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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SEC Objects to Binance.US’ $1B Voyager Deal, Alleging Sale of Unregistered Securities

Federal and New York regulators object to a billion-dollar deal they say may be unlawful and discriminatory as they examine Voyager's VGX token.

SEC Chair Gary Gensler (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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Voyager’s Binance US Sale Plan ‘Full Steam Ahead,’ Counsel Says

97% of creditors have so far voted in favor of the plans with hours left to go in the vote, Voyager’s attorneys told a court.

Voyager CEO Steve Ehrlich (CoinDesk)

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Voyager Being Probed by FTC for Deceptive Crypto Marketing

The agency doesn’t want a proposed sale deal to Binance US to limit its investigation.

The Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C. (Hisham Ibrahim/Getty Images)

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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)