🚀 ESMA, the EU's financial watchdog, has crypto miners in its crosshairs! 🎯 The body suggests treating miner-extractable value (MEV), a sneaky profit-making strategy, as market abuse under MiCA rules. 😱 But wait, there's more! Crypto businesses would need to detect and report MEV instances, a task as easy as herding cats, according to Patrick Hansen from Circle. 🐱 But don't worry, Ethereum's co-founder Vitalik Buterin is on the case, proposing a multi-faceted approach to tackle the MEV issue. What's your take on this? Should MEV be regulated or left alone? 🤔 Let's hash it out in the comments! 💬