This is an attempt to expand surviellance to make revenue collection easier for the state.
Excuse me if I'm not thrilled about the state having even more information about our lives. I pay my taxes to avoid being jailed, but they're never satisfied until they have complete control over society.
I guess my point is that even PoW systems won't be entirely unaffected (albeit not quite to the extent that PoS systems are), since validators are crucial to the integrity of the blockchain.
To attempt to extend the electric car ban analogy: this feels like adding onerous/infeasible reporting requirements to pipeline operators (PoW validators) and power plants (PoS stakers), neither of whom know anything about the end customer refueling at the pump / charger station, but not the oil refineries (PoW miners).
And yes, the reporting requirements would also be in place for the electric utility (PoS validators), which still doesn't know anything about the charger station's customers.
For many reasons this regulation would be unenforceable and/or impossible to comply with. How would a miner be able to fill out a 1099?
What kind of sarcasm is most appropriate here? A coy shocked face or faux outrage?
A mistake like this really suggests that the proposed regulation is not well thought out, and that it should probably be revisited after further education and discussion.
Worth saying a million times: the massive uproar in the crypto industry this week is not because we don't want to be regulated. It's because these proposed regulations are:
+ massively over-reaching + proposed at the last minute + attached to a must-pass bill + given very little room for proper discourse