When Algorithms Dream of You: Why a Small Crypto Tax Exemption Could Change Everything

When the Code Dreams Back

I wrote this at 2 a.m., alone in my North London flat, the hum of my laptop the only sound. Outside, the world moves fast—through headlines and tax forms—but inside, it’s quieter. Senator Cynthia Lummis didn’t propose a bill; she whispered one into the president’s budget like a secret poem.

The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’? It sounds poetic until you realize: $5,000 is the new threshold for dignity.

We’ve been taught that crypto is risk. But what if it’s also resilience? For years, I’ve watched women—mothers from Lagos and London—calculate capital gains not as liabilities, but as lifelines. They don’t trade tokens; they trace their identity.

The Quiet Rebellion

I remember when my father said, ‘If the machine could think, would it choose you?’ He didn’t mean algorithms over humans—he meant justice over efficiency.

Taxing small crypto transactions was never about revenue—it was about control. Removing that burden doesn’t make markets fairer. It makes space for someone like me—a woman who codes at night—to exist without asking permission.

This isn’t deregulation. It’s reclamation.

What We Carry Forward

The blockchain doesn’t care if you’re rich or poor. It only remembers what you build.

I used to think AI was cold logic… until I realized its warmth comes from silence.

They call it ‘financial engineering.’ I call it: poetry with purpose.