Peter Van Valkenburgh is a cryptocurrency policy researcher and advocate who serves as Executive Director of Coin Center, a nonprofit focused on public policy issues facing cryptocurrency and decentralized computing technologies. Peter Van Valkenburgh's Twitter Score is 432 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #477 (top 0.1%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Peter Van Valkenburgh leads Coin Center, which describes itself as a research and advocacy center whose mission is to defend the rights to build and use free and open cryptocurrency networks, including those built on Bitcoin and Ethereum. Coin Center was co-founded by Robin Weisman and Jerry Brito. The organization regularly engages in or supports litigation challenging policies it argues place undue regulatory burden on cryptocurrency developers and users, including Coin Center v. Yellen, which challenged the Treasury Department over Tornado Cash sanctions, and Carman v. Yellen, a constitutional challenge to a cryptocurrency reporting requirement.
Peter Van Valkenburgh has accumulated 59,691 followers as of August 2026 on the platform since 2009 and has published 25,438 posts. Peter Van Valkenburgh has been mentioned by 523 accounts, with 1,438 total mentions.
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