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Re:DeFi and the “digital asset” felony hidden in the infrast... by rasengan on Thursday November 04, 2021 @02:36PM (#29110917)
> without doing a modicum of research

I think they know exactly what they are doing.

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Re:DeFi and the “digital asset” felony hidden in the infrast... by mattnewton on Thursday November 04, 2021 @03:37PM (#29111599)
Or rather, the lobbyists working with them know what they are doing
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Re:DeFi and the “digital asset” felony hidden in the infrast... by User23 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @04:10PM (#29111968)
The lobbyists are just bagmen. A big part of what they are paid for is obfuscating who actually wrote the legislation and on whose behalf they did it.
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Re:DeFi and the “digital asset” felony hidden in the infrast... by TheBill on Thursday November 04, 2021 @03:19PM (#29111410)
They do, and they very much view it as a threat to the centralized power of the USG.
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Re:DeFi and the “digital asset” felony hidden in the infrast... by the_optimist on Thursday November 04, 2021 @04:14PM (#29112013)
At the very least, it's a legislative shake down opportunity. Form a team 'for' and a team 'against,' and each gets paid to 'fight' by their respective consitutency.
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