What podcasts say about Peter Van Valkenburgh
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What Peter Van Valkenburgh has said on podcasts
24 statements · 13 positive · 6 negative · 5 neutral
The administration should target Iranian exchanges, front companies, money networks, and brokers.
“the place where the administration, if you if you ask me, should focus its energies are things like Iranian exchanges. front companies, money networks, brokers”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 5:44
Targeting identifiable intermediaries for sanctions is legally and constitutionally reasonable.
“those kinds of targets to me are legally and sort of constitutionally reasonable targets for sanctions”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 6:50
Any source of Iran’s illicit revenue or economic lifeline could face secondary sanctions.
“any source of the regime's illicit revenue, and every economic lifeline that the regime has could be a target for these secondary sanctions”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 7:50
Targeting decentralized protocols would cause substantial collateral damage.
“it's going to cause tons of collateral damage”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 9:41
Targeting human brokers could eliminate about 80% of viable illicit-finance avenues.
“you're going to take out 80% of the viable avenues by targeting the entities who are like human brokers”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 9:57
Uniswap, Circle, and Tether have conducted sanctions compliance.
“Uniswap on its front end that it controls has been doing sanctions compliance for a long time and so does burkle and so does tether now”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 12:58
Stablecoin issuers must be able to freeze their funds across secondary markets.
“the issuer has to be able to reach out into the secondary market and stop the flow of their funds wherever they exist on the blockchain”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 14:11
New technologies cannot be eliminated through regulation.
“they can't be regulated out of existence”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 19:31
Outlawing crypto technologies would reduce visibility while users continue using them.
“it's much better than trying to outlaw this stuff or drive it underground because you'll just lose visibility and people will continue to use it”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 20:05
Control over customer funds determines whether an entity is a money transmitter.
“can you control customer funds yes you're a money transmitter if you can't no you're not”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 27:13
Software developers cannot be regulated as money transmitters merely for publishing transaction software.
“you can't regulate the guy who wrote software that other people use to move ethereum because that is information”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 30:34
Prosecuting Tornado Cash developers misallocates resources better used against human laundering networks.
“this is a misallocation of scarce government resources that could be much better spent going after actual human money laundering networks”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 36:20
Prosecuting Roman Storm would provide only a small anti-money-laundering benefit.
“the small anti-money laundering benefit you think you might get or anti-sanctions or sanctions evasion benefit you might get by prosecuting this guy”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 39:01
Innovation requires bold developers to test privacy technologies on Ethereum.
“we need to have bold people who try these technologies in novel places like the Ethereum blockchain”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 39:21
Tornado Cash was robustly built as an immutable privacy tool for general use.
“this was built in a very robust way to be immutable, to be just a privacy tool for anybody to use”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 41:31
The CFTC has comprehensive authority over U.S. derivatives markets.
“the CFTC has plenary authority over derivatives markets in the United States”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 59:56
The CFTC regulates commodity derivatives but not underlying commodity spot markets.
“the CFTC only handles commodities derivatives. It doesn't handle commodities markets.”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 1:00:51
The Clarity legislation would clarify CFTC authority over digital commodities.
“Part of the purpose of Clarity was to fix this in the digital commodity space”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 1:00:56
Protocols such as Uniswap are not currently subject to universal KYC requirements.
“that's not the current regime for something like Uniswap. That's not the current regime for a protocol.”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 1:04:49
Regulation should target money laundering rather than technology itself.
“You don't want to regulate a technology. You want to regulate to prevent money laundering.”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 1:06:54
Pseudonyms and zero-knowledge proofs may support market oversight without full identity disclosure.
“you might be able to do with pseudonyms or zero knowledge proofs or any number of other things”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 1:07:15
The CFTC likely has authority to create flexible crypto-market rules.
“CFTC probably has the statutory authority to craft a much more flexible rule”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 1:10:41
Uniswap pools are immutable.
“the immutable the uniswap pools are immutable”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 1:13:07
Immutable infrastructure should not be regulated like an intermediated delivery service.
“you'd be crazy to think that we should regulate pipes the same way we regulate a delivery van service”
Open the episode · Treasury Puts DeFi On Notice as Roman Storm Trial Drags OnListen at 1:13:26
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