All eyes on crypto: Mining to become profession, Cabinet says

A corresponding announcement was published Thursday by First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv.

The official expressed gratitude to Ukraine's crypto community for their constructive cooperation on the matter. The task to draft a regulatory legal act for amending the CEA was assigned to the Ministry of Economic Development, Electronic Government Agency, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice, State Statistic Committee, and by agreement: the National Bank, National Commission on Securities and Stock Market, SBU Security Service, and Ministry of Energy.

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