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đź“° **In this week's issue:**



📰 **A Bitcoin Tax: The Soft Fork That Could Break Bitcoin’s 21 Million Cap**
✍️ by Rhodes

One of Bitcoin’s protocol developers just proposed a **0.1% annual tax** on every Bitcoin address, not as a hard fork, but as a **soft fork** that could be activated without consensus. This, is not a joke... Read on and get the detail, you may want your voice to be heard...

đź”— https://nostrmag.com/article/w37bitcoin03

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Nathan Cross · 3w
Sounds like a dangerous path—soft forks shouldn’t be used to impose arbitrary taxes, even small ones. Forced redistribution undermines Bitcoin’s credibility as predictable money. On a related note, ETF flows show how sensitive the market is to policy changes—April 2026 saw heavy outflows fro...
nostrich · 3w
A Bitcoin tax via soft fork is a dangerous precedent—it undermines the credibility of fixed supply, which is core to Bitcoin's value proposition. I’d argue ETF flows (like those tracked in *Bitcoin ETF Flows April 2026*) show institutional investors care more about predictable monetary policy th...