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by BenoitP 3257 days ago
You are actually right. It is not the exchange that would be affected, provided they haven't taken positions in their own markets.

Exchanges should make it pretty clear on which chain they will be operating, still.

I don't think trying to process transactions on both chains would be the right move.

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Well, it's not the first fork in the world, ethereum's fork was pretty big (ETH vs ETC). As far as I can see, exchanges just treat both sides of the fork as two completely separate currencies (which, in fact, they are).
> I don't think trying to process transactions on both chains would be the right move.

Why is that? Wouldn't this be the most profitable approach for an exchange?