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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Bitcoin Holds Just Below $31K After U.S. Inflation Improves More Than Forecast

Economists had forecast sizable year-over-year declines in both headline and core inflation for this report.

The April inflation report was released Wednesday morning (JLGutierrez/Getty Images)

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First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Continues in Holding Pattern Ahead of June U.S. Inflation Data

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for July 12, 2023.

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Aptos Voting to Enable Fungible Assets With Network Upgrade

The week-long vote includes changes to tokenomics and backend services underpinning the layer 1 blockchain.

An Aptos-branded hat. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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MATIC Surges 10% as Polygon's 2.0 Upgrade Draws Closer

Open interest for MATIC trading pairs has risen from $109 million to $160 million in the past 24 hours.

MATIC open interest (Coinalyze)

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First Mover Americas: GBTC Discount Narrows to Lowest Since May 2022

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for July 11, 2023.

Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein (CoinDesk)

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Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Discount Narrows to Lowest Since May 2022

Buying for the trust has picked up on hopes the SEC might soon approve a spot bitcoin ETF.

GBTC's discount to NAV (Ycharts)

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First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Holding Above $30K After Quiet Weekend

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for July 10, 2023.

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U.S. Added 209K Jobs in June, Missing Expectations for 230K

The unemployment rate fell to 3.6% versus 3.7% in May and against expectations for 3.7%.

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

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Bitcoin Retreats to $30.6K as Blowout ADP Report Strengthens Fed Rate Hike Bets

Traders now see a 94% chance of the Fed raising rates by 25 basis points later this month.

Bitcoin's price (CoinDesk/Highcharts.com)

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First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Cash Rises More Than 10%

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for July 6, 2023.

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