Poland’s Crypto Circus: Lawmakers, Veto Drama & a Senator Who Just Said ‘Hold My Beer’ 🍻

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Oh, dear reader, gather ’round the smoking hearth of Eastern European legislative farce, where the goats are confused, the parliamentarians are drunk on bureaucratic fumes, and the crypto bill-that cursed, resurrected beast-has been passed not once, not twice, but like a bad folk tale, for the third time by decree of sheer bureaucratic amnesia! 🐐📜

In a move so bold it could only be described as either genius or galloping lunacy, the Polish Sejm-yes, that esteemed chamber where laws are born and die like mayflies in a vodka storm-voted last Thursday to resurrect the Crypto-Asset Market Act, identical in every way to the version President Karol Nawrocki had so dramatically rejected earlier this month. Not modified. Not improved. Not even a new font. Just… poof… back again, like a ghost that forgot to haunt anyone else. 👻

The President, a man of principle and apparently the only one who reads bills for pleasure, had refused to sign it on December 1st, warning it would set Poland’s startup ecosystem ablaze, usher in regulatory chaos, and possibly summon a bear market. “Frei-hei-heit of Poles! Stability of state! Innovation in peril!” he may as well have cried, waving the document like a burning torch over Warsaw. 🔥

The crypto folk-those gentle digital shepherds of blockchain lambs-had already sounded the alarm back in September, whispering (then shrieking) that this law was stricter than a Russian math teacher and would scare every startup from Kraków to Katowice straight into the warm arms of Berlin or Lisbon. 🏃‍♂️💨

The Sejm, evidently undeterred by reason or basic cause-and-effect, tried to override the veto. But alas! They stumbled like a peasant at a wedding dance-falling short of the required three-fifths majority. The veto stood. The people rejoiced. The lobbyists wept into their caviar. 🥲🥄

And then-plot twist worthy of a Gogol tale-a week later, the same ruling coalition trotted the identical bill back into the chamber, like a stubborn donkey refusing to cross a bridge. No changes. No compromises. Just pure, unadulterated legislative stubbornness. One amendment? Oh yes! The fee for crypto intermediaries was slashed from 0.4% to 0.1%, a gesture so negligible it might as well have been a handshake. 👋

Deputy Finance Minister Jurand Drop, a man of rare composure in this carnival, raised an eyebrow higher than the Tatra Mountains. “So let me get this straight,” he allegedly mused, “the Sejm changed one number-smaller than a mosquito’s whisper-and now expects us in the Senate to bless it like holy water? And what if the market grows? Will the fees suddenly become a swarm of locusts? 🦗 Or will the KNF be collecting in zloty, or perhaps in NFTs of potato recipes?”

The Senate, much wiser (or just more tired), convened its Budget Committee on Friday morning. Senator Kazimierz Kleina, a man whose calm demeanor suggests he has seen too many farces, stood up and said, in essence: “Friends, let us not do anything rash before Christmas. Let us breathe. Let us think. Let us possibly consult an astrologer.”

And so, with a flick of his pen, he withdrew the motion for swift passage and declared: “This shall wait until January. We must consider these changes… carefully.” The bill was suspended, like a puppet with cut strings, left dangling above the stage of absurdity. 🎭

Thus ends the 2024 chapter of Poland’s crypto saga-a tale of repetition, presidential vetoes, minor fee tweaks, and the eternal mystery of why no one seems to read the same draft twice. But fear not, dear reader, for in January, when the snow falls and the clerks thaw out, the drama shall return! Will there be new amendments? Or just a sequel with the same script and slightly colder actors?

Stay tuned. The circus has not packed up yet. 🤡🎪

And now, a dramatic visual aid for your contemplation:

(Looks like BTC didn’t get the memo. Or maybe it’s laughing.) 😏

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2025-12-20 09:15