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www-washingtonpost-com-6260		Cryptocurrency debate slows infrastructure bill - The Washington Post			.html	text/html	2523	161	57	The message, from a left-leaning tech advocacy group called Fight for the Future, urged people to call U.S. senators to object to one provision of new rules for cryptocurrencies in the massive federal infrastructure bill. And after years of debate over how to improve America's infrastructure, and months of sensitive negotiations between the White House and lawmakers, the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure proposal suddenly stalled in part because of concerns about how government would regulate an industry best known for wild financial speculation, memes — and its role in ransomware attacks. Regardless of the measure's ultimate fate, the fact that crypto regulation has become one of the biggest stumbling blocks to passage of the bill underscored how the industry has become a political force in Washington — and previewed a series of looming battles over a financial technology attracting billions of dollars of interest from Wall Street, Silicon Valley and financial players around the world, but that few still understand.	./cache/www-washingtonpost-com-6260.html	./txt/www-washingtonpost-com-6260.txt