Senator posts cryptocurrency bill on GitHub, chaos ensues
On Wednesday, Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) found a surprising way to develop her upcoming cryptocurrency regulation bill: she put it on GitHub.
As promised, you can now contribute comments on my bill establishing a framework for digital assets with [Sen. Gillibrand]," Lummis wrote in a tweet sharing the news. Civil comments and criticisms welcome. Please share widely. We want to get this right. Help us iterate publicly on policy."
Best known as a repository for open-source code, GitHub includes a number of tools for that could be useful in developing public proposals - particularly the ability to publicly comment on, revise, and fork the text into different versions.
As of press time, Github users have commented on 24 issues in the bill...