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.

Zcash’s preconfirmations proposal: merchants get a signed receipt that a payment is on its way into a block. Accept payments in seconds, not after confirmations. No consensus change, and it fits any proof-of-work chain, including Ethereum Classic. Is it worth building on $ETC?

The median Ethereum Classic transaction fee in September was 0.00021 $ETC, about $0.0016 at today’s price, less than a fifth of a cent. A dollar covers about 600 transactions. Users won’t even notice the fee. The query is in the reply if you want to check it.

For its first week, nobody could send a single transaction on #Ethereum. The network launched "frozen." Blocks were mined and rewarded, but miners had to thaw it block by block before the first transactions landed in block 46,147, on 7 August 2015. #EthereumClassic shares every block of that history, up to the 2016 split. Genesis to the first transactions, in one query.