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Peter Van Valkenburgh
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Executive Director @CoinCenter | “Writing a description for this thing for general audiences is bloody hard. There's nothing to relate it to.” Satoshi Nakamoto
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    Peter Van Valkenburgh
    @valkenburgh
    May 13
    Let me make one more thing crystal clear. We do not support Clarity with the stripped version of BRCA proposed by Sen. Cortez Masto. For other members of the committee, this is a with us or against us moment. Stand up for developer rights or vote no.
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    Coin Center
    @coincenter
    May 13
    Our letter in support of passing the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act and with it the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act, which we have championed since 2018.
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    Peter Van Valkenburgh
    @valkenburgh
    Nov 10, 2020
    Oh man. Not sure how I missed this. Apparently PETA and Old Bay have been having a billboard battle in Maryland:
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    Peter Van Valkenburgh
    @valkenburgh
    Apr 14, 2022
    A new SEC proposal has a serious change hidden within its complex language. Bottom line: The proposal violates the First Amendment by requiring a license to speak—even of open source developers. It’s unconstitutional and they should change it. Coin Center is pushing back 👇 1/
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    Peter Van Valkenburgh
    @valkenburgh
    Jul 8, 2021
    I know there's a lot going on right now but I don't think the head of the BIS saying "central banks will have absolute control" over your financial transactions with CBDCs has gotten enough attention.
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    Bitcoin Archive
    @BitcoinArchive
    Jul 8, 2021
    Saying the quiet part out loud: Central banks will control how you spend your money. #Bitcoin fixes👇
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    Peter Van Valkenburgh
    @valkenburgh
    Apr 29, 2024
    Tornado, Samourai, and a Warning: In a surprising and concerning shift, the DOJ has targeted non-custodial crypto wallet developers for unlicensed money transmission, which starkly deviates from longstanding U.S. policy. This abrupt move, seen in recent charges against
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    Peter Van Valkenburgh
    @valkenburgh
    Mar 17, 2025
    One day he will @ me
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    Watcher.Guru
    @WatcherGuru
    Mar 15, 2025
    The greatest Bitcoin explanation of all time.
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    Peter Van Valkenburgh
    @valkenburgh
    Aug 25, 2022
    1/ New detailed factual explanation of how Tornado Cash works. Huge thanks to @wadeAlexC and @LewellenMichael for this unbiased description of exactly how the contracts function. It confirms a level of decentralization that was surprising, even to me.
    coincenter.org
    How does Tornado Cash work?
    1. Introduction In August 2022, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Tornado Cash, adding 45 Ethereum addresses to the
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    Peter Van Valkenburgh
    @valkenburgh
    Feb 5, 2018
    1/ Clayton's testimony on cryptocurrencies is here:
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    Virtual Currencies: The Oversight Role of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S....
    From banking.senate.gov
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    Peter Van Valkenburgh
    @valkenburgh
    Apr 30, 2024
    America, home of the free. Where you will be accused of crimes for choosing not to design software the way the government wants you to design software:
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    Peter Van Valkenburgh
    @valkenburgh
    Dec 14, 2022
    Senators Warren and Marshall's proposed bill subjecting software devs & nodes to AML is "a repudiation of liberal values and a move towards the types of surveillance and control prized by authoritarians like Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong-un"
    coincenter.org
    The Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act is an opportunistic, unconstitutional assault on...
    Nothing about the bill would prevent the next FTX. In fact, it puts users at more risk.
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    Peter Van Valkenburgh
    @valkenburgh
    Sep 30, 2022
    This is the most outrageous thing I've encountered since starting at Coin Center in 2014. Alexey Pertsev deserves to be free or else charged with a crime. In the US they can't hold you for more than 72 hours. This 6 hours or up to 90 days Dutch rule is an affront to human rights.
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    Peter Van Valkenburgh
    @valkenburgh
    Oct 18, 2023
    Sensational early reporting on the scale of Hamas crypto fundraising significantly misstated the amounts involved. In this important debunking Chainalysis shows how actual terrorist usage may be 1/2-of-1% of the previously reported numbers.
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    Peter Van Valkenburgh
    @valkenburgh
    Apr 5, 2024
    Today, Coin Center filed an amicus brief in Roman Storm's criminal case. The government has wrongly charged the Tornado Cash developers with criminal conspiracy and we are here to help set the record straight and defend First Amendment rights to publish software. Our brief
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    Peter Van Valkenburgh
    @valkenburgh
    May 24, 2018
    I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by blockchain, hyped-up, networking in the street, and nakedly unaware that an oracle database would suffice.
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