{"id":92103,"date":"2025-12-11T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=92103"},"modified":"2025-12-11T19:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:05:18","slug":"poland-to-reconsider-cryptocurrency-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/poland-to-reconsider-cryptocurrency-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland to Reconsider Cryptocurrency Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency regulation bill has been <a href=\"https:\/\/orka.sejm.gov.pl\/Druki10ka.nsf\/Projekty\/10-RPW-40997-2025\/$file\/10-RPW-40997-2025.pdf\">resubmitted<\/a> to the Polish Sejm after its previous version was <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/polish-president-vetoes-cryptocurrency-bill\">rejected<\/a> by President Karol Nawrocki.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative to bring back the bill was led by the Poland 2050 party, part of the ruling coalition. Although the authors described the version as &#8220;improved,&#8221; government spokesman Adam Sz\u0142apka <a href=\"https:\/\/tvn24.pl\/biznes\/tech\/ustawa-o-rynku-kryptoaktywow-rzecznik-rzadu-rada-ministrow-przyjela-projekt-st8793413#:~:text=,doda%C5%82\">stated<\/a> that &#8220;not a comma&#8221; had been changed in the text.<\/p>\n<p>The bill essentially replicates the previous proposal. Its main aim is to empower the Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) as the primary regulator of the crypto-assets market in the country.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?22\" data-telegram-post=\"forklog\/46448\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Criticism and Arguments<\/h2>\n<p>Polish politician Tomasz Mentzen criticized the initiative, calling it an example of excessive regulation. He compared the document to more concise laws in other EU countries, such as Hungary or Romania.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"pl\" dir=\"ltr\">Rz\u0105d przyj\u0105\u0142 jeszcze raz dok\u0142adnie ten sam projekt ustawy o kryptoaktywach.<br \/>Tak w\u0142a\u015bnie wygl\u0105da i wygl\u0105da\u0142o ws\u0142uchiwanie si\u0119 rz\u0105du w g\u0142os ekspert\u00f3w i krytyk\u00f3w. <br \/>Ustawa jest perfekcyjna, a kto uwa\u017ca inaczej jest finansowany przez Putina.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tomasz Mentzen (@TomaszMentzen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomaszMentzen\/status\/1998435467272790043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The government has once again adopted the exact same crypto-assets bill,&#8221; wrote Mentzen.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also mocked Prime Minister Tusk&#8217;s claims that the previous presidential veto was supposedly influenced by the &#8220;Russian mafia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The government hopes that this time Nawrocki will not block the law. According to Sz\u0142apka, after a secret briefing in parliament, the president gained a &#8220;full understanding&#8221; of the document&#8217;s impact on national security.<\/p>\n<p>Economist Krzysztof Piech questioned the necessity of adopting a separate local law, given the impending implementation of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-markets-in-crypto-assets-mica\">MiCA<\/a> regulations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"pl\" dir=\"ltr\">Nie Panie Ministrze. To \u017ce tyle os\u00f3b traci pieni\u0105dze, to nie wina Prezydenta, tylko tego, \u017ce oszu\u015bci nie s\u0105 \u015bcigani, a do tego ta ustawa nie by\u0142a potrzebna. <br \/>Od 1 lipca 2026 wszyscy w UE b\u0119d\u0105 chronieni rozporz\u0105dzeniem MiCA \u2014 Polacy te\u017c.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Krzysztof Piech (@krzysztof_piech) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krzysztof_piech\/status\/1995623069264859562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Back in September, Ukraine&#8217;s Verkhovna Rada <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ukraines-parliament-advances-cryptocurrency-legalisation-bill\">approved<\/a> in the first reading bill No. 10225-d &#8220;On Virtual Assets Markets,&#8221; which will define the status and taxation of cryptocurrencies in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency regulation bill has been resubmitted to the Polish Sejm after its previous version was rejected by President Karol Nawrocki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Poland's cryptocurrency bill returns to Sejm after presidential rejection.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1269,1363,36],"class_list":["post-92103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-poland","tag-regulation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"99","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Poland's cryptocurrency bill returns to Sejm after presidential rejection.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92105,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92103\/revisions\/92105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}