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The cryptocurrency industry has been chided for its obstinacy over the Senate’s cryptocurrency market structure bill by Patrick Witt, executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets.

“‘No bill is better than a bad bill,'” Witt said on Wednesday on X, referencing recent remarks from Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) CEO Brian Armstrong. “What a privilege it is to be able to say those words thanks to President Trump’s victory, and the pro-crypto administration he has assembled.”

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Armstrong on Jan. 14 announced Coinbase’s decision to withdraw support for the Senate’s cryptocurrency market structure bill, citing concerns around provisions relating to tokenized equities, decentralized finance and stablecoin rewards.

However, Coinbase is not the only cryptocurrency company to have kicked against the bill. Galaxy Digital (NASDAQ:GLXY) reportedly slammed it as “the single largest expansion to financial surveillance authorities since the USA PATRIOT Act.”

Witt on Jan. 21, however, warned that there would eventually be a cryptocurrency market structure bill.

“It’s a question of when, not if,” he said. “Assuming a multi-trillion dollar industry will continue to operate indefinitely without a comprehensive regulatory framework is pure fantasy.”

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Witt urged the industry to pursue a compromise with the current pro-cryptocurrency administration, warning that the provisions could be significantly worse under another administration.

“You might not love every part of the CLARITY Act, but I can guarantee you’ll hate a future [Democratic] version even more,” he said. “Let’s keep working to improve the product, recognizing that compromises will need to be made in order to get 60 votes in the Senate, but let’s not let perfect be the enemy of the good.”

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Following Coinbase’s decision to pull its support for the bill, the Senate Banking Committee indefinitely postponed a markup initially scheduled for Jan. 15. The committee is expected to shift its focus to housing and is unlikely to return to the cryptocurrency bill for weeks, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing sources familiar with the matter.

Meanwhile, the Senate Agriculture Committee is expected to go ahead with its markup scheduled for Tuesday. The committee’s version of the bill, which focuses more on commodities rules, does not touch on many of the polarizing issues in the Senate Banking Committee’s version, which looks more at the securities side of things.

However, regardless of what happens in the Senate Agriculture Committee, both committees need to sign off before the bill can advance.

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