointing CPI numbers, while BTC was up 1%.

Bitcoin price on April 10 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Hong Kong's Incoming Spot Bitcoin ETFs Could Be 'Big Deal.' Here's What Analysts Say

Massive demand for a China-listed gold ETF sent its premium soaring to 30% earlier this week.

Spot bitcoin ETFs could soon be coming to Hong Kong (Allan Watt/Flickr)

Finance

U.S. CPI Comes in Faster Than Hoped, Rising 0.4% in March, 3.5% Y/Y

Stubbornly high inflation has shattered Wall Street expectations for a long series of rate cuts in 2024.

food shopping in brown bags

Markets

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon's Annual Letter: Interest Rates Could Go Far Higher Than Many Expect (Full Text)

Dimon believes investors are being overly optimistic with respect to the chances for an economic soft landing.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon (CoinDesk)

Finance

Genesis Completes Redemption of GBTC Shares, Buys 32K Bitcoins with Proceeds

The company in February got permission from a New York bankruptcy court to sell approximately 36 million shares of Grayscale's Bitcoin Trust.

Genesis has unloaded its entire stake in GBTC (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Cash Rally Led CoinDesk 20 Gainers Last Week: CoinDesk Indices Market Update

All but two cryptos in the index posted losses, led by double-digit declines in APT and DOGE.

CoinDesk 20 Index (CoinDesk Indices)

Finance

BlackRock Adds Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, UBS as APs for Bitcoin ETF

Authorized participants in ETFs are responsible for the creation and redemption process of the fund through which they create liquidity.

BlackRock's corporate office in New York, New York. (Jim.henderson/Wikimedia Commons)

Finance

U.S. Added 303K Jobs in March, Outpacing Expectations for 200K

The ETF-led bitcoin rally has stalled over the past three weeks, at least in part thanks to economic indicators pointing to higher than expected interest rates.

The government's jobs report for January was released Friday (David McNew/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin Adds 4.5% as Stocks Reverse Lower on Hawkish Fed Commentary

The world's largest crypto regained the $69,000 level at one point in the session before slipping a bit.

Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari (Fox News)