Learn more about the 2025 Coin Center Annual Dinner

Glass Houses and Tornados — Keynote at Devcon SEA

Peter Van Valkenburgh reprises the story of Clearville for the Ethereum community

The Tornado Cash sanctions and criminal prosecutions have challenged longstanding assumptions within crypto about the limits of money transmission licensing, money laundering statutes, and sanctions laws. They've also revealed a...

The Parable of Clearville, the Land of Glass Houses

Peter Van Valkenburgh tells the a story of Tornado Cash's importance in the style of a children's storybook at the first DC Privacy Summit. 

ETHBerlin04 Keynote: Are there limits to the reach of US Sanctions laws?

DAPPCON 2024: A Conspiracy To Protect Your Rights

Make Public Policy Cypherpunk Again @ EthDenver 2024

U.C. Berkeley’s Decentralized Finance MOOC

Peter Van Valkenburgh gave a lecture on privacy and surveillance law for U.C. Berkeley’s Decentralized Finance MOOC with a focus on the constitutionality of 6050I reporting and the OFAC sanctions against Tornado...

Politico: Writing the Rules of Crypto

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Briefing on OFAC Tornado Cash SDN listing at Zcon3

Peter Van Valkenburgh gave an impromptu briefing on the Tornado Cash sanction

Presentations from the Cryptocurrency and Hayek conference

Hosted by Coin Center and the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Nic Carter: What is cryptocurrency for Hayekians?  Nevin Freeman: Private Money Balaji Srinivasan: The Pseudonymous Economy Erik Voorhees: Decentralization & Use of Knowledge in Society Peter Van Valkenburgh: Fatal...

The Case for Electronic Cash in an Open and Free Society

Jerry Brito lays out why society must embrace the privacy cryptocurrencies offer and what we could give up in a world without them.  Learn more about this conversation.