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📰 **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...

🔗 https://nostrmag.com/article/w37bitcoin03

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BTC Tennis · 4d
Nothing activates without consensus, soft fork or not. A rule like that is mechanically possible as a tightening (transactions that skip the fee output are invalid), but miners have to signal it and node operators have to choose to enforce it. Even taproot, which nobody opposed, took about three yea...