ETC Community Call #62 🍀 Bunker Mode We talked in-depth about the quantum and AI threat to ECDSA and where $ETC stands, what's planned for the next core-geth v1.12.24 release, a look back at our trip to #TOKEN2049 and a lot more. Listen below. 🎧

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…

#VeriFriday-002 One of the best ways to contribute to Ethereum Classic is to run a node. 📡 This guide walks you step by step through getting set up and building core-geth from source. 🧑🏻‍💻

#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…

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Heading to #Devcon8 in Mumbai? We're hosting an Ethereum Classic meetup on Nov 2, right after Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #3. We'll talk proof-of-work, client diversity, cypherpunk values, EVM symbiosis, and a lot more. Free and open to all. RSVP below. luma.com/flt0wvtq

Ethereum aims for “centuries-long cryptographic security, via hash-based schemes.” For its consensus, that means new keys for every validator. Ethereum Classic’s proof-of-work already rests on hashes. Its consensus needs no migration. Same EVM. Same Solidity. Same tooling. Same contracts. 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. 🧵

More below in our Reflections on #TOKEN2049: classix.dev/reflections-on-t…

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.

Two weeks too long...

Close, but not quite. The transaction still waits for a block like any other. What changes is that a preconfirmation service signs a receipt right away promising it’s headed into a block, so a merchant or service can accept the payment in seconds instead of waiting. The service also blocks a second spend from the same account, and mining pools that opt in earn most of the fee for including the transaction. The more hashrate that opts in, the stronger the receipt. It’s a Zcash proposal for now. We think the same design would work on ETC.

Heading to Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress Nov. 2? Join us after for a small Ethereum Classic meetup, the night before Devcon. 📍 Leopold Cafe, Colaba - 7pm Quantum. Proof-of-Work. Cypherpunk roots. Where the EVM goes next. Any chain, any background. Free RSVP 👉 luma.com/flt0wvtq #Devcon8