📅 Original date posted:2016-02-07 📝 Original message:I would expect that custodians who fail to produce coins on both sides of a fork in response to depositor requests will find themselves in serious legal trouble. Especially if the price moves against either fork. On 02/07/2016 10:55 AM, Jonathan Toomim via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > On Feb 6, 2016, at 9:21 PM, Jannes Faber via bitcoin-dev > <bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org > <mailto:bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org>> wrote: > >> They *must* be able to send their customers both coins as separate >> withdrawals. >> > Supporting the obsolete chain is unnecessary. Such support has not > been offered in any cryptocurrency hard fork before, as far as I know. > I do not see why it should start now. >> >> If not, that amounts to theft of their customers funds. >> > If they announce their planned behavior before the fork, I do not see > any ethical or legal issues. > > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org > lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev