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by tomerv 3240 days ago
There's no such thing as "actual" BTC holder. All the BTCs in the exchange are fungible. A holder of BTC doesn't know if that BTC was loaned to someone else or not.

In a sense, what you suggest is exactly what the exchange did: They calculated the number of "actual" BTCs in the exchange, and split the appropriate number of BCHs evenly among everyone.