Coinbase Isn’t Supporting Ethereum Classic, Yet
Digital currency exchange Coinbase has revealed its stance with the Ethereum hard fork, stating that it has no plans to support Ethereum Classic, the spin-off blockchain based on the consensus and protocols of the original Ethereum blockchain. In an announcement today, bitcoin and ether exchange Coinbase has revealed that its recently launched support for ether, the token currency of the Ethereum blockchain only extends to ETH and not ETC, or Ethereum Classic. Coinbase launched support for ETH following last week’s hard fork and will continue to support “transactions and trading in ETH –....
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