What the forks? Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum Classic see triple-digit rallies
Following Dogecoin’s lead, Ethereum Classic rallied to a new all-time high and Bitcoin Cash doubled as altcoin forks have started to gain traction. It’s undeniable that Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) are currently the two most dominant cryptocurrencies, and as a result, they receive most of the attention from the mainstream media, institutional investors and retail investors, but this doesn't mean that the sector leaders are not occasionally challenged by competitor networks.Two forked projects that once sought to challenge Bitcoin and Ethereum for their seats at the top are Bitcoin Cash....
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Ethereum Classic has been seeing some of the largest growth with the news of the Ethereum Merge. Where other cryptocurrencies were seeing single-digit gains, Ethereum Classic had seen double-digit gains that pushed its price well past the $40 mark at one point. Now, even though the market has begun to shed some of its gains […]
Ethereum Classic, a seemingly forgotten cryptocurrency, reached the attention of many this week when its price skyrocketed out of the blue, but there might be some reasons behind it. Also, Bitcoin Cash and other Bitcoin-based forks enjoyed a healthy week in the green, alongside Dogecoin, whose price boosted on the news of Elon Musk appearing on SNL, the famous comedy sitcom, on May 8th. Ethereum Classic Soared This Week Ethereum Classic, the sibling fork of Ethereum, enjoyed a price revival this week when its price soared more than 200% to become the cryptocurrency that led the way of the....
Ethereum Classic is all set to get a hard fork of its own soon to counter the sustained DOS attack. Ethereum Classic is on its way to get a hard fork in the next two days. Ethereum recently split into two blockchains following a hard fork introduced by the Ethereum development team a few months ago. The hard fork resulted in two versions — Ethereum (ETH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC). While Ethereum continued to operate on the new fork, a portion of the cryptocurrency community decided to continue with the original Ethereum blockchain, calling it Ethereum Classic. Ethereum recently came under....
The day of The Merge, Ethereum Classic’s hashrate soared to new highs tapping 306 terahash per second (TH/s) ten days ago on September 15. Since then, however, Ethereum Classic’s computational power has dropped 46.16% lower from the high to today’s 164.75 TH/s. Furthermore, ethereum classic’s market valuation has dropped by two positions and lost 26.7% against the U.S. dollar during the last two weeks.
Ethereum Classic’s Hashrate and Price Sinks, While the 2 New PoW Ethereum Forks Jump Higher in USD Value
After Ethereum transitioned from....
Data shows the Ethereum Proof-of-Work forks have sharply fallen down in the few days following the merge. Ethereum PoW Forks Have Fallen 66% In Just Five Days According to the latest weekly report from Arcane Research, the ETH PoW forks have performed very poorly against ETH since the merge. The much talked-about event transitioned Ethereum to a Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism, essentially obfuscating the use of miners on the network. However, some communities that were in favor of the old PoW-based system decided to create forks as the merge came approaching. These new forks still rely....