This essay explores how recent U.S. crypto legislation marks a strategic effort to make the digital economy legible to the state. Through laws like the GENIUS Act and CLARITY Act, the government is classifying and enclosing formerly parasovereign systems such as Bitcoin and Lightning—systems designed to resist precisely this kind of control.

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