Bitcoin is the currency of the Internet: a distributed, worldwide, decentralized digital money. Unlike traditional currencies such as dollars, bitcoins are issued and managed without any central authority whatsoever: there is no government, company, or bank in charge of Bitcoin. As such, it is more resistant to wild inflation and corrupt banks.
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Basically it changes nothing with how crypto is taxed. It's just earmarking crypto taxes for pork, which isn't a bad thing because it makes it less likely to regulate crypto out of existance.