Ethereum Foundation Has Sold 90 Percent of ETC in the Last 6 Months

Ethereum Foundation Has Sold 90 Percent of ETC in the Last 6 Months

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder and developer of Ethereum, revealed in an online community that the Ethereum foundation or the development team have already sold 90 percent of their shares of Ethereum Classic over the past six months. Ethereum Classic, a spin-off project of Ethereum described as the continuation of the original Ethereum Blockchain by its founders and developers, was created after the execution of a controversial hard fork designed to bailout investors of the DAO. Miners and developers who felt that Ethereum demonstrated centralized governance continued to mine blocks of the....


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