[2017-03-19] Major Exchanges Will Consider Bitcoin Unlimited a “New Asset”

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Major Exchanges Will Consider Bitcoin Unlimited a “New Asset”

If a Bitcoin Unlimited hard fork leads to a coin-split, major bitcoin exchanges will list coins on that branch as a new asset: BTU.

Earlier this week, the world’s largest mining pool, AntPool, announced it would switch all its hash power to Bitcoin Unlimited, a software implementation that is incompatible with the current Bitcoin protocol. With this move from an influential player in the Chinese mining ecosystem, a split in Bitcoin’s blockchain is starting to look more likely. If such a coin-split occurs, there could — for a while — be two types of “bitcoin,” which many worry could be confusing.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/ma ... new-asset/