Bitcoin exchanges would open themselves up to both criminal and civil liability. ?To the extent that a recipient of Bitcoin expects normal Bitcoin but instead receives ?Bitcoin Classic? or ?Bitcoin XT? virtual currency due to the actions of a miner, that recipient could argue that the actions of the miner resulted in a dispossession? ? ?dispossession? being legalese for ?theft.?

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