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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Finance

Crypto Stocks Soar as Bitcoin Rallies to Retake $20K

Coinbase, MicroStrategy and many of the miners are up by double-digit percentages on Tuesday afternoon.

Bitcoin superó máximos de un mes, pero analistas advierten sobre la volatilidad. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Finance

MakerDAO Community Approves Proposal to Place USDC in Coinbase's Custody Platform

Up to $1.6 billion in USD coin will be held with Coinbase Prime, where it will earn a 1.5% reward.

(CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Goldman's Bullish Dollar Forecast Could Spell More Bad News for Bitcoin

The cryptocurrency has fallen as the U.S. dollar index has gone up.

Goldman Sachs detectó una continua fortaleza del dólar. (Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Binance.US Hires Ex-FBI Agent as First Head of Investigations

BJ Kang led the probes of a number of high-profile Wall Street insider-trading cases.

Binance.US at Bitcoin Miami 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

BNY Mellon Starts Crypto Custody Service

The custodial lender earlier this fall received approval from financial regulators in New York to begin holding bitcoin and ether for certain customers.

Nasdaq está ofreciendo servicios de custodia de criptomonedas. (Tim Evans/Unsplash)

Finance

Binance CEO Zhao Taking Different Acquisition Tack Than FTX's Bankman-Fried

Both have said they're willing to spend $1 billion in deals this year.

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Finance

Elon Musk Proposes to Proceed With Twitter Acquisition

Alongside a spike in Twitter shares, Musk crypto favorite dogecoin has moved higher.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Christian Marquardt - Pool/Getty Images)

Finance

Compute North Files for Bankruptcy as Crypto-Mining Data Center Owes up to $500M

The company's CEO stepped down earlier this month and its COO will serve as the president.

Compass' Wolf Hollow site in Granbury, Texas (Compute North)

Finance

First Guilty Plea in Coinbase-Related Insider Trading Charges

The brother of a former Coinbase product manager, Nikhil Wahi, in late July was arrested for trading on confidential information.

(Unsplash)

Finance

Asset Manager Stone Ridge Shutting Bitcoin Futures Fund

Launched in 2019, the fund failed to garner significant assets under management.

Stone Ridge is closing its bitcoin futures fund (Unsplash)