Peter Van Valkenburgh @valkenburgh
Peter Van Valkenburgh is the Director of Research at Coin Center, the leading non-profit focused on cryptocurrency policy in Washington. A lawyer by training, he has spent years translating between crypto's technical reality and the language of regulators, testifying before Congress and writing foundational explainers on how existing law maps onto decentralized systems. His roughly 59k followers rely on him for careful, legally grounded analysis of surveillance, privacy, securities questions and the constitutional dimensions of financial technology. When US crypto policy heats up, his threads are among the most cited primary commentary available.
Why follow
- Authoritative legal-policy analysis from inside the crypto policy fight, not secondhand punditry.
- Early, precise framing of regulatory developments that later dominate CT discussion.
- Educational threads that make complex law legible to non-lawyers.
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