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Peter Van Valkenburgh will take over without Brito and Robin Weisman, senior policy counsel. In a statement on the Coin Center's website, founding executive director Jerry Brito announced that he would resign by the end of the year but remain on the board. Robin Weisman, Coin Center's senior policy counsel, will also continue on the board of directors for the crypto research group, which calls itself a "think tank" rather than a lobbying organization since 2014. Peter Van Valkenburgh will become executive director, and Landon Zinda will become policy director. According to a Coin Center representative, Brito and Weisman haven't announced any professional intentions.
"Peter groks Coin Center’s mission better than anyone, and his depth of knowledge and experience at the intersection of crypto and constitutional law is unmatched," said Brito, a regular at Washington congressional hearings and other policy events.
"Our goal at the outset was to secure time for Bitcoin to reach ‘escape velocity,’ and on that score, I think we succeeded," Brito said. "The struggle is not over yet, though. As the Coin Center fights the IRS's crypto tax reporting laws, prominent executives quit. The Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act of 2021 would require crypto users trading digital assets worth more than $10,000 to provide actual identities, Social Security numbers, and addresses. Coin Center sued it in 2022 for "overbearing surveillance." Last month, a Sixth Circuit judge reheard the case after it was dismissed.
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