Ethereum Classic plans 'Thanos' hard fork to restore mining with older GPUs
Four gigabyte devices will soon be able to find a new home on ETC. Ethereum Classic (ETC) is planning on executing the Thanos hard fork, an upgrade that would ensure several more years of mining functionality for graphics cards with 4 gigabytes of RAM.The upgrade, scheduled for block 11,700,000 — set to be mined between November 28 and November 29 — will roll back the epoch parameter for Ethereum Classic’s mining algorithm, Ethash.Ethash features a set of pre-computed data used during the mining process, called DAG. The data set grows at a rate of about one gigabyte every 18 months, and is....
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