Peter Van Valkenburgh @valkenburgh
Director of Research @CoinCenter | Board Member @ZcashFoundation | JD @NYULaw | We broke the ruptured structure built of age. I'm "valkenburgh" most places. Washington, DC Joined July 2009-
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America has a social credit system too. Fortunately it's sorta decentralized, doesn't work, allows you only to win dumb prizes like buying water from a robot before you flight.
Iran: 1.8 million barrels of oil/day, despite sanctions (Mar.2024) Russia: $94 billion oil revenue Q1 2024; 53.5% increase; trading $15/barrel above price cap. (Bloomberg, Apr.2024) E.Warren: “cryptocurrency is now the method of choice for countries to evade sanctions” (5/4/23)
Iran: 1.8 million barrels of oil/day, despite sanctions (Mar.2024) Russia: $94 billion oil revenue Q1 2024; 53.5% increase; trading $15/barrel above price cap. (Bloomberg, Apr.2024) E.Warren: “cryptocurrency is now the method of choice for countries to evade sanctions” (5/4/23)
What if the reason you were born when you were born was that it was statistically most likely because it was at our species' highest population before the probability of nuclear annihilation goes to 1.
I fundamentally do not understand the China war prep discourse. Analogies to WWII are barely useful when all major players now have ICBMs.
I fundamentally do not understand the China war prep discourse. Analogies to WWII are barely useful when all major players now have ICBMs.
This must be stopped
Do crypto folks who parrot Lessig's "Code is Law" maxim know that Lessig's point is that because code can powerfully regulate individuals it should, like regular law, be democratically accountable and therefore regulated? In many ways "code is law" is anti free speech.
The Justice Sotomayor retirement discourse got me wondering. I knew that Justice O'Connor retired 18 years before she passed away, strange to think she outlived RBG. I did not know about Justice James F. Byrnes who lived a full 30 years after retiring. But it gets even…
Chatgpt + laser printer = unlimited custom coloring book. Ada asked for a doggy inside a house saying bow wow. Will report back if the requests get stranger.
1/ Here's everything you need to know regarding the current status of @alex_pertsev and @rstormsf's trials, what's to come in the next few months, and how you can help support the fight for privacy and the right to publish open-source code.
This kind of legal research isn't always fun but it's so important. @amandatums & co. deserve so much credit for wading through 100+ cases in order to verify the statement: sanctions laws have never been applied in the way the government is trying to apply them to Tornado Cash.
This kind of legal research isn't always fun but it's so important. @amandatums & co. deserve so much credit for wading through 100+ cases in order to verify the statement: sanctions laws have never been applied in the way the government is trying to apply them to Tornado Cash.
Very important brief focused on the 1st Amendment implications from @valkenburgh at @coincenter
Very important brief focused on the 1st Amendment implications from @valkenburgh at @coincenter
Today we @fund_defi are proud to submit an amicus brief in US v. Storm, arguing that the court should not validate the government’s unprecedented and damaging theory of criminal liability for software developers. This case has important implications for developers in every…
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Climate change is a monster of a problem. We need solutions at the same scale to beat it. It's time to unleash... BUILDZILLA
@valkenburgh I'm getting vibes of The Scream from that - awesome work :)
@valkenburgh No such thing as too much chocolate
The masculine urge to get 10’s of thousands of ladybugs and release them around the Bonsais because pesticides give me the heeby-geebys
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i’m sorry that your warrantless surveillance regime was built on the assumption that people would always need intermediaries to transact
This lived up to the hype in the tweet. Great ending.
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I hung out with rhinos on a South African game reserve last night from my living room and no one can convince me otherwise
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dishwasher is acting up. had to hand wash everything like some kind of n*w y*rker
@Noahpinion What sobers me most when thinking about this topic is that [supposed] Albert Einstein quote: "I know not with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones".
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2/14 It is possible, that someone in Iran is hosting a validator, but what is doing the validating is a computer program, one that is tamper-proof because it's in turn checked programmatically by thousands of the same program worldwide.
@valkenburgh Lessig's "Code is Law" may carry that meaning but in the cypherpunk community "Code is Law" was interpreted in the style of Szabo's post "Wet code and dry" or Barlow's post "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/11/wet-co…
@cmdoerfler @valkenburgh Anytime, always happy to discuss whether code is socially architectural on Twitter Dot Com.
the banking secrecy act in its famous adherence to democracy
@Power2theEdge You publish code that allows people to do X. Democratic government passes law to say X is illegal. If code=law then code should be accountable to Democratic process. So regulating the publication of code that allows people to do X is good. Regulating publishing= regulating…
This must be stopped