MinerGate Adds Support for Mining Ethereum Classic

MinerGate Adds Support for Mining Ethereum Classic

Minergate, a mining pool and the developer of GUI mining software that supports various mining various cryptocurrencies including bitcoin and Ethereum, is including support for Ethereum classic, the blockchain based on the original Ethereum platform’s consensus before the hard fork. Although the original Ethereum blockchain was officially abandoned following a hard fork that was triggered as a result of the DAO Ahack, a group of community members have since come together to implement the Ethereum blockchain’s original consensus. The project, known as Ethereum Classic, was announced last....


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