Coin Center's Peter Van Valkenburg on Preserving the Freedom to Innovate with Public Blockchains

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Interview location: Washington
Interview date: Tuesday 20th Nov, 2018
Company: Coin Center
Role: Research Director

In the age of financial surveillance, cryptocurrencies have created a headache for regulators. The ability to move value, across the world without any intermediary has many benefits to society but can sidestep state-level regulations. Further, the ICO boom has created new forms of capital creation and regulators have been watching the space closely.

Coin Center recognises the benefit of preserving the freedom to innovate with these permissionless public blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, and they support this by:
- Producing and publishing policy research from respected academics and experts
- Educating policymakers and the media about blockchain technology
- Engaging in advocacy for sound public policy

In this interview, I talk with Coin Center’s Research Director, Peter Van Valkenburgh about the complexities of state v federal legislation and how they work with policymakers to support public blockchain innovation.

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Timestamps:
00.03.17 - Welcome and intro
00.03.41 - Peter’s background and how he came to work at Coin Center
00.10.05 - How the current state of crypto regulations compare to the Internet
00.16.05 - Who is a money transmitter
00.13.44 - Supporting Coin Center
00.19.22 - How do laws get elevated from being state regulated to federally regulated
00.22.10 - Where is Bitcoin in transit
00.27.29 - How does Coin Center prioritise their work
00.35.56 - Regulations with ICOs
00.42.12 - How Coin Center works with regulatory bodies
00.46.41 - Global reach of US regulators
00.48.35 - The response from regulators
00.53.33 - The Senate Testimony hearing on cryptocurrencies
01.00.07 - How the SEC has responded to cryptocurrencies
01.05.45 - Where Coin Center is focusing right now
01.11.45 - Privacy coins
01.17.02 - A view on what is coming up with regulations
01.19.19 - How to follow and support Coin Center

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Helpful Links:

Connect with Peter:
- On Twitter @valkenburgh
- Peter’s Blog: http://www.petervv.com/
- On the ZCash Foundation Website
- On the Coin Center Website
- On LinkedIn
- On Medium

Connect with Coin Center:
- Website: https://coincenter.org/
- Donate
- On Twitter
- On LinkedIn

Mentioned in the interview:
- Senate Testimony Video
- Peter’s Senate Testimony Written Submission
- What is Money Transmission and Why Does it
Matter?
- State vs. Federal Law: Who Really Holds the Trump Card?
- Supremacy Clause
- What Is the Howey Test?
- Peter Schiff
- Grin
- Government agencies: SEC, CFTC, FinCen, CFPB, OCC, The Fed and FDIC
- Chris Brummer - What Should be in an ICO White Paper
- ZCash Selective Disclosure & Shielded Viewing Keys

SEC Enforcements
- SEC Charges EtherDelta Founder With Operating an Unregistered Exchange
- Two ICO Issuers Settle SEC Registration Charges, Agree to Register Tokens as Securities

Other relevant WBD podcasts:
- WBD048: Jesse Powell is Building a Culture of Crypto Values at Kraken
- WBD035: The SEC, ETFs, XRP and Crypto Regulations with Jake Chervinsky
- WBD022: Erik Voorhees on Shapeshift User Accounts and the Problem with ICOs

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