Kevin Reynolds

Kevin Reynolds is editor-in-chief at CoinDesk. Prior to joining the company in mid-2020, Reynolds spent 23 years at Bloomberg, where he won two CEO awards for moving the needle for the entire company and established himself as one of the world's leading experts in real-time financial news. In addition to having done almost every job in the newsroom, Reynolds built, scaled and ran products for every asset class, including First Word, a 250-person global news/analysis service for professional clients, as well as Bloomberg's Speed Desk and the training program that all Bloomberg News hires worldwide are required to take. He also turned around several other operations, including the company's flash headlines desk and was instrumental in the turnaround of Bloomberg's BGOV unit. He shares a patent for a content management system he helped design, is a Certified Scrum Master, and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He owns bitcoin, ether, polygon and solana.

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SEC Obtains Emergency Asset Freeze Against Virgil Capital

Stefan Qin, the 23-year-old founder of Virgil Capital, has been accused by the SEC of “fabricated records” for failing to redeem $3.5 million in investments and attempting to withdraw $1.7 million in investor funds to pay off Chinese loan sharks.

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Cover Protocol Attack Perpetrated by 'White Hat,' Funds Returned, Hacker Claims

The exploiter has cashed out over $4 million including about 1,400 ether, one million DAI and 90 WBTC.

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Marathon Patent Agrees to Buy 70K ASIC Miners From Bitmain for $170M

The announcement comes after a holiday weekend in which the price of bitcoin hit a succession of new all-time highs.

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Institutions Will Start Buying Ether in 2021, Messari Analyst Says

CME Group's announcement that it will launch ether (ETH) futures on Feb. 8, 2021, could spur heightened institutional interest.

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Bitcoin Tops $28K for 1st Time, Hours After Crossing $27K; Market Cap Now Exceeds $500B

The price of the leading cryptocurrency has risen about 14% in the last 48 hours.

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Fed's Powell Wins Forbes' Crypto Person of the Year Honors; Do They Give Awards for Snark?

A side effect of the Fed's medicine for the pandemic-stricken U.S. economy was to create conditions ideal for the rise of cryptocurrencies.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell

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Bitcoin Tops $26K for First Time, Less Than a Day After Passing $25K

The leading cryptocurrency set another all-time high this month.

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B2C2 Becomes Latest Crypto Market-Maker to Stop XRP Trading: Report

Non-U.S. clients can still trade the token but need to pre-fund all short trades, the report said.

B2C2 CEO Max Boonen

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Deribit Adding Options to Allow Bitcoin Traders to Bet on Rally to $120K, $140K

A week ago last Thursday, Deribit made news by introducing call and put options at the $100,000 strike price.

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