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Peter Van Valkenburgh

Peter Van Valkenburgh

@valkenburgh

Director of Research @CoinCenter | Board Member @ZcashFoundation | JD @NYULaw | My opinions are not my own; they are byproducts of a complex iterative system.

34288 followers

Lens Rankings

Crypto

#124 0.001382 Crypto Journalists
#139 0.001147 Public Goods Funding
#173 0.001135 Crypto Political Economy
#174 0.000681 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#174 0.000619 Cosmos
#207 0.000670 Ethereum
#397 0.000323 Crypto Angels
#413 0.000308 Crypto Infrastructure
#710 0.000203 Crypto VC
#850 0.000086 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#893 0.000137 IDEO Founder Collective
#1088 0.000075 Crypto Investing
#1799 0.000035 Decentralized Web
#3295 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#3462 0.000001 Polkadot

Think Tanks

#1014 0.000159 Mercatus Center
#2549 0.000016 Niskanen Center
#3673 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3726 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3911 0.000001 Urban Institute
#4130 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4283 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#4552 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5011 0.000024 American Enterprise Institute
#5011 0.000024 National Bureau of Economic Research
#5454 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5524 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#6472 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7255 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#9307 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9375 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#9438 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Culture and Political Economy

#947 0.000116 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1519 0.000096 Progress Studies
#1587 0.000072 Works in Progress
#1894 0.000048 RadicalxChange
#3230 0.000023 Rationality
#3250 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#3296 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3398 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#3432 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3473 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3490 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#3499 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3548 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3623 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3778 0.000001 350.org
#3955 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4145 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4365 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4766 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#4781 0.000002 Anarachists
#4810 0.000024 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#4898 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#5041 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5724 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5753 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6395 0.000001 EFF
#8266 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#9463 0.000001 Degrowth

Journalism

#2096 0.000009 Techcrunch
#2549 0.000016 Foreign Policy
#2657 0.000040 Ars Technica
#3055 0.000001 OANN
#3062 0.000001 Newsmax
#3596 0.000001 The Information
#4109 0.000001 Stat News
#4417 0.000001 The Verge
#5030 0.000001 The Economist
#5600 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5625 0.000001 CNBC
#5673 0.000001 The Intercept
#6290 0.000018 Bloomberg Opinion
#6397 0.000001 Wired
#6778 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6879 0.000001 Financial Times
#7111 0.000002 Reuters
#7391 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#8009 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8865 0.000001 VICE
#9603 0.000011 The Atlantic
#9936 0.000001 Recode

system

#4542 0.000029 Think Tanks

Science

#3806 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#4064 0.000019 EconTwitter
#4215 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5861 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#6443 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#9233 0.000001 Biotech

Venture Capital

#3271 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#3312 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3734 0.000001 Accel
#3745 0.000001 Bessemer
#4095 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4109 0.000001 Sequioa
#4290 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4327 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4552 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4698 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4912 0.000001 Homebrew
#5806 0.000001 Village Global
#6028 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6986 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Software Engineering

#3209 0.000001 Zig
#3396 0.000001 Rust

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