On September 16th, the House Ways and Means Committee advanced the first federal framework for taxing cryptocurrency, a bipartisan step taken in the wake of the Senate's competing Clarity Act stalling the day before. The Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act represents a long-overdue attempt to bring statutory order to a domain where the IRS has long operated through improvised guidance rather than clear law. It is a moment that reveals both the growing political consensus that digital assets must be formally reckoned with and the enduring difficulty of agreeing on what that reckoning should look li