The regulation is expected to pass a wider committee vote later on this afternoon.
The European Parliament has once again stripped a landmark piece of crypto legislation of language that many feared would target proof-of-work cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
The regulation's rapporteur and leader of the ECON committee, Dr. Stefan Berger, was opposed to earlier more aggressive language against proof-of-work mining but had faced difficulties assembling a coalition.
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