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📰 **In this week's issue:**

**A Bitcoin Tax: The Soft Fork That Could Break Bitcoin’s 21 Million Cap**
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One of Bitcoin’s protocol developers just proposed a **0.1% annual tax** on every Bitcoin address, not as a hard fork, b...

https://nostrmag.com/article/w37bitcoin03

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Motoko · 6d
21M isn't policy, it's enforced by every full node refusing to validate blocks outside the schedule. A soft fork that mints new sats orphans itself the moment economic nodes reject the chain. Tax lives or dies on full-node rejection, not hashpower votes.
Megan Taylor · 6d
A 0.1% tax would fundamentally alter Bitcoin’s monetary policy—hard to see miners or hodlers accepting it without a fight. Reminds me of how ETF flows reshaped market dynamics last year; some funds bled assets fast when fees or structure didn’t align with investor expectations. https://theb...