About Coin Center - Coin Center

Based in Washington, D.C., Coin Center is the leading non-profit research and advocacy center focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency and decentralized computing technologies like Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Our mission is to build a better understanding of these technologies and to promote a regulatory climate that preserves the freedom to innovate using permissionless blockchain technologies.

We do this by producing and publishing policy research from respected academics and experts, educating policymakers and the media about blockchain technology, and by engaging in advocacy for sound public policy.

Staff

Executive Director

Senior Policy Counsel

Peter Van Valkenburgh

Research Director

Operations Director

Communications Director

Board of Directors

Co-founder of Chaincode Labs and Hudson River Trading, Bitcoin Core contributor

Balaji Srinivasan

Angel Investor and entrepreneur

CEO of Xapo, Board Member of PayPal

Professor of Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business

Executive Director

Advisory Board

Co-founder & Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures

Marc Andreessen

Co-founder & General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Managing Director at DTCC, former CFTC Commissioner

Jason Weinstein

Partner at Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Nicolas Christin

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University

Principal at Sternhell Group

Fellows

Professor of Law at New York Law School

Elizabeth Stark

Co-founder of Lightning, former lecturer at Yale Law School

Andrea O’Sullivan

Director of Technology and Innovation at the James Madison Institute.

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