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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US DoJ Is Seizing Banking Assets, Robinhood Shares Linked to FTX, Court Told

Officials may later seek to have Sam Bankman-Fried forfeit the assets, potentially including as much as $450 million in stocks, to avoid benefiting from crimes

Sam Bankman-Fried sale del tribunal federal en la ciudad de Nueva York. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

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TradFi Fights for Tougher Crypto Rulebook in Wake of FTX Collapse

Traditional finance players want new international rules to stop FTX-style conflicts of interest, but the crypto industry warns of crimping blockchain benefits

The Financial Stability Board is based in Basel, Switzerland. (carmengabriela/Getty Images)

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Bahamas-FTX Dispute Heats Up as Bankman-Fried Prepares for Trial

U.S. and Bahamian liquidators continue to sling mud as they fight for jurisdiction over the disgraced CEO’s company.

FTX CEO John Ray III (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

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Craig Wright Can Appeal Satoshi Defamation Finding, Norwegian Court Rules

An Oslo judge in October ruled Twitter user Hodlonaut had been within his rights to post 2019 tweets calling Wright a "fraud" and "scammer."

Craig Wright (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for CoinGeek)

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FTX Investors’ Loss Is Wall Street Lawyers’ Gain

Attorneys are charging upwards of $2,000 an hour and $12 million retainers as they attempt to restore funds to the million-odd creditors of Sam Bankman-Fried’s failed empire.

Gemini faces an investor lawsuit over its interest-earning product. (RapidEye/Getty Images)

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FTX Has Over $1B in Cash, Creditor Meeting Told

Unwinding the collapsed crypto company has been made more difficult by poor record-keeping.

John Ray, FTX CEO (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

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Central African Republic Delays Crypto Coin Listing to 2023

The country was one of the first to declare bitcoin as legal tender.

The Central African Republic adopted bitcoin as its legal tender. (Ahmed Zaggoudi/Getty Images)

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Sam Bankman-Fried Won’t Contest US Extradition: Reports

The change of heart suggests the founder of the crypto exchange founder could leave his notorious Bahamas jail.

The US Department of Justice unveiled charges against Sam Bankman-Fried on Dec. 13. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

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Media Groups Win Right to Argue for Publication of FTX’s Million-Strong Creditor List

A final decision on whether to publish the names, which the collapsed crypto exchange says could advantage competitors and breach privacy laws, will follow in January.

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DeFi Can Exacerbate Volatility Without Even Avoiding Middlemen, BIS Reports Say

The group of central banks continues its pessimism, as crypto innovations seek to make financial markets more efficient.

Casa central del Banco de Pagos Internacionales en Basilea, Suiza. (Trabantos/Getty Images)