{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Bitcoin Frontier","title":"Open-source lawfare and bitcoin’s defense with Peter Van Valkenburgh | The Last Free Americans","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/17b1e7e3\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5508,"description":"Peter Van Valkenburgh is the Executive Director of Coin Center, a leading nonprofit research and advocacy group focused on cryptocurrency policy. In this episode, Peter joins The Bitcoin Frontier to explore why defending the right to self-custody is about much more than bitcoin — it’s about the future of individual freedom, open-source innovation, and financial privacy. We dig into the parallels between the 1990s “crypto wars” and today’s digital sovereignty battles, the threats facing developers of privacy tools, and the constitutional foundations for privacy and property in the digital age.\nSUPPORT THE PODCAST:\n → Subscribe\n → Leave a review\n → Share the show with your friends and family\n → Send us an email: podcast@unchained.com\n → Learn more about Unchained: https://unchained.com/?utm_source=you...\n→ Book a free call with a bitcoin expert: https://unchained.com/consultation?ut...\nTIMESTAMPS:\n0:00 – Intro and Peter’s journey from acting to bitcoin policy\n2:00 – Discovering the cypherpunks and the roots of internet freedom\n4:00 – Entering bitcoin through law school and meeting Jerry Brito\n6:00 – Founding Coin Center and defining “permissionless innovation”\n9:00 – The mission: protecting the freedom to build and use open blockchains\n11:00 – Bitcoin’s privacy problem and the legal risks of building privacy tech\n13:00 – Educating DC: explaining bitcoin to Congress in the early days\n16:00 – Navigating the SEC, ICOs, and defining what counts as a security\n18:30 – The evolution from education to constitutional litigation\n22:00 – Bitcoin as the revival of a “bearer instrument” economy\n26:00 – The “secret right to cash” and the Fourth Amendment’s blind spot\n30:00 – Privacy, property, and what bitcoin reveals about constitutional limits\n35:00 – The Keep Your Coins Act and why it matters for financial sovereignty\n43:00 – The DOJ’s shift toward prosecuting developers — and why it’s dangerous\n46:00 – Inside the Tornado Cash and Samurai Wallet prosecutions\n50:00 – How Coin...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/WoeHujZLSYOjeE_EY1iBuQ0tTK0I8K63kAncvwN8qto/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83NTI2/Y2ZjZjFjN2NlZjI3/ZmQyZjc5ODQyMTc5/OTYxMi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}