[danShumway]

> Wyden's amendment is a result of reasonable concerns expressed by miners

I'm honestly kind of surprised Wyden's amendment didn't get accepted. I guess I misunderstood the level of support it actually had; it seemed reasonable to me and I thought that most of the interest groups had gotten onboard with it.

Maybe that's an area where I'm just in a bubble.

[ajmurmann]

I hear that later another amendment was pushed forward by sensors that perviously had voiced support for the Wyden amendment. This new amendment supposedly provided no solutions to done of the problems, but immediately found support from the White House as well and is rumored to have been pushed by the Treasury who doesn't like crypto.

[zonethundery]

It "felt like" some common ground between the wyden and portman (and its successor) amendments would be found. It was complicated by Senate procedural votes that made amendments much harder, and an overlying concern about CBO scoring of the budget impact of the bill. It can still be amended by unanimous consent (all 100 senators)but wyden or portman will have to blink and all the bill-haters will have to acquiesce.