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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Blockchain’s Non-Crypto Applications Take Center Stage on Davos Day 2

Policymakers and business executives were quick to draw a distinction between distributed ledgers and cryptocurrencies at WEF23.

Davos, Switzerland, is the annual host of the World Economic Forum. (Nik De/CoinDesk)

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French Crypto Companies Must Seek Authorization by 2024 Under New Lawmaker Plans

The plans offer more time than a Senate proposal, as the country prepares for a new EU crypto law

The French National Assembly (Edward Berthelot/Getty Images)

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Finnish Minister Calls for EU Law to Recognize DAOs

Brussels must act to enable smart contracts to take off across the bloc, communications minister Timo Harakka said.

Timo Harakka at the 2022 World Economic Forum in Davos (Manuel Lopez/WEF)

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Ukraine Deputy Prime Minister: I'll Take Salary in CBDC

Mikhail Fedorov says he wants to make his country the world's leading jurisdiction for virtual currency after a successful wartime fundraising campaign.

Ukrainian Digital Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, center, in Davos, Switzerland (Jack Schickler/CoinDesk)

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DOJ Objects to FTX’s Choice of Lawyers, Citing Conflict of Interest

The US Trustee joins Sam Bankman-Fried and Senators in voicing concern over Sullivan and Cromwell’s previous relations with the crypto exchange

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Bloomberg, WSJ, CoinDesk Among the Media Outlets Seeking to Know Who Bailed Out Sam Bankman-Fried

Lawyers for the former CEO of failed crypto exchange FTX requested and were granted anonymity for two parties who backed the $250 million bond that sprung Bankman-Fried from jail.

El fundador de FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

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FTX Cleared to Sell LedgerX, Japanese Units by Bankruptcy Judge

The collapsed exchange is looking to sell off its more separable and solvent assets as it seeks to repay creditors.

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Sam Bankman-Fried Blogs Like a Crypto Robin Hood, but in Court He's Not So Charitable

The FTX founder’s claimed largesse about giving his funds away contrasts with a legal battle to keep control of $450 million in shares – that were paid for a loan from Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research

Sam Bankman-Fried, a modern-day Robin Hood? (George Rinhart/Corbis/Getty Images)

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FTX Loan Wiped Out $800M in BlockFi Executives’ Equity, Court Filing Reveals

The crypto lender released extensive details of financial transactions in the run-up to its own collapse in November.

Collapsed crypto lender BlockFi has released thousands of pages of financial transactions. (filo/Getty Images)

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FTX Creditor Names Can Remain Sealed for Now, Judge Rules

Publishing the names of potentially 9 million users of the crypto exchange could endanger privacy, the company had argued.

FTX CEO John J. Ray III (C-Span)