European Parliament approves MiCA
The European Parliament approved the MiCA legislative package and related transfer-of-funds rules, advancing the EU toward a harmonized regulatory regime for crypto-asset service providers. Bitcoin itself was not treated as a security token, but exchanges and custodians handling bitcoin would operate inside the new framework.
The European Parliament approved the MiCA legislative package and related transfer-of-funds rules, advancing the EU toward a harmonized regulatory regime for crypto-asset service providers. Bitcoin itself was not treated as a security token, but exchanges and custodians handling bitcoin would operate inside the new framework.
The practical Bitcoin channel was direct service-provider regulation around Bitcoin. The measure or case operated through law, licensing, custody, trading, or compliance rather than changing Bitcoin's protocol; where allegations or proposals were involved, they remained allegations or proposals at this stage.
The Bitcoin connection ran through service-provider regulation around Bitcoin. Substantive legislative stage affecting Bitcoin exchanges/custodians across the EU.
May Council final adoption → Jun publication.