EU Institutions to Continue MiCA Discussions Without Bitcoin Mining Ban Proposal

As the European Parliament continues its work on the crypto-focused MiCA regulation, Stefan Berger, a German member in charge of shepherding the legislation, has announced that his mandate to lead inter-institutional talks on MiCA was not scrapped -- thus advancing the regulation towards adoption without a controversial provision that would ban proof-of-work (PoW) consensus protocols in the EU....