Jack Schickler

Jack Schickler was a CoinDesk reporter focused on crypto regulations, based in Brussels, Belgium. He previously wrote about financial regulation for news site MLex, before which he was a speechwriter and policy analyst at the European Commission and the U.K. Treasury. He doesn’t own any crypto.

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FTX Japan Customers Can Begin Withdrawing Fiat, Crypto on Feb. 21

The announcement meets a promise made in December by the ring-fenced exchange.

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Crypto Has an Incest Problem

Court filings reveal complex interlocking relations between major crypto firms – with implications for the ecosystem’s resilience, and for customers owed money.

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BlockFi Looks to Dismiss Bankruptcy Case for SBF’s Robinhood Shell Company

Emergent Fidelity’s case is "futile," says the bankrupt crypto lender seeking access to its 55 million Robinhood shares.

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FTX’s Bahamas Unit Commingled Client, Corporate Funds, Liquidators Say

FTX Digital had bank accounts with a balance of $219 million, according to a PriceWaterhouseCoopers report.

Eleuthera Island, the Bahamas (Central Eleuthera).

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Judge Clears Celsius' Plan to Sell Bitmain Mining Coupons Worth Over $7M

The crypto lender must sell the vouchers before they expire to raise funds for the bankruptcy estate.

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Tornado Cash Dev’s Criminal Case in Europe May Hinge on Laptop Access

Dutch prosecutors now have access to Alexey Pertsev’s computer and are using it to probe key details including governance and profit-making at the privacy service.

(Jack Schickler/CoinDesk)

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Tornado Cash Developer to Stay in Jail as Dutch Trial Continues

Alexey Pertsev was arrested in the Netherlands in August shortly after the U.S. sanctioned the crypto privacy tool.

Courthouse in ‘S Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (Jack Schickler/CoinDesk)

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EU Banks Told by Regulator to Apply Bitcoin Caps Even Before They Become Law

The European Central Bank, which supervises big euro area lenders, said crypto should be treated as a risky asset.

European Central Bank (Raimund Linke/Getty Images)

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Celsius Seeks to Recover Millions From Mashinsky, Other Former Executives

The former CEO should repay money he transferred in the run-up to the lender’s July bankruptcy, the document said

Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky at Consensus 2019 (CoinDesk archives)

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Binance CEO Distances Himself From BUSD Stablecoin as Regulators Act

Changpeng Zhao said Binance will continue working with other stablecoin issuers, and that he’s skeptical about claims Circle raised alarm bells with regulators.

Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as "CZ", founder and CEO of Binance, at Davos in 2023. (Casper Labs)