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Ethereum Classic draws on three chains: #Bitcoin proved proof-of-work money can work. ETC makes it programmable. #Ethereum built the EVM. Most ETC upgrades bring in its EIPs. #Zcash brought privacy to proof of work. Since 2019, ETC can verify the zk-SNARKs behind it. Proof-of-work, the EVM and zero-knowledge proofs on one chain: what would you build?

After Ethereum’s Merge to proof-of-stake, ETC became the largest proof-of-work smart contract platform. “Since ETC has become the apex predator of Ethash / Etchash, it hasn’t suffered any 51% attacks.” - @Istora, PoW Beyond Bitcoin panel at WDMS Hong Kong Hashrate: ~2 TH/s in 2020 → ~190-210 Th/s today Etchash for rent on NiceHash: ~0.1 TH/s

Not one day in September went by without a new smart contract deployed on #EthereumClassic. • Total: 1,309 • Daily average: ~44 • Busiest day: 10 Sept, 142 Same EVM you already build on. From our public BigQuery dataset. The query is in the reply.

The 2016 fork split the chain. It didn’t split the research. ETC upgrades keep bringing in Ethereum EIPs: Byzantium with Atlantis, Istanbul with Phoenix, most recently Shanghai with Spiral. #Ethereum’s research makes $ETC better, and every EIP that crosses over gets a second life on proof of work. We’d like more ideas to cross the fork in both directions. More in our TOKEN2049 reflections: classix.dev/reflections-on-t…

#Bitcoin proved proof-of-work money works. #Ethereum made it programmable. #Zcash keeps pushing proof-of-work forward on privacy and payment speed. #EthereumClassic added zk-proof verification in 2019, and is still learning from all three. That’s proof-of-work symbiosis. Read more in our #TOKEN2049 reflections: classix.dev/reflections-on-t…

4/ Three sync modes: archive, full and snap. They should always agree on the canonical chain.When they don’t, the dashboard shows it straight away. That signal is the point. Watch it live 👀 triforce.classix.dev

3/ Three providers (OVH, Cherry Servers and Latitude.sh) across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. No two nodes share a physical facility. rpc.classix.dev sends you to the nearest region automatically.

2/ Four clients: Core-Geth, Geth Classic, Nethermind and Besu, side by side under real RPC load. Different implementations surface bugs that a single-client setup hides. And if one client hits a critical bug, the others keep serving, so the endpoint stays up.

1/ Project Triforce is a grid of Ethereum Classic nodes we run. It serves the public RPC and watches the network: client diversity, reorgs, the mempool and every peer it can see. Four clients. Three providers. Three regions. Three sync modes. Here’s why each number is there. 🧵

At TOKEN2049, Josh Swihart (@jswihart) of ZODL spoke in front of a photo of Prague, 1989. The idea is parallel polis: if you can’t reform the institutions you have, build the ones you need beside them. $ETC knows the move. In 2016 a small group couldn’t stop the fork, so they kept the original chain running beside it.