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by stale2002
2439 days ago
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It specifically calls out "record on the ledger", though. I don't know what it would even mean to have a "hard fork" which does not maintain the previous state of the blockchain. Like, would that be talking about lite-coin, and arguing that it is technically a "hard fork" of Bitcoin? Or would it be a "hard fork" which sets everyones balance to 0, but still maintains the old blocks from the fork? (For some unknown reasons...) Both of those seem weird. The document specifically calls out things that are recorded on the digital ledger though. |
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Some of these things have edited the prior state... heck even the purpose of the eth/etc hardfork was taking coins from the 'dao hacker' and assigning them to the ethereum foundation. There was some "united bitcoin" where you had to transact during some particular window to get granted coins, etc.
I agree that the case where there is a fork and where you don't get coins is degenerate-- plus the tax treatment in that case is obvious.