@levendowski.net hi, this is Peter (and yes for real not a bot, feel free to post challenge questions about NYU law). Could we DM about something?

Reading this headline as a crypto policy wonk was an emotional journey www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Effective altruism is actually a great cautionary tale about what happen when a consequentialist/utilitarian ideology abandons virtue ethics.

This sounds glib but I'm serious. A financial institution has a good business reason to know certain specific risks a customer presents (creditworthiness, illicit activities). That does not mean they have a good business reason to know anything else about them.

what we need is separation of banking from identity

For those keeping score at home on the unintended consequences of KYC... today the hacked Instagram account of a multi-platinum rapper posted the passport and face of a major crypto founder because he refused to pay the hackers 40 Bitcoin. Things are only going to get weirder and worse.

Found two of these "stink horns" in the garden this morning. Fungus I didn't even know existed. Delightful. Blooms quickly, smells dead, attracts flies. Sign of healthy soil.

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Fart coin is never trending on blue sky. Sad.

Two Israeli Embassy Staffers were “shot and killed as they exited an event at the Capital Jewish Museum” last night www.popville.com/2025/05/two-...

The $200 CTR threshold on the southern border might be the final straw for the BSA's constitutionality (the 1970s cases that found it constitutional had deciding votes from justices who warned that more aggressive surveillance would go too far). ij.org/press-releas...

The crypto shaped hole in the US Constitution. This is my philosophical take on why crypto (despite all the garbage coins and gambling) matters fundamentally to freedom, privacy, and inclusivity.

If people started using crypto to avoid this tax and lawmakers tried to close the loophole with unconstitutional restrictions on speech and software publication we'd happily fight it out in the courts.

This x post made me want to spend more time here.