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by SilasX 891 days ago
Since you mention the past disputes over custody and forks:

Earlier discussion from 2017, when customers wanted to sue Coinbase for keeping the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) fork corresponding to their deposits:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14910822

I remember Gemini crediting me with my BCH eventually. (Unfortunately, long after the peak to $4k.) LocalBitcoins gave some classic BTC credit to make up for it.

Some silly analogies I made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14913261

I believe that fears of a similar situation are what led a lot of people to temporarily pull ETH off of exchanges and out of smartcontracts over the time of the ETH switch from PoW to PoS, as that spawned another fork.