Peter Van Valkneburgh
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Executive Director at Coin Center.
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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?
10 months ago
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Reading this headline as a crypto policy wonk was an emotional journey
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Needing Dollars, Iran-Backed Militias Turn to Visa and Mastercard
Armed groups lost access to dollars when a banking loophole was closed. They quickly pivoted to exploit a currency-exchange scheme using cards that at its peak involved $1.5 billion a month.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-visa-mastercard-dollars-sanctions-militias-0ecea0b9
10 months ago
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Baptiste Lerak
10 months ago
Effective altruism is actually a great cautionary tale about what happen when a consequentialist/utilitarian ideology abandons virtue ethics.
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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.
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10 months ago
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what we need is separation of banking from identity
10 months ago
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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.
10 months ago
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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.
10 months ago
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apple. car.
10 months ago
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Fart coin is never trending on blue sky. Sad.
11 months ago
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PoPville
11 months ago
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-...
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Two Israeli Embassy Staffers were “shot and killed as they exited an event at the Capital Jewish Museum” last night - PoPville
3rd and F Street, NW MPD reported 9:18pm Wed. night: "Alert: Shooting investigation in the area of 3rd and F Street NW. Avoid the area. Details to come." NBC News reported: "Two staff members of Israe...
https://www.popville.com/2025/05/two-israeli-embassy-staffers-shot-killed-capital-jewish-museum-washington-dc/
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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...
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https://ij.org/press-release/federal-court-enjoins-ruinous-financial-surveillance-of-california-money-services-businesses/
11 months ago
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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.
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11 months ago
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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.
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11 months ago
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This x post made me want to spend more time here.
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