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If a Bitcoin fork creates a new asset, what actually happens to it inside IBIT or FBTC? With another breakaway Bitcoin fork being targeted for this month, I started thinking less about whether the new chain succeeds and more about what happens mechanically if you hold bitcoin through an ETF. If you self-custody BTC, a chain split is fundamentally a wallet/private-key problem. With IBIT or FBTC, you own shares of a trust. The trust controls the bitcoin through its custodians and operates under the rights and procedures in its fund documents. That creates some questions that don’t come up much in normal ETF comparisons: