As someone who has been sorely disappointed by much of how crypto has developed since it's early days and is somewhat a crypto pessimist, I'm extremely disturbed that something which could outright kill US Crypto is being rammed into a infrastructure spending bill. If you want to ban crypto, fine, that's a position which could be taken, debated, and discussed. But it should be done separately and given sufficient time for public feedback. Stuffing it into this bill is asinine to the nth degree.
It's not being "stuffed" into a bill, it's an amendment that had voting on it. There was a competing amendment that didn't get the support this one did.
Come on... He's not complaining about lack of voting. Obviously everyone is abiding by formal procedures. The problem is when congress passes bills under one name while it contains a myriad of unrelated legislation. This is bad for public transparency.
It's the infrastructure bill itself that contains the poorly considered provisions which (arguably) require miners and unhosted wallet developers to collect and report transaction information to the IRS. The competing proposed amendments to mitigate this have yet to be subjected to a vote.
