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Peter Van Valkneburgh

@valkenburgh.bsky.social
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Executive Director at Coin Center.

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Peter Van Valkneburgh @valkenburgh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New substack about tech authoritarianism. Highlights from the first three editions: "Flock: You’re either pro-surveillance or you’re a terrorist." "America should out-open China on AI" "An American faces prison because GrapheneOS worked" "India fails to restrict Bitchat" p2p.coincenter.org
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Peer-To-Peer | Coin Center | Substack
Documenting tech authoritarianism, surveillance, censorship, and the people building ways out. Click to read Peer-To-Peer, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Peter Van Valkneburgh @valkenburgh.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
@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?
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Peter Van Valkneburgh @valkenburgh.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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.
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Baptiste Lerak @baptistelerak.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Effective altruism is actually a great cautionary tale about what happen when a consequentialist/utilitarian ideology abandons virtue ethics.
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Peter Van Valkneburgh @valkenburgh.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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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Peter Van Valkneburgh @valkenburgh.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
what we need is separation of banking from identity
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Peter Van Valkneburgh @valkenburgh.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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.
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Peter Van Valkneburgh @valkenburgh.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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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Peter Van Valkneburgh @valkenburgh.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
apple. car.
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Peter Van Valkneburgh @valkenburgh.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Fart coin is never trending on blue sky. Sad.
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PoPville @popville.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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...
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Peter Van Valkneburgh @valkenburgh.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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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Peter Van Valkneburgh @valkenburgh.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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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Peter Van Valkneburgh @valkenburgh.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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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Peter Van Valkneburgh @valkenburgh.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
This x post made me want to spend more time here.
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