The headline is miss-leading. As a German tax-residency I can give some background.
Already in the existing tax law, crypto held for more than a year didn't get taxed. If you sold within the first year your personal income-tax rate got applied. Which is most likely 45% if you work in any tech-related position.
The only exception was if the coins/tokens were used for staking the tax-free holding period got extended to 10 years.
This has changed now. All crypto held for more than one year will not get taxed.
Technically, it is also not a new tax law. The tax-authorities changed their interpretation, how the existing tax-law should be applied for crypto-holdings.
It is 42% if your income is higher than 57.918 Euro (2021). Most tech-related positions will achieve that.