Paul Sztorc’s new proposal for a Bitcoin hard fork has caused a great deal of discussion in ‘crypto land’, the technical merits and purpose behind it being only part of the reason, there is also the considerable financial implications for everyday users. The fork, called eCash and scheduled for August 2026, could unexpectedly create untold tax obligations on millions of Bitcoin holders, even those that simply choose not to adopt the new asset. Hard forks (a concept often heard in the crypto ecosystem) are used to split an existing Blockchain into two competing chains, generating a new digital asset and
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