Patrick BreyerMar 8, 2022

🇩🇪Erfolg: Irre Pläne zum Verbot von Bitcoin gestoppt! https://www.heise.de/news/Verbotsplaene-fuer-Bitcoin-durch-EU-Parlament-vorerst-vom-Tisch-6541833.html

Weiter aber geplant ist das Verbot anonymer Zahlungen in Kryptowährungen am dem ersten Euro.

Verbotspläne für Bitcoin durch EU-Parlament vorerst vom Tisch

Der endgültige Entwurf für die Richtlinien für die Erbringung von Krypto-Dienstleistungen (MiCA) sieht nicht mehr das Ende des Bitcoin in Europa vor.

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Show threadPatrick Breyer

🇬🇧Success: Crazy plans to ban Bitcoin stopped! https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/03/01/eu-parliament-scraps-proof-of-work-ban-following-backlash-report/

Still planned is the ban on anonymous payments in cryptocurrencies beginning with 1 Euro...

EU Parliament Scraps Proof-of-Work Ban Following Backlash: Report

The language had sparked enough of an outcry that a Monday vote on the bill's passage was indefinitely delayed.

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Show threadSeachaint Mar 8, 2022
@echo_pbreyer It was a proof of work ban, not a bitcoin ban. At this time, when we're about to hit an energy crunch and reactivate coal in Europe, allowing industrial-scale deliberate energy waste is just inhumane. Bitcoin will kill people in cold countries this year, just to make a few techbros rich.
Show threadVideo surveillance in useMar 8, 2022

@echo_pbreyer

"EU Parliament Scraps Proof-of-Work Ban Following Backlash"

Can we create backlash to the backlash? Proof-of-work is actively harming the world right now. I'm pretty sure that the group of people who created the original "backlash" are a rich minority.