In the grown-up economy, figuring out who owns what at any given time is a surprisingly nuanced concept.
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Take, for example, a share of stock. That might be owned by Oliver, lent to Larry, in the custody of Cindy, and promised to Peter.
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Now suppose that this company declares a dividend or share split. What happens?
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This is a surprisingly nuanced question, but let me give you the handwavy version: defined behavior implemented by professionals happens.
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Now back to Bitcoin, the decentralized we-trust-no-god-but-math who-needs-a-counterparty my-database-is-a-blockchain financial system.
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A consequence happened as a result of a token. This had never happened before, except for all the times that it had, and there was no plan.
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So the trusted central parties that Bitcoin denies exist retroactively made plans, which were bad plans which had to be changed.
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And then, as a result of the improvements, they closed the operational error on the distribution from about 25% to only about 15%.
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There is a lot of hard, crunchy engineering (of both data and financial relationships) which makes that happen. It's actually really fun.
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If you're wondering how 1 - 1 + 1 evaluates to 0.85, well, that was more of a policy decision than a math decision, because...pic.twitter.com/xKMQJVkCzI
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Now you might wonder "In the bizarro world of the real economy, what happens to shorts when unexpected events impact the value of position?"
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And if you guessed "I think they probably either gain or lose money, then, in fairly predictable way", you'd be mostly right.
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