Sheldon Reback

Sheldon Reback is CoinDesk editorial's Regional Head of Europe. Before joining the company, he spent 26 years as an editor at Bloomberg News, where he worked on beats as diverse as stock markets and the retail industry as well as covering the dot-com bubble and collapse. He managed the Bloomberg Terminal's main news page and worked on a global project to produce short, chart-based stories across the newsroom. Before that, he worked for a number of technology magazines in Hong Kong. Sheldon has a degree in industrial chemistry and an MBA. He owns ether and bitcoin below CoinDesk's notifiable limit.

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UK lawmakers urge ‘immediate moratorium’ on crypto political donations

The committee highlighted that the fast payment traits of crypto, along with tools like mixers, tumblers, and AI-assisted splitting of payments below the £500 reporting threshold.

UK Parliament Building and Big Ben, London, England (Ugur Akdemir/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Crypto Daybook Amerika

Powell's comments on oil, inflation are likely to guide bitcoin traders

Your day-ahead look for March 18, 2026

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a press conference

Markten

Bitcoin holds steady at $74,000 as traders turn cautious before Fed meeting

BTC consolidated with subdued volatility, while derivatives positioning and macro uncertainty signaled cautious market sentiment.

U.S. Federal Reserve headquarters (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markten

Bitcoin is stuck below $75,000 even after landmark SEC, CFTC crypto rules

Bitcoin remains stuck near key resistance around $75,000, leaving the broader market in limbo.

Trading screen with price monitors and charts (Yashowardhan Singh/Unsplash)

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Vietnam pushes local crypto exchanges as Hanoi moves to block offshore trading: Reuters

The move aims to regulate the country's growing crypto market and restrict trading on foreign platforms.

Flags in Hanoi, Vietnam (Ajay Karpur/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Financiën

Mastercard agrees to buy stablecoin platform BVNK for up to $1.8 billion

Payments giant Mastercard moves to bridge fiat and crypto with $1.8 billion acquisition of the U.K. based stablecoin startup.

Two Mastercard branded credit cards (Mastercard)

Financiën

PayPal expands its stablecoin into 70 markets

The payments giant says the dollar-backed PYUSD token will enable cheaper cross-border transfers and faster settlement for merchants.

Paypal HQ

Crypto Daybook Amerika

Bitcoin hits a wall at $75,000 while onchain energy markets run hot

Your day-ahead look for March 17, 2026

Oil tanker at sea. (Gerhard Traschütz/Pixabay)

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Markten

Bitcoin consolidation seen with BTC remaining 'overbought' after pullback

Crypto markets cooled after Monday's rally, with bitcoin eyeing support near $72,000–$74,000 even as derivatives positioning remains broadly bullish and altcoins see deeper profit-taking.

Multiple charts and screens (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)

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Equity, oil and bond markets have freaked out. Bitcoin traders have not.

Bitcoin's implied volatility holds steady as panic hedging drives traditional volatility indexes higher.

Laptop with markets monitor and charts