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

Key Interest Rate Decisions Coming This Week From Fed, BOJ, BOE

The Fed is expected to hold policy steady but indicate a soon-to-come rate cut, while the Bank of England is seen as about a 50/50 bet to ease and the Bank of Japan is likely to either hike rates or signal an imminent move.

(Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images)

Markets

Ether ETFs Saw $340M of Negative Outflows in Their First Week

More than $1.5 billion of exits from Grayscale's high-fee Ethereum Trust more than offset inflows into the other spot products.

outflows (Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Tumbles Below $67K as U.S. Government Moves $2B of 'Silk Road' Tokens

The government is the owner of about $12 billion worth of seized bitcoin, according to Arkham Intelligence.

Bitcoin price on July 29 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Pulls Back Sharply After Touching $70K

The price of bitcoin still appears poised to close out July with sizable gains after plunging below $54,000 earlier in the month.

Bitcoin price 7/29 (CoinDesk)

Markets

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: BCH's 21% Surge Leads Index Gain

Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin lead the charge as the CoinDesk 20 Index climbs 3% since Friday's close.

CoinDesk 20 leaders (CoinDesk Indices)

Markets

Bitcoin to Account for 7% of Global Wealth, Surge in Price to $13M in 21 Years: Michael Saylor

The crypto would require an average annual return of 29% between now and 2045 to reach that level, he said.

MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor (Jason Koerner/Getty Images for Bitcoin Magazine)

Tech

Bitcoin Layer 2 Rootstock Verifies Zero-Knowledge SNARK

Rootstock verified the SNARK using BitVMX, which is Rootstock's modified version of BitVM

16:9 Roots (PDPhotos/Pixabay)

Finance

Ledger Unveils Second New Wallet of 2024

"Ledger Flex", like the Stax wallet which launched in May, incorporates touchscreen technology to "redefine the experience of self-custody," CEO Pascal Gauthier said

Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier at Web Summit 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal. (Harry Murphy/Web Summit via Sportsfile)

Markets

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: RNDR's 12% Gain Leads as Index Rebounds

CoinDesk 20 Index jumped 4.4% fueled by RNDR's 12.6% rise and NEAR's 7.7% advance.

9am CoinDesk 20 Update for 2024-07-26: leaders

Markets

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Broad-Based Decline Hits All 20 Assets, Sending Index Lower by 4.4%

The CoinDesk 20 fell nearly 100 points in overnight trading, with all assets in the red, including a 6.6% drop in ETH.

9am CoinDesk 20 Update for 2024-07-25 - laggards