#52 - Peter Van Valkenburgh: Constitutional Challenges & Crypto Privacy

Peter Van Valkenburgh (@valkenburgh) is the director of research for Coin Center, the leading non-profit focused on the policy issues facing cryptocurrencies. He was previously the Google Policy Fellow for TechFreedom and is a graduate of NYU School of Law, as well as a self-taught designer and coder.

In this episode, we discuss Peter's role at Coin Center, the U.S. Constitution & Crypto, and the SEC's definition of an exchange.

Show highlights:

[1:10] Genesis block

[9:20] Writing 

[13:50] Societal impact

[18:00] Decentralization

[24:00] Exchanges

[29:10] Legal interpretations

[34:00] Biden's Executive Order

[42:00] Constitutional law

[48:45] "Owning" Bitcoin

[55:00] Interviewing Edward Snowden

[58:30] Advice for recent grads

[60:16] Seed oils

Links:

Peter's writing on Coin Center's website coincenter.org/people/peter-van-valkenburgh/

Seed oil blog: fireinabottle.net/

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