On July 29, Cointelegraph reported that provisions had been hastily added to the infrastructure bill that sought to raise $28 billion through expanded taxation and impose stringent third-party reporting requirements for any entity deemed to comprise a cryptocurrency “broker.”
The provision’s broad language sent shockwaves across the crypto community, with onlookers noting that software developers, hardware wallet providers, and miners and other network validators would likely be classified as brokers and required to report information on counterparty network participants that they are unable to collect.
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