The big problem with the cryptocurrency regulations Biden just signed

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President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday, in the works for months now, to launch a crossagency federal government effort to regulate cryptocurrency. For context, cryptocurrency is decentralized, digital, nongovernmental money — Bitcoin is the most famous type of crypto.

This emerging industry is newfangled and complicated, which is exactly why Biden and detached bureaucrats shouldn’t be trying to regulate it.

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