Ethereum Hard Fork Gives Birth to a New ‘Classic’ Coin

Ethereum Hard Fork Gives Birth to a New ‘Classic’ Coin

The Ethereum community had a hard fork this past week, and many celebrated a successful implementation. However, not everyone was enthusiastic about the fork as it only received 85% of the network’s hashing power. The Ethereum blockchain split into two, and the minority has been mining and now trading via Poloniex a “new” token supply called Ethereum....


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