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Interest in Bitcoin-based forks waned as a result of some exchanges not honoring customers' coins. Some of them just kept the forked coins without listing them for trading.
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Wasn't that a minor problem with bitcoin forks though? All of the big CEXes i know gave the coins of biggest forks to holders. It was just when it become a trend and there was probably a hundred of smaller bitcoin forks, when they didn't list them. And for a good reason. They shouldn't have legitimized any of them by listing them.
And while technically legally they probably were obligated to compensate their customers, i don't think they were even worth enough for people to get mad over lost coins.