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the simple answer is miners have better lobbyists then hosted wallet providers
2013 was the nail in the coffin for bitcoin as a currency in the US
your favorite hosted Lightning will either have to ask for KYC and comply with tax software requirements or will be pulled from the App Store
your open source software for a self-hosted wallet that does not have tax assistance will be blocked from US on GitHub
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