"This is one of the most egregious encroachments on privacy and free markets that I have ever seen. It is so egregious that it is hard not to believe that this survey is anything less than a first step that leads down a path toward an all out attack on the mining industry in the United States. "

"Funnily enough, the only other country to request information like this from the bitcoin mining industry operating in their borders is Venezuela, and they quickly confiscated operations and began mining for themselves once they knew where all of the miners were located. It would be naive to think that a federal government drunk on debt, losing control of the narrative, desperate for a scapegoat, and cognizant of the threat to its power over the money printer posed by bitcoin's success would not resort to similar tactics."

yes, very naive.

EU next

We here in Europe are used to asking: what is the legal basis for this measure? Every intervention, and indeed every request for information, by the state requires a legal basis.

I don't see one.

There must be the following idea behind it: The sun is mine. The world is mine. People belong to me. All energy is mine. That's why you earth worm must give me information and hand yourself over to me.